Upkeep of your Windows PC

Lately I've been asked what should be installed on a new PC to get it up and running?

Cutting to the chase, I recommend going for the following

1. Install everything required from Ninite
   
2. Add a little CCleaner spice
   
3. Top it up with ClassicShell
   

How to Test and Possibly fix your Hard Drive (Seagate and Others)

My Storage 1TB drive was starting to show signs of age - and I searched for something good to see if it will live (Bad sectors - Yikes!)

I highly regard HDD-Guardian - It shows you clearly what's happening with your drive!

Good luck saving your Data!

Fix Your Remote Control Keypad!

I thought all was lost for my complicated and very useful Remote -  Keys didn't make contact.

In my case- I have a Logitech Harmony 659

1. Take it apart - LINK

Thanks RATS!

2. Fix up the contacts - LINK

Good as new!

Bt848 / 878 x64 driver

Yay at last! x64 for tv tuners
http://pctuner.ru/page-al-btwincap64.html

HP a1740n P5BW-LA Motherboard BIOS tutorial

This was an annoying repair!
This tutorial is to flash BIOS version 3.17 or 5.08 on HP / ASUS P5BW-LA (OEM Asus motherboard to HP) and requires BIOS from HP.

The bios update from windows failed (hang)
Bios screen displayed Award Bootblock recovery BIOS
BIOS Checksum failed
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Download the following archive with awardflash134, drdos and rom files
1. Create a bootdisk with DrDos as described on this site
2. Put Awardflash 1.34 into the image
3. Put HP bios version 317 and 508 into image
4. Boot the CD
5. Run awardflash
6. Load the bios image required (508 is newer)

Notes:
1. I couldn't get motherboard to boot from USB only from CD
2. The files can be in *.rom or *.bin ending it doesn't matter
3. There are many versions and bioses and tutorials online which make restoring this bios a mess!

HTC Sleep2Wake

Q: It keeps taking screenshots when I lock the screen!?

A: This is due to an incompatibility with this feature and the native
screenshot in Sense. TO stop the screen shots, you need to edit your
build.prop and change the property ro.htc.framework.screencapture to false, and then reboot.

HTC dynamic links to phone numbers

From http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27035550



build.prop you will have this line

ro.da1.enable=true



change to



ro.da1.enable=false

then add just below that this line

ro.da1.method=false