Category: Windows

Serial port communication in Windows 7 using Hyper-terminal and Putty

Sachin Y.P. Sharma

Keywords: Serial port communication in Windows 7 using Hyper-terminal and Putty, Putty, Hyper terminal in Windows 7 Some times you need to access serial port of your PC/LAPTOP to perform some actions like if you want to connect a GSM modem or if you are an Embedded systems programmer then to access program or interface your micro-controllers to your system. If you are performing these tasks on either Windows or Linux then you will requires some program that can communicate with your hardware and system. In the old days, Windows used…

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Speedup Windows 7 : Boost Windows 7 Performance tips

Sachin Y.P. Sharma

Keywords: How to speed up Windows 7 , Boost Windows 7 Performance How to speed up Windows 7 or give me some tips to Boost Windows 7 performance : When you do a fresh install of Windows 7 your system works faster. With time your system’s performance degrades. Most of the times reasons are same like : Unnecessary services are running Search indexing Unwanted Startup applications No disk defragment from a long time More than one spyware or anti-virus programmes etc. In this post I am going to share some…

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How to share Internet connection: Ad-hoc network in Windows XP

Sachin Y.P. Sharma

Keywords: Ad-hoc Network, How to share Internet connection, how to make an Ad-hoc connection in Windows XP How to share Internet connection at home or with your friends if you do not have any wireless router. Well you can do this by making an ad-hoc network. You might be thinking what is an Ad-hoc network? As quote from Wikipedia . An ad hoc network typically refers to any set of networks where all devices have equal status on a network and are free to associate with any other ad hoc network devices in link…

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How to access Device Manager in Windows : How to scan for Hardware changes in Windows

Sachin Y.P. Sharma

Keywords: Device Manager, How to access Device Manager in Windows , How to scan for Hardware changes in Windows How to access Device Manager in Windows or How to scan for Hardware changes in Windows – a basic question asked many times by newbies. Many time you need to access Device Manager like: Your some devices like modem, CD/DVD drive, NIC or PCI cards etc are not working properly or not being detected by your system. You replaced / reconfigured some onboard hardware component and they are not getting detect by your system.…

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Install Windows 7 or Windows Vista using a USB flash drive

Sachin Y.P. Sharma

Keywords: Install Windows 7 using a USB flash drive, Install Windows Vista using a USB flash drive, Make Boot-able pen drive If you want to Install Windows 7 using a USB flash drive or Install Windows Vista using a USB flash drive. You will require : Windows 7 or Windows Vista installation DVD or ISO image USB Flash drive (min. 4 GB size) Another system with Windows 7 or Windows Vista installed already in it. Before proceed further, first back all of your USB flash drive’s data as we are…

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How to install Windows XP/7 using a pen drive : Make a boot-able pen drive

Sachin Y.P. Sharma

Keywords: How to install Windows XP using a pen drive . How to install Windows 7 using a pen drive, How to make boot-able pen-drive There are many times when my friends asked help regarding How to install Windows XP using a pen drive or How to install Windows 7 using a pen drive. Making a bootable pen drive for Windows XP / Windows 7 is not a difficult task. I’ll show here How to make boot-able pen drive using win2flash. Before you start just consider your situation, what you have and what will you require:…

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Host a local web-site on your Windows XP / Windows 7 System

Sachin Y.P. Sharma

Keywords: Host a local web-site on your Windows XP / Windows 7 System,  install IIS on Windows XP Pro, install IIS on Windows 7 If you want to Host a local web-site on your Windows XP / Windows 7 System you will need a web-server to serve your web-pages. Windows XP Pro and above comes with IIS pre-packed in your CD/DVD. But you have to install it manually as it’s not default installed program of Windows. You may use any other freely available web-server to host your web-site but I’m going…

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Windows XP Troubleshooting

Sachin Y.P. Sharma

Keywords: Windows XP Troubleshooting, F8 is not working, CD/DVD is not working, Repair Windows XP 7 years back in 2005,When me and many of my friends bought the system when we were in 1st year of our engineering. From then till today I have helped my friends to troubleshoot their systems. My this post is dedicated to my all friends , who asked for my help and provided their systems for my experiments and having faith in me that their systems will be safe in my hand.. 😉 I hope this post…

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