Most often, users of windows XP will get below signing prompt while installing some devices in their computers. Basically XP computer is looking for drivers which are signed by Microsoft for the device you are installing. But not all the drivers are signed by Microsoft and that doesn’t mean that you can not install them in XP. This is a kind of security measure from Microsoft to help XP users. If you are confidant that this drive won’t cause any problems, then you can go ahead and install.
Follow the below steps to disable the Device Driver Signing Check in XP:
- Logon to XP computer with Administrator rights
- Go to “My Computer” properties, “Hardware” tab, and select “Driver Signing” button
- In Drive signing options window, select block option and click on OK.
- This disables the driver signing and it won’t prompt you again.
Hope this information helps you.
The Microsoft Download Manager enables you to download files from the Internet in a more reliable and faster way than using a browser alone. Using the Download Manager makes it easier to download large files such as an application or multimedia files. The Download Manager has been specifically designed to manage file downloads from supporting Microsoft Web sites in a secure and reliable way. Once started, the Download Manager displays an easy¬-to-use interface that shows the status of downloads and enables you to resume downloads if they have failed. The Microsoft Download Manager currently supports downloads from Web addresses starting with http://.
System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7; Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 2
The Microsoft Download Manager requires one of the following operating systems: • Windows© XP with SP2 • Windows Vista© • Windows 7 • Windows Server© 2003 • Windows Server© 2008 The Microsoft Download Manager supports the following Web browsers: • Windows© Internet Explorer© 6 • Internet Explorer 7 • Internet Explorer 8 • Mozilla© Firefox©2 • Mozilla Firefox 3
Download Link:
Download from here
Download this file from MS download center.
Netsh enhanced to greater extent to ease IT administrator operations in Windows 2008/windows 7. This document has in depth details about the operations that can be performed in Windows 7/2008 operating systems using netsh command line utility.
Sysinternals has proven history in developing useful tools for system administrators. To keep it’s track, it has released another beautiful tool called RaMMap. As the name indicates, it is for viewing the memory status in a windows computer.
It presents memory usage information in different ways on its several different tabs:
- Use Counts: usage summary by type and paging list
- Processes: process working set sizes
- Priority Summary: prioritized standby list sizes
- Physical Pages: per-page use for all physical memory
- Physical Ranges: physical memory addresses
- File Summary: file data in RAM by file
- File Details: individual physical pages by file
This tool is supported on windows vista/windows 2008 or later. Download link
Recently we started hearing about this new technology, blu-ray for storing more amount of data in diskettes. I just want to talk few words about this. It’s a next generation disk format developed to store “5″ times greater data than normal DVD. That means you can store up-to 25GB of data on a single blu-ray disk. Similarly, you can store upto 50GB of data on a double layered blu-ray disk.
As per the manufacturer, it uses a a much shorter wavelength of later than the one used in writing DVD and hence much smaller dots to store the data and it increases the capacity of the disk. This new laser is called blue-violet laser(405nm).
Some Frequently asked Questions about Blu-ray can be found at http://www.blu-ray.com/faq/
Troubleshooting BSOD issue in Windows operating system is not a rocket science. We can do the troubleshooting atleast to some extent which is sufficient in most cases to recover the server.
Today morning I read an article on same subject and I am impressed with it’s content. If you follow the steps advised in it you are near to solving your BSOD issue.
You can find the article at Smple-talk
Today while working troubleshooting a issue I had to continuously monitor event viewer to know if there are any new events logged in that section. The thing I used to follow is, bother F5 buttom on keyboard or refresh option on MMC. But this is no more a case with Windows 7/Windows 2008 R2 event viewer MMC. It displays a small information message at the top of windows if there are any new events added to the section you are watching saying “New events available”. I liked it very much because it is displaying this message without any action. An example screenshot is provided below. I am not saying that it’s a great feature..but a small improvement 
A Software to easily swich between two physical computer consoles
As part of one of my project, I have to work on two physical systems. So, I don’t have any option than connecting both of them at my desk maintain two keyboards and mouses. When ever I want to switch between computers, I have to swing my chair to reach other keyboard and mouse. This is really painful and I have to switch like this for more than 100 times a day. Initially I thought of of using a KVM. But I am afraid after looking at it’s cost. That too, I have multi monitors connected for one of my system, that means I have three monitors now. If I use a KVM, I can not make use of multi monitor.
That time, I dreamed about a application which easily takes your mouse control from monitor of one machine to monitor of other machine, when it reaches end of first one. My friends said, it is out of scope. I too felt that and days are rolling….and I have no option than to swing my chair every time.
But today I have seen something great which really helped me. I was reading Technet Magazine and in IT tool box section, they talked about Input Redirector. After reading it’s overview, I felt very happy and immediately tried on my machine. It worked like a champ and I am able to change my KB and mouse control to second machine with just a mouse move. Amazing right?. I read completely about this tool and they have some more exciting features like, clipboard transfer between computers, Simultaneously locking all computers, and has hotkey option for faster switching between computers …many more…
Visit Product Site, if you want to give a try.
Let me know if you know any other tools which perform like this.
You might have seen many forums, blogs, and papers talking about the failure of Windows 7 in identifying the laptop/notebook batter life and few people also alleged that Windows 7 causing damage to their PC batteries.
“Nope, it is not the case. Batteries are really in semi-degraded state in reported cases and Windows 7 is reporting it accurately“, Says Microsoft. You can read the Complete Story from this “Windows Engineering Blog“.
Microsoft Saying that it’s a feature
Happy Learning..,
Sitaram Pamarthi
You might get subjected error message when you run some script/vbapplication which interacts with Office products like word, excel, and Outlook through a cron/scheduled job. The reason for failure here is, problem with DCOM permissions. To resolve this issue, follow the below steps.
- Go to the Start-Run menu item.
- Type in “DCOMCNFG” and hit enter.
- This should load the “Component Services” MMC (you can also load from Administrative Tools – Component Services”
- Expand “Component Services”
- Expand “Computers”
- Select ”My Computer”
- Select the “DCOM Config” item
- Select the “Microsoft Excel Application” item.
- Right click and select Properties
- Select the Security Tab
- Under “Launch and Activation Permissions” select the “Customize” option.
- Click the “Edit” button
- Click the “Add” button to add the account using which you are running the script/vb application
This should solve your problem. This solution works for all Office applications like Excel, word, and outlook as well. Only thing you need to do is, select respective office application properties instead of Excel in above procedure.
Happy Learning..,
Sitaram Pamarthi
