PCHijack » Windows 32 Bit http://www.pchijack.com PC - Do it YourSelf... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:51:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Pros And Cons of Abiword – Free Word Processer http://www.pchijack.com/application/pros-and-cons-of-abiword-free-word-processer/ http://www.pchijack.com/application/pros-and-cons-of-abiword-free-word-processer/#comments Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:13:44 +0000 PChijack http://www.pchijack.com/?p=265 Word processor is such an important tool for any computer user or people working in office. It is with the help of word processor they create text documents or other files to store important data. There are word processors available with plenty of features that may even confuse users like Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.org, etc. [...]]]>

Word processor is such an important tool for any computer user or people working in office. It is with the help of word processor they create text documents or other files to store important data. There are word processors available with plenty of features that may even confuse users like Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.org, etc. Though MS word or Open Office word processor has numerous features, many people still need a lightweight processer that they can customize according to their needs. If you are the one looking for such a lightweight word processer, then you need to check Abiword first.

Abiword is an open source software developed by SourceGear Corporation. Being a part of the Abisource project Abiword has already impressed its users with its advantageous features. As it is an open source software, you can customize its functions as your wish. Abiword is considered as a perfect alternative for MS word, as it is an expensive office suite. It is a collaborative and multi-platform processor having the much-required state of art features, uses and interoperability. In Abiword, multiple persons can work on the same document simultaneously. The latest released version of Abiword is 2.8.6.

Apart from these features, Abiword also allows you to install plug-ins to your word processor. This plug-ins increases the usability of the processor and makes it function according to your requirements.  Few available plug-ins are some imaging tools, scripting support, encyclopedia, translation by Babelfish and more. In addition to this plug-ins, Abiword contains Auto-text Macros, spell checker, save as web page option and others as built in features.

Cons of Abiword:

The performance of Abiword was almost similar to OpenOffice.org Writer and is much lighter when compared with MS Word. Though Abiword is available free and it is lightweight and contains all basic necessary editing tools, it is still weaker when compared with its rivals like Apple, Microsoft, etc. However, Abiword works well with small offices and other home uses. Next, the latest version of Abiword still not compatible with MS word’s .docx file format. Though it has a clear program, there is a lack of style, which does not matter much. Finally, Abiword, though having some drawbacks, has everything that satisfies home users and small office applications as it has headers, footers, spell check, word count and much more. Moreover, it is a free suite.

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The files and folders you “delete” are actually still on the drive, except they’re hidden. This [...]]]> Did you know that files are not actually removed from your hard drive when you delete them in Windows (I don’t know about other operating systems, but I think they’re the same), even if you empty the Recycle Bin?

The files and folders you “delete” are actually still on the drive, except they’re hidden. This was implemented into the file system to allow for a much faster deletion speed (it takes quite a while to completely delete a file, about 5 minutes per GB on newer hard drives) and to give the user a possibility to get his data back in case of an accidental deletion or quick formatting (full formatting removes all data, but can take up to a few hours to complete).
So, if you have any sensitive data and think that you can delete it anytime if the circumstances require it, you are in for a big surprise. Using a data restoration utility like Norton Save & Restore or R-Studio, anyone can undelete your files and open them, exposing all your secrets.

Let’s say you really don’t want that to happen. How should you proceed?

One way to do it would be writing unimportant data like music and movies over the deleted, now hidden files. This would physically remove them to make space for the new ones. But you wouldn’t know where exactly were they written on the surface of the disk (they could be at the beginning, middle, end, or scattered all around if your drive was heavily fragmented), so you’ll have to fill all of the free space with unimportant files to be sure they’re really gone.

Another, simpler way to proceed would be getting a special utility that would completely delete any files you want. And you won’t have to pay a small fortune to get it either, because there are a lot of absolutely free programs around.

One of the best is DeleteOnClick, a small but powerful complete removal utility that follows the United States Department of Defense 5220.22-M secure file deletion standard, which guarantees that your files will never be recovered. The freeware version is more than enough for home and office users, while the commercial version provides even more security by deleting all headers (special sections on the hard drive that store information about everything that was written and deleted, like a log) from the disk and can wipe all your free space at once (to ensure you delete absolutely everything).

To download and install it, go to http://www.2brightsparks.com/onclick/download.html , scroll down a bit and click the Download button next to “DeleteOnClick Freeware version”, after which run the installer. You’ll need to restart your computer after installation, because the program adds a new right-click menu to Windows, called “Securely Delete”.

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When you need to irretrievably delete a folder or some files, just select them and instead of clicking “Delete”, click “Securely Delete”. It will take quite a while, as the utility basically replaces the files with useless data, then deletes it, too. Think carefully before doing it, as you will never be able to restore those files again!
This is it, now you know how to securely dispose of important data to keep it from falling into wrong hands. I hope you will put this information to good use.

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Once you acquired more experience using Windows applications, you may soon crave for more variety of font types.  Find out how to install more font types in DIY way.

We normally use Windows applications to finish our work.  These might be some word processing applications, spreadsheet, text editor, [...]]]> Adding more font types for your Office

Once you acquired more experience using Windows applications, you may soon crave for more variety of font types.  Find out how to install more font types in DIY way.

We normally use Windows applications to finish our work.  These might be some word processing applications, spreadsheet, text editor, design, publishing or web development applications to name a few.  Even if you use different applications for different purposes, they usually involve text output or printouts in one way or another.  These applications usually come with some pre-installed fonts, but after some time, you might find them quite boring and need some new typeset to work on with.  Installing new typeset may be easy for those who have the computer background, but others may not have any idea on how to go about it.  This article will show you how to install fonts in Windows XP easily.

The first step is to get the fonts that you want.  You can find this from the Internet.  Try to search on something like ‘fonts for Windows XP’ and you will see a whole lot of the search result.  Choose the one that you like from the list.  You need to download appropriate files that contain the fonts into the folder of your choice.  If it is an archive (for example .zip or .rar), you need to extract it before it can be installed.

The second step is to go to Control Panel.  Click Start menu -> Control Panel.  Then in the Control Panel, click the Fonts icon menu.  This will eventually display a window with the fonts that have been installed on your computer.  To add a new font, go to ‘File’ menu -> then select ‘Install New Font’.

Then search the folder that contains the fonts that has just been downloaded and extracted. Once you select the folder, icons representing different fonts inside this folder will be displayed.  You need to select the font (or all the fonts) that you want to install on this folder and click OK.  These fonts will be copied into the font folder in your computer system.

The last step is to check and test your font word processing application.  Once the new fonts are discovered by that application, you can use them on other applications across Windows from then on.

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]]> http://www.pchijack.com/os/how-to-install-fonts-in-windows-xp/feed/ 0 Ultimate Boot CD – Another great Diagnotic tool http://www.pchijack.com/hardware/ultimate-boot-cd-another-great-diagnotic-tool/ http://www.pchijack.com/hardware/ultimate-boot-cd-another-great-diagnotic-tool/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:28:00 +0000 PChijack http://www.pchijack.com/?p=136 Ultimate Boot CD ( UBCD) is a bootable CD Several System diagnostic tools which can be used when your computer go kaput or not responding or for any reason it’s not working. It contains several tools which can run several diagnostic utility including few free to use Anti virus and Anti Malware tools.  You can [...]]]> Ultimate Boot CD ( UBCD) is a bootable CD Several System diagnostic tools which can be used when your computer go kaput or not responding or for any reason it’s not working. It contains several tools which can run several diagnostic utility including few free to use Anti virus and Anti Malware tools.  You can use it to diagnose hard disk problem, network problem, perform low level operation on Hard disk and many other things.

Ultimate Boot CD can be used to run floppy based program from a Cd and can run on better speed than floppy drive. Also these days most system does not comes with floppy drive, but they come with Cd ROM and Netbook are coming only with USB port. Ultimate Boot Cd can be used on a USB drive by using a script available on this CD itself. So if you have access to another computer and you need to run these diagnostic on your netbook you can prepare your USB drive loaded with these utilities and then run the diagnostics.

Some of the benefits Ultimate Boot CD is it’s very little program, and can be used on several Operating systems, including Windows, Mac and Linux. It is very easy to use Menu. The menu after you boot from CD is as shown below —

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You can download ISO image of Cd from following location — http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html

Following is the list of some of useful programs which This CD contains in it –

CPU Tests

  • CPU Burn-in
  • Mersenne Prime Test
  • StressCPU

Memory Tests

  • Memtest86
  • Memtest86+
  • Windows Memory Diagnostic
  • DocMem RAM Diagnostic
  • TestMem4

Peripherals Tools

  • Parallel port detection and test utilities
  • ATAPI CDROM Identification
  • CHZ Monitor-Test

CPU Information

  • Intel Processor Frequency ID
  • Intel Processor Identification Utility
  • x86test

System Information

  • AIDA16
  • NSSI
  • PC-Config
  • ASTRA
  • PCISniffer
  • PCI
  • CTIA
  • DIMM_ID

Benchmark Tools

  • System Speed Test 32
  • 3D Benchmark VGA
  • CPU Benchmark
  • CD Index
  • QwikTest

BIOS Tools

  • BIOS
  • WipeCMOS
  • CMOSPWD
  • !BIOS

Hard Disk Installation Tools

  • MaxBlast 5 (Maxtor)
  • DiscWizard 2003 (Seagate)
  • Disk Manager (Seagate)
  • Disk Manager (Samsung)
  • Hard Disk Diagnostic Tools
  • Drive Fitness Test (IBM/Hitachi)
  • Diagnostic Tool (Fujitsu)
  • SeaTools for DOS (Seagate/Maxtor)
  • SHDIAG (Samsung)
  • Data Lifeguard (Western Digital)
  • SCSIMax (Maxtor/Quantum)
  • GWSCAN (Gateway)
  • ESTest (ExcelStor)
  • Salvation HDD Scan and Repair
  • MHDD32
  • ViVARD
  • HDAT2

Hard Disk Device Management Tools

  • Feature Tool (IBM/Hitachi)
  • AMSET (Maxtor)
  • MAXLLF (Maxtor)
  • UATA100 (Seagate)
  • Ultra ATA Manager (Western Digital)
  • SUTIL
  • ESFeat (ExcelStor)
  • ATA Password Tool
  • SMARTUDM
  • ATAINF

Hard Disk Wiping Tools

  • Darik’s Boot and Nuke
  • CopyWipe
  • Active@ KillDisk Free Edition
  • PC INSPECTOR e-maxx
  • HDDErase
  • Hard Disk Cloning Tools
  • HDClone (Free Edition)
  • g4u
  • UDPcast
  • PC INSPECTOR clone maxx
  • XXCOPY
  • EaseUs Disk Copy
  • COPYR.DMA
  • CopyWipe

Hard Disk Low-Level Editing Tools

  • Disk Editor
  • DISKMAN4
  • PTS DiskEditor

Partition Tools

  • Ranish Partition Manager
  • Free FDISK
  • SPFDISK (Special FDISK)
  • XFDISK (Extended FDISK)
  • Cute Partition Manager
  • PTDD Super Fdisk
  • Partition Resizer
  • FIPS
  • Active@ Partition Recovery
  • TestDisk
  • Partition Saving
  • MBRtool
  • MBRWork

Boot Managers

  • Smart BootManager
  • Gujin
  • GAG
  • XOSL
  • Super Grub Disk

File Tools

  • DOS Navigator
  • File Maven
  • Necromancer’s DOS Navigator
  • D-Browse
  • Volkov Commander
  • Eraser for DOS

NTFS Tools

  • Offline NT Password & Registry Editor
  • Active NTFS Reader for DOS
  • EditBINI
  • Boot Partition
  • Avira NTFS4DOS Personal

Anti-Virus/Malware Tools

  • F-Prot Antivirus for DOS
  • McAfee Antivirus Scanner
  • BugHunter

Network Tools

  • Arachne WWW Browser
  • NetCopy
  • FileLink
  • QNX Demo Browser (network + modem version)
  • DOSRDP

And several others are included on this boot CD.

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