Monday, November 29, 2010

Auto Connect To Your Dailup Connection On Windows Startup

I have been asked by my friend a lot many times, how can we have a auto dialup connection on windows startup. Some of them use torrent and they are so lazy that they want everything to be automated. Both torrent utility as well as dailup to be startup automatically, they dont want any human intervention. So guys here it is. Its quite simple.
You just need to follow some process.

1. Navigate to Start -> Control Panel -> Network and Internet Connections -> Network Connection
For Windows 7, Control Panel -> Network and Internet Connections (View Network Status and Tasks) -> Change Adapter Setting
2. In the new dialog window, select your Internet Service Provider.
3. Right click on your ISP, click properties option. This will display Internet connection property.
4. In the dialog box, select option tab.
5. Look into Dialing options. By default below options are checked,
Display progress while connecting
Prompt for name and password, certificate, etc.
Prompt for phone number (included in Windows Xp)
6. To make auto connect, uncheck all three options.
7. Now once setting is done, create a shortcut of dailup connection. Cut/copy shortcut icon into startup folder, Start -> All Programs -> Startup.

All set, now restart windows OS and check. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Manually Remove Programs from the Add/Remove Programs List

Today I was installing MS Office 2010 Professional Plus, I don't know for what but I cancelled my installation. Now comes the issue, I am trying to reinstall the product, but I can't. The setup starts initiating the process but ends up with an error "report for solution or close the program". For reference sake I am currently having Windows 7 as my OS.
While reinstalling Office I didn't remembered this is my second attempt. Suddenly it strikes me out and I check add/remove program in Control Panel. Its seems like MS Office is partially installed. I tried to uninstall it but failed. Then I just search net for this and I find out a solution. It is dam simple. You just have to do is remove the product entry from windows registry.

Start => run => enter regedit
Go to location, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
Delete the entry.

For safety, take a backup of registry file.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Slow Lan Speed in Windows 7!

I was kind of in frustration for the LAN speed i was getting in Windows 7. There are lots of articles on net pertaining to this topic. Some works some doesn't...
I am not good with networking, but tried some and at last it worked. You just have to do is,
Disable the automatic adjustment for TCP window size on the network. You can perform this with administrative rights. Follow the process,
Click start, type cmd (ctrl+shift+Enter to enter by administrator).
Type netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled and enter.
Yes thats it, enjoy the speed!!!

You can crosscheck the output,

Before:
C:\Windows\system32>netsh interface tcp show global
Querying active state...

TCP Global Parameters
----------------------------------------------
Receive-Side Scaling State : enabled
Chimney Offload State : automatic
NetDMA State : enabled
Direct Cache Acess (DCA) : disabled
Receive Window Auto-Tuning Level : normal
Add-On Congestion Control Provider : none
ECN Capability : disabled
RFC 1323 Timestamps : disabled

After:
C:\Windows\system32>netsh interface tcp show global
Querying active state...

TCP Global Parameters
----------------------------------------------
Receive-Side Scaling State : enabled
Chimney Offload State : automatic
NetDMA State : enabled
Direct Cache Acess (DCA) : disabled
Receive Window Auto-Tuning Level : disabled
Add-On Congestion Control Provider : none
ECN Capability : disabled
RFC 1323 Timestamps : disabled

It did work for me. There are also other ways which you will find on net. You can try those if the one above doen't work for you.

1. Go to Start => Control Panel => Programs and Features => Click Turn Windows Features on or off => Uncheck "Remote Differential Compression".
2. Click start => type ncpa.cpl => right click on adapter => select properties => click on configure => click on advanced => highlight the property "Flow Control" and change it to "disabled".