Today we had the need to “burn” (of course the correct term is “load”) an ISO image on a bootable USB stick. The problem was  how to transfer a previously ISO image on a USB key and make it bootable. We found this very interesting project on sourceforge, named  UNetbootin. This small program in Windows version [...]

I found a user who had a curious problem, the incoming mail had the wrong time, in practice was an hour behind. Nothing serious, but it was annoying. Obviously occurred after the clock on his computer and one where he resides on the Exchange server was not wrong, I narrowed the field to the Outlook [...]

Recently, after some upgrades of Mozilla Firefox, i have found some extensions disabled because no longer compatible with the new version of the browser. In particular I refer to “2 pc sync syncronization” extension of Nokia PC Suite amd Framework 3.5 Microsoft extension. This extensions, in my opinion, are unnecessary especially because is installed their [...]

Windows 7 have own Logon UI customizable option. The new operating system support loading images as background for login screen without using third-party software. Be careful, you have to change something in the Windows Registry, proceed with your own responsability. Open the registry (start -> run -> regedit or WindowsKey -> regedit)  find the key [...]

On home pc  i’ve changed (from Windows update) the internet explorer version 7 from default one (version 6.x). The installation seems working fine but sometimes browser go in crash, especially when i open “options” menu. Crash windows report problem to PSAPI.dll. The problem born from a duplicate dll, and different to original one, an made [...]

If you have a Windows XP Professional and your shutdown process is very slow (you must wait minutes before shutdown command and computer is really powered off) is possible the computer cache try to empty virtual memory, and ibernation cache. This option is usually turned off by default, but third parts programs can re-enabled it. [...]

Bonjour, also formerly know as “RendezVous”, is show on windows services also a mDNSResponder. Thi is an Apple software an be used to exchange music or media between ITunes services and Apple to your MP3 or computer. Not to bad, but this program is installed in a hidden mode by lot of software installations.  Is [...]

Google is a powerful search engine, below there are some commands for a better search result’s. – (minus) e.g president -obama when the minus is before a word, this search all presidents excluded the results containing words (obama in my example). + (plus) e.g. +the cat Inside the search the word “the” usually is not [...]

Whoops.. in Windows Vista and Seven the UAC (User Account Control) force the run (windows key + R) to running in your own userlevel. If you run CMD, the shell don’t have administrator privileges. Really boring, if you want to run some command in admin you have to follow this easy steps. Choose from Start [...]

Few days ago i’ve installed Vmware player. On machine restart, at logon screen, i’m notice about new user account. Annoying ghost user appear every Windows start, and i must choose my useraccount for type the password (before password field appear automatically). Well i’ts a good idea to hide this user from logon screen. BE CAREFUL, [...]