6/10/2013

Clean infected PC with free Kaspersky Rescue Disk

For cleaning an infected PC you can use Kaspersky Rescue Disk.
Download Kaspersky Rescue Disk from Kaspersky website (ISO), burn it to CD (eg. using ImgBurn).
Or download the iso image of Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 and a special utility and use this utility to record Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 to USB devices.
See: How to record Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 to an USB device and boot my computer from it?
After burning CD or recording to USB device boot from CD or USB. and scan PC offline.
See: How to Use the Kaspersky Rescue Disk to Clean Your Infected PC

6/07/2013

Virtual Router - Free Software as Wifi Hot Spot for Windows 8 and Windows 7

(Update:
Windows 10 default feature:
Use your PC as a mobile hotspot)


Virtual Router is a free, open source software based router for PCs running Windows 8, Windows 7. You can wirelessly share any internet connection (Wifi, LAN, Cable Modem, Dial-up, Cellular, etc.) with any Wifi device (Laptop, Smart Phone, Netbook, etc.) These devices connect to Virtual Router just like any other access point, using WPA2.

Virtual Router download link.

6/05/2013

Installing HP Printer with an Alternate Driver in Windows 7 for a USB Cable Connection

Table of compatible drivers at www.hp.com

ProductAlternate driver
Deskjet 3320, 3325, 3420 and 3520Deskjet 3600 *
Photosmart 7560, 7565, 7600 and 7660Deskjet 5600
Deskjet 5850Deskjet 5600
Photosmart 130, 145, 230, 240 and 245Photosmart 330 *
Photosmart 7150, 7350, 7355 and 7550Deskjet 5550
Photosmart 7760 and 7960Deskjet 5600
Deskjet 6122 and 6127Deskjet 990c *
Deskjet 3820Deskjet 970cse *
Deskjet 656Deskjet 660c *
Business Inkjet 1100dBusiness Inkjet 1000
Business Inkjet 1100dtnBusiness Inkjet 1000
Deskjet 9300Deskjet 1220c *
Deskjet 9650, 9670, 9680, 9680gpDeskjet 9800
* Available only through Windows Update.

More useful HP support page:Products Supported in Windows 7

Windows 7 kms activation error - disable hibernation

Symptom
When you try to activate Windows 7, you receive an error message:
"Windows could not be activated."

Resolution
Turn off hibernation.
It was a desktop, so hibernation function was not important.
Shut down, turned off the power and given Multiple Activation Key (MAK) didn't work.

Manually:
Open an Administrator command prompt:
Disable hibernation: powercfg -h off
Enable hibernation: powercfg -h on

Automatically:
Run these Microsoft Fix it softwares:

Disable hibernation.
Re-enable hibernation.


5/30/2013

Backup Your Bootable USB Installer to Image

If you want to create an image backup from your  bootable USB installer (Linux, Windows 7, Windows 8, 32 bit, 64 bit, Home or Ultimate Edition, etc.), you can use this useful little freeware: "USB Image Tool".
You can create backup to an image file, and restore from it to pendrive when you need the specified USB installer again.





USB Image tool download link.
I read about this tool at 
Tweaking with Vishal.


5/29/2013

KONICA MINOLTA Multifunctional Printers (bizhub, magicolor, pagepro) Windows 8 driver

KONICA MINOLTA Multifunctional Printers (bizhub, magicolor, pagepro) Windows 8 driver compatibility list.

KONICA MINOLTA Multifunctional Printers (bizhub, magicolor, pagepro) Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 driver  download.

5/23/2013

All-in-one Disk Partition Manager Software - freeware and allows private and commercial use

AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition is free multilingual disk partition manager and free for private and commercial use for Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / Windows 7 32 / 64 bit and the latest Windows 8. It support multi-language, include: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, etc.


Home page:
http://www.disk-partition.com/product.html

Download link:
http://www.disk-partition.com/download-home.html



  • New! Convert between NTFS and FAT32
  • New! Fully support UEFI boot
  • New! Partition Alignment
  • New! Convert to MBR Disk
  • New! Convert to GPT Disk
  • New! Multi-language support
  • New! FREE for Commercial Use
  • Make Bootable CD Wizard
  • Change Partition Type ID
  • Change Serial Number
  • Initialize Disk
  • Rebuild MBR
  • Support Ext2/Ext3 Linux partition
  • Migrate OS to SSD/HDD Wizard
  • Partition Recovery Wizard