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download and install fonts for windows

1. Open the Internet Explorer. Type characters like Fonts Download in the search Toolbar. Then click the icon of search.
2. You’ll find that there are a lot of fonts on internet. Search one, and download it.
3. The one you have downloaded may be a zip or rar file like this one in the image, right-click it, and select extract here.

4. Now right-click the file you have extracted, and select copy.

5. Open the folder of C:\WINDOWS, then double-click the folder of fonts.

6. Left-click the blank in the window. Then press Ctrl+V, the font file will be installed in your PC.

Recover Windows with PowerSuite 2009 when no backup is done before
Are you stuck with the problem that your Windows gets corrupted or unstable which stops you from entering it? Do you want to recover your Windows/MBR/DPT/Registry in order to solve this problem? Are you at a loss about what to do with recovering Windows with no backup files?

About Windows Recovery:
When your Windows gets corrupted or unstable, Windows Recovery can restore it with your backup files (by our Windows Backup). Even more, our Windows Recovery is so powerful that even if you have not done any backup before, you will still have chances to repair your Windows with our automatic repair tools. However, we still recommend you to do Windows Backup when your Windows is in good condition.

Environment for use of Windows Recovery:
This function can run only after your computer boots from the Spotmau CD.

Procedure of recovering Windows with backed-up files:

1. Put our Spotmau CD into your CD drive and restart your computer. Then it will show the following page. Choose Spotmau Standard Mode to enter our PowerSuite 2009.
CD boot interface

2. Later it will show the interface of PowerSuite 2009. Then click “Windows Recovery” on the main menu, as followed:
windows recovery interface

3. It will enter Windows Recovery page.
windows recovery interface-02

4. If you have NOT done any backup before, please try the options below one by one until you can enter Windows successfully.
windows recovery(no backup file)-01

5. Missed File Recovery:
Missed File Recovery can help you check system files and recover the missed files. When your Windows fails to boot with one of the following error messages—-NTLDR is missing; BOOTMGR is missing; Ntoskrnl. exe is missing; NTFS. SYS is missing; Ntdect. Com is missing; Hal. dll is missing, Missed Files Recovery can automatically scan these files and help you restore them.
Chooseto enter it, then you will see the following Dialog:

6. Select the Windows from the pull-down menu as followed:

(Tips: Please ignore this option if there is only one Operation system on your computer.)
7. By click “Scan” to begin scanning your Windows to check whether the system file is damaged or lost.

8. The scanned result is shown:

9. If you Windows still cannot boot up normally, then the boot files may be damaged. Click “Recover” to fix the problem.

10. Recovery is finished.

11. MBR Recovery/Repair:
Choose to enter it, then you will see the following dialog:

12. Select Master Boot Disk form the pull-down menu as followed

(Tips: Please ignore this option if there is only one Hard Disk on your computer.)
13. Then click “Recover” to recover/repair the MBR.

14. Recovery is finished.

15. Registry Recvoery:
Registry Recovery can restore your registry to the premier state you installed Windows. You don’t have to re-install Windows or pay hundreds of dollars to fix your computer. You can safely clean and repair the Windows registry with a few simple clicks. enter it. Then you will see the following dialog:

16. Select the Windows from the pull-down menu as followed:

(Tips: Please ignore this option if there is only one Operation System on your computer.)

17. Click “Recover” to recover the registry.

18. Soon registry recovery is finished. (Tips: Some of your programs (MS Office\Anti-virus\Drivers, etc.) cannot be used if you restore your registry to Windows premier state. You need to reinstall these programs after you restore the registry.)

19. Boot. ini/Windows Registry Editor
to enter it, then you will see the following page:

20. If you want to edit Boot. ini file manually, click here:

21. Then it will enter the editing page. You can edit the Boot.ini here.
(Tips: It’s risky when you edit Boot.ini manually. Therefore, if you do not know well how to change it, please do not enter this operation.)

22. If you want to edit Windows Registry manually, click here:

23. Click “Yes” to continue.

24. Then it will enter the “Regedit” page like this. You can edit Windows Registry here.

(Tips: It’s risky when you edit Windows Registry manually. Therefore, if you do not know well how to change it, please do not enter this operation.)

How to Add/delete items of Desktop Context Menu
Do you want access to some common documents or some common functions quickly and conveniently? Do you want to greatly improve your work efficiency? It’s to change some shortcut options that customize to you.
Add/delete items of Desktop Context Menu
What is Right-click Menu Management？
When you right click on the desktop, the system will pop up a menu. This menu is the right-click menu. You can add/delete items of Desktop Context Menu, delete/recover items in the “New” Menu of Desktop Context Menu as well as other right click menu.

Procedure of adding/deleting items of Desktop Context Menu:

1. Click the “System Speedup” button on the interface of Spotmau PowerSuite 2009 and enter into the “System Optimization” page. Then you can see the Right-click Menu Management as followed:

2. Click “Start” to enter into Right-click Menu Management page and then turn to the “Desktop Context Menu”.

3. If you want to add menu item, type the name of the new menu item on the “Menu name” textbox, directory path of program file on “File Path” and tip message on “Description”. You can use Browse button to help you find program files.

4. Click “Add” on the right hand of the window and the new item will appear in the list, as followed. successful desktop context menu adding

(Tips: it will pop up a dialog to suggest a restart of your computer. Only if you restart your computer will you see the new item added shown in the desktop context menu. After you restart your computer, right-click an empty spot on your desktop, the added menu items will be displayed in the menu. Please try to left-click one of your added menu items, to check if it works.)

5. If you want to delete menu item from the desktop right-click context menu, first of all, choose the item you want to delete from the list, then click “Delete”.

6. Click “Yes” to go on the deleting. And you will see the item that you chose be removed from the list.

(Tips: a dialog will pop up to suggest a restart of your computer. Only if you restart your computer will you see the deleted item be removed from the desktop context menu.)

How to Burn TV Shows to DVD discs
I have downloaded some TV shows in my hard disk, but I want to watch them on my TV with my DVD player. How can I burn these TV shows to DVD discs?
Burn TV Shows to DVD discs

1. Use WinAVI Video Converter to convert the TV shows to DVD video files.
Choose DVD to add your TV shows to convert.
Add your TV shows video files.

2. You can add or remove or reorder them.

3. Choose Output Mode to choose the mode of your DVD.
Suggest choosing One DVD, Separate titles, at which mode you can burn your TV shows to one DVD and every part gets a title convenient to choose.
Choose Output Mode

4. Click Browse to locate your converted DVD videos.
Click Advanced to get your advanced DVD settings.

5. Click OK to convert your TV shows to DVD videos files.
Convert your TV shows video files to DVD video files

6. Use Nero to burn your DVD video disc.
Choose Nero Burning ROM.

7. Choose DVD > DVD-Video.
Click New to create your video DVD disc.

8. Right click in the left blank area and select Add Files… to add your DVD video files.

9. Find your DVD folder and choose the VIDEO_TS folder and click Add.
Add your video files

10. Click Burn to burn your TV shows DVD disc.
Go to the burn page

11. Then, click Burn to begin to burn your TV shows video DVD disc.
And you can enjoy your TV shows on your TV.

Nmap is one of the most useful network discovery tools you will ever use. Nmap allows you to explore networks of any size to determine the following information:

* Port details
* Host details
* State
* Service
* Devices
* Addresses
* and much, much more

Nmap is one of those applications you will need to open anytime you see issues on your network, need to get information about hosts, track down an IP address, etc. Nmap is flexible, powerful, deployed all over the world (it is in the top 10 programs on Freshmeat), easy to use, well documented, cross platform (Linux, OS X, and Windows ) and (best of all) FREE!

But Nmap is a commmand-line only tool. Most users don’t want to monkey with the command line. Fortunately there are plenty of front-end tools for command line equivalents. For Nmap you can use the user-friend Zenmap. And how can you get up to speed quickly with Zenmap? Easy…you read this tutorial on how to run a scan on your entire LAN and then read the results.

Getting and installing

To install Zenmap you will have to install Nmap along with it. You can do this one of two ways: with Synaptic (or another GUI front end for your installation tool), or from the command line. To install via your Add/Remove Software tool follow these steps:

1. Open up your Add/Remove Software utility.
2. Search for Nmap.
3. Mark Nmap for installation.
4. Search for Zenmap.
5. Mark Zenmap for installation.
6. Click Apply to install.

Once installed you will see the entry for Zenmap in your Internet (or Network) sub-menu of your Applications or Main menu. You will want to run Zenmap as the root user because, most likely, your standard user will not have access to the networking devices.

Running Zenmap

Figure 1

When you fire up Zenmap you will see the main window (see Figure 1) which will be empty of scans (because none have been issued as of yet).

To start a new scan you can do one of two things: You can enter a target IP (or range), select the type of scan, and hit Scan. Or you can open up the Command Wizard to construct a much more specific type of scan.

If you opt for just entering in your target(s) here’s how it works. The first thing you do is enter a target IP address. If you want to use a range of addresses the address would look like this: 192.168.1.1-200. NOTE: There are no spaces in the address.

You then need to select the type of scan to run. There are eight different types of scans to run. The intense scan will give you the most information and the Operating System Detection will give you the least amount of information.

The second method of setting up a scan is the Command Wizard. When you click this button you will walk through the following steps:

* Novice/Expert: Select the level of configuration you want to use.
* Profile/Command: Create a new profile or create a command to run once.
* Profile Details: If you go the Profile route you will have to enter the profile details.
* Scan Type: TCP or Non-TCP scan types as well as inclusion of Services version and Operating system detection.
* Ping Options: ICMP, ACK, SYN, IPPronto, etc details (if needed).
* Scripting Options: If you need to add special scripts to your scan.
* Target Options: Exclude hosts as well as configure ports to scan.
* Source Options: Use decoys, set source address, set source port options if needed.
* Misc Options: Various options to include.

Once you have finished configuring your scan via the Wizard you can hit the Scan button. However, if you opted to go the Profile route you will need to select your new profile from the Profile dropdown list.

Scan results

Figure 2

After your scan has completed you can take a look at your scan results. There are five tabs that will give you various information about the scan. Obviously the Scan Details tab is where you will get a good summation of your scan. To get the low-level details of your scan take a look at the Nmap Output tab. As your scan is running this is the only tab you can view – and it will give you every piece of information you need.

Saving scans

A nice feature of Zenmap is the ability to save scans. Once you have a scan completed you can save your scan and open it for later viewing. The only downfall of this is the Nmap Output is a bit cramped together. While the scan is running the output is displayed in real time so it’s easy to read. When not in real time this output can really be a pain to get through. Fortunately, between the other tabs, you can get all of the information you need quickly and easily.

Final thoughts

Zenmap makes easy work out of the complicated Nmap command utility. If you have any need to map a network or analyze your network topography, Zenmap is the way to go.

Do you need your operating system to be as efficient as possible? Do you hate having to go back and forth between the mouse and the keyboard? Would you rather have a keyboard shortcut for everything? If this is you then you are in luck. Linux desktops tend to be the most configurable of all the desktops. And among the many configuration options is the keyboard shortcut. With this you can create shortcuts to get creative with starting applications.

In this article I am going to show you how to set custom keyboard shortcuts in GNOME and then show how you can get creative with them. The GNOME release I am using is 2.26.1 and the Ubuntu release is 9.04.

Creating shortcuts

Figure 1

Creating shortcuts in GNOME is quite simple. You will notice in the Preferences sub-menu of the System menu there is an entry for Keyboard Shortcuts. Click on that to open up the Keyboard Shortcuts manager (see Figure 1). As you can see there are a number of keyboard shortcuts already created for you. This is not only a good place to create new

Figure 2

shortcuts but to find out what shortcuts are already enabled on the system. You might even find some of the keyboard shortcuts you want to use are disabled by default. You can enable them and give them new shortcuts. For example, the Expo key (which displays all desktops side by side – see Figure 2) is listed with the Mod4+E shortcut. What is the Mod4 key? It’s the Window’s key which is usually referred to as the “Super” key. So I reassigned that shortcut to work properly.

Add a new shortcut

Now it’s time to see just how shortcuts are created. As I mentioned earlier, creating shortcuts really is quite simple.

Figure 3

Once you have the Keyboard Shortcuts window open you will see the Add key at the bottom of the window. If you click on that a new, small window will open (see Figure 3). In this new window you only need to add two pieces of information:

Name: This is the name of the shortcut.

Command: This is the command you want to run when you hit the keyboard shortcut.

Figure 4

After you fill out this information click Apply and you will see the shortcut is listed as disabled (see Figure 4). The reason the shortcut is listed as disabled is because an actual shortcut has yet to be defined. Now we have to define the shortcut. To do this click on the Disabled section associated with your shortcut. In figure 4 I have created a shortcut to open up the Claws Mail email client. Now I want to assign the shortcut combination of the Alt Key + “c” to start the application. To do this I will click on the “Disabled” entry which will change and say “New shortcut…”. When you see this change hit the keyboard combination you want to use and it will then be assigned. You know it worked if the shortcut is now listed in conjunction with new shortcut.

Be creative

Don’t think you just have to be limited to opening up standard applications with this feature. For example: I use the Nano editor a LOT. But to use the Nano editor I have to open up a console window and then enter the nano command to start up the editor. Instead I create a shortcut that will automatically open up the gnome-terminal with the Nano editor running. To do this I will create a shortcut with the following information:

Name: Nano

Command: gnome-terminal -e nano

Assign this the Ctrl-N combination and when you hit that keyboard shortcut you will have the gnome-terminal console opened immediately to the Nano editor.

You can also, for example, open a browser window to a specific site. Say, for instance, you want to have one keyboard shortcut to open Firefox to ghacks.net and one shortcut to open Firefox to Slashdot. You can do this by adding shortcuts with the following information:

For Ghacks

Name: Firefox Ghacks

Command: firefox http://www.ghacks.net

For Slashdot

Name: Firefox Slashdot

Command: firefox http://www.slashdot.org

Final thoughts

Creating keyboard shortcuts can make your desktop life so much easier. Have you used creative shortcuts to make your desktop life easier? If so, share them.

As you’ve noticed, when you copy files from one location to another, Windows will pop up a message asking if you want to overwrite existing files (if they have the same name). There’s a “Yes to All” button, but there’s no “No to All” button – which means you have to click No for every single file you don’t want to overwrite. This can be a real hassle if the copying was an accident in the first place. This brief tip will show you how to use a “No to All” feature.

1. The Confirm File Replace window doesn’t have a “No to All” button.

2. This forces you to click No each time you don’t want to overwrite a file.

3. But there’s a trick – hold down the Shift key on your keyboard, and then click No. That will tell Windows that you don’t want to overwrite any of the files you’re copying – a hidden “No to All” feature.

This brief tutorial will show you how to make the scroll bars wider or more narrow in all Windows programs.

There are a number of reasons why you may want to change the width of the scrollbars in Windows. If you have a touchscreen device, making them a bit wider can help you “grab” them. If you’re a power user and rarely click the scrollbars (you use your mouse’s scroll wheel etc) – you can regain some “screen real estate” by making them more narrow. Whatever your reason, here’s how to change their width.

1. Start out by right-clicking a blank area on your Desktop. Select Properties from the pop-up menu.

2. Select the Appearance tab at the top of the Display Properties screen, and then click the Advanced button in the bottom right-corner of the window.

3. Click the “down arrow” in the Items: area. A long list of “items” will appear. Select Scrollbar from that list.

4. The default size for the scrollbars is 17. If you want to increase the size of your scrollbars, choose a higher number. If you want to decrease the size of the scrollbars, choose a smaller number.

5. Click OK after you’ve made the change.

6. You’ll be taken back to the Appearance tab of the Display Properties. On this screen, click the Apply button. After a few moments, your scroll bars will take on their new size.

7. Below is a screenshot of an enlarged scroll bar (30px instead of 17px).

8. And here’s a screenshot of a scrollbar that I’ve decreased in size – down to 4px.

9. If you’re unhappy with the results, just repeat the process until you find a size you like. And if you decide you want to go back to the default, just set the size to 17. That’s it!

Recently I purchased a 23″ wide screen monitor for my primary desktop PC. I had a feeling there would be a bit of an issue when I plugged it into my Elive Compiz installation that isn’t as user-friendly as, say, a Ubuntu installation. When I did plug it in it wasn’t horrible. The biggest problem I had was the new aspect ratio of the monitor (16:9) was causing everything on the screen to seem stretched with the previous resolution (1280×1024).

The monitor itself was reporting that the ideal resolution was 1920×1080, so I figured it was just a matter of adding the correct mode to the “Screen” section of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. It wasn’t that easy.

The first attempt

Normally, when I needed to change a resolution, or just hard-code a resolution, I would add a sub section in the xorg.conf file like:

SubSection “Display”
Modes “1920×1080″ “1440×900″ “1600×1200″ “1440×1440″ “1280×1024″ “1280×960″ “1280×800″ “1152×864″ “1024×768″ “832×624″ “800×600″ “720×400″ “640×480″
EndSubSection

Normally this would work, picking up the 1920×1080 mode first. In this instance, however, this did not work. I will tell you that I am working with an NVidia Geforce 8800 chipset, so support in Linux is quite good. I know this isn’t an issue with the video card. But no matter what resolution I used I was having no luck fighting the aspect ratio. The screen was either stretched too far horizontally, cropped at the bottom, or cropped all around.

I remembered there was an application that would gather information about my monitor and report it back. Maybe that was the key. The application is ddcprobe will give you the following information:

* Monitor name
* Monitor VertRefresh values and HorizSync rates range
* dpms

To install this application issue the command:

sudo apt-get install xresprobe

and you are ready to check. To do this issue the command

ddcprobe

which will return something like this:

vbe: VESA 3.0 detected.
oem: NVIDIA
vendor: Build 070809.2
product: MCP67 – mcp68-02 Chip Rev
memory: 65536kb
mode: 640×400x256
mode: 640×480x256
mode: 800×600x16
mode: 800×600x256
mode: 1024×768x16
mode: 1024×768x256
mode: 1280×1024x16
mode: 1280×1024x256
mode: 320×200x64k
mode: 320×200x16m
mode: 640×480x64k
mode: 640×480x16m
mode: 800×600x64k
mode: 800×600x16m
mode: 1024×768x64k
mode: 1024×768x16m
mode: 1280×1024x64k
mode: 1280×1024x16m
edid:
edidfail

Notice the edidfail at the end. What happens is sometimes hardware will not respond properly when the EDID is queried. If this happens try to probe a few more times, you should get more information. In my case, the Samsung 2333sw would never report the full information.

Back to square one.

NVidia

Remember I mentioned I was using an NVidia GeForce chipset? That’s a good thing because there is a handy application called nvidia-settings that I had used with much success before. The only reason I hadn’t automatically tried this was because I have had issues with the Elive Compiz distribution and X when trying to use tools not standard to the distribution. And besides the Elive resolution tool wasn’t picking up the new monitor so there was no hope there.

Installing the new tool was as simple as issuing:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings

Running the tool was equally as easy by issuing the command:

sudo nvidia-settings

Figure 1

When this application starts you will see a number of sections in the left pane (see Figure 1) that you can click on. Click on the X Server Display Configuration and you will then see a button for Detect Displays. Click on that and the new resolution should appear. The next step is to click the Save to X Configuration File which will write your changes.Finally click the Quit button to finish up.

In order to actually have the changes take effect you have to log out of X and log back in. Once you do you should see your new wide screen monitor in action.

What did it write?

The results of the nvidia-settings change to the xorg.conf file surprised me. It completely rewrote the “Screen” section of the Xorg configuration file. Here is the “Screen” section:

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Screen0″
Device “Videocard0″
Monitor “Monitor0″
DefaultDepth 24
Option “TwinView” “0″
Option “TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder” “CRT-0″
Option “metamodes” “1920×1080 +0+0; 1440×900 +0+0; 1280×1024 +0+0; 1280×960 +0+0; 1280×800 +0+0; 1024×768 +0+0; 800×600 +0+0; 640×480 +0+0″
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

The TwinView option is usually used for dual head displays. In order for Xorg to get the 16:9 aspect ration it must use it and splice the two images together.

Final thoughts

Linux has come such a long way. But when you are attempting to configure a distribution that isn’t especially made to be Noobie-friendly don’t expect for tasks like attaching a widescreen monitor to be an out of the box experience. The good news is that there are plenty of tools to help you out of little situations such as this.

In the end the new monitor works and is as beautiful a display as I have seen.

speed up Windows startup time

This brief tutorial will show you how to easily trim a second or two from the time it takes for Windows to start up.

1. Each time Windows starts you’re presented with the Windows “boot logo” and a progress bar. Displaying these items actually causes Windows to load a bit more slowly – because it has to load them. This tutorial will show you how to disable that boot logo and progress bar, allowing Windows to load faster. Note: I timed my Windows startup with and without the boot logo and status bar. The start time averaged 1.9 seconds faster without the logo and status bar.

2. Click the Windows Start button and select Run from the menu.

3. Enter msconfig in the Run window and click OK.

4. Select the BOOT.INI tab. Place a check in the box labeled /NOGUIBOOT, click the Apply button and then the OK button.

5. At this point you’ll be prompted to restart your PC. Save any open work, close any open programs, and click the Restart button.

6. Unless you’ve previously disabled the System Configuration Utility “warning” message, it will appear when your computer starts up again. Click OK. The System Configuration Utility will open again – you can revert your changes if anything went wrong (very unlikely, unless you made additional changes outside of the scope of this tutorial). When you close the System Configuration Utility you may be prompted to reboot your PC again – even though you didn’t make any changes this time. You don’t need to, and the “warning” message will not appear the next time you restart.