http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Forum: Wiki Discussion en Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:03:45 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hw-to-format-pen-drive#post-119117 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:46:15 +0000 opn 119117@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>You can format the Pen drive......... If you want format your pen drive First save your data on harddrive C: INsert pen drive to the usb port. Go to setup and chaneg boot sequence harddisk to cdrom drive. Insert windows xp cd in cdrom drive and restart the system &#38; boot from cdrom. After appear the messaeg press any key to boot from cdrom.....<br /> press any key windows xp setup will run. accept F8 linsence agreemet. system will show you wich drive you install windows xp select pen drive and then format option will appear on the screen select pendrive for format your pendrive quickly FAT32 the press F3 to exit the setup...</p> <p>Edit by mod. Personal email addresses are not allowed in posts. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/import-global-address-list-in-outlook-contacts#post-117183 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:02:04 +0000 tabrezze 117183@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>hello,<br /> i need to import global address list in outlook contacts. i try before to import it and its OK but when i go to offline its not working that time if i click on email address for details there's one pop up showing that "can not connect to exchange server" please help me. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-7-launch-%e2%80%93-oct-22-2009#post-115261 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:51:32 +0000 Shkumbin 115261@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Congratulations to Spiros Giokaris – First Man To Legally Buy Windows 7!<br /> <img src="http://windows7news.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Spiros-Giokaris1.jpg" /><br /> Some lucky UK punters received their copy of Windows 7 early in the post this week, but Spiros Giokaris was the first person in the world to legally buy a copy of Windows 7 from a store. Spiros Giokaris’ name was chosen at random by the Sydney Harvey Norman store at midnight to buy his copy of Windows 7.<br /> “I can’t wait to go home to try it out — I’m excited,” he said.<br /> “From what I’ve read and heard, it’s going to make your internet experience or your computing experience a lot easier.”<br /> “This is going to bring a lot of people back — from what I’ve heard and what I’ve read, Windows 7 definitely the way to go,” he said.<br /> “I’m actually looking forwards to the widgets, setting up widgets and better gaming and better surfing, it should be fun.”<br /> *windows7news </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-7-launch-%e2%80%93-oct-22-2009#post-115257 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:21:51 +0000 Shkumbin 115257@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>7 days of Windows 7 savings</p> <p>THURSDAY: Simplify my life.<br /> FRIDAY: More media, more places.<br /> SATURDAY: Power gaming.<br /> SUNDAY: Work from anywhere.<br /> MONDAY: Safeguard your work.</p> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/offers/7-days/">Check here</a> for daily offers. Hurry, some quantities are limited. The program ends October 28, 2009. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-7-launch-%e2%80%93-oct-22-2009#post-115236 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:36:34 +0000 Shkumbin 115236@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p><img src="http://redmondpie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/WatchWindows7LaunchEventLiveStreamfromNe_19B5/Windows7Launch.jpg" /> <img src="http://media.gdgt.com/img/features/2009/09/win7party-qkv.jpg" /><br /> NEW YORK — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage today in New York to officially kick off the worldwide availability of Windows 7, the company’s highly-anticipated next-generation operating system.<br /> <img src="http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/windows7launch_01.jpg" /><br /> Here’s a liveblog of the festivities:</p> <p>11:00 a.m. EDT: A woman, whose name I didn’t catch but sounded like Tami, comes out to kick off the show.</p> <p>“This is a big day for Microsoft. This is a big day for our partners who are ready…this is a big day for our customers who now number 1 billion across the globe.”</p> <p>The company brings out “Kylie,” the five-year-old girl who appeared in the company’s advertisements for the operating system, to introduce Steve Ballmer.</p> <p>“Windows 7 is available — 45,000 stores around the world,” Ballmer says, adding that there were 8 million beta testers for the OS.</p> <p>“I’m Steve Ballmer, and I’m a Windows 7 PC.”</p> <p>11:10 a.m. EDT: Ballmer acknowledges and thanks customers and partners; plays up how the company is answering feedback and “tuning the product.” Stresses how the company’s listening to its customers.</p> <p>“I think of Windows 7 in three major buckets: Number one, it works the way you want it to work…faster, leaner, less busy. Number two, things…need to be simpler. Number three, new possibilities…a technology like multitouch…you get literally, from an end-user perspective, dozens and hundreds of new features.”</p> <p>Mentions wireless networking and multimedia.</p> <p>“Windows needs to be an incredible opportunity for innovation for hardware companies, software companies, and needs to be a place that’s easy…to use.”</p> <p>(This is an interesting point, since Ballmer’s stressing “new features” despite a slimmed down OS. -AJN)</p> <p>11:13 a.m. EDT: Ballmer mentions the three screens and integration: computer, phone, television. Gives the floor away for a demonstration.</p> <p>11:15 a.m. EDT: Demo number one: Showing Windows 7’s device stage and how you can more easily move digital pictures to and from your camera. Uses a Nikon D5000 digital SLR camera as an example. Uses the picture import to segue into Windows Live MovieMaker and how it can create a slideshow with animations from those pictures.</p> <p>“It really is that simple.”</p> <p>(Note: They’re really playing up the consumer angle here, as Mary Jo Foley wrote earlier, and trying to calm fears that Windows is too much of a pain in the neck to deal with.)</p> <p>11:18 a.m. EDT: Now they’re demonstrating multitouch on an HP TouchSmart all-in-one. Shows off a USB tuner for HD broadcast content from your cable box. Loads CBS for “Internet television experience” for primetime content on your multitouch PC — only broadband connection needed. (Disclosure: CBS is the parent company of ZDNet.) Bottom line with this part of the demo: Windows 7 is coming to your television, and cable companies will eventually drop coaxial lines for a broadband pipeline.<br /> <img src="http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/windows7launch_02.jpg" /><br /> Also demos Netflix, on-demand streaming. Plays up Windows 7 “as a platform.”</p> <p>First time announcement: Amazon’s on board and have created a Kindle app for Windows 7. (Why you’d want to read a book on your HP TouchSmart, I don’t know…but obviously has implications for smaller screens. -AJN)</p> <p>11:24 a.m. EDT: Now demonstrating Windows 7 Home Group. Showing that it’s easier to share a printer or files without e-mailing things to yourself. Clapping in the room is a bit tepid…perhaps the thought is that networking simplicity was a long time coming.</p> <p>11:28 a.m. EDT: Begins tying Windows 7 to Windows Live with remote media streaming. Windows Live ID the key to a Windows network. “That PC is actually in Redmond, Washington,” he says. Streams Family Guy clip that mentions…Windows 7. “How’s that for a PC working the way you want it to?”</p> <p>11:30 a.m. EDT: Shows off Windows 7-compatible Toshiba HDTV, Western Digital box, Onkyo receiver, wireless picture frame…get ready for “Windows 7 ready” to appear on more than just your PC. Explains how Windows 7 controls all the devices from one place. Example: playing photos to the picture frame, playing music to the Onkyo receiver, stream HD video to the Toshiba HDTV…all from one Windows 7 PC: an undoctored Dell XPS 16. Resources used: 54%.</p> <p>Goes nuts and starts streaming different media to seven different screens on the stage from the Dell PC. Doesn’t mention whether Windows 7 will yet do your laundry; make sure kids are home by curfew.</p> <p>11:34 a.m. EDT: Ballmer’s back! “This year, 300 million PCs will be sold.” Mentions diversity, applications, software, peripherals….choice, in other words. “No one person’s going to do everything you need to do…for some it will be the new Hulu application…for some it will be business applications.” Adds, “the range and diversity…is unsurpassed, and that’s at the core to the success of the PC.” (Good point here — it’s the same thing that’s helping Google Android grow in the mobile biz. -AJN)<br /> <img src="http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/windows7launch_04.jpg" /></p> <p>“It speaks to the diversity of the PCs themselves. Any shape, size, price, color, environment….you have those kinds of choices. Even today, you can think of a range of PCs…the netbook…the ultrathin…the traditional notebook…the desktop…the all-in-one…(”perfect for the kitchen,” kisses hand like a chef)…I don’t care whether you’re on the go, at your desk, need two screens, need a little screen….there’s a PC for you.”</p> <p>Ballmer throws to Mike Angulo, backstage, for the dog &#38; pony show for new Windows 7 devices. Shows ’50s style room mockups dressed with Windows 7-ready products, from kitchens to living rooms to gaming rigs.</p> <p>“At the center of it all are cool new Windows 7 PCs,” Angulo says. Shows off “less than $800 PC” — Acer Aspire — mentions solid state drive and 15-second boot that’s “running antivirus.” Mentions loading device drivers in parallel and hints at Microsoft’s working with partners to ensure out-of-the-box software doesn’t slow down the experience.</p> <p>Shows off an HP laptop for performance, quick-boot, laser-etched lid, 4 lbs., 7-hour battery life.</p> <p>Moves to touchscreen Sony all-in-one — shows a Hard Rock Cafe app (vendors, hello!) and a Toshiba touchscreen clamshell laptop. Shows a resistive-touch Acer tablet PC prototype with Amazon Kindle app — in this case, it makes more sense as a (heavy) e-book reader.</p> <p>Shows off Dell’s Latitude Z induction charging tech introduced a little while ago. Constantly asks, “are you getting a close-up of this?” Ballmer picks up each laptop like it’s a radioactive moon rock.</p> <p>Touches on an Acer Aspire Revo as a home multimedia brain for the living room; touches on how inexpensive it is. Atom dual-core processor.</p> <p>On to gaming — solid graphics that “start at $400.” Calls out developers. Ballmer picks up a carbon fiber laptop with two fingers — makes Angulo nervous. Talks up the 1080p screen, Blu-ray, etc. “This notebook is more powerful than the most powerful desktop you could have purchased a few years ago.”</p> <p>ZOMG! Pulls out the Dell Adamo XPS — 9.99mm thin! “It’s a high-performance, really cool engineered machine that’s coming out.”</p> <p>Last mention that there are seven days of Windows 7 deals, particularly on the new PCs that are available today.<br /> <img src="http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/windows7launch_07.jpg" /><br /> And that’s a wrap from Ballmer and Co. “Thanks much,” he says.<br /> *zdnet.</p> <p>Thanks. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-7-launch-%e2%80%93-oct-22-2009#post-115233 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:28:33 +0000 Shkumbin 115233@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I’m told that 8 million people have been running the Windows 7 Release Candidate. That’s four times the number of people who registered as Windows Vista beta testers during its development process. My gut feeling is that the number of people actually using Windows 7 in recent months is at least an order of magnitude higher than the corresponding head count in the run-up to Windows Vista. And based on everything I’ve heard, the overwhelming majority of those who try Windows 7 like it. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/windows-7-launch-%e2%80%93-oct-22-2009#post-115099 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:49:33 +0000 Shkumbin 115099@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Windows 7 Launch event.</p> <p><a href="http://windows7news.com/2009/10/21/windows-7-breaking-amazon-records/">Windows 7 Breaking Amazon Records!</a><br /> The new OS is clearly popular among consumers and it has managed to break the record for the most number of pre-orders ever sold on Amazon.co.uk. Said Managing Director of Amazon.co.uk, Brian McBride earlier today "The launch of Windows 7 has superseded everyone’s expectations, storming ahead of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as the biggest grossing pre-order product of all-time at Amazon.co.uk, and demand is still going strong..."</p> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/windows7/default.aspx">Watch the Windows 7 Launch Event in New York Live</a><br /> Things will kick off at the following times. 8am Pacific Time, 11am East coast US time and 4pm GMT. For all of us who are interested but who can’t get to the official launch in New York, your PC will be the place to be.</p> <p><img src="http://www.geekextreme.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/windows-7-comptaible.png" /> </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hw-to-format-pen-drive#post-109566 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:23:06 +0000 baldeguy56 109566@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>thaslim, Hope <a href="http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-43331-how-to-remove-write-protecton-in-my-pendrive#p75382">this</a> may help some. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hw-to-format-pen-drive#post-109527 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:03:11 +0000 thaslim 109527@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>WELL FRIENDZ,I cant able to COPY from/to my PEN DRIVE since it is affected by virus(if m right),i can open it and view the folders but i cant delete any file and FORMAT, even if try to format in the DOS mode or try to copy a file,it gives the message that "DRIVE IS WRITE PROTECTED". ... is it possible recover the PEN drive Geeks..? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/lan-goes-off-and-cant-be-detected-after-sleeping-mode#post-107738 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:51:29 +0000 PRD-Alan 107738@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I already change the mother board and bios updated as well as the driver for LAN but i got the same problem after sleeping mode, the LAN goes off and its not showing in the device manager.. Any help please. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hot-keys#post-107165 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:21:03 +0000 Beauseph 107165@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Update*** For Acer Netbooks recovery turn computer on and tap ALT+F10</p> <p>Toshiba:<br /> Bios: F2<br /> Recovery:F8 Choose repair your computer </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/sata-hdd-data-recovery#post-106433 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:12:27 +0000 seenupl 106433@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Hi I tried with External data enclose. But I can’t open C drive. I thing MBR corrupt. Please advise me. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/sata-hdd-data-recovery#post-105768 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:58:06 +0000 whs 105768@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>In case you have trouble dealing with Linux, take the HDD out and put it into a <a href="http://www.officedepot.com/catalog/search.do?fkey=null&#38;Ntt=hdd+enclosure">HDD enclosure.</a> Then you can attach it to any other PC via USB and read/copy the files. The enclosure you should find in any electronics store for around $20. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/sata-hdd-data-recovery#post-105700 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:20:24 +0000 LH 105700@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>No probs. See ya later. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/sata-hdd-data-recovery#post-105699 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:17:19 +0000 seenupl 105699@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Hi LH,<br /> Today EOD i will check and update you. thanks for your iImmediate reply. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/sata-hdd-data-recovery#post-105698 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:05:32 +0000 LH 105698@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Hi seenupl. Here is a good way,<br /> <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/use-ubuntu-live-cd-to-backup-files-from-your-dead-windows-computer/" rel="nofollow">http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/use-ubuntu-live-cd-to-backup-files-from-your-dead-windows-computer/</a> </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/sata-hdd-data-recovery#post-105695 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:58:16 +0000 seenupl 105695@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Hi guys;<br /> My laptop OS was corrupt. I don’t know how to get the data from HDD. This is SATA HDD. Please any one advice me. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hot-keys#post-104301 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:37:37 +0000 Beauseph 104301@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I found out that almost every computer made is different based on xp or vista or windows 98 and also year made. Here are a very few of the newer computers made.</p> <p> -------- BIOS ▐ Recovery ▐ Advanced Boot Options (Always F8)<br /> HP: --------- F10 ▐ F11 ▐ F8<br /> Sony: -------- F2 ▐ F10 ▐ F8<br /> Gateway: --- F2 ▐ F8 ▐ F8<br /> Acer: -------- F2 ▐ F8 ▐ F8</p> <p>Let me know if they are wrong and if so on which computer.. This article would be very very very long and would have to take a lot of time calling OEM's to verify on exact models (easier to call them) </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hot-keys#post-99892 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:15:45 +0000 Beauseph 99892@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I just confirmed it with Microsoft, Advanced boot options can always be accessed by tapping F8. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/hot-keys#post-99732 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:01:39 +0000 LH 99732@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>OK. Go for it :) </p>