pepoluan: The IT Guy

Link: http://www.vinodchandramouli.com/2008/04/how-to-find-drives-for-unknown-devices.html

Have you ever installed Windows, only to be bewildered by the huge selections of drivers in the Drivers CD given, while there's no installer that automatically detects the version tobe used? Or worse, they don't give you the drivers so you have to find it yourself?

If you've experienced that before, stop worrying! I'll tell you how to find the drivers. More WinPowerTip goodness after the jump...

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As I promised, here's a Power Tip. But sorry, this one is for SERVERS only. Windows Server 2003, to be exact.

The story goes like this: You turned on your Server 2003. It booted well. It showed the MSGINA login screen. Then suddenly, out of nowhere, a dialog box popped up: Failed starting some services. Please see Event Viewer and go fuck yourself. (Or something to that effect).

So, you duly opened the Event Viewer... and lo and behold! you see red gremlins parading in the Event Viewer. In my case there were several errors: FireDaemon errors, and MSDTC errors.

How did I fix them? Read more of the story after the jump

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As I promised, here's a new blog article. Not a WinPowerTip (next article, promise!) but an 'Eyewitness Report' of the Indonesian Firefox 3 Launch Party.

More news after the jump

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... for no new news this past couple of weeks. After a 7-full-day course, I fell ill.

I will resume this column on Monday.

Cheers!

First of all, an apology for not posting sooner. I've been unbelievably exhausted the past 2 days ... I just regained my energy today

Alright. In this edition of WinPowerTip, I will share how to protect your USB Flash Disk (UFD) from virus infection, without installing any software in your computer and/or UFD.

So, how do I do it? Read the whole story after the jump

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Continuing on the previous Windows optimizing tip, I have promised that in this tip I will discuss about defragmentation and defragmenters.

So, today's WinPowerTip will attempt to answer the following questions: What is defragmentation? Do I need to defragment the NTFS filesystem? Which defragmenter is a good one? How to defragment properly?

And of course, a golden question: Will I damage my hard disk prematurely if I defrag regularly?

Find the answers to the above questions after the jump

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After a delay of several weeks, now I *really* start my [WinPowerTip] series

For today's WinPowerTip, I will explain what you need to know about Prefetch: What Prefetch is, Why Prefetch is important, and How to optimize your Prefetch to increase your Windows performance.

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