Since upgraded to Windows 7 from windows Vista, my rapidshare downloader JDownloader seems to have problems starting itself properly. Executing JDownloader.exe will leave your system running javaw*32.exe (simply because JDownloader was written in Java) forever and you won’t see the main user interface starting up at all. I later found out that it has something to do with UAC. So, here’s the solution to get it running in Windows 7.
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How To Turn Off User Account Control UAC in Windows 7
4 easy steps on how you can turn off UAC in Windows 7.
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Download New Mac OS X Snow Leopard Desktop Wallpapers
Get the lastest desktop wallpapers of Apple’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard and use them on Windows, Linux, Ubuntu, SUSE or any other operating systems that you can think of. I personally think that the default wallpapers that comes with Windows 7 are better to look at, but Snow Leopard’s wallpapers has its own uniqueness as well.
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Free Windows 7 Enterprise 90 Day Evaluation Trial
For those of you that haven’t downloaded a ‘try before you buy’ version of Windows 7 yet, you only have a limited time left to do so. Microsoft is offering a 90 day trial version of Windows 7 but there are only a limited number of licenses are available “while supplies last.”
Download Opera 10 Final, Fastest Web Browser
Opera 10, formerly codenamed Peregrine, features an improved user interface, increased web standards support, bug fixes, performance improvements, and new tools for web developers (particularly opera dragonfly, sort of like firebug on opera). Opera 10 Final includes Opera Turbo, the new bandwidth-booster for slow Internet connections, and a revamped Opera Mail, its built-in e-mail client. Opera claims that version 10 of its desktop browser will be significantly faster on resource intensive pages such as Gmail and Facebook, deeming it more than 40% faster overall than Opera 9.6.
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Oracle 11g Release 2 New features Details
Oracle 11g R2 is now available after almost 2 years since the initial release of Oracle 11g. Oracle Database 11g Release 2 is heavily focused on consolidating hardware and virtualization.
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How To Open and Read EPUB Ebooks
EPUB is a free, standardized format that almost every hardware eReader or desktop software understands. Amazon’s Kindle, however, cannot read EPUB texts without using some intermediary software that converts these books into a format the Kindle can understand. While there are a few competing formats, EPUB has turned into the de facto standard for eBooks. Some vendors, like Sony, wrap a digital rights management (DRM) solution around these books, but others just publish completely open, non-DRMed versions of their books. The EPUB files from Google Books will not be locked down by a DRM solution.
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How To Call Or Run Windows Update Manually
Most of us have windows update enabled by default to run at a specific time (daily, weekly or monthy). Windows also have a windows update start menu shortcut that we can click on so that we can tell windows to look for updates whenever you wanted to.
But what if you want to run windows update manually?
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How To Fix Power Calibration Area Error When Burning CD/DVD/Blu-Ray
I was trying to burn an ISO onto a DVD with imgBurn but was returned with this error message “Power Calibration Area Error”. As I haven’t actually use my laptop disc drive to burn optic media for quite a long time now, I thought that the drive might have “died due to old age”.
However, I was able to get rid of the error and the DVD finished burning successfully after following the following steps.
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Download Windows Live Movie Maker 14
Windows Live Movie Maker 14 allows for greater editing of videos including standard definition (4:3) videos and high definition (16:9) video support. Windows Live Movie Maker allows for direct upload to both YouTube and Facebook (though plug-ins). Users are also able to burn straight to DVD, play video on high definition (HD) televisions and save in a variety of standard and high definition resolutions – 480i, 720i, 720p and 1080p. Auto Movie allows users to easily create a video automatically in under one minute using selected images, captions, a title and soundtrack to go along with the slides.
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