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Sometimes your Windows Experience Index doesn’t work on your Windows Vista computer and forwarded an error message.Then do the following steps to solve this problem:

Go to C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT, and look at the winsat.log.This was the error message
you saw in there:

198406 (3144) - winsat\main.cpp:1161: > Running Assessment: media ‘-input
{winsatencode.wmv} -encode {winsat.prx}’
198828 (3144) - winsat\main.cpp:1430: > Assessment FAILED due to an error

It appears to mean that around the time it tried to play a test media file,it failed.Go to C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT. Try to play the files winsatencode.wmv and winsat.wmv using your default media player in windows vista. Do they Play?If so, try this. In C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT, rename the folder DataStore to OldDatastore, and try running the Update My Score again.

Is Windows Media Player 11 is the default player for .wmv files on your Windows Vista computer?Yes, both files are only about a second long, winsatencode.wmv seems to play even faster than the other, and ends abruptly. As long as Windows Media Player played it, and didn’t freeze or crash, things should be okay. To check the file, try running the System File Checker. To do this, right click on Command Prompt (Start Menu\Programs\Accessories), and choose Run as Administrator.Copy the following, and Paste it after the prompt:

sfc /SCANFILE=”C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\winsatencode.wmv”

Press Enter. Then do the same for the other file:

sfc /SCANFILE=”C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\winsat.wmv”

Press Enter. If things are okay and you are given the text message “Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations”, or that it found errors and they were corrected, proceed to renaming the folder DataStore to OldDatastore, under C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT, and try running the Update My Score again.

Did you try renaming the DataStore folder under C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT to OldDatastore? If that didn’t work, rename it back to DataStore. Open the DataStore folder, and create a New Folder within the DataStore folder. Cut and Paste, or Drag, all the XML Documents (.xml files) in DataStore into the New Folder. Drag the New Folder to your desktop. Then try to update your score. If this doesn’t work, move the .xml files back as they were, and delete the empty New Folder. If it does work, delete the New Folder, and all the files in it.

It’s a fact that the Windows Experience Index Score doesn’t affect how your Windows Vista computer runs. The only caveat I’m aware of is that you can’t turn on the Aero theme unless your Windows Vista computer meets a certain criteria of the Windows Experience Index.

Curious why when you buy an iPod, computer hard drive, or memory stick there is less memory actually available then what was advertised?

For example, you buy a new laptop, advertised having 100GB of hard drive space, actually only seems to have 93GB available? It almost seems as if there is false advertising involved. I’m sorry to say, this isn’t the case, rather just a tricky usage of terminology used by memory manufactures. Let me try to explain…

You see, digital data is of binary numbers. 1’s and 0’s, also called bits. A group of eight (8 bits) 1’s or/and 0’s describe what is known as a byte. There are hence, 256 different values for a byte. ie: 00000000, 00000001, 00000010, 00000011, … 11111110, 11111111. Digital memory is measured in the number of bytes, although it can also be described in bits.

This is where it gets a bit more confusing….

Just as with our decimal number system, when a very large binary number needs to be described, such as 123,456,789 Bits, we can use Metric prefixes (Kilo, Mega, Giga) to simplify things for us.

For example, 123,456,789 Bits is also equal to ~ 123.46 Megabits or 123,456.89 Kilobits.

Mega = Million
Kilo=Thousand
Giga=Billion

This is how hard drive manufactures define memory sizes. Pretty easy, right? Well, sorta, this is where it gets a bit complicated.

Since the start of computers, it has been common practice to define computer memory in powers of two, since computer memory is binary. For computer programmers, this is, for one reason or another, more practical and accepted.

2^1=2
2^8=256
2^10=1024

1000 is not a power of 2. 1024 is however. Since 1000 and 1024 are close to the same in value, to use the metric prefix ‘Kilo’ to define 2^10 just became accepted. Overtime, memory sizes grew. Mega came to define 1024 Kilos, or 1024×1024. Giga came to describe 1024 x 1024 x 1024… or 1,073,741,824. A bit different than 1,000,000,000 that we are accustomed Mega meaning

Windows, MacOS, the iPod, as well as other devices and software, assume 1 kilobyte = 1024 byte. Hard drive manufactures, not liking this measurement system, have decided to define 1 kilobyte as 1000 bytes. 24 bytes smaller than what is actually considered a Kilobyte, making their storage devices and hard drives seem to have more memory on them then what is actually understood to be there. They are technically correct with their labelling, but it is using the abnormal definition of what a Kilobyte is considered.

How do you distinguish between the two? Some have tried to define a difference by capitalizing one and not the other, but that idea seems to have failed in implementation. Capitilization does seem to work though in regards to differentiating between bits and Bytes though. Some add an extra letter to help define it, such as GiB, but it seems to be uncommon.

Generally, hard drives and most memory devices use the 1000 definition, and everyone else uses 1024 to define a kilo. Until that changes, that is just a fact we will all have to deal with.

Below is a simple tool you can use to discover the actual size of a drive based apon what the drive manufacture labelled it as.
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Labelled Drive Size

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Actual Drive Size
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(* GB = 1,000,000,000)

For the sake of ceasing this continuing fight, maybe it be easier if Windows just started displaying memory as 1000 multiples, instead of 1024. Anyone who needs to know data in binary powers are surely smart enough to be able to do the math themselves. and not be being using Windows anyways. :)Njoyyyyyyyyyyyy

This is a pretty simple tweak using which you can set any video as your desktop wallpaper.

Just follow the steps given below:

1. Download VLC Media Player and install it.

2. Run VLC media player, go to Settings->preferences->Interface->General, then click on wxWindows. Remove the tick on “Taskbar” and put a tick on “Systray icon”.

3. Now go to Video->Output Modules->DirectX. On the bottom right put a tick on advanced options check box. You will now see some options. Put a tick on “Enable Wallpaper Mode”.

4. Now, select playlist, then click General and put a check or tick on “Repeat current item”.

5. Press the Save button. Now close the vlc player and run it again (to save the settings permanently).

6. Now play any video you would like to set as Wallpaper. Right click on the video and click on “Wallpaper”.
The video would be set as your wallpaper!!!

As you know the new Google Chrome is out. If you had a chance to try it out you should know how fast, simple and minimal it is. Google Chrome is an excellent software and apparently it looks like it doesn’t need any tweaks to improve its already good performance. Anyway, for those of you guys who are always looking for good stuff to improve your software beyond its limit, here is a list of useful tricks or hacks:

1. Control + Shift + N : Opens the famous “incognito” windows. Thanks to it you will be able to surf without leaving any footprint on your PC (cookes, history etc.)

2. You can also open a website in an “incognito” window by right-clicking on a link and selecting: Open link in incognito window.

3. Alt + Home : Loads your Google Chrome home page along with thumbnails of your most visited sites.

4. Control + T : Opens a new Tab.

5. Control + Shift + T : Opens your most recently closed tab. Press this key combination again to open the tab closed before the one you just opened.

6. Control + 1, Control + 2, Control + 3, etc. : Lets you jump to different tabs.

7. Control + Tabs : Lets you open tabs in order.

8. As in Fireofx 3, you can drag a link onto a tab to it , or drop it between two tabs to open a new tab.

9. Control +B : Hides or shows the bookmark’s bar.

10. Control + H : Opens the History page.

11. Control + J : Opens the download page.

12. To delete an item from the download page, right-click on the selected item and click Remove.

13. Right-click the top of the browser window, select Task manager to find out how much memory tabs and plug-ins are taking from your computer to work. Select one of them and click End process to stop it running.

14. About:plugins (write it in the address bar): Lets you see what plug-in you are using.

15. About:crash (write it in the address bar): Lets you see what a crashed tab looks like.

16. To know more information about Google Chrome you can also type in the address bar the following commands: about:stats, about:network, about:histograms, about:memory, about:cache, about:dns, about:internets.

17. To delete all of your data stored into Google Chrome: click the Tools icon and select Clear browsing data…

18. Shift + Escape: Lets you bring up the Google Chrome Task manager
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There is also a hidden windows vista animation if you want to see follow the steps…

Goto the Vista Start menu search box and type:

winsat aurora

press Enter.

To exit, simply hit the Esc key.
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TFS is the secure file system used by NT. Note that the program here can undermine NTFS security.

A. When you right click on a file in Explorer and select properties (or select Properties from the File menu) you are presented with a dialog box telling you information such as size, ownership etc. If the file/directory is on a NTFS partition there will be a security tab, and within that dialog, a permissions button. If you press that button you can grant access to users/groups on the resource at various levels.

There are six basic permissions

* R - Read
* W - Write
* D - Delete
* X - Execute
* P - Change Permissions
* O - Take Ownership

These can be assigned to a resource, however they are grouped for ease of use

* No Access - User has no access to the resource
* List - R User can view directory and filenames in directory
* Read - RX User can read files in directory and execute programs
* Add - WX User can add files to the directory, but cannot read or change the contents of the directory
* Add & Read - RWX User has read and add permissions
* Change - RWXD User has read, add, change contents and delete files
* All - RWXDPO User can do anything she wants!

The permissions above can all be set on a directory, however this list is limited for a file, and permissions that can be set are only No Access, Read, Change and Full Control.

Another permission exists called “Special Access” (on a directory there will be two, one for files, one for directories), and from this you can set which of the basic permissions should be assigned.

Alexa ranking is a most important factor for webmasters. High Alexa ranking can get you good advertisers. So, today I am going to tell you a Trick with which you can increase your Alexa ranking.

Just install Alexa toolbar and surf your website with it. Also encourage your visitors to install this toolbar. When your site visitors will surf your website/blog with Alexa toolbar installed this will increase your Alexa ranking.

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You can also add Alexa widget to sidebar and tell your visitors to install this toolbar.

How this trick works : Actually Alexa rankings depends upon the users visiting your site with Alexa toolbar installed. So if you have more users with toolbar installed the high rank you will get.

Download Instructions : Click here to install Alexa toolbar

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it’s fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware.

Cleans the following

Internet Explorer
Temporary files, URL history, cookies, Autocomplete form history, index.dat.

Firefox
Temporary files, URL history, cookies, download history.

Opera
Temporary files, URL history, cookies.

Windows
Recycle Bin, Recent Documents, Temporary files and Log files.

Registry cleaner
Advanced features to remove unused and old entries, including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls,
ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths,
Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more… also comes with a comprehensive backup feature.

Third-party applications
Removes temp files and recent file lists (MRUs) from many apps including Media Player,
eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, MS Office, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and many more…

100% Spyware FREE
This software does NOT contain any Spyware, Adware or Viruses.

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Until and unless you are not attacked by any virus or spyware you think that your computer security is very high but when your PC gets infected it is too late. So if you think that you have a good Internet security why not you go for some Internet Security Tests :

1) PopUp Blocker Test : This popup test is is an automated way to check your popup blocker’s ability to allow good ads.

2) Firewall Test : This test will check your computer for ports that are commonly left open. Open ports could allow your computer to be compromised. This firewall test will also check for open ports known to be used by Viruses and Trojans.

3) Firewall Leak Tester : This website, on one hand, enables you to test your software personal firewall thanks to different test programs (’leaktests’), and on the other hand, shows a global vulnerabilities view of the most common personal firewalls in a summary page.
Firewall Leak Tester provides also documentation and advices to improve your security dramatically.

4) Browser Security Check : This test will check your Browser Security. If you have good browser like Mozilla Firefox you will surely pass this test.

5) Online Port Scan : This test will make a scan of all your Open Ports.

If you have passed all these tests, congrats and if not do read our tutorials on Internet Security.