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December 11 Guestbook Welcome to my space (the world of gadgets and a few jokes).
I hope you enjoy my space and you have any computer problems you want solving then just leave a comment.
Plus leave a decent comment and I will
put a permenant link from my site to yours!
 Does anyone know of any good free website websites (lol).
If so please let me know by leaving a comment.
Thinstalled Visual Basic (VB) 2005 Express EditionI have been working on this for weeks and have finally found a way to make Visual Basic Portable: 1. Without running thinstall, on a clean windows install, install windows installer 3.1 FIRST, then install .net framework 2.0 and .net framework 2.0 SP1. 2. Run thinstall and get it to capture an install of Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition. 3. On the program select screen, before the app is compiled, select both vbexpress.exe files. Also tick the box to save the settings on the USB stick not the local hard drive. 4. Download portable .net framework 2.0 from here: http://thinstall.com/examples/dnet20_captured.zip 5. Unzip it and click build.bat (you may have to run it from cmd). 6. Put both the portable Visual Basic and .net framework in the same directory. 7. Create a shortcut of the portable .net framework. 8. Edit the shortcut location to: "File directory/cmd.exe" /c vbexpress.exe /installVSTemplates 9. Run the shortcut. 10. Close VB and cmd. 11. Change the shortcut location to: "File directory/cmd.exe" /c vbexpress.exe 12. Now when you want to run VB just run the shortcut. If you have any problems then just leave a comment. I am not sure if this works for VB 2008. I have only tested it with VB 2005 Express. October 21 Windows Media Player Opera PluginIf you are tying to play a windows media player file within Opera but the page keeps saying that Windows Media Player is not installed thehn try this: Download this file: http://rapidshare.com/files/156268396/np-mswmp.dll and put it into the folder C:\Program Files\Opera\program\plugins This file came from Opera portble but for some reason does not come with the standard Opera. This works when you have a windows media player installed that is later than series 9. If you have any problems than just leave a comment. October 20 chkdsk is not workingIf in Windows XP you are getting a error like: ""File or directory is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the chkdsk utility." but chkdsk won't run or it's not solving the error message then try this: Go to "Start"=>"Run", then type chkdsk add a space and type the letter of the drive you want to scan and type a colon then a space, then type /F a space and /R. The final line should look something like "chkdsk E: /F /R". If you are scanning the drive with windows running on it then just press Y to do the scan on the next startup. Hope this helps and if there are any problems then just leave a comment. October 18 Roboform2Go and OperaI have been using roboform2go for a long time and have recently switched my default web browser to opera and I love it but I can't use roboform2go with it. Does anyone know how I can use both? If you dont know just leave a comment and eventually if enough people leave a comment we might be able to get roboform to make the compatiable with each other. How to remove Windows Desktop Search 4/ Windows Search 4If like me you thought this update would be a good idea but now realise how rubbish WDS 4 is and how much it slows down your computer then simply : Go to "Start"=>"Run", then type C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB940157$\spuninst\spunist.exe press enter and follow the instructions. March 25 My Rapidshare FilesA few handy downloads of mine:
Please leave comments so I can improve the downloads!!
This is a patch to be able to run Halo 2 on XP:
This is a collection of thousands of rapidshare premium usernames and passwords, some of which won't work because others have used it and chaged the details:
This is a program that directly downloads rapidshare files, even if you have gone over the limit:
This program directly downloads from rapidshare automatically:
This is a java application for your phone that lets you do lots of fun things to your victims phone:
This is an application that I created myself to let you get roboform2go for free (More information in the post below):
Updated version (v1.1):
Updated version (v1.2):
Some test pictures taken by a Fuji Finepix F40fd:
A flash animation of an animated alphabet. This can be used in your flash files. It is in Flash 8 format:
I created a Team Fortress 2 (TF2) theme for the Sony Ericsson W580i but it should also work on other Sony Ericsson phones:
and here is V2:
Using rf6lic for Roboform2Gorf6lic.exe is a Roboform license file generator (sometimes known as crack) that lets you use roboform for free but it can also be used to give you Roboform2Go (formerly known as Pass2Go) for free. To do this just download a rf6lic Roboform2Go activator that I created from here:
Updated version (v1.1):
Updated version (v1.2):
Or you can use a bittorrent client:
This is no longer available on bittorrent due to new UK laws brought in that prevent P2P software being used.
If you have any problems just leave a comment. February 10 SAVE THE PLANET BY SITTING THERE!! RIGHT THERE!!This is the most important entry I have. We all know that global warming is destroying our planet but most of us cant be bothered to do much about it. But this is easy: download and run a program and you can help reduce global warming.
So go to
It works by reducing the amount of power that parts of your PC use and timing your PC to turn off the monitor, hard drive and hibernating your computer at different times. So go on, save the planet by sitting there.
If you sign up for an account on this site join the 'The Heroes of the World' group.
And if you have Windows Live Messenger go to:
Here is a click-to-donate site where you can off-set one pound of CO2 with just a click of the mouse. Go to the site, click on the tree picture, one pound of CO2 will be off-set -- then repeat each day http://stopglobalwarming.care2.com/ Also you could download this program: Companies are trying to predict global warming and its effects and rather than by a room of supercomputers they are wanting thousands of people to donate their computer power. Other companies also use the same program for drug development, helping africa, developing new computer security and much more! December 04 Free Wifi! and some gadget sites!Please join this campaign to make the Government to provide free wifi services.
Unfortunatly the free wifi campaign by the Gadget Show failed. They contacted 10 Downing Street but they said the it was an invalid campaign because it would advertise the Gadget Show aswell as achieve its goal. So why not setup your own partition and contact 10 Downing Street and lets all have free wifi!
The Gadget Show has a new campaign that affects all of you!
Broadband companies are not usually truthful when it comes to broadband speeds. Some of you may be paying for 8MB broadband but only recieving 1MB. This campaign is to convince broadband companies to be more truthful about our broadband speeds. Just test the speed on the website and tell the gadget show what speed you get and what speed you are paying for. Easy! Update: Unfortunatly only a few broadband companies changed their ways due to the gadget show but with the help of other campaigns, broadband companies have been a little more truthful and added how speeds can be affected in their terms and conditions.
Here is a list of gadget websites:
But what else does slow broadband cause? Lag: the monster that isn't even playing but still trips you up and makes you lose. So lets go kick his ass for it:
The gadget show website. The programme is on at 8.00pm Monday on Channel 5. A fantastic show where they review loads of gadgets and have crazy competitions worth thousands of pounds!
A fantastic gadget news site:
The best, biggest, most popular gadget site. Has everything form reviews to tips and tricks. Also has a great price comparison which recommends what to get and what to avoid.
Not very related to gadgets but basically it is a big community of people giving and receiving free stuff. Basically a big swap shop. Need to expand to more areas of the country though but fantastic if you live in one of the areas.
This is a fantastic website to go to if your are planning on getting a firewall. They have tested loads and given a table of results. The one at the top is free but some of the settings are only for very advanced users as they are very complicated!:
This site has tested some Anti-Virus programs so it is good if you are planning on changing. I would reccommend NOD32 myself because not only has it won loads of 100% Anti-Virus awards but because the real time protection is solid:
This site has tested Anti-Spyware programs. My reccomendation would be Spyware Doctor although the real time protection slows down your computer alot, it protects in lots of ways:
You can get spyware doctor here for free as part of the Google pack, although it has no real time protection unless you upgrade:
There is also anti rootkit testing. So many things to infect your computer these days. Damn you scum of the internet!:
Choosing broadband takes so long. So I have done it for you! This compares all the UK unlimited broadband packages that also offer a phone deal. I have not included AOL because I know from experience that they are rubbish. This was compiled in March 2008:
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