Some of you may already know, and some may not already know but as Microsoft do their usual thing at annoying people they've decided to take Telnet out of Vista...But not completely.
You can get it back, it's still there. It's just not included in the automatic install anymore. Why?
The heck if I know! But I know how to get it back...
1. Go to Control Panel.
2. Turn Windows features on / off. Pick on.
3. Scroll down until you find Telnet and check it.
4. Click OK to install.
Voila! You can now connect to your whatever you're trying to connect to.
Saturday 7 February 2009
Wednesday 4 February 2009
Make Grub Bootloader Never Auto-Choose OS To Boot
One thing I've found annoying from time to time is restarting my computer for whatever reason, going away and the Grub Bootloader has already started running the wrong OS. I hate this!
So, to make the bootloader always wait for your choice, follow this. But do it carefully please!
1. Open up the /boot/grub/menu.lst file in your favorite text editor (in sudo mode)
( To do this open the Terminal and type:
and gedit should run your Grub Menu. (This is assuming you want to run it in Gedit. If not type the name of the program you want to run it in.))
2. Find the section of the file that contains the timeout information.
3. Put a # before the "timeout 3″ line in the file, then save and restart your computer.
Now the Grub Bootloader will wait forever until you make a choice. This is quite useful for me, and maybe it will be for you too.
So, to make the bootloader always wait for your choice, follow this. But do it carefully please!
1. Open up the /boot/grub/menu.lst file in your favorite text editor (in sudo mode)
sudo vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
( To do this open the Terminal and type:
sudo gedit vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
and gedit should run your Grub Menu. (This is assuming you want to run it in Gedit. If not type the name of the program you want to run it in.))
2. Find the section of the file that contains the timeout information.
## timeout sec
# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
# (normally the first entry defined)
# timeout 3
3. Put a # before the "timeout 3″ line in the file, then save and restart your computer.
Now the Grub Bootloader will wait forever until you make a choice. This is quite useful for me, and maybe it will be for you too.
Tuesday 3 February 2009
"My Computer" folder loads slowly
There is a well known issue where the My Computer folder decides it wants to take a longer-than-usual time to load up.
Just so you know why it's doing this: Windows hangs while trying to search for network folders and printers before displaying anything to you.
It's probably one of the most simplest tutorials you'll ever see! Even more simpler than a step-by-step tutorial on installing programs or games. But I don't want to exaggerate. Maybe you need glasses but don't know yet so you'll find this hard. I don't know.
Good luck if you do though!
1. Open up Folder Options from the Tools menu in Windows Explorer:
2. Choose the View tab.
3. Uncheck the box for "Automatically search for network folders and printers", and close the dialog.
The changes should be immediate, and your problem should be gone.
Did you need glasses to do that? Comment and let me know! :-)
Just so you know why it's doing this: Windows hangs while trying to search for network folders and printers before displaying anything to you.
It's probably one of the most simplest tutorials you'll ever see! Even more simpler than a step-by-step tutorial on installing programs or games. But I don't want to exaggerate. Maybe you need glasses but don't know yet so you'll find this hard. I don't know.
Good luck if you do though!
1. Open up Folder Options from the Tools menu in Windows Explorer:
2. Choose the View tab.
3. Uncheck the box for "Automatically search for network folders and printers", and close the dialog.
The changes should be immediate, and your problem should be gone.
Did you need glasses to do that? Comment and let me know! :-)
Use Windows Start Menu Button To Run Menus In Ubuntu
For Ubuntu users, we don't have Microsoft's "Start Menu" (which is crap anyway compared to this), in return we have three drop-down menus.
One for applications like games, office editers, internet applications, and so on.
One for the places of the hard drive like Home, Documents, Pictures etc directories, Computer (My Computer more or less), and Mount OS, (YEAH! Windows ain't got that! In your face!!) and others.
One for the system like settings for just about everything, administration for other stuff, and basically this is the system/computer settings drop-down menu.
Well it's quite simple to apply this setting though and this tutorial can and/or will show you how!
1. Go to the System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts menu item:
2. Scroll down until you see the "Show the panel menu" item.
3. Click in the Shortcut column, and when it changes to "New Shortcut", hit the Windows Key.
4. Click the close button. You're done!
After doing these four simple steps, each time you press the Windows button the Applications menu will drop down. Using the left and right arrow keys will change the menu to the corresponding menu, and also and quite obviously up and down will change the highlight to the options inside the drop-down menu.
Oh. And to save any confusion Ubuntu calls the Windows Start Menu button "Super L". So when you go pressing this button in the Shortcuts menu, don't go expecting Windows Button or anything.
One for applications like games, office editers, internet applications, and so on.
One for the places of the hard drive like Home, Documents, Pictures etc directories, Computer (My Computer more or less), and Mount OS, (YEAH! Windows ain't got that! In your face!!) and others.
One for the system like settings for just about everything, administration for other stuff, and basically this is the system/computer settings drop-down menu.
Well it's quite simple to apply this setting though and this tutorial can and/or will show you how!
1. Go to the System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts menu item:
2. Scroll down until you see the "Show the panel menu" item.
3. Click in the Shortcut column, and when it changes to "New Shortcut", hit the Windows Key.
4. Click the close button. You're done!
After doing these four simple steps, each time you press the Windows button the Applications menu will drop down. Using the left and right arrow keys will change the menu to the corresponding menu, and also and quite obviously up and down will change the highlight to the options inside the drop-down menu.
Oh. And to save any confusion Ubuntu calls the Windows Start Menu button "Super L". So when you go pressing this button in the Shortcuts menu, don't go expecting Windows Button or anything.
Add Command Prompt icon to Windows XP right-click menu
So maybe some of you want to be able to add a choice to use the Command Prompt to Windows XP's right-click menu. And maybe some of you don't.
Simply. If you do, then this tutorial will or can tell you how.
A hidden functionality in Windows allows you to right click on a directory, and select "Command Prompt Here" from the menu.
Here's the registry key to get this working. But make sure you back up your registry just in case. Here's the step-by-step method, but you can skip down to the bottom for the alternate registry file.
Step-by-Step Method
Method 1
1. Click -- Start > Run and then type in regedit.exe. Then find your way to the following registry key.
2. Once you've found it, right-click and choose New Key.
3. Name the key "CommandPrompt" without the double quotes.
4. Right click on the new Command key and select New key. Name the new key Command as well, and then double-click the default value of that key. Set the text of that key to this:
Once you've gotten yourself up to this point, this is what it should look like.
Now, when you right click on a directory you should see this:
So by clicking on this, it should bring up a prompt looking like this:
Alternate Method
Method 2
1. Create a text file and call it *anything.you.want*.txt and insert the following text inside it.
2. Double-click the text file and the Method 1 tutorial will be done automatically.
(This would be the quickest option out of the three)
Another Alternate Method
Method 3
You can download the Powertoy from Microsoft which does all of this for you so you don't have to mess around much.
Whichever way, you still need some fingers, hands, a computer, and some brains though.
I would recommend you copy and paste the text from Method 2 (the text file method) as it doesn't involve actually Registry Editing which if you mess up, you will really regret. Although, the safest option would be Method 3 (download Powertoy). It's all up to you!
Simply. If you do, then this tutorial will or can tell you how.
A hidden functionality in Windows allows you to right click on a directory, and select "Command Prompt Here" from the menu.
Here's the registry key to get this working. But make sure you back up your registry just in case. Here's the step-by-step method, but you can skip down to the bottom for the alternate registry file.
Method 1
1. Click -- Start > Run and then type in regedit.exe. Then find your way to the following registry key.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell
2. Once you've found it, right-click and choose New Key.
3. Name the key "CommandPrompt" without the double quotes.
4. Right click on the new Command key and select New key. Name the new key Command as well, and then double-click the default value of that key. Set the text of that key to this:
cmd.exe /k cd %1
Once you've gotten yourself up to this point, this is what it should look like.
Now, when you right click on a directory you should see this:
So by clicking on this, it should bring up a prompt looking like this:
Method 2
1. Create a text file and call it *anything.you.want*.txt and insert the following text inside it.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\CommandPrompt]
@="Command Prompt:"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\CommandPrompt\Command]
@="cmd.exe /k cd %1″
2. Double-click the text file and the Method 1 tutorial will be done automatically.
(This would be the quickest option out of the three)
Method 3
You can download the Powertoy from Microsoft which does all of this for you so you don't have to mess around much.
Whichever way, you still need some fingers, hands, a computer, and some brains though.
I would recommend you copy and paste the text from Method 2 (the text file method) as it doesn't involve actually Registry Editing which if you mess up, you will really regret. Although, the safest option would be Method 3 (download Powertoy). It's all up to you!
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