How to change the video renderer type?

Do you know how to change the video rendere type in Media Player Classic?

1. Open the player,
2. click on View,
3. select options,
4. select playback output 
5. then select desired renderer,
6. click apply,

 

Change MAC address of Ethernet adapter

Under Windows XP, the MAC address can be changed in the Ethernet adapter's Properties menu, in the Advanced tab, as "MAC Address", "Locally Administered Address", "Ethernet Address" or "Network Address". The exact name depends on the Ethernet driver used; not all drivers support changing the MAC address in this way.


 to check your MAC address easily on a Windows XP box, go to Run, type CMD, then type "ipconfig /all" without quotation in the command prompt. The number under physical address is the MAC address. If multiple IP are displayed, you should look under the label "Ethernet adapter x", where x is the name of your connection (which is Local Area Connection by default)

Photo Shop 7 Not loading

Q: When I click on Photo Shop 7 Icon it loads the program, then  dissapeard. I've tried re-installing PS. How shall I use PS again?

 

A: Hold down Ctrl-Alt-Shift while starting up Photoshop. You should get a dialog asking if you want to reset Preferences. Click Yes. It should work but you will need to remake any Preference settings in Edit>Preferences.

 

or  Delete Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Prefs.psp on x:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop\7.0\Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Settings

Lookup a user name and machine name using an IP address ?

 

If you need to find a username but only have an ip address,

At the command prompt enter the following command:
nbtstat –a xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
This will list the machine name using that ip address.

 

MS-DOS-based Printouts thru USB Printer in Windows XP

How to print MS-DOS-based Printouts thru USB Printer in Windows XP

 

By default, most MS-DOS-based programs print directly to LPT1 or LPT2 port using parallel port. What do you do if your PC comes without Parallel Port?

 

if you are not using a net work please install loopback adaptor. If you don't know how to install loopback adaptor, please check my previous post Install a Loopback Adapter 
Connect USB Printer and install it on usb port. share it

 

Assume your machine as 192.168.1.10 and printer share name as PRINTER

 

Create a bat file as netprint.bat including following statements
 

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NET USE LPT1 /DELETE

 

NET USE LPT1 \\192.168.1.10\PRINTER

 

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Run  netprint.bat

Boot Winxp Fast

 

 

Follow the following steps

 

1. Open notepad.exe, type "del c:\windows\prefetch\ntosboot-*.* /q" (without the quotes) & save as "ntosboot.bat" in c:\

2. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "gpedit.msc".

3. Double click "Windows Settings" under "Computer Configuration" and double click again on "Shutdown" in the right window.

4. In the new window, click "add", "Browse", locate your "ntosboot.bat" file & click "Open".

5. Click "OK", "Apply" & "OK" once again to exit.

6. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "devmgmt.msc".

7. Double click on "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers"

8. Right click on "Primary IDE Channel" and select "Properties".

9. Select the "Advanced Settings" tab then on the device or 1 that doesn't have 'device type' greyed out select 'none' instead of 'autodetect' & click "OK".

10. Right click on "Secondary IDE channel", select "Properties" and repeat step 9.

11. Reboot your computer.

What's the difference between .COM and .EXE formats?

- What's the difference between .COM and .EXE formats?

 

 To oversimplify: a .COM file is a direct image of how the program will
 look in main memory, and a .EXE file will undergo some further
 relocation when it is run (and so it begins with a relocation header). A
 .COM file is limited to 64K for all segments combined, but a .EXE file
 can have as many segments as your linker will handle and be as large as
 RAM can take.

 

 The actual file extension doesn't matter. DOS knows that a file being
 loaded is in .EXE format if its first two bytes are MZ or ZM; otherwise
 it is assumed to be in .COM format. For instance, DR-DOS 6.0's
 COMMAND.COM is in .EXE format as is COMMAND.COM in recent versions of
 MS-DOS.