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There is a strange problem in Counter Strike 1.6 or Half-Life that while playing over internet or Lan with friends we often come across that when we publish our chat either by using say option or say_team option we see that #cstike_chat comes at bottom of screen instead of the chat message that we are supposed to see.

Let us see the problem types and their solutions. There are two kinds of this problem:

1.    If the chat is disabled and we don’t see any chat

2.    Or we see #cstike_chat message in place of the actual chat message at the bottom of the screen. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It was the time of projects and presentations in my college and I was required to present my presentation but there was so much work with me that I had no time to revise. This was when I thought, a ppt to mp4 converter would have solved my problem and I would have revised the presentation on the go on my iPhone.

So here are the steps so that you can also convert your ppt files to mp4 videos so that you can view your presentations on the move on your iPhone, iPod or any device. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Definitely, Bookmarks are for those people who like visiting some good site on a regular basis but don’t like to type the URL again and again. Also, bookmarking a site is a great solution to keep your favorite sites listed with you if you tend to forget its URL.

But what if you are going to format your PC, or shift to another computer or just decide to use another account for yourself in the same PC? Firefox provides you with the exact solution that you are looking for. You can easily export your bookmarks from your computer to the other, needless to say, without typing the URL again and again. [Read the rest of this entry...]

An unusual problem faced by one (or may be some) of our visitors that the

Windows Logon displays the following Logon Message in a box:
“The system cannot log you on due to the following error:
The program issued a command but the command length is incorrect.
Please try again or consult your administrator”.

What I found is that the problem is caused after you have downloaded some Windows Update that may be also a malware or a spyware. So you just need to uninstall [Read the rest of this entry...]

I like experimenting a lot after all it is the best way to learn. So I am starting a new experiment right here on the blog. The sole purpose of the experiment is to remind all you visitors who haven’t subscribed to Tech Salsa, that you should do it now. The subscription is easy and free, and this will keep all of you informed about the small but handy info that we provide regularly.

I will check the result of this experiment after few days to see how many visitors we [Read the rest of this entry...]

We all like chatting, don’t we and there are many clients available for use. We have whole lot of options to choose from like Yahoo Messenger, Gtalk, and Skype to name a few. Our choice of the messenger depends on our liking of the chat tool.

Every chat tool has its own advantage and disadvantage. While usually there are more advantages than their disadvantages, there are several areas in which our favorite Gtalk, also known as Gchat, is lagging behind the others. [Read the rest of this entry...]

As you people know I just bought a new iPhone 3G for myself so I need to make a new iTunes store account for it as well. Creating the account is necessary as to get any application we need to have an account. Now it depends upon you people that which account you want to create.

I prefer the U.S. account as it gives the users more options to choose from and also the content is updated on a regular basis. Usually iTunes checks for the details of the person but using following steps you can create your own iTunes store account for anywhere in the world. Of Course, no credit card is required.

There is another method available on the net that require you enter a “redeem code”. It has become redundant and the steps below do not require any gift coupon. Following is the step by step procedure to create a new account.

Steps:

1.    First things first, download the latest iTunes software. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Unable to delete a file and annoyed by Windows giving this message “Cannot Delete Folder: It is being used by another person or program”? Don’t know which process to kill?

It happens many times that we want to delete a file or a folder but can’t do so and get an error message that the file is in use. It also happens that we can’t even rename or move the file.

Well the solution is quite simple and in fact there are many of those:

1.    You can download this [Read the rest of this entry...]

Well there are several reasons for disabling or blocking the images or advertisements on a specific Web Page. Common of them are:

•    If you are annoyed seeing a large number if ads on the page.
•    If you have a slow internet connection that takes a long time to load the images.
•    To block objectionable ads or images.
•    Or just that you want to block the ads.

The solution is quite simple and you can block ads/images in both Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Steps to block ads in Firefox:

1.    Click on Tools -> Options -> Content tab. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This is a problem that happened to one of our viewers. His system got infected with a virus but his Anti Virus cleaned it successfully. But what was strange is that during the next startup his system showed an error message “C:\recycled\SVCHOST.exe not found”.

I came to know that this problem is mostly caused when scanned with either McAfee or AVG Anti Virus (I don’t discourage the use of them). The problem is caused when either the virus or the Anti Virus does some changes in the registry. To know more about the Svchost.exe [Read the rest of this entry...]

So let me guess you have infected your system and tried many solutions to clean it. There are many ways to clean the system and of course the final step is to Format the PC which no one of us wants to do.

After receiving a problem from a user, I think I should discuss what I would have done to clean the system.

Steps to clean the system:

1.    The first and the foremost step, is to prevent the system from getting infected. So scan the media like CD, Pen Drive etc before connecting it to the computer with a good and updated Anti Virus.

2.    The above step will take out most of the threats but if it doesn’t then follow this post. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This problem was reported by one of our readers that in spite of having a sufficient amount of RAM, he is running out of Virtual Memory and his Windows PC gives the following error:

Your system is low on virtual memory. To ensure that Windows runs properly, increase the size of your virtual memory paging file. For more information, see Help.

This is a common problem and you may have seen it if you are trying to open many heavy applications at the same time like Microsoft Office.

Let’s see what the causes are and what can be done at this stage.

Windows XP or Vista uses the concept of Virtual Memory that aims at providing the additional memory from the Hard Disk if most of the RAM of the computer is already occupied. This memory used from the Hard Disks is called Paging File. Windows reserve some part of the memory for this purpose only (this is one of the reasons why we see less memory than specified on the hard disk).

Virtual Memory also known as Page File or Swap File can be located at C:\pagefile.sys (it is system hidden and can be viewed [Read the rest of this entry...]