TechMan Help

Your computer is probably getting the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD).

To see if that is the case:

1. Right Click on My Computer and click on properties

2. In the advance tab under Startup and Recovery, click settings

3. Untick the box that says Automatic Restart under System Failure.

If for some reason a Word document does not open up in MS Word or a MP3 file opens in Windows Media Play and you want it to open up in iTunes or Winamp, you may need to change your default file types to open in different programs. To do this, follow the below guide.

1. Open up My Computer or My Documents

2. Click on Tools and click on Folder Options

3. Click on the File Types tab and find the file type you want to change in the list. For example Doc, Docx, MP3.

4. Highlight the file type and click on change.

5. Find the program you wish to automatically open when you click on a file of that type to open. If it is not in the list, click on Browse and search for it in Program Files.

You can easily find unprotected files by simply doing some Google Searches for web directories that do not have a default index file.

With these directories, you can find some interesting and unprotected files like videos, swf files and music. So here’s a few tips on how to find such files.

To find unprotected directories just Google Search

-inurl(html|htm|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size

This will find most unprotected directories.

If your only looking for video’s, search for:

-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wmv|avi)

And for music,

If you have ever formatted your PC, you know that it takes time re-downloading software and installing, but the Smart Installer pack has a whole bunch of software that it installs at once. I’ll go through the whole list: Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Widgets, Skype, Google Earth, Winamp, FireFox, Bittorent, Gmail Notifier, Rocket Dock, Codecs Pack, Adobe Flash Player, Apple QuickTIme, SunJava, Adobe Reader, WinRar, Open Office, Daemon Tools, ThunderBIrd, Gimp, Picasa, Avira Antivirus, Google Chrome, CCleaner and KmPlayer.

You possible don’t want all that software, but some are very useful.

So now you can save time installing software a fresh install.

You may also want to check out Windows Post Installer instead.

If your having troubles connecting to the internet in Firefox, your proxy settings maybe incorrect.

To check your settings, follow this guide.

1. In Firefox, click on Tools –> Options.

2. In the advance section, click on the Network Tab

3. Under Connection, click on settings.

First of all, how do you get a virus?

You can get a virus in a number of different ways.

• Installing untrusted programs
• Surfing untrusted (possibly adult) websites
• Networking with other infected computers
• Floppy disks
• Downloading from Peer to Peer Networks
• Not having up-to-date software
• Not having protection such as Antivirus software
• Not being protected from a firewall
• Not having pop-up blockers installed on your web browsers
• and the list goes on

So if you get a virus, now what should you do?

If you want to burn some data to a CD, maybe important documents or your pictures, Windows XP as an easy way to do it.

1. Open up My Computer, click on your CD drive.

2. Copy files into the folder

To do this, either drag files from other folders into their, are use the copy and paste command by right clicking on the file you wish to copy, click copy, then in the folder you want to paste (in this case the CD drive), right click and go paste. Alternatively you can use control + c for copy and control + v for paste.

It really depends on your phone provider and whether your on a plan paying your phone in monthly instalments are its free for a 24 month contract, or if your on prepaid.

If on prepaid, you can buy the iPhone outright and spend $50 per year if you wish.

You just have to do research on what is the best option for you, how many sms’s you are going to send, whether you download music and make many phone calls (or long ones)

Buying an iPhone you really have two options. Plan or Prepaid. Prepaid is more expensive upfront, but low costs over the months and Plan is a fixed cost, usually over 24 months with a low up front cost.

If you're someone who sets passwords on your computer and seem to have forgotten it and you can’t log back into your computer, below are some ways that you can try to reset your password.

Alt Control Delete at Windows Welcome Screen

If you see the welcome screen, you can try pressing alt control delete twice which will show you a screen where you can input a user name and password. In the username box type “administrator” and  in the password box, leave it blank.

When installing Windows XP on the computer, and the administrator password was not set, you may be able to access your computer through the default administrator account. You can then go into control panel and change your user account password.

If you don’t want friends of friends seeing tagged photo’s of yourself, simply visit http://www.facebook.com/inbox/?ref=mb#/privacy/?view=profile or click on Settings –> privacy settings –> profile and change the settings to the relevant option.

On that page, you can also change privacy settings of who can see your profile, wall posts, and Education and Work Information plus other things.