How to Connect an External Tv Tuner Card to Your Desktop

In this article, we will learn how to connect an external Television tuner card to your desktop, such that when you power on the tuner card, you can watch TV and when you power it off, you are back to your normal desktop (running any operating system)

Steps

1. 1
   Open up the box packing the TV tuner card, its remote and a few cables.
2. 2
   Plug out the speaker jack from your sound-card (which is usually located at the back of the CPU cabinet).
3. 3
   Insert the cable(which has a similar jack like your speaker's jack that was plugged into the sound card) that came along with the packaging in the place of the speaker jack into your sound card.
4. 4
   The other end of this cable should be plugged into the "Sound-out" socket of the TV tuner card.
5. 5
   The speaker jack should be plugged into the "Sound-In" socket of the TV tuner card.
6. 6
   Plug out the monitor display cable from the back of the CPU cabinet and plug it into the TV tuner card. The socket on the card looks similar to the one on the CPU cabinet.
7. 7
   Now, take the other cable that had come bundled with the tuner card and plug one of its end into the monitor socket on the CPU cabinet.(The plug looks similar to the plug on your monitor cable).
8. 8
   Plug the other end of this cable into the "VGA-Out" socket of the tuner card.
9. 9
   Take the power adapter that came bundled with the card and plug it into a power source.
10. 10
    The output cable of the power adapter needs to be plugged into the "Power-In" socket of the tuner card.
11. 11
    Insert the terrestrial antenna jack into the antenna socket of the card.
12. 12
    Switch on the entire setup. (In some cases, you could hear a beeping sound from the speakers).
13. 13
    Use the remote control bundled with the card and make sure it has proper batteries in it.
14. 14
    Press the power button and the desktop monitor should show some display resembling a disturbed TV transmission.
15. 15
    Treat the setup like a regular TV and tune the channels.
16. 16
    Turn the TV off, and you can continue working on your desktop normally.

Disable Error Reporting in XP, Vista, and Windows 7

Disable Error Reporting in XP, Vista, and Windows 7

When you’re trying to fix a computer or are setting it up for certain functionality for a business, it can be quite annoying always getting error messages when you know what your doing. Today we take a look at disabling those messages in XP, Vista, and Windows 7.

Note: Error Reporting can be valuable if Windows isn’t working correctly and shouldn’t be disabled unless you’re a system admin or power user. This is not recommended for the average home user. 

Error Reporting is enabled by default on XP, Vista, and Windows 7. If an error occurs, a detailed message regarding the error pops up and you’re prompted to send the information to Microsoft. This is so they can gather error info from millions of PC’s and helps them create patches and Service Packs. In some cases it will check the error and provide solutions to fix it. When you’re setting up a machine for specific functionality, the messages get very annoying. There are a number of reasons why an experienced user or tech would want to turn them off, so lets begin.

Disable Error Reporting in Windows 7

Open up the start menu and type in problem reporting settings into the search box, or head to Action Center –> Change Action Center Settings –> Problem Reporting Settings. If you used the search, use the “Choose how to report problems” item in the list:

Then you can easily choose the option from the list:

Again, you probably should leave it enabled, but this will let you disable it.

Disable Error Reporting in Windows 7 with Group Policy

Note: This method used Local Group Policy Editor which isn’t available in Home versions of Windows 7.

Click on Start and enter gpedit.msc into the search box and hit Enter.

Local Group Policy Editor opens and you want to navigate to User Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Windows Error Reporting and under Setting double click on Disable Windows Error Reporting.

 

Change it from Not Configured to Enabled, then click Apply and Ok and close out of Local Group Policy Editor.

Disable Error Reporting in Vista

To disable Error Reporting in Vista click on Start and open Control Panel.

Make sure you’re in Classic View and double click on Problem Reports and Solutions.

Under Tasks click on the Change Settings link.

 

It’s worth noting here that if you choose Ask me to check if a problem occurs, error reporting is enabled but you get to choose whether or not to send the diagnostics to Microsoft. If you select Check for solutions automatically (recommended) then all data will be sent to Microsoft automatically. Since we want to disable it all together, click on theAdvanced Settings link.

In the next screen under For my programs, problem reporting is…select Off then click Ok to close out of the Problem Reports and Solutions window.

 

Next you’ll see that everything under Choose how to check for solutions to computer problems is grayed out. Click Ok to close out of this screen.

Click Close on the message telling you that Error Reporting is turned off.

Disable Error Reporting in XP

To disable error reporting in XP right click on My computer and select Properties. In theSystem Properties window click the Advanced tab then the Error Reporting button.

The Error Reporting window comes up where you want to select Disable error reporting. Uncheck the box But notify me when critical error occur if you don’t want to see any errors at all then click Ok and Ok to close out of the System Properties window.

Conclusion

When you’re setting up a computer for a set of users in a company, chances are the settings will pop up error messages that you already know about, and this takes up time to click out of them. With error reporting turned off, experienced users can go about their business without being annoyed constantly. A couple of other suggestions to eliminate other annoyances is to disable Program Compatibility Assistant and disabling the delete confirmation dialog as well. So far I haven’t noticed as many errors in Windows 7 as Vista, and they seemed to be a regular occurrence on XP. Disabling Error Reporting allows the experienced user to save time by not having to constantly clicking out of them.

Slow Boot Up... Guide to a fast startup

No more Slow Boot Up...
Guide to a fast startup!

Suffering from a slow boot up in your new or old computer? Don't worry most people's computer take forever to startup. However, the way you go about repair this problem can cost you very little or a whole lot. Most people quickly start looking for affordable hardware solution such as faster hard drives, more RAM, or even a new processor. However, if you have hundreds of dollars of spare cash laying around be my guest. However, you can perform a few tweaks and maybe invest in a registry cleaner to get you up in running as quickly as possible. 

No, if your computer slow boot up is in response to error located in your registry you will have to individually search them out or using a registry cleaner. Your registry is your computer's largest filing system. During startup your computer must search through the thousand of registry files. If you have errors, it may check and attempt to repair the problem during startup. This creates a delay and adds immensely to your slow boot up problem. Check out the link below if you are receiving errors during the startup process or get a registry cleaner to do the work for you. The page will give you tips on both. Stop slow boot up problems by organizing and repairing the registry. Click here to learn more!

TWEAK YOUR BIOS

When your computer has slow boot, it may have nothing to do with Windows at all. There is a Basic Input/Output System known as the BIOS. The BIOS runs at the startup sequence where it configures devices and then boots the operating system. However, if the configuration is messy and has some obscure commands, this will cause a slow boot up. Depending on your mother board manufacturer, you may have the access the BIOS differently. 

1. Turn on your computer, and hold down delete.
2. In the BIOS window, look for the Boot Menu option.
3. Choose the QUICK BOOT to turn off memory test
.4. Make sure the hard drive comes first in the BOOT ORDER.
5. Turn off any logo displays.
6. Restart

This is an example of a BIOS that will cause a very slow boot up. Follow the advice above to streamline your BIOS to load your configuration a quick as possible.

Disable ON BOARD sound and GRAPHICS

Only do this if you have an third party sound and graphic card already installed.

1. In the BIOS menu, select Onboard Device or Integrated peripherals.
2. Disable the onboard chips and turn off unused network adaters.
3. Restart

BOOT MENU Default Settings

If you are using XP or Vista, you have a this. You can access the boot menu by loading your MSCONFIG. During the boot up your computer issues a time out to find new hardware and software. You can short this time to boost your startup speed.

1. Open your Start menu.
2. Click Run
3. In the command screen type msconfig
4. In the system configuration utility,click either BOOT tab.
5.In the boot menu, change the default setting for Time Out from 30 to 5 seconds.

Eliminate Boot Up Passwords.

Having a password lock computer can add to your slow boot up. The operating system must completely halt the boot up to allow you to type in your text based password. Eliminating this boot password option will give you a welcome speed boost. 

1. Click the Start button.
2. In the Start Search bar, type control userpasswords2
3. Load the User Accounts window
4. Uncheck User must enter user name passwords...
5. Click Apply

Kill Resources HOGS.

The Windows Defender options allow you to easily cut down on unnecessary programs that are loading on your PC. You can also use the Disk Cleanup options to before this task.

1.Click Start button and load the Control Panel
2. Under the Control Panel menu, click Programs.
3. Under the Windows Defender heading choose View currently running programs
4. Choose Startup Programs from the Category option
5. Remove Programs that you feel unnecessary for startup

Advanced Registry Tweaks

Once you have streamlined your startup program process, you should turn your attention to your computer's registry. Windows Registry needs to operate efficiently. If it is not organized and cleaned regularly, it will cause slow startup and shutdown problems. In addition, it will slow your computer performance down considerably. This occurs because you computer needs to search the registry constantly for software entries to know how to configure them for loading. Any error will cause you to ask why my computer is slow opening. To slim down your registry for better computer performance, Click here to see the leaders in registry cleaner field

Advance registry tweaks can stop slow boot up problems. But they are very dangerous. By stopping the index service from hunting files you get an added boost by shorting file names. However, only do this if you are always actively searching for files. 

1. Click Start
2. Click Run
3.Type regedit
4. Find this registry key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SYSTEM>CurrentControl>SetControl>FileSystem
5. Set the NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation to 1 to eliminate the extra creation of short version for DOS names.

For more advanced registry tweaks check out this link

This tweak gives you an added speed boost by preventing your computer from making DOS style shorten version of the file names. This leaves less data in your registry. However, this may cause slowdown during searches.

Improve Your Hard Drive

Switch FAT to NTFS-- You can increase your hard drive speed by switching FAT to NTFS. The NTFS configurations provides increased security, file–by–file compression, quotas, and even encryption. The default setting for XP may be set to FAT which is slower system. However if you have already converted to the NTFS16 to NTFS32

How To:

1. Click Start
2.Click Run
3. Type cmd press Enter.
4. At the command prompt
Type convert X:/FS:NTFS(X is your hard drive letter)
5. Hit Enter

Disable the Indexing Service for faster booting-- The indexing service scans your hard drive and indexes files to help speed up searching. It runs silently in the background using up RAM, free space and CPU access time. It is generally thought to be unnecessary by most.

How to disable this indexing service
1. Click on Start
2. Click Run
3. Type services.msc
4. Select Indexing Service and Double click on it.
Select Manual under Startup Type.
5. Click Stop
6. Click OK