Tech Solutions » Tips and Tricks http://www.compedia4us.com Blogging | Tech Tutorials | Make Money Online | Online Articles Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:31:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Apply Linked Style to Your Web Pages Using CSS http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/07/apply-linked-style-to-your-web-pages-using-css http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/07/apply-linked-style-to-your-web-pages-using-css#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:30:01 +0000 Danish http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/07/apply-linked-style-to-your-web-pages-using-css Ideally, you place styles in a separate document (a style sheet) that links to multiple pages so that the styles have global (site-wide) scope. The styles defined in this style sheet can then affect every page of your site, not just a single page or a single tag. This is the only method of the three that truly separates the presentational styles from the structural markup.

If you centralize all your CSS styles in a style sheet in this way, Web site design and editing become much easier. For example, if you need to make changes that affect the whole site (”The client wants all the paragraph text to be blue, not black.”), doing so can be as quick and painless as modifying one CSS style. This is certainly much easier than the pre-CSS task of modifying every FONT attribute of every paragraph tag in every page of the site.

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You can link your style sheet to as many XHTML pages as you want with a single line of code in the head of each XHTML page:

<link href="my_style_sheet.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Then the styles are applied to each page’s markup as the page loads. Note that, in the above link tag, the media attribute is defined as "screen", meaning the style sheet is designed for the screen, which currently means Web browsers. (Certain user agents look for particular media attributes that best suit their display capabilities; possibilities here include: all, projection, handheld, print and aural.

See a full list on the W3 Schools site (www.w3schools.com/css/css_mediatypes.asp).

A browser reads a style sheet where the link tag media attribute is all or screen. But by adding a second link tag with the media attribute of "print", you can offer a second style sheet that the browser will use when printing. A style sheet for printing might hide navigational and other elements that don’t make sense when the content goes to paper. If you create a second style sheet for printing, its link tag might look
like this

<link href="my_style_sheet_print.css" media="print" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

So now that you know what style sheets are, let’s look at how you write style sheet rules, and how concepts like Inheritance, Specificity, and the Cascade control how these rules affect your markup.

]]> http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/07/apply-linked-style-to-your-web-pages-using-css/feed 0 Apply Embedded Style to Your Web Pages Using CSS http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/07/apply-embedded-style-to-your-web-pages-using-css http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/07/apply-embedded-style-to-your-web-pages-using-css#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:16:00 +0000 Danish http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/07/apply-embedded-style-to-your-web-pages-using-css We have previously discussed about Inline CSS Styles to apply on Web Pages and this time we are going to discuss about the second way i.e Embedded CSS Style to apply on creating WebPages.  You can place a group of CSS styles in the head of your XHTML document. These are known as embedded styles (or page styles) because they are part of the page (or embedded in it). Embedded styles work like this:

<head>

<title>Embedded Styles example</title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" />

<style type="text/css">

h1 {font-size: 16px;}

p {color:blue;}

</style>

</head>

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The style tag tells the browser it is about to encounter code other than XHTML; the tag’s attribute states that the code is CSS. Here’s what you need to know about embedded (or page) styles:

  • • The scope of embedded styles is limited to the page that contains the styles.
  • • If you are only publishing a single page with these particular styles, you can embed the styles in the head of the document, although you are not truly separating the styles from the content; they are still in the same document. You will become familiar with embedded styles as you follow along with the hands-on single-page examples in this chapter.
  • • If you are working up multiple styles for a complex layout such as a form, sometimes it’s easier to write the styles as embedded styles in the head of the document so that you don’t have to constantly switch between the markup and the style sheet. Then, once everything is working, you can move the styles into the main style sheet and replace the styles in the header with a link to the style sheet.
  • • Page styles override style sheet styles, but they lose out to attributes you define in inline styles.
  • • If you are sending an XHTML page to someone for a critique, it’s considerate to embed the CSS styles in the page, so the reviewer only has to open the page and everything works; however, for a Web site of any scale, there is really only one way to manage the CSS and that is in a style sheet that can be linked to all of the site’s pages.
]]> http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/07/apply-embedded-style-to-your-web-pages-using-css/feed 0 Three Ways to Style Your Web Pages Using CSS http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/07/three-ways-to-style-your-web-pages-using-css http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/07/three-ways-to-style-your-web-pages-using-css#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:59:15 +0000 Danish http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/07/three-ways-to-style-your-web-pages-using-css There are three ways to add CSS to your Web pages: inline styles, embedded styles, and linked styles from a separate CSS style sheet. The only one that really makes any sense in terms of developing Web sites is to link your XHTML pages to a CSS style sheet, but we will examine the other two as well, as they can be useful while creating your pages.

A style sheet can be linked to an infinite number of XHTML pages, which helps ensure a consistent look from page to page and allows edits made to a style to be instantly reflected across an entire site.

Inline Styles

Inline styles (also known as local styles) are added to a tag using the XHTML style attribute, like this

<p>This paragraph simply takes on the browser’s default paragraph style.</p>

<p style="font-size: 25pt; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic; color:red;">By adding inline CSS styling to this paragraph, we can override the default styles.</p>

<p>And now we are back to a regular default paragraph without any inline styles.</p>

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Here are some things you need to know about inline styles:

  • • Their scope is very restricted. An inline style only affects the tag to which it is attached.
  • • The practice of using inline styles is simply another way of putting presentational markup directly on the tags, as we did in days of yore. Adding inline styles everywhere is as bad for the portability and edit ability of your markup as adding deprecated HTML attributes, such as FONT. Inline styles should be generally avoided.
  • • On those rare occasions when you need to override a style in just one specific instance and there is no better way to do it, you can create an inline style and not feel too guilty about it. That said, you could almost always avoid using inline styles by adding a unique ID or class to the tag in question and then writing a corresponding style in your style sheet.
  • • Using an inline style is a good way to try out a style before you move it into the style sheet (see “Linked Styles” on the next page). Just remember to clear out the style attribute entirely once you achieve the effect you want and then cut and paste just the style itself into the style sheet. If you have it in the markup, that inline style will always override whatever change you try to make to that particular tag from the style sheet, and you can spend hours trying to fix the style sheet when the problem is, in fact, hidden in the markup.
  • • Inline styles override the same styles you define with embedded styles (described next), which override global styles you define in style sheets.
]]> http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/07/three-ways-to-style-your-web-pages-using-css/feed 0 How to Stop Twitter From Sending New Follower Messages http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/07/how-to-stop-twitter-from-sending-new-follower-messages-2 http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/07/how-to-stop-twitter-from-sending-new-follower-messages-2#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:32:52 +0000 Danish http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/07/how-to-stop-twitter-from-sending-new-follower-messages-2 With all these great renovations you’ve been doing, it won’t be long before people start beating a path to your Twitter door. You’ll know right away if your custom design is a hit because Twitter sends you an e-mail message every time a kind soul decides to follow you. Personally, I love getting these messages because it’s great to know that my tweets have a growing audience, and it also gives me a chance to check out lots of other profiles.

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You never know who you might come across and decide to follow yourself. On the other hand, if your profile becomes quite popular, getting tons of messages from Twitter may not appeal to you. Similarly, you might be following as many people as you can handle, so you’re not interested in also following any of your new followers. If that’s the case, then you should follow these steps to tell Twitter to stop sending you an e-mail message each time someone follows you:

1. Sign in to your Twitter account.

2. Click Settings. The Settings page appears.

3. Click the Notices tab.

4. Deselect the Email when someone starts following me check box.

5. Click Save. Twitter updates your profile with the new setting

]]> http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/07/how-to-stop-twitter-from-sending-new-follower-messages-2/feed 0 How to Improve Search Engine Ranking By Avoiding Common SEO Pitfalls http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-improve-search-engine-ranking-by-avoiding-common-seo-pitfalls http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-improve-search-engine-ranking-by-avoiding-common-seo-pitfalls#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:03:14 +0000 Danish http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-improve-search-engine-ranking-by-avoiding-common-seo-pitfalls Search Engine Ranking is the basic concern of a web designer/developer and everyone who owns a website wants to be on the top of Search Engines. So the question is that how a website owner can improve its site ranking on major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. Well certain website characteristics can harm or limit your potential search engine rankings. By avoiding these common SEO pitfalls, you can pave the way for higher search engine visibility.

Inadequate inbound links

One of the biggest problems with low-ranking websites is a lack of popular inbound links. Without a healthy number of high-quality links that point back to your site, you’ll be at a disadvantage against a competitor who has more. Other linking issues include links to flagged sites, overuse of parameters, improper redirects, lack of keywords, and generic link text.

Drowning in splash pages 

Splash pages are usually graphically rich pages designed to impress visitors or to direct them to alternative views of content, such as high- or low-bandwidth versions of a site. A “Skip Intro” link on a web page implicitly says that the page isn’t very important. The problem with splash pages—whether they include “Skip Intro”links or not—is that they are a wasted opportunity. Splash pages usually reside at the top of a site’s hierarchy.

Pages that are higher in your site hierarchy tend to get more links and more traffic than pages that are lower in your hierarchy check the below image. If visitors must click and if search engines must crawl farther to reach the real home page (i.e., what should be your top-level index page), you’ve put up a barrier to success.

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Flash fires

Flash is installed on nearly every computer (98%) that accesses the Internet.8 This popularity has caused a conflagration of Flash gizmos on the Web. The problem with Flash is that search engines do not index it properly. We recommend using Flash to enhance the user experience, not to create it entirely. So, a Flash news ticker or embedded hotel reservation system is OK, but creating your entire site in Flash is not OK.

Following is a Flash SEO trick from Flash expert Gregory Cowley(http://gregorycowley.com/).

One technique you can use to make your Flash pages more SEO friendly is the two div trick. Use one div for the Flash movie, and the other with your HTML equivalent. Use JavaScript to hide the HTML DIV if the Flash plug-in is available, and the HTML is still available for search engines. This doesn’t work in complicated multi-page sites though. The key to a multi-page site, however, is to have all your text in an XML file outside of Flash.

This code requires a FlashObject class, available at http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

<div id="flashcontent">

This is replaced by the Flash content if the user has the correct version of the Flash plug-in installed. Place your HTML content in here and Google will index it just as it would normal HTML content (because it is HTML content!) Use HTML, embed images, anything you would normally place on an HTML page is fine.
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">

// <![CDATA[

var fo = new FlashObject("flashmovie.swf", " flashmovie", "00", "300", "8", "#FF6600");

fo.write("flashcontent");

// ]]>

</script>

To avoid the appearance of cloaking, be sure to not change the textual content between the two divs.

Unprofessional design

A first impression of your website can take only milliseconds9 but will affect its long-term success. You wouldn’t go on a date poorly groomed and with dirty fingernails, right? Don’t make a similar mistake with your website. Having a professionally designed site is the most important factor for perceived web credibility. The higher the aesthetic quality of your site, the higher its perceived credibility will be. Consumers are more willing to buy from (and presumably webmasters are more willing to link to) firms with well-designed sites.

Web credibility, valuable content, and useful tools are key factors that compel webmasters to link to you, and visitors to stay and spend money.

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Fix your focus. 

Some sites do not focus specifically enough. A store that sells everything, or that wants to be the next Amazon.com, has a long, painful road ahead. Such a broadly focused site is unlikely to succeed in natural SEO and probably needs to advertise with pay-per-click (PPC). It’s best to narrow your focus topically or geographically so that you have a better chance of ranking well and having higher conversion rates. There is one exception to this rule, however. If you can optimize every individual product page (e.g., HP LaserJet 6MP printer replacement toner cartridge C3903), it is possible to rank highly for those very specific terms.

Obscure navigation

The navigation on your site should comprise text that is easily indexed and that wasn’t created from graphical text, JavaScript, or Flash. Search engines can only index the text within your pages. They don’t read text that is embedded in graphics or Flash movies, nor do they execute JavaScript. A reasonable compromise for image-based navigation is to include alternative text for images.

Give up graphics-based navigation.

Macromedia Fireworks (now owned by Adobe) and Adobe ImageReady popularized the automatic slicing of graphics that made creating fancy navigation menus easy. Search engines don’t read graphical text, however. By embedding your keywords in graphics, you lose a golden opportunity to bake your SEO directly into the information architecture of your site.

Junk JavaScript-only navigation.

Avoid JavaScript-only navigation such as this:

<script src="/scripts/menunav.js" type="text/javascript">

Switch to list-based Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)-style menus or provide a text equivalent to your navigation elsewhere on the page for search engines to follow.

Duplicate content

Avoid exact or near duplicates of pages at different URIs. Although Google engineer Matt Cutts has said that there is no penalty for duplicate content, Google’s own webmaster guidelines say “don’t create multiple pages, sub-domains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.” Google generally tries to display the best version of a resource, but in rare cases it can penalize a site that appears to game the system with duplicate content The use of duplicate titles and meta tags across too many pages on the same site can harm rankings. Duplicate content will confuse the Googlebot as to which page is authoritative, thereby diluting your PageRank among the various URIs. You can use the robots exclusion protocol to exclude duplicate content (see http://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html).

On the other hand, creating mini sites, each with valuable content on a different topic related to your business, is one way around the two-URIs-per-domain limit to Google SERPs. Some companies buy domain names for each product or service, create and promote separate websites, and attain multiple top 10 spots on the first SERP. We don’t recommend using this technique of creating multiple sites to crowd all of your competitors off the first SERP.

]]> http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-improve-search-engine-ranking-by-avoiding-common-seo-pitfalls/feed 1 How To Apply A Customize Background Image On Your Twitter Profile http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-apply-a-customize-background-image-on-your-twitter-profile http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-apply-a-customize-background-image-on-your-twitter-profile#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:24:41 +0000 Danish http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-apply-a-customize-background-image-on-your-twitter-profile If you want to ramp up the “wow” factor, if you want to use your Twitter profile as part of a personal or business branding strategy, or if you just want a Twitter home that truly reflects your style and personality, then you need to augment your design with a custom background image. You might think this is just a simple matter of uploading your favorite photo, but Twitter offers several unique challenges when it comes to selecting a background image.

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Run through the steps you need to follow to apply a custom background image to your Twitter profile:

  1. Sign in to your Twitter account.
  2. Click Settings. The Settings page appears.
  3. Click the Design tab.
  4. Click Change background image.
  5. Click Browse. If you’re using Safari, click Choose File, instead. A file selection dialog box appears.
  6. Choose the file you want to use, and then click Open (or Choose in Safari). You can use either a JPEG or a PNG file, and the maximum size is 800KB.
  7. If you want Twitter to tile the image to cover the background, select the Tile background check box.
  8. Click Save Changes. Twitter updates your profile with the new background image.

IMPORTANT :- After you save your profile, you might end up on the “Something is technically wrong” page or even the fail whale page. This is an annoyingly common problem, and the best solution is to keep refreshing your browser until Twitter gets its act together. Note that when you refresh, your browser asks whether you want to resubmit the form, so be sure to choose yes.

]]> http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-apply-a-customize-background-image-on-your-twitter-profile/feed 2 How to Set Up a Multilink Modem Connection in Windows XP http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-set-up-a-multilink-modem-connection-in-windows-xp http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-set-up-a-multilink-modem-connection-in-windows-xp#comments Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:14:30 +0000 Danish http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-set-up-a-multilink-modem-connection-in-windows-xp If DSL, cable, or optical fiber isn’t available where you live, multilink modems or ISDN channels can make a worthwhile difference to your connection speed. With multilink ISDN, you get the aggregate bandwidth you’d expect. For example, two 64 Kbps channels will give you 128 Kbps. With multilink analog modems, you get a bit less than the aggregate because there’s some overhead, but you get a significant increase in speed. You need a phone line (or ISDN channel) for each device you’re using (or an ISDN terminal adapter handling two ISDN channels), and your ISP has to support multilink.

Set Up a Multilink Modem Connection

To set up a multilink modem connection, install and configure each modem involved as usual. Use HyperTerminal or Phone Dialer to make sure each modem and phone line is working. Then open the Properties dialog box for the connection and take the following steps:

1. On the General page, shown here, select the check box in the Connect Using list box for each modem you want to use for the connection. (In most cases, this means using both your modems.)

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2. If all the modems will call the same phone number to establish the multilinked connection, leave the All Devices Call the Same Numbers check box selected, as it is by default, and leave the existing phone number and dialing information as it is in the Phone Number group box. If the modems will dial different numbers, clear the All Devices Call the Same Numbers check box, select each modem in turn, and specify the phone number and dialing information for the modem.

3. On the Options page of the Properties dialog box for the connection, shown next, use the Multiple Devices drop-down list to specify how to dial the modems. The default setting is Dial All Devices, which automatically dials all the modems each time you establish the connection. The Dial Devices Only As Needed setting dials the modems according to the conditions you specify (see the next step). The Dial Only First Available Device setting lets you establish a single-line connection using whichever line is available;it’s primarily useful when you’re sharing phone lines with other people (or with your voice calls).

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4. If you selected the Dial Devices Only As Needed setting in the Multiple Devices dropdown list, configure automatic dialing and hanging up as described in the section after
next.

5. Click the OK button to close the Automatic Dialing and Hanging Up dialog box and then click the OK button to close the Properties dialog box for the connection.

]]> http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-set-up-a-multilink-modem-connection-in-windows-xp/feed 0 How to Apply a Theme to your Twitter Profile http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-apply-a-theme-to-your-twitter-profile http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-apply-a-theme-to-your-twitter-profile#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:03:40 +0000 Danish http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-apply-a-theme-to-your-twitter-profile Most of the people are familiar with twitter as a demanding social networking site and they also know that how to use a twitter account but still many people are not aware of many features of twitter and even many beginners are not familiar with the initial customization of their twitter profile . This time were are here to guide you about how you can apply a theme of your own choice to your twitter profile. Because after signing-up to the twitter account you surely want to see your profile good and want others to be attract with your profile too.

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Initially your fresh-out-of-the-box Twitter account sets up your pages to use a collection of colors and images that are the same for all new accounts includes:-

  • The page background is light blue.
  • The page background shows faint cloud-like images.
  • The sidebar uses a light green background.
  • The sidebar border is a slightly darker green.
  • The links are a darker blue.
  • The text is dark gray.

But this it so natural  that  after taken together, about half dozen items comprise the profile’s theme. You will not prefer to stuck with the default theme. If you want to give your Twitter profile a different look, you can apply one of the dozen prefab themes that Twitter provides, or you can take an even more customized approach by choosing your own theme components.

Follow these steps to apply new theme to your Twitter Profile :-

  • Sign in to your Twitter account.
  • Click Settings. The Settings page appears.
  • Click the Design tab.
  • In the Select a theme area, click a theme that looks promising. Twitter applies the
    theme temporarily.

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  • Repeat step 4 until you find a theme that suits you.
  • Click Save Changes. Twitter updates your profile with the new theme.
]]> http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-apply-a-theme-to-your-twitter-profile/feed 0 How to Install Windows XP Professional Using an Existing Operating System http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-install-windows-xp-professional-using-an-existing-operating-system http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-install-windows-xp-professional-using-an-existing-operating-system#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:10:33 +0000 Danish http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-install-windows-xp-professional-using-an-existing-operating-system There are various methods of installing Windows XP Professional on your Computer System. The very first method is to Install Windows XP using  CD-Rom but here we are going to tell you about how you can install Windows XP using the existing OS of Win XP in your Computers. Suppose If your computer does not boot from a CD-ROM, or if there is already an operating system loaded on your computer, you can install Windows XP Professional from a CD-ROM without having to boot from the Windows XP Professional installation CD-ROM.

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Here are some necessary steps below which you have to follow :-

1. If there is an operating system currently installed on your computer, start the computer, log on as an administrator, and insert the Windows XP Professional CDROM into the CD-ROM drive.

2. When the Welcome To Microsoft Windows XP page appears, click Install Windows XP.

3. If you see a Windows Setup message box indicating that the version of the operating system cannot be upgraded and that option to upgrade will not be available, click OK.

4. On the Welcome To Setup page in the Installation Type box, click New Installation (Advanced), and then click Next.

5. On the License Agreement page, read the license agreement, select I Accept This Agreement, and then click Next.

6. On the Your Product Key page, type in your 25-character product key, and then click Next.

7. The Setup Options page allows you to configure the following three options:

❑ Advanced Options Allows you to control where the installation files are obtained, where the installation files are copied to, whether or not to copy all installation files to the hard disk, and whether or not you want to specify the drive letter and partition during Setup.

❑ Accessibility Options Gives you the option of using the Microsoft Magnifier during Setup to display an enlarged portion of the screen in a separate window for users with limited vision and the option of using the Microsoft Narrator to read the contents of the screen for users who are blind.

❑ Select The Primary Language And Region You Want To Use Allows you to specify the primary language and region you use.

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8. After you have configured any required Setup options, click Next.

9. Setup displays the Get Updated Setup Files dialog box. If your computer has access to the Internet, you might want to ensure that the Yes, Download The Updated Setup Files (Recommended) check box is selected, and then click Next. Otherwise, select No, Skip This Step And Continue Installing Windows, and then click Next.

10. If your partition is not currently formatted with Windows XP Professional NTFS, the Setup Wizard displays the Upgrade To The Windows NTFS File System page. If you get the Upgrade To The Windows NTFS File System page, ensure that Yes, Upgrade My Drive is selected, and then click Next.

Important :- If you plan to dual boot your computer with an operating system that does not support NTFS, your C drive cannot be formatted with NTFS. You might want to install Windows XP Professional in a different drive, and then format that drive with NTFS. If you install Windows XP Professional on a drive other than the C drive, you must be sure you are using the correct drive for the rest of the practices in the training kit.

11. If you are installing an Evaluation Edition of Windows XP Professional, the Setup Wizard displays the Setup Notification page, informing you that this is an evaluation version. If Setup displays the Setup Notification screen, press ENTER to continue.

12. On the Welcome To Setup page, press ENTER to install Windows XP Professional.

Note:- You can also delete partitions at this time. If you have a C partition, you might not be able to delete it because Setup has already loaded some files onto it. The partition you choose to use must be at least 2000 MB in size. If you cannot use the C partition to install Windows XP Professional, you must replace the C partition in all following practices in this training kit with the appropriate partition, the one on which you install Windows XP Professional.

13. The Setup Wizard prompts you to select an area of free space on an existing partition to install Windows XP Professional. Select the C partition. The Setup Wizard displays the following message: You Chose To Install Windows XP On A Partition That Contains Another Operating System. Installing Windows XP Professional On This Partition Might Cause The Other Operating System To Function Improperly.

14. Press C to have Setup continue and use this partition.

Caution Depending on the operating system currently installed on the C partition, Setup might display the following message: A Windows Folder Already Exists That May Contain A Windows Installation. If You Continue, The Existing Windows Installation Will Be Overwritten. If You Want To Keep Both Operating Systems, Press Esc And Specify A Different Folder To Use.

15. If you get a warning about a Windows folder already existing, press L to use the folder and delete the installation in it. If your partition was not formatted with NTFS and you choose to have the partition formatted as NTFS, Setup formats it as NTFS, and then copies files. Otherwise, Setup examines the partition and then copies files.

16. The Setup Wizard reboots the computer and continues to copy files in GUI mode, after which it displays the Regional And Language Options page. Select the appropriate system locale, user locale, and keyboard layout (or ensure that they are correct for your language and location), and then click Next.

17. Setup displays the Personalize Your Software page, prompting you for your name and your organization name. The Setup Wizard uses your organization name to generate the default computer name. Many applications that you install later will use this information for product registration and document identification. In the Name text box, type your name. In the Organization text box, type the name of your organization, and then click Next.

18. The Setup Wizard displays the Computer Name And Administrator Password page.
Type a name for the computer in the Computer Name text box.

Important If your computer is on a network, check with the network administrator before assigning a name to your computer.

19. In the Administrator Password text box and in the Confirm Password text box, type a password, and then click Next.

20. Depending on your computer configuration, the Setup Wizard might display the Modem Dialing Information page. Configure the following information:

❑ Ensure that the correct country or region is selected.

❑ Type the correct area code or city code.

❑ If you dial a number to get an outside line, type the number.

❑ Ensure that the correct dialing tone is selected, and then click Next.

21. The Setup Wizard displays the Date And Time Settings page. If necessary, select the time zone for your location from the Time Zone drop-down list, and adjust the date and the time. Ensure that the Automatically Adjust Clock For Daylight Saving Changes check box is selected if you want Windows XP Professional to automatically adjust the time on your computer for daylight savings time, and then click Next.

22. Ensure that Typical Settings is selected, and then click Next.

23. On the Workgroup Or Computer Domain page, ensure that the No, This Computer Is Not On A Network, Or Is On A Network Without A Domain option is selected, make sure that the workgroup name is Workgroup, and then click Next.

24. The Setup Wizard configures the networking components and then copies files, installs Start menu items, registers components, saves settings, and removes temporary files. This process takes several minutes.

25. The computer restarts, and Windows XP Professional starts for the first time.

]]> http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-install-windows-xp-professional-using-an-existing-operating-system/feed 0 How to Recover Deleted and Lost Partitions with MiniTool Partition Recovery http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-recover-deleted-and-lost-partitions-with-minitool-partition-recovery http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-recover-deleted-and-lost-partitions-with-minitool-partition-recovery#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:21:21 +0000 Danish http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-recover-deleted-and-lost-partitions-with-minitool-partition-recovery It happen many times with us that due to corrupt partition table entries or unexpected crashes we lose our partitions in Windows. This one be the most problematic moment for us because many of us keeps important data in our hard drive partitions. In order to solve this serious problem we are here to bring a great tool dubbed as “MiniTool Partition Recovery”. It is a freeware software by which we can easily recover our deleted or lost partitions.

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With this freeware application you will be able to recover your partitions from SATA disk, SCSI disk, IDE Disk and Removable Disk. It can quickly recover the partitions and it supports approx all the partition systems like FAT(12, 16 and 32) NTFS and NTFS4 file systems.

You will find three different modes of scanning in this tool

1- Full Disk

2- Unallocated Space

3 Specified Range

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You can easily run MiniTool Partition Recovery under 32bit / 64 bit Operating Systems of Windows (2000 / XP / Vista) and Windows 7 also. You must try this tool because personally speaking it is an awesome free to download partition recovery tool.

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]]> http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/how-to-recover-deleted-and-lost-partitions-with-minitool-partition-recovery/feed 4 Disable The Taskbar Thumbnails For Individuals In Internet Explorer 8 for Windows 7 http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/disable-the-taskbar-thumbnails-for-individuals-in-internet-explorer-8-for-windows-7 http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/disable-the-taskbar-thumbnails-for-individuals-in-internet-explorer-8-for-windows-7#comments Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:02:16 +0000 shayan-cool http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/disable-the-taskbar-thumbnails-for-individuals-in-internet-explorer-8-for-windows-7 The thumbnails feature in Windows 7  is no doubt a great feature but sometimes it becomes annoying when many tabs are open at a time and it is very difficult for us to recognize them. Internet Explorer also supports the thumbnails feature and previews all the open tabs in Windows 7. Disabling this feature can solve your problem, but many of us are unaware of the procedure to disable this option, So below guide will teach you how to disable the thumbnail option in Internet Explorer 8 for windows 7.

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Just open the Internet Explorer 8 and select tools > internet options. After this, select the general tab and click on the settings under the tabs sub-group. Now in the tabs settings just uncheck the box which says “ Show previews for individuals tabs in taskbar” and click ok. This alteration requires you to restart your internet explorer to apply the settings. This procedure is easy to follow and requires no additional program to carry on the task, you just have to change the internal settings of the internet explorer 8 and can see only one thumbnail preview even you have more than one tabs opened at a time.

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]]> http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/06/disable-the-taskbar-thumbnails-for-individuals-in-internet-explorer-8-for-windows-7/feed 3 Protect Your Personal Photos With Password http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/05/protect-your-personal-photos-with-password http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/05/protect-your-personal-photos-with-password#comments Sat, 29 May 2010 20:20:09 +0000 shayan-cool http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/05/protect-your-personal-photos-with-password We save many of our pictures in our computer which includes some personal pictures and normal pictures. The word “personal pictures”  means not to be viewed by every one except the user itself, so there are some pictures which we don’t want that every should see and we name them as personal pictures. There are several methods by which you can protect your personal photos. The method of protecting your personal photos is now made easy with a free program called Lock Image.

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LockImgae is a portable software which allows you to add a password to your personal pictures so that other person cannot view that photo. The working is simple, just run the program and open that particular image on it. Now save that executable image by selecting Save As under File Menu. After giving the name and selecting the file type, it will ask you to assign a password to the file. Just type the password and save it.

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In order to view that protected file, just double-click on that file and it will ask you to enter the password. Simply enter the password and view your image. Once a photo is protected with this software, it cannot be converted back to the image format ,so be sure before protecting any image with this software.

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This program needs no installation as it can be executed directly after downloading.

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]]> http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/05/protect-your-personal-photos-with-password/feed 0 ReOpen Accidently Closed File In A Single-Click http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/05/reopen-accidently-closed-file-in-a-single-click http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/05/reopen-accidently-closed-file-in-a-single-click#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 20:30:42 +0000 shayan-cool http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/05/reopen-accidently-closed-file-in-a-single-click There are certain times when we accidently closes a document or a file which we don’t want to, and to reopen that file again we have to go to that file location and double click on it, which is time consuming. A new tool named ReOpen has made our work easier, which allows us to open the accidently closed file in just a single-click. This tool saves all those files in its small space so its not limited only to last file closed but it shows all those file which were closed within some duration. Our job is to remember the name of the file which we want to open it again.

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The process is simple, just download the program and run, you will be able to see all those files that were closed accidently. Just select the particular file which has to reopen and press the Hotkey Shift + Pause, Your file will be reopened. This Hotkey combination can be changed to whatever combination you wish to select, as the tool is configurable and can be modified to provide any hotkey combination and color. This tool is portable and can be downloaded from below.

Download ReOpen

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]]> http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/05/reopen-accidently-closed-file-in-a-single-click/feed 0 Remove the Countdown Timer While Downloading On RapidShare http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/05/remove-the-countdown-timer-while-downloading-on-rapidshare http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/05/remove-the-countdown-timer-while-downloading-on-rapidshare#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 20:22:06 +0000 shayan-cool http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/05/remove-the-countdown-timer-while-downloading-on-rapidshare RapidShare is a well reputed File Hosting service which provides a great platform for downloading and sharing the useful files among the friends all over the world. As the service is so much reliable and helpful so it has some strict rules to follow. For example, if you want to download a certain file so you have to make a premium paid RapidShare account first and carry on the further process.

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Another problem which the RapidShare users face is the countdown timer which irritates them while downloading files. This problem can now be removed with a add-on called RapidShare Download Helper for Google Chrome and Firefox. This add-on removes the countdown timer while downloading the file and automatically monitors the time limitations. Once the link is available and timer is completed, downloading starts. This add-on performs two basic operations while downloading certain file from RapidShare, First it auto-detects the countdowns and second it auto-starts the download when the countdown is over. The add-on is easy to install and helpful for the RapidShare users.

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]]> http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/05/remove-the-countdown-timer-while-downloading-on-rapidshare/feed 1 Make Your Android 2.2 A Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/05/make-your-android-2-2-a-portable-wi-fi-hotspot http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/05/make-your-android-2-2-a-portable-wi-fi-hotspot#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 20:35:41 +0000 shayan-cool http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/05/make-your-android-2-2-a-portable-wi-fi-hotspot Wireless Internet users sometimes might have faced the difficulty in their connections  due to weather or other reason. If you have Android 2.2 with you, so your problem is solved. You can make your Android 2.2 a portable Wi-Fi hotspot by enabling the option installed in it. This unique feature in the Android 2.2 allows you to connect your iPad,iPod Touch,Zune HD or any other device , with the Wi-Fi connection activated in Android 2.2. The procedure of enabling the Wi-fi hotspot option is described below;

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Simply Go to the settings and select the Wireless & networks option. Now select the Tethering and Hotspot option and in the next option put a check on the Portable Wi-Fi option. To manage the settings of the hotspot select Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot Settings < Configure Wi-Fi Hotspot. Now input the Network SSID for your connection and then there will be two options provided to you , Open and WPA2 PSK. First option is simple but if you want to select the WPA2 PSK option then it will ask you to enter the password for the connection, once you entered the password, click the Save button.Your Hotspot will be created.

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You can enable or disable the connection from the checkbox option. Once the connection is enabled you can connect any of your device with the portable hotspot by configuring its wireless connection settings to the Network SSID of your Android device. This feature in the Android 2.2 is awesome which provides a great ability to connect other devices with its portable Wi-Fi hotspot.

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]]> http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/05/make-your-android-2-2-a-portable-wi-fi-hotspot/feed 0 Remove The Splash Screen Using Splash Killer http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/04/remove-the-splash-screen-using-splash-killer http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/04/remove-the-splash-screen-using-splash-killer#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:27:33 +0000 shayan-cool http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/04/remove-the-splash-screen-using-splash-killer When you start some programs like Photoshop , Dreamweaver , Flash etc, so splash screens occur at the beginning which takes at least 40-50 sec for its execution and then the software is opened. These splash screens are totally time wasting, so to coup-up with this problem a program has been made named “Splash Killer” which stops the display of the splash screens of the third party programs.

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Above is a screenshot of the Slash screen which runs before the Photoshop software.These type of screens can be removed using this free software. It silently runs in the system tray. The working is simple, Run this program by double clicking the system tray icon and then select configuration.

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Now configuration box will be opened then add the programs which shows splash screens and then click ok. The results will be positive for many of the programs. It can kill many of the splash screen of the programs but with few programs it won’t work.

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This programs is compatible with all the operating system versions, With windows 7 you might need to run this software on windows XP mode, but this situation comes in very rare cases.

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]]> http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/04/remove-the-splash-screen-using-splash-killer/feed 0 Now Erase Data from Your Hard Disk Securely with Roadkil’s Disk Wipe http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/04/now-erase-data-from-your-hard-disk-securely-with-roadkils-disk-wipe http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/04/now-erase-data-from-your-hard-disk-securely-with-roadkils-disk-wipe#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:07:33 +0000 Danish http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/04/now-erase-data-from-your-hard-disk-securely-with-roadkils-disk-wipe We have deleted lots of Data from Hard Disk in our daily life usage of Computer Systems, but the big problem is that the data which we deleted ever is not permanently deleted from our hard drives that means it can be recovered by using different tools. There are many situations occur in front of us where we permanently want to delete our secrete or confidential data so that it cannot be recovered back again.

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In order to solve this problem we are here with a third party application tool named as Roadkil’s Disk Wipe and it will remove the data from hard drives permanently and it can also fill up the disk space with random data or it may leave the disk space blank as well. This application is very easy to use and you can perform several passes to ensuring that the data is totally unrecoverable. You can fully utilize this application for deleting the data from your Hard Disks and USB/Flash Drives as well.

Download Roakkil’s Disk Wipe From Here

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]]> http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/04/now-erase-data-from-your-hard-disk-securely-with-roadkils-disk-wipe/feed 0 Convert The Web Page Into PDF File Format http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/04/convert-the-web-page-into-pdf-file-format http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/04/convert-the-web-page-into-pdf-file-format#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:20:35 +0000 shayan-cool http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/04/convert-the-web-page-into-pdf-file-format The Web pages can now be converted into PDF file format using PDFmyurl.com launched on Tuesday, March 23,2012. The name of the website clearly defines the working that it can convert any of  web page into PDF file and can be saved and used for print. This website will also help us in a way that long term and offline reading can be done  without internet. This is a convenient way of making your work portable and easy. It also converts e-books into PDF format which makes it easy for the readers.

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The conversion is simple, all you need to do is enter the URL address of the page which you want to convert into PSD format and just enter. Then you can just save or print that file and can use it as offline reading. The results of the page are good and with clear wordings and image result is also fine. The main purpose of PDFmyurl is basically provide the readers the facility of offline reading and long term archiving which is fantastic and superb.

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]]> http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/04/convert-the-web-page-into-pdf-file-format/feed 0 Protect Your USB Drives Against Autorun Viruses For Life Time http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/04/protect-your-usb-drives-against-autorun-viruses-for-life-time http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/04/protect-your-usb-drives-against-autorun-viruses-for-life-time#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:37:59 +0000 Danish http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/04/protect-your-usb-drives-against-autorun-viruses-for-life-time The most common virus we have found in our USB devices are Autorun Viruses . Few days ago we had given you a solution of how to protect your USB devices from Autorun viruses. But we all know that all these solutions are working fine but for just few days and we never meet with a permanent solution to remove viruses but this time we are here with a proper and permanent solution.

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We just came across today with a very useful application tool, it is a tool which may protect your USB drives or different Removable USB devices for a lifetime. The Application is titled as “ USB Defender ”. This tool will surely help you to protect with different numbers of Autorun viruses which may infect your USB drives and your PC too whenever you plugged an infected USB Drives to your Computer Systems. 

Lets talk a few about USB defender so it is easy to use device. Its interface shows only two buttons that is “ Protect “ and “ Unprotect “. Protect button is use to apply a protection on your device and in contrast Unprotect button is use to remove the protection applied on you drive.

Using this tool is very easy and what you need to do just select any drive , then a program will automatically detects either a drive is protected or not and in that case only one option will be available for you as you can see in the image .

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Lets have a look that how this application will protect your drives against Autorun viruses. It initially make a folder which is a system hidden folder called as AUTORUN.INF as seen in below image .

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After the creation of AUTORUN.INF folder your drive will not be infected by Autorun virus that means whenever you connect your USB drive to any infected computer then it will not infect your USB or Pen Drive.

Important Note:- Keep this thing in your mind that once you have format your Pen or USB drive, then the applied protection will be lost so you should require to protect the drive again by using this application

Download USB Defender From Here

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]]> http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/04/protect-your-usb-drives-against-autorun-viruses-for-life-time/feed 0 Now Tile Up and Arrange your Opened Windows on Desktop with Tiler. http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/04/now-tile-up-and-arrange-your-opened-windows-on-desktop-with-tiler http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/04/now-tile-up-and-arrange-your-opened-windows-on-desktop-with-tiler#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:26:17 +0000 Danish http://www.compedia4us.com/2010/04/now-tile-up-and-arrange-your-opened-windows-on-desktop-with-tiler If we are working on our Pc’s and there are lots of windows are opened up on Desktop then it is obviously a hectic task for us to handle them and in result we just close all these windows. But what if a better solution will suggest?, Here we are with a great small application titled as “ Tiler ”, it will help you  to arrange or tile up any  number of opened windows on your desktop screen very quickly and in easiest way by making a single click on system tray icon of the application.

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This is not enough here but you are also able to select the layout of arrangement ( for example : Tile Horizontally or Tile Vertically). In addition with the help of this application you may also select the option ( Close all Programs ) or (Keep all Programs Maximized) . In conclusion this application is a portable type application and you will get full advantage of this coolest application.

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