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.

Microsoft word 2007 which comes along with the Office 2007 is much more powerful and attractive than the previous versions. It has many features that just make the old ones incomparable. But one main problem with this new version is that it saves the files written in it in the .docx format. Even though this new format is powerful and has more features, it can’t be opened with the old versions like the word 2003 or 97. And this mainly creates a problem when you create a .docx file with your new office and takes it to a friend’s computer where there is office 2003.

Fortunately, there is an option through which you can save the files in the old format to make it compatible with the older versions of Microsoft Word. A simple way to do is when you save the file, you just choose the “Word 97-2003 Document (.doc)” option which is just below the file name. A small snapshot is shown below.

Another way to solve this problem is to permanently configure your Microsoft Word to save in the old format of Word 97-2003 Document (“.doc). You can do this by choosing the “Word Options” under the top left button of your word 2007 as shown below.

Then clicking the “Save” button on the left of the options window, Choose “Word 97-2003 Document (.doc)” under the options of “Save Files in this format”. Once you are done making these changes, your files will now be automatically saved in the all compatible .doc format.

For years, I have been using the Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Word is the most used toolkit amongst the tools included in the package. Using Microsoft word 2003 was always easy and it helped me correct grammatical errors. One special feature of word 2003 that I used more often is the word count feature which is available on the top menu at “Tools>>Word Count”. This helps me particularly when I was writing a review for some advertiser in one of my blogs although reviews are not written in this particular blog. I used the word count feature to see if the no. of words in my article has reached the minimum word count as specified by the advertiser and it was a great help.

A few days before, I installed the Microsoft Office 2007 and I have been using the new package since. The New Office is during quite great and I was very satisfied. But for almost a week, I was not able to see a link or button where I could find the word count as in word 2003. I searched for the button in the top menu and fond none. Finally, I just saw at the bottom left of the word 2007 that the word count is written there. Besides displaying the word count all the time, it also allows you to see the word count of a selected text against the total text in the document. This is how I was confused for a few days looking for the word count. Now, if you are also looking for the word count button in Word 2007, you are just not looking. Just look at the bottom left and you will see the word count like this.