Just spamm it !

Please do not hesitate to spamm this e-mail adress:

julien.lefort@hype.unep.or.jp

 

Windows Vista – Yahoo messenger does not connect

Symptoms: Although the installation of the latest version (8.1) of Yahoo messenger on your brand new Windows Vista system went without a problem, you can not use it ! When launching Yahoo messenger, it starts and then stops without connecting. The little smiley face goes from “smiley” to back to sleep without reason. No error message, no explanation.

 

You can no longer access the CD-ROM / DVD drive after you remove a CD / DVD recording program – “Error code 31″ / “Error code 39″ in device manager

Symptoms
After you remove an application to record CD-ROM / DVD from your computer, you are unable to acces your CD-ROM / DVD drive. It does even not appear in “my computer” anymore !

In “device manager”, the device is marked with a warning sign, and its properties indicate that “Windows could not load the device driver. It might be missing or corrupted (error code 39)”.

 

Free Home computer security – Secure your home computer

For a few days, you have been looking at your home computer with worried eyes : it is slow, unreasonably slow, error messages appear at random but rather often, Internet Explorer windows pop up without notice, showing ads for services you would not dare to explain to your mother… Even the mouse is slow to move.

A bit like if someone else what using the computer, but not you… Well, it may be what is actually happening. It looks like if your computer has been attacked and, indeed, submerged by a hord of viruses, trojans and other malware. It is time to act…

 

Free home computer firewall – ZoneAlarm from CheckPoint

Your computer is runing windows2000 or an earlier version, and there are no firewall installed. Or you are using windows XP or Vista, and you do not really trust the built-in firewall and you would like something more secure.

A good, free solution might be ZoneAlarm from CheckPoint

 

Free Antivirus software

Here is 1 anti-virus software I would recommend for every home user. No need to pay fo anti-virus software, you have this one free here, efficient, with free updates, and it is regularly updated.

 

Find of the day – 2 new freeware sites

I just found those 2 sites that are full of freeware applications ready to download. The array of choice is very large, the quality is very good.

 Nonags

freeware4u

Have a look !

 

Free Registry cleaner – Files cleaner – Pc cleaner – Easy cleaner by ToniArts

Here is an application I can recommend. It is a freeware registry cleaner  and file cleaner and it is called EasyCleaner by ToniArts.

 

Password trouble ? Hum hum… Need to crack password ? OPHCrack, free password cracker

For some reasons, you may want or be obliged to crack a password. Or login into a system using someone else credentials.

Sometimes, that’s the only thing left to do to get things done…

 

winmail.dat – cannot open winmail.dat file – how to stop sending this winmail.dat file

Symptoms:

You or a counterpart received a file called “winmail.dat” attached to an e-mail, and you just do not know what to do with it. Open it ? But how ? Ignore it ?

Well, the good news is that you can just ignore it, it does not matter much if you do not use Outlook. And if you used Outlook, chances are high you would not be reading this page.

If you still need to view this  file anyway, some programs that can help you do that are indicated at the end of this post. Just click “more”.

Click “more” also to see how to stop sending this file with your mails and upset your counterparts.