Step 1 Create 3 folders - C:\WINXPSP1, C:\SP1106 and C:\XPBOOT Step 2 Copy the entire Windows XP CD into folder C:\WINXPSP1 Step 3 You will have to download the SP1 Update, which is 133MB. Rename the Service Pack file to XP-SP1.EXE Extract the Service Pack from the Run Dialog using the command: C:\XP-SP1.EXE -U -X:C:\SP1106 Step 4 Open Start/Run... and type the command: C:\SP1106\update\update.exe -s:C:\WINXPSP1 Click OK Now the folder C:\WINXPSP1 contains: Windows XP SP1 To Create a Windows XP SP1 CD Bootable Step 1 Download xpboot.zip Code: Code: http://thro.port5.com/xpboot.zip Note: Do not use any download manager or download accelerators otherwise file may get corrupt!! Extract xpboot.zip file (xpboot.bin) in to the folder C:\XPBOOT Step 2 Start Nero - Burning Rom. Select File > New... from the menu. 1.) Select CD-ROM (Boot) 2.) Select Image file from Source of boot image data 3.) Set Kind of emulation: to No Emulation 4.) Set Load segment of sectors (hex!): to 07C0 5.) Set Number of loaded sectors: to 4 6.) Press the Browse... button Step 3 Select All Files (*.*) from File of type: Locate boot.bin in the folder C:\XPBOOT Step 4 Click ISO tab Set File-/Directory length to ISO Level 1 (Max. of 11 = 8 + 3 chars) Set Format to Mode 1 Set Character Set to ISO 9660 Check all Relax ISO Restrictions Step 5 Click Label Tab Select ISO9660 from the drop down box. Enter the Volume Label as WB2PFRE_EN Enter the System Identifier as WB2PFRE_EN Enter the Volume Set as WB2PFRE_EN Enter the Publisher as MICROSOFT CORPORATION Enter the Data Preparer as MICROSOFT CORPORATION Enter the Application as WB2PFRE_EN * For Windows XP Professional OEM substitute WB2PFRE_EN with WXPOEM_EN * For Windows XP Home OEM substitute WB2PFRE_EN with WXHOEM_EN Step 6 Click Burn tab Check Write Check Finalize CD (No further writing possible!) Set Write Method to Disk-At-Once Press New button Step 7 Locate the folder C:\WINXPSP1 Select everything in the folder and drag it to the ISO compilation panel. Click the Write CD Dialog button. Press Write You're done. Now you can use the CD as a bootable Windows XP with Service Pak 1.
How to create a bootable Windows XP SP1 CD (Nero) – Step by step guide:
“Command Prompt Here” – easy to access command prompt from all folders and drives
Add the open cmd prompt to folder context menus and also drives and My Computer copy what's in the code area to notepad and save as "cmdhere.reg" CODE: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\cmd] @="Command Prompt" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\cmd\command] @="cmd.exe /k \"cd %L\"" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\cmd] @="Command Prompt" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\cmd\command] @="cmd.exe /k \"cd %L\"" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\cmd] @="Command Prompt" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\cmd\command] @="cmd.exe /k \"cd %L\"" Now, double click the saved "cmdhere.reg" file and it will ask you to confirm the registry merging and choose "Yes" to apply this settings.
How To Get Top Ranking, Search Engines (SEO)
The tutorial is all about getting your site listed on top in Search Engines i.e Search Engine Optimization First thing you need to do is find the keywords you want to optimize for. There is great tool by Overture (/http://inventory.overture.com/d/sea...ory/suggestion/) But I would suggest using this free tool called GoodKeywords (/http://www.goodkeywords.com/products/gkw/) This one does the same job as Overture does but it also supports other Search Engines (Lycos and Teoma etc..) For example if you want to optimize for the keyword "tech news", just search for the keyword in any of the tools specified above... It would show you keywords related to that and not of the searches.. Pick the keywords which are related to your site. For example when you search for "Tech News" you'll see the following results: Count Search Term 11770 tech news 351 itt news tech 191 high tech news 60 news tech texas 49 computer tech news 42 bio news tech 34 in itt news tech 30 news tech virginia 29 asia news tech 25 hi tech news 25 sci tech news Now see what other terms are related to your keyword technology news Do couple of searches like that and note down around 15-20 keywords. Then, keep the keywords which are searched most on the top. Now you need Title Tag for the page. Title tag should include top 3 keywords, like for "tech news" it can be like : "Latest Tech News, Information Technology News and Other computer raleted news here." Remember that characters should not be more than 95 and should not have more than 3 "," commas - some search engines might cosider more than 3 commas as spam Now move on to Meta Tags You need following Meta Tags in web page <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META name="keywords" content="keyword1,keyword2,keyword3"> <META name="description" content="brief description about the site"> <META name="robots" Content="Index,Follow"> No need to have other meta tags like abstract, re-visit and all, most people dont read it. Now... <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> This tag is tells content type is html and character set used it iso-8859-1 there are other character sets also but this is the one mosty used.. <META name="keywords" content="keyword1,keyword2,keyword3"> This one should have all your keywords inside starting from keyword with most counts... keyword tag for our example would be something like : <META name="keywords" content="tech news,technology news, computer technology news,information technology,software news"> Remember to put around 15-20 keywords max not more than that. Dont repeat keywords or dont put keywords like, "tech news", "info tech news", "latest tech news" and so on... <META name="description" content="brief description about the site"> Provide short decription about your site and include all the keywords mentioned in the title tag. Decription tag should be: <META name="description" content="One Stop for Latest Tech News, Information Technology News, Computer Related and Software news."> It can be upto 255 characters and avoid using more than 3 "," commas <META name="robots" Content="Index,Follow"> This is used for search robots..following explanation will help you : index,follow = index the page as well as follow the links noindex,follow = dont index the page but follow the links index,nofollow = index the page but dont follow the links noindex,nofollow = dont index page, dont follow the links all = same as index,follow none = same as noindex,nofollow Now move on to body part of the page Include all top 3 keywords here, I would suggest to break the keyword and use it... For example YourSiteName.com one stop for all kind of Latest Tech News and Computer Related information and reviews................. Include main keywords in <h#> tags <h1><h2> etc.. and start with <h1> and then move to <h2> <h3> etc.. <h1> tag will be too big but CSS can help you there, define small font size in css for H1,H2,... tags When done with page copy, then you need to provide title and alt tags for images and links. Use some keywords in the tags but dont add all the keywords and if not neccessary then dont use keywords in it, basically it should explain what is image all about. Remember to add Top keyword atleast 4 times in the body and other 2 keywords thrice and twice respectively. Now move on to Footer Part Try to include top keywords here and see the effect, use site keywords as links i.e. <a href="news.php">Tech News</a> <a href="software-news.php">Software News</a> etc.. Now finally, you need to read some more stuff..may be you can all it as bottom lines... Site Map - This is page where you need to put all the links present in your site, this is will help Search Engines to find the links easily and also provide link for site map in footer, as search engines start scanning the page from bottom. Robots.txt - This file contains address of directories which should not be scanned by search engines.. more info can be found here : /http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html search engines line google, yahoo ask for robots.txt file. Valid HTML - Your code should have valid html and doc type, Its kind of diffucult to follow all the standards but you can atleast open and close all the tags properly, you can check your page's html online here : /http://validator.w3.org/ or you can use this free software called HTML Tidy : /http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ All done now, you just need to check your site with this script, its called SEO Doctor : /http://www.instantposition.com/seo_doctor.cfm It'll show you the report of your site with solution. Now, correct the errors and start submitting the site : Start with google : /http://google.com/addurl.html then yahoo : /http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request then move to altavista,alltheweb and other search engies.. Also submit your site to direcories like /http://dmoz.org , /http://jayde.com etc... Dmoz is must, as google, yahoo and may more search engines uses same directory And remember, dont try to SPAM with keywords in these directories, dmoz is handled by Human Editors Submitted the sites, but still i cant see you site on top? Wait for sometime may be a month or so but keep an eye on your search term, use /http://GoogleAlert.com - this will show whenever google updates for your keywords, it will mail you the new results. And also check whether your site is listed on google.. use this tool called Google Monitor, it can be downloaded for free from : /http://www.cleverstat.com/google-monitor.htm
BIOS Beep codes – understanding the errors (Part-II)
Standard Original IBM POST Error Codes Code Description 1 short beep - System is OK 2 short beeps - POST Error - error code shown on screen No beep Power supply or system board problem Continuous beep Power supply, system board, or keyboard problem Repeating short beeps Power supply or system board problem 1 long, 1 short beep - System board problem 1 long, 2 short beeps - Display adapter problem (MDA, CGA) 1 long, 3 short beeps - Display adapter problem (EGA) 3 long beeps - keyboard card IBM POST Diagnostic Code Descriptions Code Description 100 - 199 - System Board 200 - 299 - Memory 300 - 399 - Keyboard 400 - 499 - Monochrome Display 500 - 599 - Colour/Graphics Display 600 - 699 - Floppy-disk drive and/or Adapter 700 - 799 - Math Coprocessor 900 - 999 - Parallel Printer Port 1000 - 1099 - Alternate Printer Adapter 1100 - 1299 - Asynchronous Communication Device, Adapter, or Port 1300 - 1399 - Game Port 1400 - 1499 - Colour/Graphics Printer 1500 - 1599 - Synchronous Communication Device, Adapter, or Port 1700 - 1799 - Hard Drive and/or Adapter 1800 - 1899 - Expansion Unit (XT) 2000 - 2199 - Bisynchronous Communication Adapter 2400 - 2599 - EGA system-board Video (MCA) 3000 - 3199 - LAN Adapter 4800 - 4999 - Internal Modem 7000 - 7099 - Phoenix BIOS Chips 7300 - 7399 - 3.5" Disk Drive 8900 - 8999 - MIDI Adapter 11200 - 11299 - SCSI Adapter 21000 - 21099 - SCSI Fixed Disk and Controller 21500 - 21599 - SCSI CD-ROM System AMI BIOS Beep Codes Code Description 1 Short Beep - System OK 2 Short Beeps - Parity error in the first 64 KB of memory 3 Short Beeps - Memory failure in the first 64 KB 4 Short Beeps - Memory failure in the first 64 KB Operational of memory or Timer 1 on the motherboard is not functioning 5 Short Beeps - The CPU on the motherboard generated an error 6 Short Beeps - The keyboard controller may be bad. The BIOS cannot switch to protected mode 7 Short Beeps - The CPU generated an exception interrupt 8 Short Beeps - The system video adapter is either missing, or its memory is faulty 9 Short Beeps - The ROM checksum value does not match the value encoded in the BIOS 10 Short Beeps - The shutdown register for CMOS RAM failed 11 Short Beeps - The external cache is faulty 1 Long, 3 Short Beeps - Memory Problems 1 Long, 8 Short Beeps - Video Card Problems Phoenix BIOS Beep Codes Note - Phoenix BIOS emits three sets of beeps, separated by a brief pause. Code Description 1-1-3 - CMOS read/write failure 1-1-4 - ROM BIOS checksum error 1-2-1 - Programmable interval timer failure 1-2-2 - DMA initialisation failure 1-2-3 - DMA page register read/write failure 1-3-1 - RAM refresh verification failure 1-3-3 - First 64k RAM chip or data line failure 1-3-4 - First 64k RAM odd/even logic failure 1-4-1 - Address line failure first 64k RAM 1-4-2 - Parity failure first 64k RAM 2-_-_ - Faulty Memory 3-1-_ - Faulty Motherboard 3-2-4 - Keyboard controller Test failure 3-3-4 - Screen initialisation failure 3-4-1 - Screen retrace test failure 3-4-2 - Search for video ROM in progress 4-2-1 - Timer tick interrupt in progress or failure 4-2-2 - Shutdown test in progress or failure 4-2-3 - Gate A20 failure 4-2-4 - Unexpected interrupt in protected mode 4-3-1 - RAM test in progress or failure>ffffh 4-3-2 - Faulty Motherboard 4-3-3 - Interval timer channel 2 test or failure 4-3-4 - Time of Day clock test failure 4-4-1 - Serial port test or failure 4-4-2 - Parallel port test or failure 4-4-3 - Math coprocessor test or failure Low 1-1-2 - System Board select failure Low 1-1-3 - Extended CMOS RAM failure
BIOS Beep codes – understanding the errors (Part-I)
Beep Code Manual, Better Than Gold Techies, American Megatrends Int. & Phoenix BIOS Beep Codes When a computer is first turned on, or rebooted, its BIOS performs a power-on self test (POST) to test the system's hardware, checking to make sure that all of the system's hardware components are working properly. Under normal circumstances, the POST will display an error message; however, if the BIOS detects an error before it can access the video card, or if there is a problem with the video card, it will produce a series of beeps, and the pattern of the beeps indicates what kind of problem the BIOS has detected. Because there are many brands of BIOS, there are no standard beep codes for every BIOS. The two most-used brands are AMI (American Megatrends International) and Phoenix. Below are listed the beep codes for AMI systems, and here are the beep codes for Phoenix systems. AMI Beep Codes Beep Code and Meaning 1 beep - DRAM refreshes failure. There is a problem in the system memory or the motherboard. 2 beeps - Memory parity error. The parity circuit is not working properly. 3 beeps - Base 64K RAM failure. There is a problem with the first 64K of system memory. 4 beeps - System timer not operational. There is problem with the timer(s) that control functions on the motherboard. 5 beeps - Processor failure. The system CPU has failed. 6 beeps - Gate A20/keyboard controller failure. The keyboard IC controller has failed, preventing gate A20 from switching the processor to protect mode. 7 beeps - Virtual mode exception error. 8 beeps - Video memory error. The BIOS cannot write to the frame buffer memory on the video card. 9 beeps - ROM checksum error. The BIOS ROM chip on the motherboard is likely faulty. 10 beeps - CMOS checksum error. Something on the motherboard is causing an error when trying to interact with the CMOS. 11 beeps - Bad cache memory. An error in the level 2 cache memory. 1 long beep, 2 short - Failure in the video system. 1 long beep, 3 short - A failure has been detected in memory above 64K. 1 long beep, 8 short - Display test failure. Continuous beeping - A problem with the memory or video. Phoenix Beep Codes Phoenix uses sequences of beeps to indicate problems. The "-" between each number below indicates a pause between each beep sequence. For example, 1-2-3 indicates one beep, followed by a pause and two beeps, followed by a pause and three beeps. Phoenix version before 4.x use 3-beep codes, while Phoenix versions starting with 4.x use 4-beep codes. Click here for AMI BIOS beep codes. 4-Beep Codes Beep Code and Meaning 1-1-1-3 - Faulty CPU/motherboard. Verify real mode. 1-1-2-1 - Faulty CPU/motherboard. 1-1-2-3 - Faulty motherboard or one of its components. 1-1-3-1 - Faulty motherboard or one of its components. Initialize chipset registers with initial POST values. 1-1-3-2 - Faulty motherboard or one of its components. 1-1-3-3 - Faulty motherboard or one of its components. Initialize CPU registers. 1-1-3-4 - Failure in the first 64K of memory. 1-1-4-1 - Level 2 cache error. 1-1-4-3 - I/O port error. 1-2-1-1 - Power management error. 1-2-1-3 - Faulty motherboard or one of its components. 1-2-2-1 - Keyboard controller failure. 1-2-2-3 - BIOS ROM error. 1-2-3-1 - System timer error. 1-2-3-3 - DMA error. 1-2-4-1 - IRQ controller error. 1-3-1-1 - DRAM refresh error. 1-3-1-3 - A20 gate failure. 1-3-2-1 - Faulty motherboard or one of its components. 1-3-3-1 - Extended memory error. 1-3-4-3 - Error in first 1MB of system memory. 1-4-2-4 - CPU error. 2-1-4-1 - BIOS ROM shadow error. 1-4-3-3 - Level 2 cache error. 2-1-1-1 - Faulty motherboard or one of its components. 2-1-2-1 - IRQ failure. 2-1-2-3 - BIOS ROM error. 2-1-3-2 - I/O port failure. 2-1-3-3 - Video system failure. 2-1-2-1 - IRQ failure. 2-1-2-3 - BIOS ROM error. 2-1-2-4 - I/O port failure. 2-2-1-1 - Video card failure. 2-2-2-3 - Keyboard controller failure. 2-2-3-1 - IRQ error. 2-2-4-1 - Error in first 1MB of system memory. 2-3-3-3 - Extended memory failure. 2-3-2-1 - Faulty motherboard or one of its components. 2-3-3-1 - Level 2 cache error. 2-3-4-3 - Motherboard or video card failure. 2-4-1-1 - Motherboard or video card failure. 2-4-1-3 - Faulty motherboard or one of its components. 2-4-2-1 - RTC error. 2-4-2-3 - Keyboard controller error. 2-4-4-1 - IRQ error. 3-1-2-3 - I/O port error. 3-1-3-3 - Faulty motherboard or one of its components. 3-2-1-2 - Floppy drive or hard drive failure. 3-2-1-3 - Faulty motherboard or one of its components. 3-2-2-1 - Keyboard controller error. 3-2-4-1 - Faulty motherboard or one of its components. 3-2-4-3 - IRQ error. 3-3-1-1 - RTC error. 3-3-1-3 - Key lock error. 3-3-3-3 - Faulty motherboard or one of its components. 3-4-4-4 - Faulty motherboard or one of its components. 4-1-1-1 - Floppy drive or hard drive failure. 4-2-2-1 - IRQ failure. 4-2-4-1 -Faulty motherboard or one of its components. 4-2-4-3 - Keyboard controller error. 4-3-4-3 - Faulty motherboard or one of its components. 4-3-3-4 - IRQ failure. 4-3-4-2 - Floppy drive or hard drive failure. 3-Beep Codes Beep Code and Meaning 1-1-2 - Faulty CPU/motherboard. 1-1-3 - Faulty motherboard/CMOS read-write failure. 1-1-4 - Faulty BIOS/BIOS ROM checksum error. 1-2-1 - System timer not operational. There is a problem with the timer(s) that control functions on the motherboard. 1-2-3 - Faulty motherboard/DMA failure. 1-3-1 - Memory refresh failure. 1-3-4 - Failure in the first 64K of memory. 1-4-1 - Address line failure. 1-4-2 - Parity RAM failure. 1-4-3 - Timer failure. 1-4-4 - NMI port failure. 2-_-_ - Any combination of beeps after 2 indicates a failure in the first 64K of memory. 3-1-1 - Master DMA failure. 3-1-2 - Slave DMA failure. 3-1-4 - Interrupt controller failure. 3-2-4 - Keyboard controller failure. 3-3-2 - CMOS error. 3-3-4 - Video card failure. 3-4-1 - Video card failure. 4-2-1 - Timer failure. 4-2-2 - CMOS shutdown failure. 4-2-3 - Gate A20 failure. 4-2-4 - Unexpected interrupt in protected mode. 4-3-1 - RAM test failure. 4-3-3 - Timer failure. 4-3-4 - Time of day clock failure. 4-4-1 - Serial port failure. 4-4-2 - Parallel port failure. 4-4-3 - Math coprocessor.
Know all about SpyWare and how to overcome it.
There are a lot of PC users that know little about "Spyware", "Mal-ware", "hijackers", "Dialers" & many more. This will help you avoid pop-ups, spammers and all those baddies. What is spy-ware? Spy-ware is Internet jargon for Advertising Supported software (Ad-ware). It is a way for shareware authors to make money from a product, other than by selling it to the users. There are several large media companies that offer them to place banner ads in their products in exchange for a portion of the revenue from banner sales. This way, you don't have to pay for the software and the developers are still getting paid. If you find the banners annoying, there is usually an option to remove them, by paying the regular licensing fee. Known spywares There are thousands out there, new ones are added to the list everyday. But here are a few: Alexa, Aureate/Radiate, BargainBuddy, ClickTillUWin, Conducent Timesink, Cydoor, Comet Cursor, eZula/KaZaa Toptext, Flashpoint/Flashtrack, Flyswat, Gator, GoHip, Hotbar, ISTbar, Lions Pride Enterprises/Blazing Logic/Trek Blue, Lop (C2Media), Mattel Brodcast, Morpheus, NewDotNet, Realplayer, Songspy, Xupiter, Web3000, WebHancer, Windows Messenger Service. How to check if a program has spyware? The is this Little site that keeps a database of programs that are known to install spyware. Check Here: http://www.spywareguide.com/product_search.php If you would like to block pop-ups (IE Pop-ups). There tons of different types out there, but these are the 2 best, i think. If you want to remove the "spyware" try these. Info: Ad-aware is a multi spyware removal utility, that scans your memory, registry and hard drives for known spyware components and lets you remove them. The included backup-manager lets you reinstall a backup, offers and multi language support. Info: Detects and removes spyware of different kinds (dialers, loggers, trojans, user tracks) from your computer. Blocks ActiveX downloads, tracking cookies and other threats. Over 10,000 detection files and entries. Provides detailed information about found problems. Info: Adware, spyware, trackware and big brotherware removal utility with multi-language support. It scans your memory, registry and drives for known spyware and lets you remove them. Displays a list and lets you select the items you'd like to remove. Info: Detects and removes spyware of different kinds (dialers, loggers, trojans, user tracks) from your computer. The best scanner out there, and updated all the time. Info: HijackThis is a tool, that lists all installed browser add-on, buttons, startup items and allows you to inspect them, and optionally remove selected items. If you would like to prevent "spyware" being install. Info: SpywareBlaster doesn`t scan and clean for so-called spyware, but prevents it from being installed in the first place. It achieves this by disabling the CLSIDs of popular spyware ActiveX controls, and also prevents the installation of any of them via a webpage. Info: SpywareGuard provides a real-time protection solution against so-called spyware. It works similar to an anti-virus program, by scanning EXE and CAB files on access and alerting you if known spyware is detected. Info: XP-AntiSpy is a small utility to quickly disable some built-in update and authentication features in WindowsXP that may rise security or privacy concerns in some people. Info: SpySites allows you to manage the Internet Explorer Restricted Zone settings and easily add entries from a database of 1500+ sites that are known to use advertising tracking methods or attempt to install third party software. If you would like more Information about "spyware". Check these sites. http://www.spychecker.com/ http://www.spywareguide.com/ http://www.cexx.org/adware.htm http://www.theinfomaniac.net/infomaniac/co...rsSpyware.shtml http://www.thiefware.com/links/ http://simplythebest.net/info/spyware.html Usefull tools... Try: Stop Windows Messenger Spam 1.10 (http://www.jester2k.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/j...r2ksoftware.htm) This program is Free Info: "Stop Windows Messenger Spam" stops this Service from running and halts the spammers ability to send you these messages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- All these softwares will help remove and prevent evil spammers and spywares attacking your PC. I myself recommend getting "spyblaster" "s&d spybot" "spy sweeper" & "admuncher" to protect your PC. A weekly scan is also recommended Free Virus Scan Scan for spyware, malware and keyloggers in addition to viruses, worms and trojans. 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