Archive for May, 2007

Start XP with Number Lock ON

Posted by Nish Vamadevan in May 27th, 2007  
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Posted in: Computing, Tips, Windows, Windows XP     

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 [...]

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AdobeUpdater.exe CPU Resource Hog

Posted by Nish Vamadevan in May 13th, 2007  
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Posted in: Computing, Software, Tips     

I have been experiencing some strange issue with Adobe software, when I launch it, there will be a program called AdobeUpdater.exe will automatically executes.
This .exe will use about 99% of the CPU runtime and will not be able to kill it via Process Kill, which means a reboot is eminent.
I have tried two methods, one [...]

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Startup Control Panel - GUI Registry Editor

Posted by Nish Vamadevan in May 12th, 2007  
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Posted in: Computing, Tips, Windows, Windows XP     

Startup Control Panel is a nifty control panel applet that allows you to easily configure which programs run when your computer starts. In another word, It will let you modify the following registry keys with a GUI interface.

Startup (user) - the current user’s Startup folder in the Start Menu.
Startup (common) - the common (all users) [...]

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Disabling livecall.exe on Windows Live Messenger (WLM)

Posted by Nish Vamadevan in May 11th, 2007  
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Posted in: Computing, IM, Tips, Windows, Windows Live, Windows XP     

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 [...]

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