How to Find Your Computer IP Address in Windows XP and Vista

There are many reasons why you would want to find your computer IP address.some reasons might include, Internet connection problems, setting up a new home network, sharing files over a home network, and so on.Every device connected to the public Internet is assigned a unique number known as an Internet Protocol (IP) address. IP addresses consist of four numbers separated by periods (also called a ‘dotted-quad’) and look something like 127.0.0.1....

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How to Find Your Computer Name and Change it

There will be times when you need to know your computers name. This is not the same as your computer username. You might use your computer name to share files and printers on your home network and sometimes the default computer name is just too difficult to remember. This is the number one reason for changing your computer name. If you are using the computer name to setup a shared printer you will need to rename your computer something easy....

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To find your mac address in Windows XP

Your computers Mac address or physical address can be used as a part of your wireless network security. If you have this security enabled, your router will only let the computers into the network with the corresponding mac address .To find your mac address in Windows XP there are two waysThe first way to find your mac addressDouble click on the internet icon (near the time) in your system tray.Choose the support tabThen choose details.It...

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Convert Nero image (.nrg) to ISO9660 (.iso)

n case you need to convert Nero image file .nrg into regular ISO9660 .iso utility nrg2iso might be helpful then.It’s included into apt repositories of Debian and Ubuntu, so to install it execute: sudo aptitude install nrg2isoWhen it’s done, convert file by command:nrg2iso image.nrg image....

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Is The Internet Down? 5 Common Home Network Problems

Sometimes home network problems are as easy to fix as plugging in a cord, yet “check your cords” is almost all the advice you’ll get from overworked help desk operators. Sometimes you get onto a help desk operator that wants to take you through every simple step, even the ones you have already performed. The average computer user gets very frustrated with troubleshooting methods used over the phone when trying to diagnose their home network...

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5 Uncommon Home Network Problems

Home network problems are a common occurrence now days. Just think about it? Everyone is now on the internet and most houses have some type of network setup to enable more than one computer to use the internet connection. Unfortunately this means that there are more Home network problems because people are settings these up themselves. There is no problem setting up your own home network and usually the hassles only start when you run into a...

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Large VM crashes during snapshot commit

Snapshots can be your friend but they can most certainly also make your life miserable. The other day we had a rather large VM (with 20 GB mem, 8 vCPUs and 28 TB storage divided on 22 .vmdk's) that crashed during a snapshot commit. The error stated: "Performing disk cleanup. Cannot power off." The snapshot had been taken while the VM was powered off and only a few changes had been made to the VM before the snapshot was committed.After the crash,...

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iPhone Error 3194 and Solution

If you have been using iOS 4 on iPhone and if you have downgraded iOS4 to 3.1.3 then you might have encountered this Error 3194. This error is associated with firmware.This error occurs when you have an unsigned firmware. This is because, Apple now signs the firmware and if your firmware has no authenticity then you are bound to get this error. However, getting back on the signed firmware might not solve this error.So, how do you fix this error?...

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To save any image while surfing the internet

Tap the image you want to save and hold it for a moment. A save picture option will be prompted and you can save that image very easi...

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To Enjoy Multi-Tasking in IPad

If you want to switch between any task without closing the running program, you should,Double click on the ipad HOME button.Touch the application you want to open from the list shown at the bottom of the home screen.You may need to swipe the icons to find yours when many tasks are runni...

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To take Ipad screenshot

Press [Home] + [Sleep/Wake] together. A photo is taken with a click by your ipad and automatically saved to your ipad photo galle...

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To secure data to be leaked in IPad

If your ipad contains some confidential and valuable data, you can prevent it to get leaked. All you need to Settings → General →Passcode Lock → Erase Data. It erases all the valuable data when your passcode, set for the ipad, is wrongly typed 10 tim...

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Install app on Citrix server - change user

This is mostly a reminder to myself as I seem to forget the syntax.When installing applications on a Citrix server in production, you need to change to install mode. After installation the mode has to be changed back to 'execute'.From CMD prompt:Install mode:change user /installExecute mode:change user /exec...

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5 Threats To Your Home Wireless Connection

Keeping your wireless connection safe should be a top priority, especially if you use your wireless laptop or cell phone to login to secure financial accounts or business email. We all use the internet to access personal information, do banking, and chat in private to friends. Image if someone was watching you, browsing through your files, or recording your every move on your computer? Well don’t just sit there and think that it will not happen...

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Share Files and Printers between Windows 7 and XP

If you have a home network and are running Windows 7 and have XP on other PC(s) you might want to share files between them.  Today we will look at the steps to share files and hardware devices like a printer.Sharing Files In Windows 7 and XPSharing folders between two Windows 7 machines with the new HomeGroup feature is an easy process, but the HomeGroup feature is not compatible with Vista or XP.  For this tutorial we are using Windows...

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Windows 7 Tricks

Windows 7 is the most updated and an excellent operating system. But to work well with windows 7, you must know some tricks. I am discussing some of the windows 7 tricks here. Windows 7 Trick 1:In general, when you want to create the zipped version of any file or folder, you just right click on that file and use the send option from the drop down list. But in the case of Windows7, you do not able to get options in the ‘send to’ menu. Here...

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