This is a simple tutorial dedicated to my friend, Mei Ling. I hope this tutorial can help her solve the Chinese character input problem in her Windows XP.
If you want to input Chinese character (or other Asian languages like Japanese or Korean), the first thing you have to ensure is your Windows XP has the [...]

Here is a scenario. When you want to delete a file or folder in your Windows, it is “undeletable”. No matter how many times you delete, you always get an error message that looks something like this: (note: z is a folder)

Or other error messages such as:

Cannot delete file: Access is denied
There has [...]

Sometimes an application will “hang” and stop working. In Ubuntu Linux, there’s a feature called. With this feature, the not responding application will quit within clicks. In Windows, to quit a not responding application, you will have to go to the Windows Task Manager (Ctrl + Alt + Del) to “End Task”.

Sometimes, it takes even [...]

Sometimes it’s really annoying to get error codes when using Microsoft Windows, yet we don’t know what do those error codes actually mean. The easiest way is to get connected to the Internet, and google for the meaning of the error codes for troubleshooting.
What if you don’t have an Internet connection while having such [...]

Tired of the old screensavers available in your Windows PC? Yes, you can use the Windows default “My Picture Slideshow” as your screensavers setting. What if you want to share your own cool screensaver pictures with your friends?

Now, you can easily create your own Windows screensavers just within minutes!

You don’t want other people to access sensitive data which you are going to dispose. Do you know that your files still can be retrieved even if they are being deleted? Yes, even if you empty your recycle bin. It can be done by running any undelete utilities.
How is this possible? Every time [...]

One attractive feature available in Mac is the arrangement of the desktop icons. Windows user can also have similar desktop appearance by using some customization software such as Objectdock. However, Objectdock is not a free software.

But now, you can have a software compatible to Objectdock that allow you to customize your desktop, as [...]