Windows Defender can be easily disabled and here is how it’s done… It is NOT recommended to be disabled and I hope you know what you’re doing.

Here is how it’s done…

Go to Start -> Control Panel and click on Security Centre or go to Start -> Run and type in wscui.cpl and It will bring up Security Centre.

Click Tools, and then click Options.

Under Administrator options, select or clear the Use Windows Defender check box, and then click Save. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

Windows Live Messenger sometimes doesn’t show the music you play on Windows Media Player even though you set it to show.

The work around is the following…

Open up Windows Media Player, and go to Tools => Options (You might need to hit the ALT key to see the hidden menu)

Click the Plug-ins tab, then on the Category Column, Click on Background and make sure Windows Live Messenger Music Plug-in is ticked. If not, tick it and Apply then OK.

See the following screenshot for more info…

Now you should be able to Show what you play on Windows Media Player.

Microsoft Vista drivers doesn’t seems to work with RealTek Chip Sound Card… RealTek has released Drivers for High Definition Audio Codecs Windows Vista 32 and 64 Bit Systems It can be found here… http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/

It seems to work with ASUS A6JA models so I guess it should work with any Notebooks equipped with a RealTek Chip. Most of the Vista Drivers for Asus Notebooks can be found here… http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx

I had a problem installing the BisonCam Driver on my ASUS Laptop running Windows Vista, The XP driver didn’t work at all and I expected that…

This is how I got it working…

Download the driver in the following location and install it.

http://www.fnode.com/drivers/Bison_Camera_Vista32_NB.zip

Then you need to Reboot. Do NOT avoid to reboot because you are too lazy, otherwise it won’t work!

After that, you need to make some registry modifications. Easy way to do it is to copy the registry code into notepad and save it as a .reg file. After that, just double click the .reg file and apply the registry modification. (Copy the code in between Registry Info tag)

You can also download the .reg file Here.

The Cam might show the picture as upside down, All you got to do is a Verticle Flip, Its on the Option ==> Video Capture Filter ==> Rotation


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cam5603D]
“SensorType”=dword:0000000a
“LensType”=dword:0000000c
“ImageSize”=dword:00000001
“ViewSize”=dword:00000a50
“SnapItem”=dword:00000000
“MPTest”=dword:00000000
“RGB24″=dword:00000000
“WideScreen”=dword:00000000
“DeviceOffOn”=dword:00000000
“CpuUsage”=dword:00000000
“DcOffset”=dword:00000000
“AeTable”=dword:00000000
“PCB_SIZE”=dword:00000001
“PropShowItem”=dword:00000000
“SXGASize”=dword:00000001
“BlockS3S4″=dword:00000000
“AETarget”=dword:00000000
“FlikerLim”=dword:00000000
“InterpolationMethod”=dword:00000000
“ADC”=dword:00000000
“DC_Level”=dword:00000000
“Gama_Offset”=dword:00000000
“ImageEffect”=dword:00000000
“ChkPacketHdr”=dword:00000000
“SaBase”=dword:00000006
“SaDivitor”=dword:00000006
“SensorYUYV”=dword:00000000
“AvgAE”=dword:00000000
“Timer1″=dword:0000000a
“Timer2″=dword:0000005a
“PowerDown”=dword:00000000
“DoXPC3″=dword:00000001
“Do2KC3″=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BisonCam]
“AgcGainType”=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WebCam\M2000]
“StillImage”=dword:0000000a
“MultiLangID”=dword:00000009

Starting Windows XP with Number Lock ON is a pretty simple registry tweak. All you got to do is the following…

Click Start ==> Run and Type REGEDIT

Navigate to the following Registry tree

KEY_USERS/.DEFAULT/Control Panel/Keyboard

Change the value of the key InitialKeyboardIndicators to 2 (initially is it set to 0)

That’s it, When you reboot XP again, Number Lock should be on!

Windows Live Call is a resource hog, unless you use this feature there is no need to have it. And it takes about 40 MB of the RAM. Removing Live Call will make the Live Messenger sign in much faster.

Before starting, Shutdown Live Messenger and make sure it is not running. (make sure the icon is not on the taskbar)

You should first remove all the Windows Live Messenger Shortcuts. Here are the common places where you would have a Messenger Shortcut.

Desktop: If you have other user account, its worth deleting it.

Program List: C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Start Menu\Programs

Then go to the Windows Live Messenger Install Directory, C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger

And remove the following Files and move them into a Directory of your choice. (just make one into the WLM install Directory)


htc.8.1.0178.00.dll
livecall.exe
pcsexeps.dll
softphone.dll
softphoneps.dll
softphoneres.dll

Now, you can create your shortcut again manually, It should stop Live Messenger from repairing the files. Follow this link on creating shortcuts http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140443

NB: I have also removed and recreated the following registry, I don’t think there is a need to do it, but If livecall.exe starts again, you can try this method again…

Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

You can either use Startup Control Panel or follow the instructions on this URL http://support.microsoft.com/kb/270035

Go to Start –> Control Panel

Open up Scheduled Tasks

Click on File –> New –> Scheduled Tasks

Name it whatever you like, I named it Auto Lock

Open up Auto Lock Under the Task Tab, add the following to the Run: Textbox

%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation

Click on the Schedule Tab

Under Schedule Task: drop down menu, select When Idle

On the Schedule Task When Idle option, set an appropriate Idle time, I set it as 10 Minute(s)

Click Apply, and you will have a popup to add password. Type in the password and confirm it. (I use the same password as my XP login password)

That’s it, It should auto lock your PC after it reaches the set idle time.

If you want to shutdown a computer running XP by a click of an icon, follow these rules…

Create a Shortcut by (Right Click -> New -> Shortcut ) and add the following to the location of the item…

shutdown -s -t 0

And Click Finish.

That’s it, when you double click the Icon, your machine will shutdown automatically!

Search Companion Window (start ==> search) comes up empty after I uninstalled my McAfee Virus scanner. I guess McAfee did not restored to the original dlls when I uninstalled it, Here is how I fixed it…

Start ==> Run

Type in the following lines one by one and press enter.


regsvr32 vbscript.dll
regsvr32 jscript.dll
regsvr32 urlmon.dll


I did the above task and worked for me.

McAfee needs to sort their AV Scanner out!