From the comments from my readers, it seems that many people are having problems finding drivers for their Compaq Presario Laptops. Considering this problem, I’ve finally decided to write a post on drivers for Compaq Presario laptops. Finding the drivers for Compaq laptops is certainly a problem for most of the customers. I myself have faced this problem once but a after a little digging up, I found a way to find the drivers. And here I am – sharing that technique with you. Continue Reading »

Orkut is a great site to hang out with friends or find new friends on the internet. It is very popular in India and many other countries of the world. However, some people might want to block orkut in their PC. This may be due to many reasons and I’m not discussing it. Whatever the reason may be, if you want to block orkut, you can follow the following steps: Continue Reading »

The main attack of many viruses of the windows OS is on its registry. And therefore, many problems caused by a virus can be solved by editing the windows registry. However, viruses have started to disable regedit – the windows registry editing tool and therefore leave the user no option. But there are ways to enable the windows registry tool which I’m going to discuss below. One can follow any one of the following ways if there registry has been disabled by a virus: Continue Reading »

Very unnaturally, my computer was disconnecting from the internet automatically again and again since yesterday. I have vista ultimate in my system and I have never had this problem before. So, I was searching on the internet for how to solve this problem but I was disappointed at first. But finally I came to this solution. However, I’m sure that solution only applies to problems which occur in the following manner.

Problem Statements:

• Connection to the internet is lost after a certain period of time.
• Connection to your network is also disconnected.
• There is no problem with the modem or anything and the internet is working properly in other OS like windows XP.
• The disconnection problem is gone for a while after a restart or a standby mode but is disconnected shortly after that.
• There is no problem with the hardware or the Internet service provider.

How to solve this Problem?

The problem is because the Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service is on and there’s a bug in the windows vista you are using. However, this problem has been removed in the latest service pack 1. So, you can follow one of the following steps:

1. TURNING OFF INTERNET CONNECTION SHARING (ICS) SERVICE: To turn off this service, go to START->RUN and type “services.msc” without the codes and press enter. Then in the services column, find Internet Connection Service and right click on it and choose “Properties”. In the Startup type option, choose “Disable”.
2. DOWNLOAD SERVICE PACK 1: This problem will be solved by downloading the latest version of service pack 1 for windows vista. You can download the latest Service Pack 1 here.
3. DOWNLOAD HOTFIX: Windows has released a hotfix for the problem and is available here.