My Computer takes a long time to load the desktop

Problem:

When I turn on my computer and log in, my computer takes a long time to load the desktop and system tray icons.How do i get rid of it? And fix the the desktop problem?

Solution:

Your windows takes long time to load because of so many reasons like Virus,Damaged Registry, Fragmented Hard Disk, too many startup items, less memory space.I have already discussed in detail about these things in 5 Reasons that slows down your computer performance post.In this post I am going to show to easy fix a slower PC.

• Removing Unwanted startup Items.
• Fixing HDD Errors.

Now lets see these things in detail.

1. Remove Unwanted Startup Items

• Goto Start-->Run.
• Type msconfig and hit Enter.
• Navigate to Startup tab.

• Keep Antivirus,Instant messenger, and other important applications to load in system tray.
• Remove unwanted application.It will pull down your PC performance.

2. Fixing Hard Disk Errors

Hard disk error occurs mainly due to improper shutdown.Its also one of the main reason which makes windows to take long time to load.

• Goto Start --> Run.
• Type CMD and hit enter.
• Type chkdsk and hit enter.

• It Check disk command checks error in HDD and fixes it.
• Now fix errors in other drives. D,E,F,G,H,....
• Type CHKDSK /F for drives other than C and fix HDD error.

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I hope these two simple methods will fix your problem ;)

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Tutorial Categories:

• CSS tutorials
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• Java
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• Illustrator
• Photography
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• 3D Max Tutorials.

About Good-Tutorials:

Good-Tutorials is the largest source of tutorials on the web today. It has been featured on the BBC, SkyNews, TechTV (now G4), in the British magazine iCreate, PC World, and has been linked to by thousands of sites, blogs and forums.

Also Checkout Photoshop tutorials covered in Geekyard.

Get Free Ashampoo Anti Malware 180 Days License Key

The Ashampoo Anti-Malware is a combination of both Ashampoo AntiSpyWare and Ashampoo AntiVirus technologies.Ashampoo Anti-malware is now offering 180 days free genuine license key for new users.Ashampoo Anti-Malware protects your PC from external threats and blocks viruses, trojans, worms, malware, rootkits, bots, spyware and adware efficiently without putting so much as a strain on your computer’s performance.

Some key features of "Ashampoo Anti-Malware":
1· Two integrated engines of renowned software producers offer advanced protection from viruses, trojans, worms, malware, rootkits, bots, spyware and adware
2· During file execution and file copying, the onAccess guard offers maximum protection against all kind of threats before they can affect the entire system
3· Heuristic analysis designed to detect unknown threats
4· Protection against more than 3.000.000 potential threats from the web
5· Rootkit Detector

Get Free Ashampoo Anti-Malware 1.2 Licence For 3 Months:

1. Goto Ashampoo Promo Page.
2. Enter a valid Email address. And click Send.

3. Download the Ashampoo Anti-Malware.
4. Just install and enter the activation key.

Stay Protected :)

3 Simple Ways to Open DOCX File Format

Recently Microsoft released Ms Office 2010, but most of them are still using MS Office 2003.They have not even upgraded to Ms Office 2007. Ms Office 2007 default file format are  .pptx .xlsx .docx files. Ms office 2003 or other earlier versions doesn't support this file format.Here I provide 3 easy solutions to open docx file format. 

1. Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack
Microsoft released a tool named “Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack” ,Using this tool you can convert office 2007 files to the compactable file format for older versions.

2. OpenOffice
OpenOffice is a multi-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) and multi-lingual office suite which is compatible with all major office suites (i.e. Microsoft Office). It includes Writer (word processing), Impress (presentation), Math, Draw, Calc (spreadsheet), and Base applications.You can open and edit MS Office 2007 Docx file format in OpenOffice.Ubuntu Linux comes with OpenOffice Software.

3. DevVicky Word 2010
DevVicky Word 2010 is another freeware application that can also open DOCX formats. It is a lightweight application when compared to OpenOffice.org, and is much lighter when compared to MS Office as well. This is another cool way of opening Docx file format.

Its better you switch over to Ms Office 2007 or Ms Office 2010.

How To Extract Windows and Microsoft Office 2010 Product Key?

If you have lost your product key or CD key of Windows Os or Microsoft office.Then here is a solution to recover your Ms Office 2010 Product Key with ProduKey. Produkey is small freeware utility to extract the product keys of Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010 as well as product keys of Windows 7, Vista, and XP with a single click. It works smoothly on Windows 7, Vista, XP, Exchange Server and SQL Server.

1. Download and run Productkey.
2. Its a portable application and no need any installations.
3. You can find Windows and Micosoft Office Product Keys.
4. Just right click on Ms Office and click Properties.

5. From here you can copy the Product key.

Checkout How to Make Any Portable Application, this will help you to make portable applocation in few easy steps.

No worries even if you lost your Cd Keys after Installtions ;)

How to Hide Desktop Icons in Ubuntu?

Do you wish to hide desktop icons in Ubuntu linux just like Windows?
Then read this post post to hide home, computer, network, drives, and trash desktop icons in Ubuntu Linux.

Simply open Configuration Editor by pressing Alt+F2, type gconf-editor, and run it.



Inside the Configuration Editor, navigate to Apps --> Nautilus --> Desktop. At the right-hand pane, just uncheck the box that corresponds to the icon that you would like to hide.




What to Hide all the desktop icons?

To hide all the icons from your Ubuntu desktop, open the Configuration Editor, navigate to Apps --> nautilus --> preferences, and then locate show_desktop item from the right-hand pane. Uncheck the box and voila, all of your desktop icons should be gone by then.



Thats it !!!

Tizer Rootkit Razor -Free Anti RootKit Scanner

Tizer Rootkit Razor detects and removes malicious rootkits that are hidden on your computer through multiple methodologies.Tizer Rootkit Razor is a powerful freeware tool and easy to use tool. Rootkits can open a secret backdoor and once this happens, attackers can use rootkits to secretly alter files, change processes, distribute spam, and use data mining tools to steal login IDs and passwords.

What Is a Rootkit?
At the core of the term "rootkit" are two words- "root" and "kit". Root refers to the all-powerful, "Administrator" account on Unix and Linux systems, and kit refers to a set of programs or utilities that allow someone to maintain root-level access to a computer. However, one other aspect of a rootkit, beyond maintaining root-level access, is that the presence of the rootkit should be undetectable.

Tizer Rootkit Razor does 9 scanning methods to detect rootkits,

1. Process Scan
   
2. Registry Scan
   
3. Kernal Scan
   
4. Running services scan
   
5. SPI(Service Provider Interface) Scan
   
6. SSDT Scan
   
7. Port Scan
   
8. Thread Scan
   
9. And of course it aslo does Files and Object scan.
   

Cool Features of "Tizer Rootkit Razor":

• Displays information about your operating system and memory usage.
  
• Provides information about all running processes in the system.
  
• Detects hidden processes, threads, modules, services, drivers, files, registry keys, and alternate data streams.
  
• Allows the user to clean and remove the malicious objects from the system by deleting the hidden files or registry.
  
• Allows users to terminate malicious processes or modules/threads.
  
• Detects hidden objects if a file is hidden using IAT, EAT, or SSDT hooks.
  
• Allows users to start, stop, pause, or resume installed services.
  

Tizer Rootkit Razor

Top 50 Absolutely Hilarious Computer Quotes

Here is a collection of Top 50 humorous computer quotes. Since this blog is full of technical articles related to Computer Tips & Tricks, I tought this post will add some fun to my blog readers. My previous post was about Top 25 Linux Quotes for Linux Lovers. Enjoy reading these funny computer quotes

50 humorous computer quotes

1. "If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0"

2. "The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents."

3. "Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google."

4. "unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep" - my daily unix command list

5. "... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." - Robert Firth

6. "If Python is executable pseudocode, then perl is executable line noise."

7. "The more I C, the less I see."

8. "After Perl everything else is just assembly language."

9. "If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough."

10. "Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code."

11. "Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are."

12. "COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods."

13. “Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.” — Michael Sinz

14. "There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't."

15. Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips."

16. "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer." - Erik Naggum

17. "Windows95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush.

18. "People say Microsoft paid 14M$ for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed 14M$ only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a grown man cry'."

19. "I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly"

20. "A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light"

21. "A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila"

22. "1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d"

23. "To go forward, you must backup."

24. "I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code"

25. "A Windows user spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting."

26. "My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."

27. "Better to be a geek than an idiot."

28. "Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something."

29. "Geek's favorite pickup line: Hey, does this rag smell like chloroform? "

30. "Be nice to geeks when you're in school, you might end-up working for one when you grow-up."

31. "Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail."

32. "Evolution is God's way of issuing upgrades."

33. "The only problem with troubleshooting is that sometimes trouble shoots back."

34. "It's a little-known fact that the Y1K problem caused the Dark Ages."

35. "The box said 'Required Windows 95 or better'. So, I installed LINUX."

36. "Computer are like air conditioners: they stop working when you open windows."

37. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour,

38. quoth the server, 404."

39. "Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error."

40. "Dating a girl is just like writing software. Everything's going to work just fine in the testing lab (dating), but as soon as you have contract with a customer (marriage), then your program (life) is going to be facing new situations you never expected. You'll be forced to patch the code (admit you're wrong) and then the code (wife) will just end up all bloated and unmaintainable in the end."

41. "Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies." - Linus Torvalds

42. "There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand trinary, those that don't, and those that confuse it with binary."

43. "If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime."

44. "It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa."

45. "I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'."

46. "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from."

47. "The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot."

48. "Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code."

49. "The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones."

50. "Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn't leave something that can be traced back to you."
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