First thing to keep in mind: If your computer hasn't crashed yet, it will in the future! So instead of waiting for fate to strike, take some precautions now:

1) BACK-UP! Buy some decent DVD-R discs and put everything useful in them. When you have more useful stuff, backup again. Do this often.

2) Keep your computer healthy. Use an antivirus, an anti-spy, and a firewall. Keep them updated. Check regularly for Windows critical fixes.

3) Don't install software that would do dangerous things to your hard drive. A boot manager would fall in this category.

4) Use a registry cleaner before and after you install or uninstall any software. Many of the problems that will keep Windows from booting are caused by sloppy software that mess up your registry. A good registry cleaner is Tune-up Utilities.
Code:
http://www.tune-up.com/


5) Run chkdsk now and then. Go to Start> Run. Type chkdsk /F. Press enter.


In case your PC has already crashed, read the following:

Most important: Don't panic! Panic is like a little demon that whispers in your ear to format your hard drive and reinstall everything. Don't do it! You will lose all your data and the little demon will laugh at you.

To be exact you can still recover your data if you format your drive (by using special software), but only if you don't write anything on the disc afterwards. In other words format + windows install = bad idea. If you reinstall windows without formating your drive, you will only lose the files on your desktop and "My Documents" folder.

In all occasions you should make sure to safeguard your files before attempting any kind of repair!

So let's go about how to do that:

The fast way: Go to this site:
Code:
http://www.knoppix.org
. Knoppix is a Linux distribution than runs from a CD. Download the Knoppix ISO and burn it. Put it in your CD drive. On startup access BIOS and change the boot sequence so that your computer boots from the CD drive. Save settings and exit. Upon reboot, Knoppix will load.

Knoppix is much like windows and it comes with its own CD burner. Locate it, launch it and backup everything you want on CD. Now you don't have to worry anymore!


The less fast way: This requires that you have access to a second PC. Open the case of your computer and remove the hard disk.

Install it as a slave on the second PC.

Depending on respective configurations, you may have to change some jumper settings on the drive. Read the manual for help with installing hard drives and setting jumpers.

After this is done, boot the second PC. If everything went out ok, you should be able to access your drive without problems. (Edit: Note that Win98 cannot recognize a local NTFS (Win2K/XP) disk.)

Copy everything you need from your own hard drive to the other one. Now you don't have to worry anymore!

Replace your computer's hard disk, fix all problems and reverse the process to copy the data back to your computer, or take CD backups on the other PC.

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I learn an old technique to how to recover damaged or scratched disks
with some lost of data. In this case i have one borrowed game - MAX PAYNE 2
with a chunck of 4 mb lost with a scratch in CD1 Install. Here we cover some
special thecniques of how to create a full working CD from the scratched one.

First some tools will be needed:

1. Alcohol 120%
2. UltraISO
3. Windows XP/2000 (not tested on 95/98/me)
3. Small piece of cotton
4. Dry cleaner paper
5. Finally, oil for cooking.

First step - preparing the CD

Get the cotton and drop some water, start cleaning vertically the surface of CD.
Do it 3 times and dry the water with a piece of dry cleaner paper. With a new piece
of cotton, drop some oil for cooking and start to wet the surface like you are
washing the CD with the oil. Dry carefully now. Some particles of oil will stay on the
microsurface of the scrath. It's okay. Seems the oil helps the laser of the CD/DVD driver
to read the surface again. Sure this will work with small unreadable scratchs - some hard
scratchs loose parts of the surface of the CD where we have data and it's lost forever.
But if it is loosed try anyway. Whith this tip 80% of the small scratched CD's coud be
recovered.

Second Step - testing the CD

With Alcohol 120% make an ISO - image making wizard - and lets see if the app can
read the loosed surface. In my case Alcohol 120% had recovered 60% of the data.
This is not enough. Have tryed other appz, they do not recover all the data. But the
CD/DVD driver laser CAN recover all data in this case. the data is still there, what we do?

third step - making the new CD

With the main copy system of windows explorer you can do it. Just create one folder
with the same name of the CD label for future burn reference, and copy the CD content
to the folder. When the CD copy process find the scratch, in majority of the cases, it's
slow down the reading and will recover ALL loosed data.If not, it just tell you there's
an unreadable sector. In this case your CD is lost. But it's not my case, finally
windows explorer got all the data from the scratch and made a copy in the folder.
with the ultraISO, wrote the original CD label, drop the content of the folder and
save as Iso. You can Test the new CD just mounting the iso in the Alcohol 120%. In my
case i did ISO of the two discs from MAX PAYNE 2 and tested installing from the mounted
ISO. Works like a charm. I got the 4 mb lost again. So, I have burned the CD and now i
have a working copy from the scratched one.

Sounds too bizzarre, but works. Course you can jump the cleaning process and try to copy
the content with Windows explorer. But in my case did not work without oil...

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COMMAND	DESCRIPTION
ANSI.SYS	Defines functions that change display graphics, control cursor movement, and reassign keys.
APPEND	Causes MS-DOS to look in other directories when editing a file or running a command.
ARP	Displays, adds, and removes arp information from network devices.
ASSIGN	Assign a drive letter to an alternate letter.
ASSOC	View the file associations.
AT	Schedule a time to execute commands or programs.
ATMADM	Lists connections and addresses seen by Windows ATM call manager.
ATTRIB	Display and change file attributes.
BATCH	Recovery console command that executes a series of commands in a file.
BOOTCFG	Recovery console command that allows a user to view, modify, and rebuild the boot.ini
BREAK	Enable / disable CTRL + C feature.
CACLS	View and modify file ACL's.
CALL	Calls a batch file from another batch file.
CD	Changes directories.
CHCP	Supplement the International keyboard and character set information.
CHDIR	Changes directories.
CHKDSK	Check the hard disk drive running FAT for errors.
CHKNTFS	Check the hard disk drive running NTFS for errors.
CHOICE	Specify a listing of multiple options within a batch file.
CLS	Clears the screen.
CMD	Opens the command interpreter.
COLOR	Easily change the foreground and background color of the MS-DOS window.
COMMAND	Opens the command interpreter.
COMP	Compares files.
COMPACT	Compresses and uncompress files.
CONTROL	Open Control Panel icons from the MS-DOS prompt.
CONVERT	Convert FAT to NTFS.
COPY	Copy one or more files to an alternate location.
CTTY	Change the computers input/output devices.
DATE	View or change the systems date.
DEBUG	Debug utility to create assembly programs to modify hardware settings.
DEFRAG	Re-arrange the hard disk drive to help with loading programs.
DEL	Deletes one or more files.
DELETE	Recovery console command that deletes a file.
DELTREE	Deletes one or more files and/or directories.
DIR	List the contents of one or more directory.
DISABLE	Recovery console command that disables Windows system services or drivers.
DISKCOMP	Compare a disk with another disk.
DISKCOPY	Copy the contents of one disk and place them on another disk.
DOSKEY	Command to view and execute commands that have been run in the past.
DOSSHELL	A GUI to help with early MS-DOS users.
DRIVPARM	Enables overwrite of original device drivers.
ECHO	Displays messages and enables and disables echo.
EDIT	View and edit files.
EDLIN	View and edit files.
EMM386	Load extended Memory Manager.
ENABLE	Recovery console command to enable a disable service or driver.
ENDLOCAL	Stops the localization of the environment changes enabled by the setlocal command.
ERASE	Erase files from computer.
EXIT	Exit from the command interpreter.
EXPAND	Expand a Microsoft Windows file back to it's original format.
EXTRACT	Extract files from the Microsoft Windows cabinets.
FASTHELP	Displays a listing of MS-DOS commands and information about them.
FC	Compare files.
FDISK	Utility used to create partitions on the hard disk drive.
FIND	Search for text within a file.
FINDSTR	Searches for a string of text within a file.
FIXBOOT	Writes a new boot sector.
FIXMBR	Writes a new boot record to a disk drive.
FOR	Boolean used in batch files.
FORMAT	Command to erase and prepare a disk drive.
FTP	Command to connect and operate on a FTP server.
FTYPE	Displays or modifies file types used in file extension associations.
GOTO	Moves a batch file to a specific label or location.
GRAFTABL	Show extended characters in graphics mode.
HELP	Display a listing of commands and brief explanation.
IF	Allows for batch files to perform conditional processing.
IFSHLP.SYS	32-bit file manager.
IPCONFIG	Network command to view network adapter settings and assigned values.
KEYB	Change layout of keyboard.
LABEL	Change the label of a disk drive.
LH	Load a device driver in to high memory.
LISTSVC	Recovery console command that displays the services and drivers.
LOADFIX	Load a program above the first 64k.
LOADHIGH	Load a device driver in to high memory.
LOCK	Lock the hard disk drive.
LOGON	Recovery console command to list installations and enable administrator login.
MAP	Displays the device name of a drive.
MD	Command to create a new directory.
MEM	Display memory on system.
MKDIR	Command to create a new directory.
MODE	Modify the port or display settings.
MORE	Display one page at a time.
MOVE	Move one or more files from one directory to another directory.
MSAV	Early Microsoft Virus scanner.
MSD	Diagnostics utility.
MSCDEX	Utility used to load and provide access to the CD-ROM.
NBTSTAT	Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP connections using NBT
NET	Update, fix, or view the network or network settings
NETSH	Configure dynamic and static network information from MS-DOS.
NETSTAT	Display the TCP/IP network protocol statistics and information.
NLSFUNC	Load country specific information.
NSLOOKUP	Look up an IP address of a domain or host on a network.
PATH	View and modify the computers path location.
PATHPING	View and locate locations of network latency.
PAUSE	Command used in batch files to stop the processing of a command.
PING	Test / send information to another network computer or network device.
POPD	Changes to the directory or network path stored by the pushd command.
POWER	Conserve power with computer portables.
PRINT	Prints data to a printer port.
PROMPT	View and change the MS-DOS prompt.
PUSHD	Stores a directory or network path in memory so it can be returned to at any time.
QBASIC	Open the QBasic.
RD	Removes an empty directory.
REN	Renames a file or directory.
RENAME	Renames a file or directory.
RMDIR	Removes an empty directory.
ROUTE	View and configure windows network route tables.
RUNAS	Enables a user to execute a program on another computer.
SCANDISK	Run the scandisk utility.
SCANREG	Scan registry and recover registry from errors.
SET	Change one variable or string to another.
SETLOCAL	Enables local environments to be changed without affecting anything else.
SETVER	Change MS-DOS version to trick older MS-DOS programs.
SHARE	Installs support for file sharing and locking capabilities.
SHIFT	Changes the position of replaceable parameters in a batch program.
SHUTDOWN	Shutdown the computer from the MS-DOS prompt.
SMARTDRV	Create a disk cache in conventional memory or extended memory.
SORT	Sorts the input and displays the output to the screen.
START	Start a separate window in Windows from the MS-DOS prompt.
SUBST	Substitute a folder on your computer for another drive letter.
SWITCHES	Remove add functions from MS-DOS.
SYS	Transfer system files to disk drive.
TELNET	Telnet to another computer / device from the prompt.
TIME	View or modify the system time.
TITLE	Change the title of their MS-DOS window.
TRACERT	Visually view a network packets route across a network.
TREE	View a visual tree of the hard disk drive.
TYPE	Display the contents of a file.
UNDELETE	Undelete a file that has been deleted.
UNFORMAT	Unformat a hard disk drive.
UNLOCK	Unlock a disk drive.
VER	Display the version information.
VERIFY	Enables or disables the feature to determine if files have been written properly.
VOL	Displays the volume information about the designated drive.
XCOPY	Copy multiple files, directories, and/or drives from one location to another.

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@shish {Cool Wizard}

This Is Really Very Amazing.

Step 1: Open Notepad
Step 2: Write following line in the notepad -

this app can break

Step 3: Save this file as xxx.txt

Step 4: Close the notepad.

Step 5: Open the file again.

What did you see ??
That's something weird !! ;)

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@shish {Cool Wizard}

Hey guyz just try this amazing link... there is a man in it sitting on a computer ... type sumthing in the box which you want him to perform..

Eg :- Type laugh and press the button and see it laugh ..

Really Cool ...

Link :- http://www.subservientprogrammer.com/main.aspx

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@shish {Cool Wizard}

Learn how to change *.exe files, in 5 easy steps:

1) Don't try to modify a program by editing his source in a dissasembler. Why ?
Cause that's for programmers and assembly experts only.

Try to view it in hex you'll only get tons of crap you don't understand.

First off, you need Resource Hacker (Last Version). It's a resource editor, very easy to use.
Download it here - Resource Hacker

2) Unzip the archive, and run ResHacker.exe. You can check out the help file too

3) You will see that the interface is simple and clean. Go to the menu FileOpen or press Ctrl+O to open a file. Browse your way to the file you would like to edit. You can edit *.exe, *.dll, *.ocx, *.scr and *.cpl files, but this tutorial is to teach you how to edit *.exe files, so open one.

4) In the left side of the screen a list of sections will appear.
The most common sections are
-String table;
-RCData;
-Dialog;
-Cursor group;
-Bitmap;
-WAV.
*Icon: You can wiew and change the icon(s) of the program by double-clicking the icon section,chossing the icon, right-clicking on it an pressing "replace resource". After that you can choose the icon you want to replace the original with.
*String table: a bunch of crap, useful sometimes, basic programming knowladge needed.
*RCData: Here the real hacking begins. Modify window titles, buttons, text, and lots more!
*Dialog:Here you can modify the messages or dialogs that appear in a program. Don't forget to press "Compile" when you're done!
*Cursor group: Change the mouse cursors used in the program just like you would change the icon.
*Bitmap: View or change images in the programs easy!
*WAV:Change the sounds in the prog. with your own.

5) In the RCData,Dialog,Menu and String table sections you can do a lot of changes. You can modify or translate the text change links, change buttons, etc.


TIP: To change a window title, search for something like: CAPTION "edit this".
TIP: After all operations press the "Compile Script" button, and when you're done editing save, your work @ FileSave(Save as).
TIP: When you save a file,the original file will be backed up by default and renamed to Name_original and the saved file will have the normal name of the changed prog.
TIP: Sometimes you may get a message like: "This program has a non-standard resource layout... it has probably been compressed with an .EXE compressor." That means that Resource Hacker can't modify it because of it's structure.

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@shish {Cool Wizard}

Here are some good notepad tricks for ya:

1. Using Notepad As A Log Book

Open Notepad, write “.LOG” (without quotes) on the top, save the file and close it. Open the file again, and you will find the current date and time on it. Add text and save and close again. Every time you open it, it will have a timestamp. Use it to make your daily notes, a diary, etc. Alternatively you can press F5 to get the current date and time.

2. Changing Header and Footer

Ever printed the little text you wrote in Notepad? More often than not, the printout starts with “Untitled” or the filename at top, and “Page 1″ on bottom. Want to get rid of it, or change it? Click on File, Page Setup. Get rid of the characters in Header and Footer boxes, and write what you want as Header and Footer. Use the following codes.

&l Left-align the characters that follow
&c Center the characters that follow
&r Right-align the characters that follow
&d Print the current date
&t Print the current time
&f Print the name of the document
&p Print the page number

3. Weird Thing

1. Open notepad and type this : "bush hid the facts" (without the quotes).
2. Save it as bush.txt.
3. Open the file again and see the result.

Enjoy !!!!

Visit Beautiful Beta for a range of free widgets for your blogger beta blog.

You will find the very popular Recent Comments and Recent Posts widgets on Beautiful Beta. Installation can be done by simply clicking on the appropriate button and entering basic configuration details.

Beautiful Beta Free Widgets

A list of the 10 most common password in use today. Is yours on the list??

1. password
2. 123456
3. qwerty
4. abc123
5. letmein
6. monkey
7. myspace1
8. password1
9. link182
10. (your first name)

Source

Tomorrow afternoon, the Sharks take on the Bulls at ABSA stadium in Durban in the final of Super 14 (the worlds premier club rugby competition). This will be the Sharks third final since the tournaments inception in 1996. Good luck to them.
Win it for Natal.

SHARKS FOR THE WIN

Discount Tickets to Disney World & Universal Orlando

First of all, happy holiday. And if you are still wondering where you are going to take your children for vacation, I am sure Florida is the perfect place for you to go. Everyone that comes down to Florida will surely visit Disney World and Universal Orlando. These places has many attractions and coming up with many great ideas to make sure the people who came here have a great time and will definitely come again next time.

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Universal Studios has a variety of ticket options. The Universal Orlando Resort is made up of 2 Theme Parks (Universal Studios & Islands of Adventure) and CityWalk, a popular nightime entertainment attraction. There are 1-Day and Multi-Day tickets available for Universal Orlando. Multi-day tickets include CityWalk Passes and are usually the best value. Children under 3 are free.

For Night-time fun, dinner shows in Orlando are very popular. The other shows available are Medieval Times, Pirates Dinner Adventure, Sleuths Mystery Show and many more.

At Disney World, discount tickets are now available for many different days and options from 1 to 10 days for what is called, “Disney Magic Your Way”. It’s a limited time offer. Walt Disney World has so much to offer with four theme parks, two water parks and much, much more. The discount tickets offer including Disneyquest, Downtown Disney Pleasure Island, Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach Water Parks, as well as every Disney theme park ticket that is available.


Be sure to visit and I am sure you will be very excited especially your children.

As we all know, the Wifi products provided by Cisco is actually come with high security technology.Cisco has combined the mobility and flexibility users want from a wireless network with the security and management they require from a wired network.

BitTorrent is a a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing network. Users connect directly to each other to share files, hence the peer-to-peer tag. This is coordinated via a server and in some cases by multiple servers called a tracker. A seeder is someone who hosts a file that people can readily download on the BitTorrent network. BitTorrent has received a lot of bad publicity in the media in recent times due to its perceived illegal nature. Using BitTorrent is NOT illegal, seeding or hosting copyrighted media, however, is!

To get started you will need a BitTorrent client. There are literally dozens of BitTorrent clients available. You will find many if you perform a simple google search. I would however recommend:

utorrent - A fast, free, small, feature-packed bittorrent client. One of the best and what I personally use.
Azureus - A cross-platform Java based client. Probably the most popular and one of the most feature packed around.

Once you've downloaded and installed your respective BitTorrent client, how exactly do you go about downloading?

You need to visit a BitTorrent website the hosts files with a .torrent file extension. Examples of such sites:

Torrentz
Mininova
btmon

Once there, simply search for what you want, download the file with the .torrent file extension (these files are generally a few kilobytes) and double click on it once its on your pc!

The file should then be loaded into your newly installed BitTorrent client and start downloading!

Buying Gold Coins

Do you know what is Gold Coins or Bullion coins? Well, Gold and Bullion coins actually the precious metals.Its like the real money but in different form.Bullion coins have a proven ability to protect wealth and preserve one's purchasing power, and gold coins offer divisible size and are universally acceptable in a recognizable form.This makes the purchase of gold coins and the selling of gold coin convenient through reputable coin dealers

Where to Buy Gold Coins?
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Many Investors have purchased billions of dollars of gold, silver, platinum and palladium bullion and bullion coins from Monex because they offers competitive gold coin prices, making Monex the preferred source for the purchase of coins.

Monex offers a number of convenient ways for buying gold coins, including:-
1)Gold Vienna Philharmonics
2)Canadian Gold Maple Leafs
3)U.S. Gold American Buffalos
4)U.S. Gold American Eagles
5)South African Gold Krugerrands

The other products are like Silver coins, platinum and palladium. For more info, just visit Monex.

Online shopping is very easy and efficient because allowing shoppers to shop across millions of products, and various store to compare the prices and read the reviews. And also you will get the best deal every time.

What’s your favourite online store for you to buy stuff?

-Well, since there a lot online store out there, its kind of hard to choose. But for me, online store that give the discount to the customers will always be my favourite. They give the discount by giving you a coupon. By doing this, they actually encouraging online buyers to buy more from them.

If you want to shop online and looking for a shop that giving you a discount and coupon,

Here’s the perfect place for you :

http://www.couponchief.com/

There are actually a lot of online store that provide coupons in order for you to buy at their store like Dell coupon ( if you are searching for good electronics and computer accessories), BestBuy coupon( If you are searching for currently hot stuff like XBOX, DVD player, mp4 player) , OverStock coupon and many more. All I can say is, they are giving you choices to buy with affordable price and great discount.

Happy shopping…

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Best Credit Card Processing and Merchant Account Services

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A few days ago, I decided to change template of my blog. After some consideration,I finally pick a template that was designed by Andreas. For me, the template quite interesting and I've made some modification.
What I am going to do with this new template is:-
->Changing "grey" header into image header. Just like the old template I used.
->Put a few new SubLink like Blogroll, Sponsors, Misc, etc.
->Insert Adsense code between the post.
->Maximize the usage of 3-column template by putting a lot of interesting links & pics.

What's your opinion of my new template? Is it good or not?Feel free to comment.

A few days ago, i decided to launch a new blog. -The Best Entertainment Resources -.
Here's the suggested banner for my new blog. Design it myself. But, right now, im still using the green template that i've downloaded from TemplatePanic.
Take a look at the banner :This blog consist of several "Most Wanted Categories" like :-
- LIVE show
- MOVIE trailer
- Game trailer
- FUNNY ads
- ANIME clips
- TV series
- Cranny Pictures { Crazy + Funny }
-MUSIC video
- many more....

What's your opinion? Feel free to visit my blog at http://entertainment-resources.blogspot.com
Tell your friend about it especially for those who loves Entertainment a lot...

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