One day you will sense that something does not seem to be going right with your notebook.
It could be any one of the following symptoms:

1. A sudden strange sound from your audio.
2. Your mouse becomes very unresponsive and may even freeze.
3. You cannot even shutdown and CTRL-ALT-DEL is not responsive.

All the above could indicate a progressively failing disk drive, starting with a bad sector.

Take urgent steps as follow:

1. Hold down the power switch to force shutdown.
2. Wait a while, then reboot.
3. Hopefully you are able to reboot into a working desktop. Scroll through the apps, go to Windows System, Command Prompt, right-click to Run as Administrator.
4. At the Command Prompt, type chkdsk /r
5. May have to shutdown, for the computer to execute on restart.
6. If the computer at some point, seems to hang or freeze at say 19% or something like that, give it time to complete. It may take a very very long time ( hours or overnight) but it should eventually overcome the bad sector that caused the problem.

Now the notebook will behave well, but quickly go change the harddisk and save the data while you can.

1. DVDShrink www.dvdshrink.org

2. DVD Decrypter

3. DVDFab HD Decrypter www.dvdfab.com

4. ImgBurn

DELETE button to access BIOS for DELL

F8 button to access safe mode.

As far as I can make it out, I figure that the selection should be based on the following:

1. For desktop, standalone app, use Player.

2. For server, networked environment, use Server. It can also be used to make VMWare apps.

Current version is VMWare Server 2.0 Beta. During installation, Windows will complain that it is not Windows Logo certified…no problem to continue.

32-bit applications will run on 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu.

getlibs: Automatically solves dependencies for 32-bit programs on 64-bit

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=474790

1. Firefox

It cannot be removed from Windows command or control panel.

In Firefox, open Tools, Options, Security, and un-click “Remember Passwords for Sites”.

If error in copying whole disk, check for DVD type: both source and target must be similar, ie, -R or +R.

If different, do not use copy whole disk function. Instead use the copy files function from one disk to another.

To erase/delete traces of past activities including the last (15) opened documents/files in Windows XP, install freeware LCleaner (V.1.1.2.34 on 22-Dec-2007) from www.585Soft.com

For multiple users, manually remove each user’s list separately with individual log-in.

Right click on bottom toolbar, (or START), -> Settings -> Taskbar and Start Menu -> Start Menu

There should be 2 radio buttons, viz. Start menu and Classic Start menu

Start menu -> Customize -> Clear List

Classic Start menu -> Customize -> Clear

That’s it!