Thursday, June 16, 2011

Free-up Hard Disk Space

The purpose of this tutorial is free-up our drive and learn to open our application using run command. This tutorial is useful for laptop that use small HDD and SSD.

1.Uninstalling unused program. This is simple way to free up our hard-disk. Type appwiz.cpl at run box.

2. Remove temporary file, empty recycle bin and etc using Disk Cleanup. Type cleanmgr.exe at your run box. Select all the given option. Alternatively we can use freeware like CCleaner.

3. Disable Hibernation from Power Settings. Type this command at run, powercfg.cpl. We can get more 1GB free space.

4. Turn off system restore. Type %SystemRoot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe or in Win7/Vista just rstrui.exe at run box.

5.
Delete files in the hidden Dropbox cache folder. If we use Dropbox so often we can save a lot of space by deleting this file.

6. Remove old shadow copies.
To see our shadow copy type this at cmd vssadmin list shadowstorage.
To delete our shadow copy type this at cmd vssadmin delete shadows /for=c: /all

7. Remove temp files. Most temp files have the extension .tmp some ending with .xar, .loc and .chk. Other temp files preceded by "~". This is standard where is the temp files located

C:\windows\system32\dllcache\
C:\windows\Temp\
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp
\

But for advance user that want find all the temp files in the whole computer can type this command *.tmp,*.chk,~*.* in the Search Result. See the sign * before .tmp, for analogy its mean all the file. Look the pic below to get an idea.



Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Remove Window Power Expansion

This is your laptop look like after get infected. Its really annoying when almost all program will be block by this fake antivirus.


To remove this kind of infection just install Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, update and run it. Click to download here.

By the way before we do any cleaning process we must make sure Window Power Expansion is stop running. As say above Window Power Expansion will try to block any other program from run. To do this please download Rkill sometimes call iExplorer.exe. Click to download here.

Just double-click iExplorer.exe and if we lucky Window Power Expansion will stop running instanly. But if we get fake warning given by Windows Power Expansion just ignore it and don't close the warning window. Try run Rkill until the Window Power Expansion stop running.

If we can't stop Window Power Expansion using Rkill try run Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware at the safe mode with networking. See how to enter safe mode here.

We can do reformat/recovery as the last solution.

Below is the similar program like window power expansion







Tuesday, June 14, 2011

List Website Driver

ACER
http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/downloads.html
http://www.acer.com.my/ac/en/MY/content/drivers

ASUS
http://support.asus.com/download/Options.aspx?SLanguage=en&type=1

COMPAQ/HP
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/support-drivers.html

DELL
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx

FUJITSU
http://www.fujitsu.com/sg/products/pc/
http://www.pc-ap.fujitsu.com/support/drv_lifebook.html
http://ts.fujitsu.com/support/downloads.html
http://support.fujitsupc.com/CS/Portal/support.do


BENQ/JOYBOOK
http://www.benq.us/page/?pageid=4
http://benq.eu/support/index.cfm


LENOVO
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/homeLenovo.do

NEC
http://www.nec.com/global/support/downloads/index.html
http://www.nec-computers-ap.com/driver.htm
http://www.nec-driver.com/NEC-Notebook-Driver/


PANASONIC
http://pc-dl.panasonic.co.jp/dl/

SAMSUNG
http://www.samsung.com/in/support/download/supportDownloadMain.do

http://www.samsungpc.com/08/

SONY
http://esupport.sony.com/
http://www.sony-asia.com/section/support

TOSHIBA
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/home.jsp?nav=Download
http://toshiba-asia.com/portal/public/driverDownload.action?pgAction=driverDownload.action&a=driverDl&currentTab=service
http://driver-toshiba.blogspot.com/2009/09/contents.html

TWINHEAD
http://www.twinhead.com.my/downloads.asp

ALL NOTEBOOK
http://www.notebook-driver.com/
http://www.laptopdrivers.net/
http://www.gzrcw.net/drivers/Index.html
http://www.givemefile.net/drivers/notebooks/panasonic.html

Monday, June 13, 2011

Find Driver Laptop

1.The best way to get all our driver laptop is from driver CD that coming along when we buy the laptop. Most all new laptop today already preinstall with OS and driver. Doing back up is smart move in case the laptop need to reformat.

2.If we don’t have the driver CD we can download the driver from manufacturer website. All we need to know is the laptop model or serial number.

3.We also can use driver pack CD like Cobra Driver Pack or Driver Solution Pack. We can download it for free. If the driver we need contain in the CD we can install directly but if the driver not in the CD we can use Installation Via Internet.

4. Other option is use driver update software like Driver Genius, Device Doctor, DriverMax and etc. Most of the software is freeware. This software will search and update driver from the internet.

5. In most cases there is certain driver that hard to find like Unknown driver, PCI devices and Other devices. There problem to hunting down this driver is we don’t know exactly what the meaning of the driver. So here the guide to find these driver.

i. Go to My Computer right click and select Properties. At the Hardware tab click Device Manager. At the mark driver right click and select Properties. Under the Detail tab chose Hardware lds. Write down the Vendor and Device PID number.


ii. Open your browser type this website address pcidatabase.com or just click the name. Fill the vendor and device with our PID number and press enter. Now we got idea what our drivers stand for.

iii. We can use pcidatabase.com not only for unknown driver but instead for other driver. For example to know what vendor our wireless is Broadcom or Atheros and bla bla bla …

Hope this tutorial is helpful.

Find Information About Laptop

This guide is useful to find certain info regarding our laptop like what bios version we use, our type of window, our manufacturer, how long the laptop on and etc.

1.Open cmd type systeminfo and press enter.

2. Open Run and type msinfo32.

3. There also has software that can read our computer spec. Software like Everest and Piriform Speccy is very useful to help find driver and good news we can download for free.

Boot Into Safe Mode

1. Most computer using F8, if not working...

2. Click Run. Type in msconfig. Select tab Boot. At the Boot options select Safe boot. Once restart computer go directly to safe mode.

3. Another option, When Windows is beginning to load, hold the computers power button until the computer shuts down. When we power on the computer again it should start up with an option screen asking if we would like to start windows normally or in safe mode.

Acces Recovery Partition Using F Key

Recovery partition allows the user to restore the preloaded operating system on the machine back to the original factory condition.

Remember to back-up data caused this will delete all files on our computer however will resolve software related issue.

1. Acer - Alt + F10
2. ASUS EEE PC - F9
3. Compaq-HP - F10 or F11
4. Dell - Ctrl + F11 or F8
5. eMachine - F11
6. Gateway - F11
7. Lenovo - F11
8. Sony - F10
9. Toshiba - 0 (zero key) or F8