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Media Disconnected Wi-Fi problems ? Can’t connect to wireless router ?

Okt 20

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I had been having this issue for a while before I finally figured how to solve this problem.Since I am a tech expert all i had to do was google the right keyword and find out what was wrong.Here are some possible potential solutions that you should try.

If you are running windows Vista then just diagonize the connection and it will tell you the reason why it is not connected.

Solutions 1

I had this same problem and I found some software on line that fixes the problem. My problem occured after I ran AdAware on my laptop trying to clean it up. I had no DNS server and my IP address read as 0.0.0.0. When I did a ipconfig /release, I received a media is disconnected error. I am a software developer so I knew exactly what to type in google to find the solution to this problem. I only had the problem for one day, and I know of people that have had this problem for months.

I found a website that offers a freeware software download called WinSockFix.exe, which you can also type in google for a search. The URL ishttp://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=257.

I had to download this of course at work and burn it on a CD. If you have a floppy drive it is small enough to fit there, or if you have a USB key. At any rate, I got home yesterday, popped in the CD, and after less then a minute and a reboot. My issue was completely resolved. After my refresh, I no longer received the “Limited or No Connectivity” on my wireless signal and I instantly clicked on IE and it opened right back up like nothing had ever went wrong.

Solution 2
TCP/IP stack repair options for use with Windows XP with SP2.

For these commands, Start, Run, CMD to open a command prompt.

Reset WINSOCK entries to installation defaults: netsh winsock reset catalog

Reset TCP/IP stack to installation defaults. netsh int ip reset reset.log

Reboot the machine.

Solution 3
Solution 4
1. Go to the control panel & select “Administrative Tools”.

2. In Administrative Tools, go to “Services”.

3. On the Services screen, scroll down until you find “Wireless Zero Configuration”.

4. Start this service.

5. Now go to “Network Connections” and right click your wireless adapter icon.

6. I can’t remember exactly which tab it is, but find the one where you have the option
to check or uncheck “Use Windows to configure my wireless connections” or something to that effect. Make sure it is checked.

Solution 5
Check your WEP key ? Did you reset your router in that case your wireless configuration key would have changed as well.
Login at 192.168.0.1(type the number in your browser – firefox/Ie and put in username and password) and change your WEP key.
Also try
1) Verify what kind of wireless card/adapter you have: a, b, g, b/g/a, N, etc.
2) Check the broadcast mode on your router. If you have a “wireless-b” card, you need to be broadcasting in either “b-only”, “mixed b/g”, or “mixed” mode. Note: Sometimes the “mixed” modes don’t work; and to support a “b” card, for example, you might have to broadcast in “b-only”. Try each of the applicable possibilities until you get the highest common denominator that works on all of your wireless devices.
3) If there are several wireless signals within range, make sure interference is not causing problems. If you see several signals in the available networks list, I would suggest changing the channel to something other than 6 (the default) on both the router and wireless adapter and making sure you have a unique ssid (in case your neighbor has the exact same router).
4) If your laptop/PC still doesn’t automatically connect, refresh the list of networks and try the usual steps. It should now work.

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Microsoft Pro Photo Tools 2 With RAW captures and Geotagging

Okt 11

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This is an useful software from Microsoft in case you are interested in photography or are by profession a photographer. A set of tools for photographers is provided by Microsoft Pro Photo Tools, which enables the photographer to perform several tasks with their photos, which includes RAW captures and “Geotagging”.

With some newly added features and improvements in functioning the latest version of Microsoft Pro Photo Tools has been recently released.

The new added features include:

  • Support for reading & writing XMP side car metadata enabling interoperability with Adobe products.
  • Support for 64-bit Windows
  • Support for geotagging international locales
  • Functionality for geotagging images improved.
  • In addition to thumbnails, actual RAW images can be viewed.
  • RAW files can be converted to JPEG, TIFF, and HD Photo using “As Shot” camera settings.
  • RAW images can be resized.

It is interesting to know how the location name can be automatically determined, how GPS coordinates from location name can be determined, location on a map can be identified. It enables you to view images on Windows Live Maps and for a 3D view of the image location. You can also use Microsoft Virtual Earth.

Download Microsoft Pro Photo Tools 2

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Process Monitor v2.0 – Advanced Windows Monitoring Tool

Okt 11

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If you are looking to find information about the processes running on your Windows machine then you can install Process Monitor 2.0 for Windows. Process Monitor is an advanced tool that gives all the information about the current running processes in your computer. It combines the features of “Regmon” and “Filemon” and adds many features and enhancements to them. It consists of many enhanced features like Displaying Session ID’s, Usernames, non-destructive filtering, Full Thread Stacks and Logging.


Enhancements and Features of Process Monitor

  • Monitoring of process and thread startup and exit, including exit status codes
  • Monitoring of image (DLL and kernel-mode device driver) loads
  • More data captured for operation input and output parameters
  • Non-destructive filters allow you to set filters without losing data
  • Capture of thread stacks for each operation make it possible in many cases to identify the root cause of an operation
  • Reliable capture of process details, including image path, command line, user and session ID
  • Configurable and moveable columns for any event property
  • Filters can be set for any data field, including fields not configured as columns
  • Advanced logging architecture scales to tens of millions of captured events and gigabytes of log data
  • Process tree tool shows relationship of all processes referenced in a trace
  • Native log format preserves all data for loading in a different Process Monitor instance
  • Process tooltip for easy viewing of process image information
  • Detail tooltip allows convenient access to formatted data that doesn’t fit in the column
  • Cancellable search
  • Boot time logging of all operations

Process Monitor runs on Windows 2000 SP4 with Update Rollup 1, Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1, and Windows Vista as well as x64 versions of Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 SP1 and Windows Vista.

Download Process Monitor (1.2 MB)

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Media Player 5.1 – Program you didn’t know that existed in your computer !

Sep 24

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Did you know that even though you have upgraded your PC to windows media player 10 or maybe 11 your windows still has a copy of windows mplayer 5.The obsession of Win media player 5 is huge for engineers in microsoft and even though you get upgraded to the latest utilities they haven’t yet removed the old version from their computer !

How to open
To open the program, go to Start-Run and enter mplay32

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Dual Boot UBUNTU and Windows !

Sep 19

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Ideally installation of Windows should be done first.This gives you an advantage of not having to format your NTFS later when you install ubuntu as you can leave that space the first time when you install Windows.

1) Back up your system.

  • If you are installing windows the first time you can skip this step.
  • If you have windows installed make sure you backup every folder and data that is important and burn them to disks or even move them to external drives.
  • If you do not have a windows recovery tool now is the best time to acquire it before you proceed further.It is important that you have a recovery tool.Not that it is necessary but it never hurts.Clean out all the partitions on your computer by backing up the important data on external disks/ hard drives and then delete everything from your computer.
  • Make your hard drive as clean as you can. Uninstall all the unnecessary programs from the computer.( This step is not required but it is advisable.)

2) Resize using windows Vista ( You can either do this or skip to step 3)

This steps is advisable for people who have a fair understanding of running boot disks or who have done OS installations before.if you do not have a fair knowledge and only a general understanding then you can skip this step. Details here

3) Install Ubuntu.

There are many ways to install ubuntu.

  • you can use a Live cd . Request a CD here — ( If you can wait upto 3-7 days)
  • You can download a ISO and burn it on a cd. ( You had rather get ISO for future use and distro)
  • You can also use Wubi . ( You want the easiest and fastest way out)

Once you have the Cd follow the steps below.

  1. Defragment your hard drive in windows first. (My Computer, Right click on drive, Properties, Tools, Defragment Now)
  2. Insert Cd into the drive and reboot. When the PC reboots press F8 or F10 depending on the make of you computer and boot via CD. this can also be done by changing BIOS (On restart – DEL button or F12) settings.
  3. Once you boot through the CD it will load the kernel and you will have a few options or either just test driving ubuntu or installing it completely.
  4. You will be taken through a series of settings like layout,place and a few others till you get to the partition hard drive prompts.

4) Partition using UBUNTU CD

It is better to read some guides on how to have your linux partitions.How much space to leave for you swap and other general information.

If you have come so far then you are nearly there. Now all you need to do is partition your hard drive and restart.

Auto partition.

  1. Choose the very First Option ("Resize IDEmaster, partition #1 (hda1) and use freed space").
  2. Specify the size of the new partition .
  3. Click on "Forward".
  4. If it continues then you can simply finish the installation.You can also choose to do manual partition if you know exactly how you want to split the whole disk.

manual partition

You can use this option if you have a clear idea of what has to be done.

  1. Choose "Manually edit partition table"
  2. Select the partition you want to resize and press Enter.
  3. Select "Size:" –>
  4. Select Yes –>
  5. Type in a new size for your partition, it’s recommended you free up AT LEAST 10 GB of free space for your Ubuntu install. –>
  6. Create a swap partition of at least double your amount of RAM . ( This info is available from windows -My computer-properties)
  7. Create a partition for your Ubuntu installation, at least 10 GB.
  8. Select "Finish partitioning and write changes to disk".

Once you have done this just finish the installation and reboot.It will ask you to remove the cd and once you do that there will be two options the next time you boot your computer.ubuntu would detect your windows installation as well and will be added to your choice of OS.

This should do it.Once you boot into the Ubuntu there are many other things that need to be done.Just like the way when you first installed windows you started installing a lot of programs so you can do the same with ubuntu.

Make sure you update via package manager and keep your system up to date.You can also use synaptic manager to install new programs you like.

Any questions just comment or ask !

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