How to insert YouTube movies into PowerPoint slides

You can insert the YouTube movies into your PowerPoint slides to express your idea or better way to communicate something. You can convey these ideas in more effective ways, if you are using movie files with your simple slides.

Follow the given steps to add YouTube movies into PowerPoint slides:

First of all download the YouTube.com movies and then save on your computer hard drive. Mostly movies are available in flash video file format on YouTube site. You can convert also the downloaded movies from YouTube into any common format, for example, windows media video file (wmv), windows video file (avi) and movie file (mpeg).
First of all open the presentation in which you want to insert movie file.

Now click on "Movies and Sounds" option from the Insert" menu and choose the option "Movie from File".




Now select your movie that you want to insert into slide and click on Ok button.




Here now you are asked "Do you want your movie to play automatically in the slide show? If not, it will play when you click it."




Recommend choosing Ok button to play automatically even if you want the movie to play when clicked.

Finally save your PowerPoint presentation and run it for test.

How to speed up your slow internet connection

Today a special tip for those who are still using any slow dial-up internet connection due to unavailability of any broadband connection in their area. The Web Accelerator application designed to provide the full acceleration for your routine web sites browsing. With the help of Web Accelerator you can browse your internet 4 to 6 times faster than normal dial-up connection. Basically this services compressing the website text data, images and heavy graphics to open or download this data with high speed.

This technique is more useful for static websites and for email applications but don't accelerate with secure and downloading audio or video files. Some good web accelerator retains your system cache to reuse websites with faster speed and can also block windows pop-up. If you are using FTP sites and downloading any program using dial-up, then web accelerator is not for you. There are various web accelerator software are free available on internet, visit and download it to enjoy your connection.

How to add or remove new font in Windows XP

The font represents the physical characteristics of the letters typed into the document. By default Microsoft windows XP has different types of font, for example:

Verdana (TrueType)
MS Serif
MS Sans Serif
Arial (TrueType)
Times New Roman (TrueType)
Symbol (TrueType)
Wingdings (TrueType)

If you want to add new fonts in windows XP, then first make sure, these new fonts must be TrueType fonts (Font Standard) or particularly designed for windows.

To install new fonts in your computer

Follow the given steps to add new fonts in windows default font folder:

To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.

Go to File menu and click on Install New Font option, in the drives box, select the drives (hard drive, CD-drive or Floppy drive) that contains the new fonts. Here you can also select the Network option to install the font from network location.



Select the new fonts and check the option "Copy fonts to Fonts folder" then press Ok button to finish the process.




To Removing Fonts in your computer

Follow the given steps to add new fonts in windows default font folder:

To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.

First click on Start button and type %windir%\fonts in Run option then press Ok button.

First select the font that you want to remove, Press CTRL key to select more than one font. Now go to File menu and click on Delete option.

Motherboard Cleaning

Motherboard is the main part of your computer that contains all hardware components. Your computer motherboard could fry, if you do not keep it clean on periodically basis. Dust is the main cause to heat up your system and heat link to hardware failure. You can save your computer maintenance cost if you clean your computer on the regular basis. This will improve the cooling and performance of the motherboard components.


To clean your motherboard first unplugs your system power from the electrical outlet.


Using the screwdriver remove the side covers of your computer case and put them to one side.


Check all data and power cables connections. Inspect all motherboard PCI and AGP slots.


Remove all add-on card of your motherboard for example RAM, modem, VGA, sound card and LAN card.


Now blow the air around all the motherboard sides and keeping away your blower nozzle 4 to 5 inches away from main board components.



You can use vacuum cleaner also for this purpose but compressed air is the better solution to clean a system.


At the end assemble back all cards, cables and side covers of your system.


I recommend you doing this after every three months if you want to save your system life.

Laser Printer Cleaning Tips

Laser printer is the fastest, high quality and more expensive than inkjet printers and their printer quality is also higher. The print quality and printing speed of laser printers make ideal for offices and business. The printer is the most commonly used output device in office environment. That is why printer required extra care as compare to the other parts of the computer. There is no any difficulty to clean a printer if you have proper cleaning tools and methods.

Never place your printer on the ground, always use table or shelf for this purpose.

If you have the printer manufacturer manual, first read about on how to safe and clean it.

Now disconnect your printer from the back side of the computer and unplug power from the electrical outlet.

First use the compressed air to clean dust, toner powder from the outside and inner side of the printer.

Use lightly dampened cloth or cleaning fluid to clean the body of the printer and avoid to spraying fluid near any holes on the printer.

Use paper towel to clean the toner and brush to clean the inside of the printer.

Always cover your printer with dust cover when you are not using it.

CD-ROM

The maximum a floppy disk can contain is 1.44 MB. To play a game with around 200 MB you are stuck with 100 over diskettes. The CD-ROM is a revolutionary invention that allows up to 625 MB at one time. However, it is read only, which means you can't store in anything.

Buttons Fun:

Although most CD-ROMs comes with only 2 buttons, do you know you can also skip, play previous track and play the next track as well with a proper combination? Check properly on your instruction manual for additional functions. You just might be surprised what it can do.

Clean Thoroughly:
It is important to clean the CR-ROM at least once every month. Get a CD lens cleaner. If possible, choose one with an alcohol solution drop. This should ensure that your CD-ROM will always be able to read properly.

Clean You CDs:

It is just as important to clean your CDs often. Why? Because if you have a speck of dust on the surface of one of your CDs, once spinning at high-speed in the drive, the speck of dust is enough to produce scratches on your precious CD.

Running In DOS:

One of the common problems with CD-ROMs is unable to access it under DOS. This might be because the protected-mode CD-ROM driver isn't available. You'll need to add the real-mode device driver, usually included with your CD-ROM drive, in CONFIG.SYS and load MSCDEX.EXE, which is available in the Windows\Command folder. You should also make sure both files are on your startup disk.

Run List:

Like those cool expensive hi-fi systems, you can customize the run list of your Audio CD, only not with the CD-ROM itself. Use Windows' CD player to customize the run list and you can have your CD running in any track order you like.

Read Ahead:

The read ahead buffer is useful to speed up things. Go to Control Panel, System. Click on the Performance tab. Click on the File System... button. On the File System Properties, click on CD-ROM. Make sure you have the fullest cache. Even if you have a CD-ROM with less than Quad speed, just move ahead. You'll be surprised to find your CD-ROM running faster.

Keep Clean Your Computer

You can save your computer maintenance cost if you clean your computer on the regular basis. This will improve the cooling and performance of the computer components. Your computer components could damage, if you do not keep it clean on periodically basis, because dust is the main cause to heat up your system and heat link to hardware failure.

Never place your computer on the ground, always use computer table or shelf for this purpose.

To clean computer case first unplugs your system power from the electrical outlet. Remove all cables and connectors from the back side of your computer.

Now blow the air around all the hardware components and keeping away your blower nozzle 4 to 5 inches away from main board components. You can use vacuum cleaner also for this purpose but compressed air is the better solution to clean a system.

At the end using lightly dampened cloth or spray any cleaning fluids on the computer case and use paper towel to dry it.

Never clean inside computer components or other circuit board with damp or wet cloth.

Always be careful to eat or drink around the computer.

Search system and hidden files

In windows you cannot search hidden and system files, because by default search system does not support to search hidden and system files. This is normally done to protect these files from users to modify and delete accidentally. Many computer viruses, Trojan and hackers hide their files in your computer, in this way making it hard to find them and then delete them. Some key logger and password breaker software hides their files from user to keep user password and credit card history. But you can search these hidden files (viruses, spyware, key logger) with some modification in search system.

To search the hidden or system file, follow the giving step:

First click on Start button then click on Search option.

Here click on "All files and folders" then click on More advanced options.

In advanced options, select the Search system folders and Search hidden files and folders check boxes.

Now your computer configured to search all hidden and system files

Defragmenter Program to Optimize the Placement of Files.

This utility program is used to re-organize the files and un-used space on the hard disk, so that operation system can access data more quickly and easily. When operating system stores data on the disk, it stores the data in the first available sector on the disk. In this case data of a file is stored on disk in a scattered form; it is referred to as “File is fragmented”. The fragmentation slows down the data accessing speed of computer. You can improve the performance of your computer by de-fragmenting your hard disk. In De-fragmentation process, the data of each file is stored in continuous sectors. There are many third party software’s available in market for this purpose but you can use windows built-in utility program called Disk Defragmenter. To start disk defragmenter utility, first make sure all running program are closed.

To run disk defragmenter utility, go to the Start button and type dfrg.msc in Run option then press ok. Now here a disk defragmenter window will appear. Select any drive and press defragmenter button. If you have a large hard disk, this process can take several hours. I recommend you doing this after one month if you want to improve the performance of your computer.

Disable the Send an error report to Microsoft

In Windows XP and Windows server 2003, when any computer application crashes, you may receive a message “send error report to Microsoft”. This windows feature may be useful if you are using windows registered version or you have installed Microsoft recommended software’s on your computer, otherwise a simple error message disturbing you, nothing else. This error message close the document; you were working on when the application crashed. You can disable or enable this feature in windows XP.

To disable the Error reporting feature, follow the giving steps:

• First Right click on My Computer and select Properties option then go to advanced tab.
• Here at bottom click on the button name “Error Reporting”.
• Select the item name "Disable error reporting". But it is good think to leave a tick in the check box "But notify me when critical errors occur".
• Click "OK" to exit the "Error Reporting" window and then click "OK" again to exit System Properties.
  

Windows Repair Installation

Some time windows missing the startup files due to the power failure, virus's attack and any illegal action by user. You can solve the windows startup problem with running the windows repair installation. Almost all windows serious problem can be solved using windows repair function. For repair windows XP, you should have the bootable windows CD.

First boot your computer using bootable windows XP, CD. To boot from CD, first change the booting order setting in your system BIOS.

When first blue screen will appear, do not choose any option here; simply press the Enter button to go for next option.



Next you will get "Windows License agreement" page, simply press F8 button to accept this agreement.





Now in second blue screen press the R on your keyboard to repair the windows XP installation. This recovery function repaired the all-missing windows features.



In half an hour windows will complete all recovery process. This recovery process will not disturbed your Desktop and My Document data. May be your some windows sitting will change after completing process.

How to show and use the Shortcuts keys in Word 2007?

In Word 2007, most of the shortcut keys are same from the earlier versions such as Word 2000 and Word 2003. But the interesting thing in Word 2007 is that, Microsoft provides a new look or system for these shortcuts keys. In earlier Word versions, you must be memorized to use the shortcuts keys such as (CTRL + B" to make letters bold and "CTRL + I" to make letters italic). But now do not require planned memorization in latest Word 2007 version. There is a fast, simple, and visual way to find out what you need to press.

Now by pressing the "ALT" button and many options or keyboard shortcuts (containing letters or numbers) will be appear on top of the toolbar buttons.

You will see here, For Example:

Alt-F = Office Button

Alt-1 = Save

Alt-2 = Undo

Alt-3 = Redo

Alt-H = Home

Alt-N = Insert tab

Alt-P = Page Layout tab

Alt-S = References tab

Alt-M = Mailings tab

Alt-R =Review tab

Alt-V =View tab

Alt-L = Developer tab

Now if you want to view the shortcuts keys for any other individual tabs. For example if you go to the Insert tab by pressing ALT-N only, then you will be able to see the extra shortcuts keys available.

Here Now if you press a letter listed below small image it will be like pushing that button. For Example

V = to set cover page

NP = insert new blank page

B = Page break

T = Insert table

P = Insert picture

F= Insert Clip Art

SH = Insert shapes

C = Chart

Virtual Memory too low Warning Trouble in win xp and vista ?

When there is less physical memory than needed, then some virtual memory (virtual RAM) is created on the disk. When there is a limit set to the size of virtual memory usage and there is not enough of it present there is a warning that frequently comes “Virtual Memory too low”.

Solution 1 :

This problem occurs when physical RAM + Virtual RAM (usually created on hard disk) together are not sufficient to take care of the currently needed RAM size, or this situation is about to arise. This usually happens when some fixed upper limit for Virtual Memory has been set.
To solve this problem, you can either upgrade you physical RAM on your computer (recommended), or you can set the Virtual Memory to system managed size or you can do both. Setting Virtual Memory to system managed size means windows will set it to higher size whenever needed automatically,for this,


Right click on My computer --> goto properties, goto advanced tab, click on performance settings, now click on advanced, now click on advanced, now click on change button for Virtual memory.


On this screen select the System managed size, press OK. After this re-start your computer. This will solve the virtual memory too low problem.

Solution 2:

Recommended solution is to upgrade your physical memory (RAM) according to requirements of the kind of applications that you run on your computer. If you upgrade RAM or not, the following procedure will help prevent this warning by increasing the virtual memory limit.


1.Right click on My computer icon and click
properties.

2.This will show system properties window. Click on a
advanced tab and click on the settings button under heading
performance.

3.This will open performance options window. Click on advanced tab
and click on change button under heading virtual memory.

4.Check if the space available is set to some custom value or
double the RAM size ?

5.If it is not double the RAM memory size , then select the size
option set the virtual memory size double the RAM Size and press set
button and press OK button.

6.Restart the computer.

Increase Hard Disk speed in Windows

If you like to increase/optimize your Hard Disk I/O - read/write speed without buying expensive software utilities to do that job or changing the HD, just follow next steps. With doing these steps you will increase Hard disk speed (depends of manufacture and specification, but its worth to try). The most speed improvement is visible with IDE drives; however there are reports that this tweak also does good for SCSI disks.

In any case, it won't harm your system, so try it yourself and let me know what you find!

Steps:

1. Run SYSEDIT.EXE from the start & then Run command.
2. Expand the system.ini file window.
3. Scroll down almost to the end of the file untill you find a line called [386enh].
4. Press Enter to make one blank line, and in that line type
5. Irq14=4096 (note: This line IS CASE SENSITIVE)
6. Click on the File menu, then choose Save.
7. Close SYSEDIT and reboot your computer.
8. Restart windows!

The speed improvement will be noticed just after the system reboots, any system info. software can be used to check the improvement.

Ten Steps to a Healthy and Easily Maintainable WAN

1.Have a working modem attached to the maintenance port or console of your
networking equipment, so your maintenance provider can quickly diagnose
problems.

2.Maintain an up-to-date cable diagram and label all cables, wall jacks, etc.,
so that problems can be quickly isolated and cables can be quickly identified
and reconnected should they ever be disconnected.

3.Have WAN circuit info documented and readily available(i.e.circuit-
id,vendor,contact,phone numbers) for sales and trouble calls.

4.Mount equipment so it is easily accessible, front and rear.

5.Have good power. Have your electrician put in ample outlets on a dedicated circuit.
Consider a UPS or surge suppressor. Always provision additional power outlets for
test equipment and for ease of expansion.

6.Don't skimp on cables. Ensure that the cables and connectors you utilize
meet the specifications for the application they are being used in. Never use a
cable that does not meet the specification, even if it works in the short run. In
the long run , you may very well have all kinds of problems. You may save money in
the short run, but lose a lot of time later trying to isolate a intermittent cable
fault.

7.Take anti-static precautions. If the floor in your comm. area is carpeted, install
an anti-static mat.

8.Have a telephone within easy reach of your equipment - this can be a big
time saver in the event of a problem. Testing of WAN circuits often involves
end-to-end tests, and point-to-network tests with the local RBOC and Common
Carriers.These tests require a telephone near the equipment.

9.Try to have your equipment in a dry, temperature-controlled, and well-lighted area.

10.Have all cables and power cords firmly attached and/or tied down. Use plastic cable
tie wraps to secure cables, and to ensure that the strain on the cable ends is
minimized. Always keep cables from areas where they might be walked on, stepped
on,or otherwise damaged. Improper cable strain relief and installation procedures
are a common cause of network failures.

How to recover corrupted PowerPoint file using TEMP folder?

Today tip will help you to recover the unreadable and corrupted file of Microsoft PowerPoint. Normally PowerPoint open files can become corrupted when you are trying to save it or if you were working on it and your PowerPoint application or windows crashed due to power failure. Windows saves a duplicate copy of working file as a temporary version. There is no need to use any third party software to manage these types of corrupted files, because you can recover them from TEMP folder.

Follow the given steps to recover the corrupted files in MS PowerPoint:

First click on Start button then click on Search option to start your search process.





Here type the *.TMP in "All or part of the file name" box then choose the "Local Hard Drives" option in "Look in" box.



Now click on Search button to start the search process of temporary files on your system local drives.

After some time, windows locate the list to temporary files. Here arrange the all temp files as Date modified.



Now open the PowerPoint and try to open these temp files or double click on that file to run in PowerPoint.

How to protect MS Excel file using password?

In Microsoft Excel, you can protect a single cell, group of cells on a worksheet or an entire workbook by applying password so that unauthorized person can not display as well as modify your document. You can apply two types of password.

Password to open the document:

If it is applied then you have to give the correct password to open the workbook. Otherwise you cannot open the workbook.

If it is applied then you have to give the correct password to modify the workbook. Otherwise your workbook is opened but you cannot modify the workbook. It means that your workbook becomes read-only.

To apply a password to MS Excel document, follow the given steps:

First click on "Tools" menu and select the "Option" from drop down men

A windows dialog box will appear, here select the "Security" tab.
Enter first password in "Password to open" text box under "File encryption settings for this workbook" section and second password in "Password to modify" text box (if required) under" File sharing settings for the workbook" section then click "Ok" button of dialog box.

Microsoft Excel will open "Confirm Password" dialog box for the confirmation of passwords. The maximum length of password is 15 characters.

Re-enter the password to open and password to modify and click "Ok" button of Confirm Password dialog boxes one by one.
Now close the file and then reopen to test the password.

How to make Windows 2000 and XP shutdown faster

You can cut down the time it takes for Windows to shutdown all of your running program by making a couple of changes to your registry. This can make the shutdown process a little bit quicker, which is great for the impatient users of today. However, before doing so I recommend you backup your registry , just in case you make a mistake..

Here's how to make your computer shutdown faster:

1.Go to the Start Menu and choose Run from the menu

2.Type regedit in the box and press OK
3.The registry editor will appear.
4.Click the + sign next to My Computer
5.Then click the + sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
6.Then the + sign for control panel
7.Scroll down and find Desktop and click on the writing to make it blue like in the screenshot .

8.This will make a list appear in the right column. Look in there and Double click on the AutoEndTasks file.
9.The default value here is 0. Change it to 1. Press OK.
10.Then find another file in the right panel called WaitToKillAppTimeout
11.The default value here is 20000. Mine is set to 3500 now. Press OK
12.Restart your computer for the changes to take effect

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How to set Jumper Pin settings on a CD rom or hard drive

When installing a CD/DVD rom drive or even a hard drive, there are some tiny little pins at the back that sometimes need to be adjusted. If you do not have the jumper in the correct position, your device will not be recognised by the computer.

There are three basic jumper pin settings:
1. Cable Select
2. Master
3. Slave

Cable Select To use this setting you will need a cable select compatible IDE cable. They have a blue end. This will allow you to connect Two devices on the same cable. The cable decides which is master and which is slave. By default the device plugged in on the end of the IDE will be the master. For Example: If you installed two hard drives you will definitely want your computer to boot to the main one with the operating system on it. Therefore that harddrive will be plugged in on the last connection and the slave hard drive will be on the middle connection. The other end will be connected to the motherboard.

Master: If you do not have a cable select cable, set your main hard drive to master.
This also applies if you have two CD Roms.
Slave :Use this setting when you install a second harddrive or cd rom and use the same cable for both.
The main is the master..

Note: Don't put a cd rom on the same cable as a hard drive. But you can have two hard drives together
or two CD roms.

How do you find the Jumper pin settings combination?

Notes:

• A blue end on the IDE cable means it is a cable select. A normal black one means you have to set the hard drive jumper pins to either master or slave. The blue end connects to the motherboard. Sometimes the connection on the motherboard is blue also.
  
  
• A master gets plugged into the end of the IDE cable.
  
  
• If you wanted to add another hard drive you should have a master and a slave, selected with the jumper pins at the back of the harddrive. However the easiest way is to set them both to cable select. Then connect them on the same IDE Cable( they usually have two connections) but put the main hard drive on the last or end connection of the IDE cable. This way the one connected on the lower is the slave.
  
  
• Now days the default settings are cable select. All new cables, devices, and motherboards are compatible.
  
  
  
  
  

How to sort rows in Excel 2007

By default, you can sort columns easy in Excel 2007 (and other Excel versions). But what to do when you need to sort rows? Of course, you can do that manually but Excel 2007 can do that for you, too.Sellect rows you want to sort.In Ribbon, sellect Data card.In "Sort & Filter" chose "Sort".In Sort window, click Options button.In "Orientation" chose "Sort left to right" radio button.Click OK.In Sort window with drop-down menus you can chose order and way you would like to sort rows.Click OK.

How to make folder private

If you are not the only user on your computer, you can make some forlders private and only when you log in with your username you can see them. This option is only available for folders included in your user profile. Folders in your user profile include My Documents and its subfolders, Desktop, Start Menu, Cookies, and Favorites. If you do not make these folders private, they are available to everyone who uses your computer. Open My Computer. Then, double-click the drive where Windows is installed (usually it's drive (C:), unless you have more than one drive on your computer). Double-click Documents and Settings folder. Open your user folder. Right-click folder in your user profile you want make private, and then click Properties. On the Sharing tab, select the Make this folder private so that only I have access to it check box. When you make a folder private, all of its subfolders are private as well. For example, when you make My Documents private, you also make My Music and My Pictures private. When you share a folder, you also share all of its subfolders unless you make them private

What is my IP address

You would like to know what is your IP address when you are connected on the Internet? You can get your answer on several different ways. You can go to whatismyipaddress.com and you'll see your IP and where are you on Google map. But if you need more information you can go to Start - Run, than type CMD and press ENTER. There, just type"ipconfig/all" (without quotes) and press ENTER. You will get more than IP address, you'll see full profile of your connection like on image bellow: