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Asus 1000HR Eee PC Netbook review.

• 10 inch LED backlit WSVGA screen (1024×600)
• Intel ATOM N280 processor 1.66GHz
• 1GB DDR2 memory (expandable to 2GB, which I did)
• 160GB HDD built in plus 10GB Eee Online Storage
• Windows XP Home w/SP3
• Wireless-N
• 1.3 MP webcam
• Supposed 9.5 hour battery (Depends on Configuration)
• 3 USB, 1 SD card slot
• Weighs 3.2 lbs (with battery)

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If you have lost your recycle bin from your desk top on windows vista then the follwoing might help

Basically The Recycle Bin does not appear on the desktop in Windows Vista or in Windows XP. Therefore, you cannot use the Recycle Bin to do such tasks as restoring a file that was deleted. Hopfully we can help you make the Recycle Bin work again.

Several issues could cause this problem:

• A third-party program was used to hide the Recycle Bin.
• The TweakUI program was used to hide the Recycle Bin.
• The registry information for the Recycle Bin was deleted.
• A Group Policy setting was used to hide the Recycle Bin.

You can automatically fix the problem by downloading this file from Microsoft.

Or if you prefer the manual method – Read more…

Got this error the other day repeatedly at bootup so I thought I would share the fix with you

Microsoft Windows Search Indexer stopped working and was closed
A problem caused the application to stop working correctly. Windows will notify you if a solution is available.

So I went into services and disabled it (and I had to also disable the automatic retry separately or it kept starting despite being “disabled”). Any attempt to manually start it there gives me:

Windows could not start the Windows Search service on Local Computer.

Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly.

The fix is to delete all files related to search indexing, located by default at:

C:ProgramDataMicrosoftSearchDataApplicationsWindows

and:

C:ProgramDataMicrosoftSearchDataTemp

Note that these are both system directories – You can access it without changing your folder options, just type the shortcut to the folders in the address bar of windows explorer. Or if you want to show hidden folders, you go into Control Panel, (make sure you’re in classic view) and you click on the icon labeled Folder Options, at which point you go into the View tab, there is a sub-folder about halfway down entitled Hidden Files and Folders, click the button next to Show Hidden Files and Folders.

Delete all files and folders in these directories.

Then, change the service back to starting automatically. You still can’t start the service until you reboot, at which time Windows will rebuild the index for you.

This problem started to hit me just the other day, I litrally tried everything I could to to solve it, removing programs using appwiz.cpl (because I could not get into control panel) – Running appwiz.cpl from the run line opens add and remove programs without going into control panel.

Anyway this didnt solve it! so I did some more digging and I narrowed it down to a faulty cpl file existing on my system. Heres what I did Read more…

We wouldnt be a Tech Support site if we didnt have a list of Vista Tech Tip, Tweaks and Tricks we hope you enjoy this list!

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1. Instant search

The Instant Search box is at the bottom of the Start menu. Read more…

For a complete list of Windows Vista keyboard shortcuts click Microsoft Windows Vista Help pages. The complete list is quite large and some are hard to remember. So here is a trimmed down list of keyboard shortcuts Read more…

1. Move Page File to Different Physical Drive
If you have more than one physical drive in your computer, this guide is for you. The page file can take a considerable toll on your system drive – by moving the page file to a separate drive, you can increase overall performance. 

Press Start, right click on Computer, and select Properties, then In the left-hand pane, select Advanced System Settings. 

Click the Advanced tab and under Performance, select Settings. Uncheck ―Automatically Manage Paging File Size for All Drives. 

Select the different physical drive that you want your paging file to now be stored on (e.g. D) and select System managed size and press Set (make sure this is the first partition on the second drive). Select the drive that contains your paging file (usually C), select the Custom Size option, set the original and maximum size, and press Set, Your page file will now need to rebuild on the new drive – this may temporarily slow performance. Note: The reason for keeping around 1GB on the OS drive is because Windows Vista needs still some pagefile space there.

2. Rebuild the Page File

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Settlers 2. what a great game! if only it worked on Vista… well guess what it can

Here is a step by step guide to get it running.

1) Download DOSBox from here

2) Run the DOSBox installer