Windows XP / Vista / 2003 – Turn off the system BEEP service.

Mar 21

Sometimes I get annoying / irritating BEEP sound from my notebook. My office environment is very quiet, and the moment the BEEP sound emits from my notebook, my office colleagues will start to turn their heads around to see what I’m doing. This guide can be used if you want to turn off system BEEP for a particular virtual machine in VMware. Alternatively, you...

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Where to download Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a?

Jun 23

I had a hard time looking for the service pack for Windows NT 4.0. I managed to download the files from Microsoft site. Their links are no longer valid so decided to host it on my web. Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a (Intel) with Standard Encryption Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a (Intel x86) with High Encryption Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a...

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Welcome to Windows 98 sound & wav

Jan 29

Anyone remember the Welcome To Windows 98 sound? You can download from below or C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\WELCOME\WELCOM98.WAV in your Windows 98 System. To download, right-click the link and select “Save Target As…” or “Save Link...

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Remote Desktop Connection and Sonic Wall Remote Office.

Oct 11

The client could not establish a connection to the remote computer. The most likely causes for this error are: 1) Remote connections might not be enabled at the remote computer. 2) The maximum number of connections was exceeded at the remote computer. 3) A network error occurred while establishing the connection. Yesterday I was troubleshooting for a user why she was...

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Windows Vista – What happened to Disk Defragmenter?

Aug 04

You no longer find Disk Defragmenter under Storage in Computer Management. Click on Start Type dfrgui.exe in Start Search and press “Enter” key You should see Disk Defragmenter dialog box appear. Click on Defragment now… to start defragmenting your hard...

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Windows Vista – What happened to HyperTerminal?

Aug 03

HyperTerminal is no longer part of Windows Vista.   However you can copy the relevant hyper terminal files from Windows XP to your Windows Vista. Required. Windows XP system USB flash drive Here’s the trick.  (Or you can download from here) Go to C:\Program Files\Windows NT\ Copy hypertrm.exe and htrn_jis.dll to your USB flash drive Go to...

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