Question 1:How does an average person (System Admin) install drivers? Answer:He manually installs each and every missing drivers using wither the respective product CD’s or he downloads the drivers from the respective manufacturer’s site. Question 2:How does an intelligent person (System Admin) install drivers? Answer:He just plugs in a USB drive and all missing drivers are automatically installed.

Windows Ctrl+Shift+Esc :-Task Manager Winkey+R :-Run Dialog Shift+F10 :- Equivalent of Right Clicking Ubuntu Ctrl+Alt+Backspace :-Reloads current Sessions (Easy way of logging out) Alt+F2 :-Run Dialog Shift+F10 :- Equivalent of Right Clicking Crtl+Alt+Shift+F10 :-Black Screen of Death

DAA is a compressed image format developed by PowerISO. Many CD/DVD images are available in this format. More details here Wikipedia To burn DAA image files you need either PowerISO or Gburner both of which are commercial software. Alternatively you can convert it to iso images and then use Nero to burn it or Daemon Tools to mount it as a Virtual Drive

The most common way of editing Windows XP’s boot screen is by editing ntoskrnl. There is a more simple way of changing the boot screen.The only drawback is that the progress bar leaves a trail. First make create 16 bit 640*480 image and save it as boot.bmp in ‘c:\windows’ directory Click Start|Run and type c:\boot.ini. The file opens in Notepad. Look for an entry similar to this. "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect" Add /noguiboot […]

I read a post in some forum where a member said that some registry changes take effect by just killing and starting the process explorer.exe .The tip is useful.According to that post one has to Open Task Manager kill explorer.exe and start the shell by typing explorer in File-Run(in the taskbar). I found a single line command which can kill and start explorer.exe tskill explorer Press Win Key and R or go to Start-Run type […]