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Jan 15 2019, 13:02:57
Media Players
The followings are some of the best free media players I prefer to use. If you want to download, please click the links.
1. VLC
2. KMPlayer
3. MPC-HC
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The followings are some of the best free media players I prefer to use. If you want to download, please click the links.
1. VLC
2. KMPlayer
3. MPC-HC
Here are some of the best free text editors I prefer to use. If you want to download, please click the following links.
1. Notepad++
2. ConTEXT
Checking by DirectX Diagnostic Tool
1. Press Windows and R keys together at the same time. Run Box will be appeared.
2. Type dxdiag in the run box and click Ok. DirectX Diagnostic Tool screen will be appeared.
3. You can check the system information of the computer as the following picture.
Another way is typing msinfo32 in the run box and click OK. Then, system information screen will be appeared.
When we start to open computer, it will work very slowly if so many Startup programs are running. So, we need to disable unnessary programs at the startup time. And, some neccessarty programs are not running at the startup time. For example, antivirus software. At that time, we need to enable the programs. The following is the way to enable or disable the programs:
1. Press Windows and R Key together. The Run Box will be appeared.
2. Type control in it and click OK. Control panel screen will be appeared.
3. Click System and Security.
4. Click Administrative Tools.
5. Click System Configuration and the following screen will be appeared.
6. Click Startup Tab.
7. If you want to disable the unnecessary applications, unselect those and click Apply and Ok.
8. If you want to enable the necessary applications, select those and click Apply and Ok.
Please look at the video
To open Computer Management Service Windows
1. Press Windows and R keys together at the same time. Run Box will be appeared.
2. Type compmgmt.msc in the run box and click OK.
Then, Computer Management Windows will be appeared.
There are Task Scheduler, Event Viewer, Shared Folders, Local Users & Groups, Performance, Device Manager and Storage.
Task Scheduler
We can create and manage tasks in our computer.
Event Viewer
We can view all the events occurred in our computers.
Shared Folder
We can check the folders we've shared, session and open files.
Local Users and Groups
We can create the new users and groups. We can check the current users and groups.
Performance
We can check CPU, Memory, Disk and Network. Click the Open Resource Monitor in the middle pane and the following windows will be appeared.
To be fast and good computer, System Board, CPU, Memory and Hard Disk are needed to be in good conditions. Our computer will not work properly if some of these things are not in good conditions. So, We need to check CPU, Memory and Hard Disk.
Device Manager
We can check all drivers are up to date or working properly.
Storage
We can create new partitions, delete partitions and change drive letter by using Disk Management.
To use component services in Windows:
1.Press Windows and R keys together at the same time. Run Box will be appeared.
2.Type comexp.msc in the run box and click OK. Component services windows will be appeared.
In Event Viewer, we can check all the events in our computer.
In Services, we can start or stop the services. Some of the services start automatically when we turn on our computers. Running so many services at the computer start up time makes our computer slow. So, we need to disable the services we don't need. Some services do not run automatically when we turn on our computers, for example, anti-virus software. At that time, we need to enable the services we need. The following is the way to enable or disable services in windows computer.
1.Click the services in the left pane.
2.Double-click the services you want to enable or disable in the middle pane.
3.You can choose one of Starup Types: Automatic(Delayed Start), Automatic, Manual, Disabled.
4.Click Start or Stop and then, click Apply and OK.
Sometimes, we face the problem that the files or folders in our computers or hard disk or memory sticks are disappeared or hidden. In this kind of case, we can use command prompt to recover those hidden files or folders. The following is the way to recover the hidden files or folders by command prompt in windows OS.
1. Press Window + R keys together. Run Box will be appeared.
2. Type cmd in Run Box.
3. Check your drive is in which drive letter. Step 4 is the way to check drive letter.
4. Press Window + E together. Then you will see your drive is allocated in which drive letter.
5. Lets say your drive is in the drive name E. Type E: in the command prompt and press Enter.
6. Type dir/a and press Enter. (you will see all the files and folders located in your drive).
7. Type attrib -h -s -a -r "hidden file / folder name" and press enter.
8. In this way, you can get back all of your hidden files or folders one by one.
Please look at the following video
We can use ping command to test network connection. The following is the way to test connection in windows computer.
1. Press windows and R keys together. Run Box will be appeared.
2. Type cmd in the run box. Command Prompt Box will be appeared.
3. Type ping www.google.com or (www.example.com) in the command prompt and press Enter. Mostly, we use google.com to test internet connection.
Then, you will see the network connection status as shown in the below picture.
Sometimes, we need to give ip address to computers manually so that we can manage the users in the network.
Why we need to do so?
For example,in some organizations and firms, although some people are allowed to use everything, some people are not allowed to use YouTube and some people are not allowed to use Facebook for bandwidth management.
By giving ip address to computer manually, you can do bandwidth and traffic management easily. In some routers and access points, you can manage ip address for the users from the routers or access point. In this post, i will tell you how to give ip address to computers manually.
1. Press Windows and R keys together at the same time and run box will be appeared.
2. Type ncpa.cpl in the run box and press Enter. The following windows will be appeared.
3. If you use WiFi, right click the Wi-Fi button and select properties.
If you use cable, right click the Ethernet and select properties.
4. Select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP / IP 4) and click proterties.
5. Select Use the following IP address option and fill the IP address, Subnet mask, Default gateway and DNS servers and click ok. The below picture is an example
There are various types of Hard Disks. Some of them are:
IDE : Integrated Device Electronic. Known as PATA as well.
PATA : Parallel advance technology attachment
- Mostly found in Desktop computers. But, don't use so much nowadays.
SATA: Serial Advance Technology Attachment
- Used in Laptops, Desktops and Servers.
SAS: Serial Attached SCSI
SCSI: Small Computer System Interface
- Mostly found in Servers.
SSD: Solid State Disk
- Nowadays in most of the computers and servers use, SSD is used.
Cleaning Up Disk in Windows
We can clean up system error memory dump files from hard disk that make computer slow to work. How to clean up?
1. Press Windows and R keys together at the same time. Run box will be appeared
2. Type cleanmgr.exe in the Run Box and click OK
3. Select drive you want to clean up and click OK
4. Select all files or files you want to delete and click OK
5. And then, click Delete Files
Checking Disk
We can use windows command to check disks in computer. How to check?
1. Go to command prompt
2. Press Right Click and click Run As Administrator
3. Type chkdsk in the command prompt and press Enter
Then, system will check the disk.
Please click here for more details.
Using Disk Management
We can create new partitions, delete partitions and change drive names by using disk management in windows. How to use disk management?
1. Press Windows and R Keys together at the same time. Run Box will be appeared
2. Type diskmgmt.msc in the Run Box and click OK
Then, we can manage the disks.
How to create new partitions / volumes
1. Select the drive you want to make partition
2. Press Right Click and click Shrink Volume
3. Enter the amount of space we want to create for new partition
4. Click Shrink and wait a moment
5. The unallocated space will be appeared and select it
6. Press Right Click and click New Simple Volume
7. Click Next and Next again.
8. Choose Drive Letter(D, E, F) and click Next
9. Choose File System(FAT, NTFS) and give name to the volume/partition in the Volume label
10. Click Next and Finish.
Now, we've successfully created new volume/partition.
How to delete volumes / partitions
1. Right click the partition you want to delete and click Delete.
Mostly we need to create user accounts for file sharing. But, in some organizations or farms, two or more users use in the same computer. At the time, we also need to create user accounts for security reasons. In some organizations or farms, the users are not allowed to use admin right. Without admin right, you can't install or uninstall any software and can't change any system setting. So, the users can be managed easily by creating user accounts in windows. The following is how to create user accounts in windows:
1. Press Windows and R keys together at the same time and the run box will be appeared.
2. Type control in the run box and the following screen will be appeared.
3. Click User Accounts and User Accounts again.
4. Click Manage another account and click add a new user in pc settings.
5. As shown in above picture, click Add someone else to this PC and the following box will be appeared.
6. Fill User name and Password and click Next and you've successfully created user account.
7. As shown in above picture, click Change account type if you want to change account type.
8. There are two type of accounts: Standard user and Administrator. Standard user can't install or uninstall any software and can't change any system settings though the administrator account can do all.
1. Insert your usb disk into your computer.
2. Press Windows + R keys together.
3. Type cmd in the run box and click Ok.
4. Type diskpart in the command prompt and press enter.
5. Click Yes when the User Access Control Box is appeared.
6. Type list disk in the command prompt.
7. You will see the disks.
8. Type select disk 1 or 2 or something (choose the usb disk number you want to make bootable).
9. Type clean in the command prompt.
10. Type create partition primary.
11. Type select partition 1.
12. Type active.
13. Type format fs = ntfs . (Wait until the format completes)
14. Type assign .
15. Copy the Windows files and past those into the usb drive.
16. Now you can use this usb as a bootable drive .