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Di kalangan mereka yang sedang gandrung MP3, nama Seitzer dan Gerhauser mungkin tak berdering di kepala. Tapi harap tahu, merekalah yang mengawali kemungkinan MP3 menerobos ke mana-mana. Tak ada yang menyangka sama sekali: tahun lalu 'MP3' mengambil alih posisi 'sex' sebagai kata yang paling banyak dicari di Internet. Tak seorang pun (mungkin kecuali bos 'Playboy', Hugh Hefner) yang lebih terkejut dibandingkan dengan Dieter Seitzer dan Heinz Gerhauser. Dua orang inilah yang mengawal pengembangan format musik digital MP3 di Fraunhofer Institute, Erlangen, Jerman. MP3 memang menakjubkan. Ada banyak format untuk musik rekaman di Web, tapi MP3-lah sejauh ini yang paling populer -- dalam waktu yang sangat singkat. Salah satu perkiraan mutakhir menyebut jumlah musik berformat MP3 yang ditaruh di Internet mencapai setengah juta.

Occassionally I encounter a tricky problem with removable USB storage devices and Windows, which for some reason fails to properly assign a drive letter after plugging the thumb drive into one of the USB ports. This could also be due to a hardware issue, except in this case I know it isn't because Windows recognizes the USB device and says "your hardware is ready for use". It's just that a new Drive Folder never pops up in Windows Explorer and the removable storage is thus inaccessible. Sometimes this can be resolved by moving the USB drive to another USB port, but occassionally even that doesn't help. Luckily, the solution isn't too difficult if this ever happens to you. Right click on "My Computer" and select "Manage" > in the left-hand column expand "Storage" and click on "Disk Management". In the right-hand pane find the offending removable storage device (typically, the disk without a drive letter assigned) and r...

Sekarang sudah mulai migrasi ke blog baru http://rherwind.wordpress.com Wordpress terlihat lebih rumit, dan memang rumit, tapi juga terlihat lebih profesional, hahaha.... Masih belajar utak atik di wordpress, kalo dibandingkan blogspot memang wordpress lebih banyak pilihan settingnya, masih harus banyak belajar disana... Blog yang ini tidak akan ditinggalkan, kalo dengan wordpress masih terlalu rumit maka akan kembali kesini, hahaha... Saatnya berburu tutorial lagi.... ~RH~

Use Windows Easy Transfer to Import User Accounts, Files and Settings from other Windows operating systems into Windows 7. Windows 7 comes with a utility called Easy Transfer that lets you transfer useful files like your favorite websites, documents and file folders from an older computer into Windows 7. It's an easy way to save yourself the headache of having to configure a new Windows 7 computer with all of your old settings. Best of all, Easy Transfer can be run from a USB cross cable, a USB flash drive or even from an existing hard drive, so it's easy to move data from one Windows installation to another. To access Easy Transfer: Open the 'Start' menu in Windows 7 and type 'Easy Transfer' into the search bar. Follow the on-screen instructions that will prompt you to create the Easy Transfer utility on both your old and new PC and get it ready for transferring your data. Once you're ready it's easy to take files off of your old Windows install, and ad...

This registry tweak will reduce the amount of time Windows 7 spends waiting for services to shut themselves down before presenting you the option of shutting them down manually and restarting or turning off the computer. This wait can be particularly annoying when a program has crashed into an infinite loop and will never be able to shut itself down. As with any registry tweak, make sure to back up your system files and registry settings before you give this one a try! To kill services more quickly, use the following registry tweak: In the 'Start' menu, type "Regedit" into the search bar and hit 'Enter'. The Registry Editor window will pop up. You need to navigate to 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control'. On the right hand side of the screen you'll see an entry called 'WaitToKillServiceTimeout'. Right click on it and hit modify. Change the value from 12000 (milliseconds, or 12 seconds) to a more realisitic 5000 (5 seconds). ...

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It's possible to create a new partition from existing hard drive space in Windows 7 through the use of something called the 'Disk Management' console and its Shrink Volume tool. This is particularly useful when you want to install a second operating system; the best example being 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 running on the same physical computer hardware. Virtual PC allows you similar functionality, but not the native OS aspect. As it's best to install 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems on separate hard drive partitions, this tip is handy because you can circumvent re-formatting and reinstalling the original OS data. The OS partition must have enough free space available that it can be split up. As always, be sure to back up your data first in case something goes wrong. To make a new partition from an existing OS hard drive partition: Go to the Control Panel and navigate to the 'System and Maintenance' tab, then 'Administrative Tools' and cli...

You can get a somewhat risky boost to hard drive performance by turning off Write-Cache Buffer Flushing. This option stops the operating system from copying the hard drive's buffer to the storage platters at regular intervals, instead leaving the buffered information to be copied and cleared when its full. The result is a faster hard drive performance, but you do risk losing buffered information should the hard drive ever lose power. To turn off Windows Write-cache buffer flushing: In the 'Start' menu, type "Device Manager" into the 'search' bar. Under the 'Disk Drives' tab, you'll find your current hard drives listed. Right click on the desired drive and go to "Properties". Under the 'Policies' tab, you'll find the "Turn off Windows 7 Write-Cache Buffer Flushing" checkbox. Turn it on and you're all set!

Diambil dari PCSTATS Newsletter : If you've used Windows Vista you'll remember User Account Control, or UAC. It was that annoying nag screen that would pop up and ask you if you really wanted to change your screen resolution or copy a file. Even more gratingly it could (and still does) break certain legacy software thanks to conflicts with older Windows system drivers. Windows 7's UAC isn't quite as annoying as it was in Vista, but a lot of the underlying problems and incompatibles are still there. While the UAC can definitely provide an extra layer of system security, advanced users may still want to disable it. Here's how you do it: In the 'Start' menu, type "MSCONFIG" into the 'Search' bar. Find the 'Tools' tab, and select 'Change UAC settings' and click 'Launch'. To disable the UAC completely, drag the slider all the way down to 'Never notify'. Goodbye, UAC!

Keyboard shortcuts are the most overlooked, but fastest way to navigate and manipulate windows and data in the Operating System. Any true geek will tell you this, but it's surprising how many people scoff at the idea of keyboard shortcuts that save wrist movement, extra clicks and streamline repetitive tasks. Here's a list of the new Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts - how many do you already know? Win + Home : Hide/Unhide everything but the current window. Win + Space: Make all windows transparent so you can see the desktop. Win + T: Cycle through the entries on the taskbar. Win + P : Cycle through projector or secondary video output mode. Win + (+/-) : Activate the windows magnification tool and zoom in/out. Win + Up: Maximize the current window. Win + Down: Restore or minimize the current window. Win + Left/Right : Move the window to the left or right of the screen, or over to a second monitor. (PS. The Windows Key is "Win")

Diambil dari PCstats Newsletter : Windows has a limited variety of user privileges available to choose from, and at times the default choice of 'Administrator' or 'Limited' falls far short of the situation. But whether you know this or not, there are a few more privilege levels hidden away from view; such as 'Power Users,' 'Backup Operators' and 'Network Configuration Operators' to name just a few. To enable these privileges types is a bit trickier, but here's the low down on how to access all the different accounts available to Windows.  First right click on the "My Computer" icon and go to "Manage". The "Computer Management" window will open and follow this path Local Users and Groups -> Users. In the right hand window, right click and select "New User..." Enter the user name and description to remind you of this account's powers then press the "Create" button, then "Close"....

Diambil dari PCSTATS Newsletter. Speeding up Torrent Transfer Rates The Bit-Torrent protocol is one of the most popular ways (if not the most popular) of transferring data on the internet. However, many ISPs throttle traffic back because torrents eat up a ton of bandwidth. If your torrent downloads are coming in at 5KB/s or lower, it's probable the ISP is artificially slowing down traffic. There is an easy way around ISP throttling, what you'll need to do is enable encryption in one form or another - ie. header encryption, message stream encryption, etc.) of the Bit-Torrent data stream. This masks the nature of the traffic, and in most situations prevents the ISP from knowing what it is. Encryption is not a native feature of the Bit-Torrent protocol, so to enable it you'll need a third party program like Utorrent. Once installed, load up the program and go to its configuration area. Encryption is usually located with the connection options, from there enable the form you fi...