2010年8月15日星期日

Services subkey

The sub-key in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / System / CurrentControlSet / Services branch. The sub-keystored the Windows services information, some native, some are installed. In the subkey under this sub-key stored each corresponding service configuration and descriptions.

(1) Class subkey

The sub-key in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / System / CurrentControlSet / Services / Class branch. Thesubkey saved different types of hardware information which Windows supported, it is similar withthe category of Add New Hardware in "Control Panel" under the following sub-keys. The following is some brief classification of hardware sub-key.

① 1394 subkey

The sub-key in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / System / CurrentControlSet / Services / Class1394, used to configure "1394 Bus Controller" which meet IEEE 1394 specifications, * @ = 1394 bus controller: a description of the specified subkey name 1394.

* Icon =- 21: the specified icon.

* Link = (6BDD1FC1-810F-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F: specify "1394 Bus Controller" of the connection.

The connection will be (6BDD1FC1-810F-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F defined sub-keys.

② (6BDD1FC1-810F-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F) sub-key

The sub-key in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / System / CurrentControlSet / Services / Class /

(6BDD1FC1-810F-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F) branch, used to configure the connection of the "1394 Bus Controller".

* Link = 1394: specify the connection as "1394."

* Class = 1394: specify "1394 Bus Controller" category to "1394."

③ Adapter subkey

The sub-key in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / System / CurrentControlSet / Services / Class / Adapter branch, used to configure the "CD-ROM controller."

* @ = CD-ROM controller: specify a description name of the subkey.

* Icon =- 9: the specified icon.

* Link = (4d36e964-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318): specify "CD-ROM controller" connections, the (4d36e964-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318) sub-key and further defined.

④ (4d36e964-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318) sub-key

The sub-key in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / System / CurrentControlSet / Services / Class / (4d36e964-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318) branch, used to configure the "CD-ROM controller" connections.

* Link = Adapter: specify the connection as the "Adapter".

* Class = Adapter: specify the type as "Adapter".

⑤ Printer subkey

The sub-key in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / System / CurrentControlSet / Services / Class / Printer branches, used to configure the "printer."

* @ = Printer: specify a description name of the subkey.

* Installer = MSPRINT.DLL: specify "printer" installation procedure "MSPRINT.DLL".

* Icon =- 4: the specified icon.

* NoDisplayClass = 1: to determine whether to display class. If 1 is not shown class. If 0, then the display class.

* Link = (4d36e979-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318): specify the "Printer" link.

⑥ MEDIA subkey

The sub-key in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / System / CurrentControlSet / Services / Class / MEDIA branch, used to configure multimedia devices, including sound cards, video cards and game controllers.

* @ = Voice, video and game controllers: Specify a description of the sub-keys.

* Link = (4d36e96c-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318: designated "multimedia" link,

See (4d36e96c-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318) sub-key.

* Icon = 0: the specified icon.

* Installer = mmci.dll: designated "multimedia" device setup for "MMCI.DLL".

2010年4月23日星期五

Top related computer hardware repair tools

Top related computer hardware repair tools all could help you to solve your computer failure problems.
1. AVG Anti-Virus - Keep Yours as well as others computers virus free!
2. Memory Upgrade Tool - Discover what type of Memory your computer uses and if you're upgrading someone else's Memory this is the only place to go.
3. Password Recovery Tools - A whole host of password recovery tools, including wireless key finders, windows logins, and much more:All Free.
4. Sysinternals - Yes they are owned by Microsoft now, but they still have a huge list of free utilities that can help you troubleshoot either yours or a potential customers computer
5. Ultimate Boot CD - There are CPU tests like CPU Burn-in. Memory diagnostic tools like Memtest86. There are hard drive wiping tools like Darik's Boot and Nuke and many others popular utilities that can help you diagnose computer problems on your own. All you need to do is download the CD and burn the .iso image to a CD. There are limitless troubleshooting applications here.
Windows Tools
1. Windows Update - Used to get all the latest Microsoft Windows Updates downloaded automatically to your computer. Has a lot of benefit but use with caution stick with the critical updates typically
2. Easy BCD - EasyBCD is a freeware program that allows you to easily edit the bootloader and allow for multiple-boot systems--like an XP and Vista machine.
3. PFrank - PFrank is a bulk file renaming tool that allows you to quickly and easily rename multiple files. This is great for renaming photos and music files that are very similar.
Malware Removal Tools
1. Blink - Blink Personal Edition is a great malware protection program that blocks and removes viruses, spyware, worms and Trojans. It also helps detect missing patches and prevents zero-day exploits on your system. It has a free one-year subscription, then it is a real great deal compared to other anti-maleware tools.
2. Spybot Search and Destroy - Regarded as one of the very best spyware utilities, SS&D allows for easy definition updates, scanning and removal of spyware, and an Immunization tool that protects you before infection. No PC should be without this great tool. As with any scanner, be sure to update the definitions after installation.
3. Hijack This - HJT is a slightly more advanced tool that provides you with a log file to analyze in the event your PC become so devistated by spyware, other tools just won't work. Hijack This makes it easy to fix these dubious entries, but you may need to read up on how to analyze the log files before you randomly start removing things from your PC.

Multimedia Programs
1. DeepBurner - DeepBurner is free DVD and CD burning software that allows you to make bootable disks and .ISO image files, as well. There is a Pro Version, too, but many people will feel the free version does everything they need.
2. Windows Media Player - WMP is continuously evolving to grow with the needs of Windows and PC users who demand the the best from one of the oldest media players. Check the Windows Media Player website often for new releases.
3. QuickTime - Apple's answer to the Windows media player. This player has different versions from free to commercial that allows you to do just about anything you want. Available for Windows machines, too.
Firewall Software
1. Kerio Firewall - Most trial software works for a month and then stops, but not the Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall. After 30 days, it shuts down advanced privacy protection features, but will continue to run with reduced functionality for free.
2. ZoneAlarm Firewall - There's a free and a commercial version. Easy-to-use firewall blocks hackers and other unknown threats.
FTP Software
1. SmartFTP - SmartFTP has bee around for a while and offers their software as shareware, which means you can try it before you purchase. The interface can be a little confusing unless you are familiar with it, but once you learn, you can navigate and use the program with great ease. This is a solid FTP program.
2. CuteFTP - CuteFTP is a very good FTP program that offers a 30-day trial. The interface is clean and easy to use. Using CuteFTP to connect to servers and move files is easy because the interface allows you to easily drag and drop files from one location to another.
3. CoreFTP - CoreFTP offers a free version and allows for secure SSH, browser integration and firewall support make this a great alternative to some of the commercial scripts. They also offer commercial versions to support your personal or business needs.
Compression tools
1. Wizip - Winzip has been around for a long time. This file compression utility allows you to zip and unzip files and has an easy to follow Wizard that allows you to accomplish your compression tasks easily. WinZip is shareware and has a trial period before you are required to purchase.
2. WinRar - WinRAR is a powerful archive manager that allows you to compress and decompress .zip and .rar files. It is shareware and also has several different themes to choose from to customize the icons. Unlocks most compressed files, I actually like it better than Winzip
3. 7-Zip - 7-Zip is a great open source zipping utility that many techs use in the field. It's free and works great. It's for packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR. For unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS.
Benchmarking Tools
1. The Belarc Advisor - use this to find out what type of hardware is inside your computer. A must have for computer technicians.
2. Sandra SiSoft - A great free computer benchmarking tool. They have several versions available.
Data Back Up & File Recovery Software top 10 data recovery software
1. Drive Image XML V1.21 - Backup Your hard drive, copy one hard drive to another and more
2. File Hamster - Free real time backup and archiving of your files while you work
3. Photo Backup LE - Easily back up all your valuable photos. Notice the free version is on the bottom of the page
4. Undelete Plus - Easily recover accidentally deleted files
5. Kryptel Lite - Easily permanently delete files from your hard drive
6. Hard Drive Failure Repair Software-Disk Genius

Hard Drive Utilities
1. Auslogics Disk Defrag - A free program to help defragment and organize your hard drive
2. Darik's Boot and Nuke - DBAN is a simple, yet powerful utility that will wipe clean most hard drive's after booting to a floppy disk. This is a great tool for fast formats or shredding of data when selling or throwing out your PC.
3. Cleanup Assistant -A freeware software program that performs various hard drive maintenance tasks, including cleaning, finding large and duplicate files, shredding documents and much more.
4. HD Clone 3.2 - The free ware version is great for transferring data from one hard drive to another. It runs on a bootable floppy or CD that it creates and allows you to easily clone your old drive onto your new drive.
5. Seagate DiskWizard - Seagate's tool used for installing new Seagate hard drives in computers.
6. Western Digital Data Lifeguard - Diagnostic and other utilities for Western Digital hard drives only. Select your drive model from the list and download
7. MaxBlast - Maxblast is Maxtors hard disk utility. This utility will help users format and copy data from one drive to another in new installations of Maxtor hard disks..

Memory Utilities
1. Memtest86 - Memtest is considered one of the best memory diagnostic utilities out there. This free tool will allow you to make a bootable CD or floppy disk that runs the program automatically when you turn on your PC. By running this program for a few hours you will be able to pinpoint hardware problems with your memory that may have been causing your computer to crash
2. Windows Memory Diagnostic - Windows Memory Diagnostic is a great tool you can download if you do not have Vista (Included in Vista). Download and put the program on a disk. Insert the disk and reboot to that drive and let the diagnostic check your RAM for errors.
Registry Cleaners
1. RegSeeker 1.55 -This Registry program allows you to scan for bad and duplicate files, clean the registry and even optimize the Operating System. It's available for all versions of Windows.
2. Eusing Free Registry Cleaner - Eusing Free Registry Cleaner is a free registry repair utility that allows you to clean and repair your computer's registry with a few simple mouse clicks. The Windows Registry is a crucial part of your PC's operation system.
3. CCleaner - CCleaner is a free system optimization and privacy utility. CCleaner removes unused files from your computer which allows Windows to run faster. It also frees up valuable hard disk space. For privacy, CCleaner also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history
Network and Internet Troubleshooting
1. Network Speed Test - Help determine what kind of performance your network is getting and also diagnose any potential speed issues with your or your clients internet connection
2. Winsock Fix - Used to solve a variety of internet connection issues. I've used it many times to fix computers damaged by spyware or virus's or computers that just plain cannot access the internet. Has just plain saved my life many times
3. AnalogX Fast Cache - This program improves connection speed by caching DNS on your local computer. Each time you go to a web page or perform any other Internet task, your PC contacts DNS servers on the Internet. By caching these servers on your local machine you should, theoretically, connect faster.
4. Network Stumbler - NetStumbler (also known as Network Stumbler) is a tool for Windows that facilitates detection of Wireless LANs using the 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g WLAN standards. It runs on Microsoft Windows 98 and above. A trimmed-down version called MiniStumbler is available for Windows CE.
Free Remote Desktop & VNC Software
1. TightVNC - TightVNC is a free remote desktop client the gives you the ability to serve and view desktops to remote computers. It can be used to view MAC and control MACs and other cross-platform computers.
2. RealVNC -RealVNC is another fantastic remote desktop application. View and serve computers remotely with realVNC. Setup is fast and easy.
3. Microsoft Remote Desktop - While most people already have remote desktop on their XP or Vista PC, it can be difficult to use at times and is not as intuitive as other free remote desktop clients. It is free and it works great when you get it setup.
4. Log Me In - LogMeIn is a great solution for those who want to provide remote desktop support directly through their web browser. It's free, but they also have commercial applications of the same product.

2010年4月15日星期四

Iomega Prestige 1 TB USB 2.0 Backup Desktop External Hard Drive

Iomega Prestige 1 TB USB 2.0 backup desktop external hard drive 34275 is an easy-to-use, affordable, and energy-efficient desktop storage solution. Featuring a stylish and durable aluminum design, plug-and-play functionality, and a secure EMC Retrospect Express software license for easy file backup, the Prestige is the easy way to store your photos, videos, and music, and to protect your important computer files.

Plug-and-Play Simplicity and 1 TB Storage Capacity
The Iomega Prestige uses a USB 2.0 interface for fast data transfers with universal compatibility. The USB 2.0 interface allows for plug-and-play simplicity with a data transfer rate of up to 480 Mbps. Additionally, the drive is already preformatted NTFS, so you don't have to waste time formatting to use it.

The Prestige features a drive with 7200 RPM spindle speed and an 8MB or higher cache buffer. This provides performance that results in fast access speeds and low latency.

And with 1TB of storage capacity, the Prestige gives you the ability to store up to 4 million photos, over 18,500 hours of music, or 1,500 hours of video.

Stylish Aluminum Case
The Prestige has durable aluminum construction with a brushed-metal finish that will stylishly complement your desktop or workstation. An included stand gives you the option of either placing the drive horizontally or vertically.

Not only does the aluminum design look good, it also works to dissipate heat, allowing the drive to run cooler and quieter.

Backup Software Included
A license for EMC's Retrospect Express software is included (software is available via download), allowing for easy file backup that keeps your data safe. Also included is free MozyHome Online Backup, which provides 2GB of online data storage.

Compatible with Macs and PCs
Whether you have a Mac or PC, the Prestige will do the job. The drive requires a PC with Windows Vista, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional or Windows 2000 Professional, and a Pentium II class processor with 256MB RAM and a USB 2.0 connection, or a Mac (PowerPC or Intel) with OS X 10.3 or above with a USB 2.0 port.

The Iomega Prestige 1TB External Hard Drive is powered by an Energy Star qualified adapter and is backed by a one-year warranty.

What's in the Box
Iomega Desktop Hard Drive, Connection Cable, Quick Install Guide, HTML User Manual and Help Files, Backup software license included, software via download (PC only).

Iomega Prestige 1 TB USB 2.0 Backup Desktop External Hard Drive price is $89.99. If you like, still waiting? Go!

2009年12月22日星期二

How to use external hard disk to restore the computer system

How to move the hard disk to restore the computer system has installed a computer system has been a bad ghost, but there is no backup
GHOST V2008 that is installed on your computer but does not back up the file system is now broken with no reduction in the how to do something. There are mobile hard drives and other computer-aided,

1. WINDOWSghost another computer to download the depth of the mirror system
2. Mobile hard disk boot disk made of windowsPE
3. With good movement of the PE boot disk in the system is broken computer system to start PE
4. The ghost recovery with PE

How to use GHOST to backup the system partition to a external hard disk?

Notebook would like to replace the hard drive, intended to drive the existing system backup to a removable hard disk and replace the new hard drive, use GHOST to restore the backup system.

However, after I entered the GHOST, only to show my first hard disk (partition C and D), while connected to the USB interface, the mobile hard disk is not being displayed, if a backup, only the default backup to my D zone, but the I D, there are bad sectors and can not work properly. Later, with a key GHOST, read description as if you could choose to back up to the mobile hard disk, but the boot into a key GHOST, the screen displays "FAT32 BPB found with OxEB (jmp) leading the boot sector
Flopies_orig = 0, Harddrivers_orig = 1 .........( other non-written). "

GHOST is running under DOS, in the first drive under DOS in order to use USB to connect USB devices. DUSE.exe DUSELDR.COM that these are two USB drives under DOS, using up a lot of trouble to build a justice with DiskGenius under windows a Disk Utility is very simple to use good

How to use external hard disk backup and reload system

External hard disk plugged into USB port on your computer, the computer properly identified to the mobile hard disk, but because there is no partition the new hard drive in the "My Computer" can not see where is the drive letter of the. The following mobile hard disk partition to 40G to talk about how to partition the hard disk.

1. The best operating system is WindowsXP, Win2000 can also be (basic and XP like), 98, ME, no such partition method. On the desktop "My Computer" icon on right click, select "management."

2. In the "Computer Management" window, select "Disk Management."

3. The new disk will be out of a "initialize disk" window, in front of the disk a little box to tick to confirm the completion of on the list.

4. Then we can see a 37.25G the "Disk 1" (not assigned), which is not partition the hard disk.

5. Here to give an introduction on the concept of disk partition, disk partition, including the primary partition, extended partition, logical partition. In the diagram on the disk is not assigned to right click and select "New Partition."

6. Out of the disk partition wizard, the next step can be.

7. Our first step should be into "master disk partition." The next step.

8. How much the primary partition (that is, how much mobile hard disk first partition), this can be arbitrarily specified, and if you are only prepared to put a 40G hard disk sub-district, then put all the capacity can be designated as the primary partition; we are here ready to split two areas, the first half of the total sub-district of about 19,000 has. The next step.

9. This is the next step directly without modification on the list.

10. Formatting this step, you can choose FAT32 or NTFS formatted partition, but if you choose the NTFS, WIN98, and WINME computer is not supported, you will not see mobile hard disk drive; If you have an area larger than 32G, You can only select NTFS formatted. Complete the partition as soon as possible, it is recommended choose "perform a quick format", otherwise we have to wait a long time. The next step.

11. OK to finish.

12. Is being formatted. If your computer USB is USB2.0 and the previous step to choose a quick format, format quickly concluded; if you do not support the older USB2.0 computer or do not select quick format, where we have to wait a long time.

13. The primary partition formatting is complete, now to the remaining points. In the remaining black bar right click on the "New Partition."

14. Just hours before the primary partition, and the remaining capacity should go to the extended partition. The next step.

15. Where no changes in capacity, because in addition to which has been out of the primary partition, the rest should be retained by the extended partition (no matter how much). The next step until the (extended partition is not formatted).

16. We see extended partition into a green note, in the extended partition points us to the logical partition. In the extended partition, right click select "New Logical Drive."

17. There can only choose a logical drive. What you want is the capacity of extended partitions in several logical partition, then repeat this step to build several logical drives on the list. The next step described above followed by the same basic disk partitions formatted on the list.

18. Logical drive is striped blue color, this 40G HDD were divided into two zone look. This makes Open "My Computer" will be able to see the drive letter, and copy something into a try.

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How to start the computer and external hard disk backup and restore data

External system or boot disk to do, computer support for the hard disk to start small, doing relatively cumbersome, it is better to start with winpe disk to do u can be a tool of.
Production of u disk winpe: Preparation of u disk 512mb below, 1G can try can not support it.

Download Winpe Chinese version, (select UltraIOS programs make a boot disk)

1, first U disk into the computer's USB port, it is important NOTE: U disc production process will be formatted, pay attention to back up data
2, run UltraISO.exe program, select "File" - "Open", select the file WindowsPE.iso
3, and then select "bootable CD-ROM" - "write disk image"
4, in the "hard drive" project, select a boot disk you want to make into a U-disk drive letter
5, in the "Write mode" project, select USB-HDD + or USB-ZIP +, personally recommends that you select USB-ZIP +, better compatibility
6, finally, click on "Write" and wait for a few seconds, the program prompts the successful completion of production, you can pull out of the U disk.