What is the Scan and Fix For? By disabling scan and fix you will also be disabling your AutoPlay functionality. How Do You Disable It? Note: You will have to be an administrator on the computer to use msconfig and apply this fix. choose the services tab and then scroll down to Shell Hardware Detection and uncheck it. This will prevent it from starting up with the computer. To kill the service immediately go back to the start menu and search for services....

Here’s how to use the Kaspersky Rescue Disk to clean an infected PC. To enter the menu, of course. If you don’t, it’ll boot normally into Windows. You’ll be prompted to throw in the letter “a” to accept the agreement. The scan will run, and clean up any viruses that it finds. That’s pretty much all there is to it. Download the Kaspersky Rescue Disk from support.kaspersky.com

Quick Links Monitor profiling and calibration are serious business, often involving equipment costing hundreds of dollars. Thankfully, there are free tools for calibration both on the internet and in your operating system. This will ensure that your monitor is adjusted to show as many tones as possible. This is an excellent tool, but only adjust part of the problem. They are however, priced for professionals, and are cost-prohibitive for many hobbyist photographers....

Quick Links Reader Jeevus wrote in asking how to remove the “Troubleshoot Compatibility” item from the Windows context menu whenever you right-press an app—naturally, we were happy to explain how to do it, and share with the rest of you. You’ll want to note that we’re not necessarily recommending that you remove this item, since it could be useful if you’rehaving compatibility issues with an app, but we’re fans of showing how to do something—also, we just like tinkering in the registry....

)Right Datais the basis for Geekdom. to understand, you must have a basis for knowledge, and knowledge comes from both experience and study. Ethical Conduct Right Partitioningallows you to separate and manage data. Unix permissions are not preserved in FAT32, and the NTFS hidden flag isnt respected in HFS+. Ext3 is backwards compatible as ext2, but journaling is lost. Each partition serves a purpose, and each file system has its strengths and weaknesses....

Then down at the bottom of the screen, youll see a tiny little link for Junk. Alternatively, you could search for is:spam in the search box from the main screen. Either way, heres those messages that you were wondering about.

It is capable of nearly any typographic treatment Illustrator is capable of, and some that it isn’t. It is rich with options for your text, which we’ll go over now. Be warned, that this sectioncontains complicated typographic termsthat you may or may not know. Font Size:Where you could numerically alter the size of your font. key in in numbers here or use the pulldown menu for suggested common point sizes....

Image bydaryl_mitchell /home Lets start with the obvious. /home contains a folder for each user on your system. Hit ctrl+H in nautilus to show hidden files and youll see a slew of them! Back up whatever you need. Repeat the process for all users. If youve used Linux at all, youve likely installed software from other repositories than just the defaults. fstab The file in question is /etc/fstab and its job is to be Linuxs file system table....

Today we’ll show you how to do this using Rainmeter, no matter what wallpaper you switch to. Once you’re there, create a new folder to house all of your own custom skins. You should see your skins folder, with your configuration underneath it. You’d ideally pick somewhere in the middle. Congrats, you’ve created your first Rainmeter skin! Stay tuned, we’ll be covering how to do even more powerful skins in the future....

Here’s how to get the Windows client working in Ubuntu using Wine. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install wine1.3 Ubuntu will place Wine under “program” > “Wine”. We managed to install Evernote 4.0 by configuring Wine to emulate Windows 7 tweaks. The console is your friend when it comes to installing Evernote. Evernote will ask you to sign up for an account if you do not have an account with Evernote....

Quick Links Looking for some harmony between Windows 7 and Ubuntu in your dual-boot setup? Here are a few ways you could make the tense OS situation a little more unified and copacetic. What works for one doesn’t work for the other. to another partition, one that can be read by Windows. This isn’t a proper workaround. Your program-associated configuration files and other user-related configs will not be in the same place for this setup....

You’ll find that right clicking in your workspace opens yet ANOTHER options panel for the Brush tool. Do I Need a Graphics Tablet? Many of Photoshop’s best brush features are not usable without a pressure sensitive tablet. WACOM is the most common name in Graphics tablets, but is not the only company that creates them. The tablet illustrated above is the Waltop Venus, from the Taiwanese company Waltop. Buy (or don’t buy) a tablet according to your needs....

Quick Links XBMC has come a long way since its humble beginnings as an Xbox media player. Here is a quick look at some of the available skins for XBMC 10.0. Alaska Revisited Mod is shown below. Shade is a very minimalistic skin that is a new release for XBMC 10.0. Night has a Windows Media Center/Zune feel and looks excellent on a big screen. It is also a new release for XBMC 10....