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When your computer starts, the BIOS attempts to find the primary hard drive’s active partition to read the first sector for the MBR (Master Boot Record), it uses that info to load the rest of the OS. For Windows NT4/2k/XP the NTLDR (New Technology Loader) takes it from there. If you get the “NTLDR is missing, press any key to restart” what’s most likely going on is the BIOS either didn’t look for the right drive, didn’t find the right partition, it wasn’t active, didn’t find the MBR, or the MBR didn’t list NTLDR in the right place, or the location of NTLDR changed.

Here’s how to fix “NTLDR is Missing. Press CTRL+Alt+Del to restart” error and get back into Windows.

“This solution worked for me and was developed by Miles Comer at http://ntldrismissing.com/, visit that site for the most up-to-date information, and following is a copy of that websites data:

Previously I’ve shared a website that is able to easily resize your pictures or images. Here’s another website that is also able to do the same thing except this new site has extra 2 special features! Always better to have more than 1 way to do anything in case either one of site has problems.

ActiveSync… that wonderful Microsoft program for synchronizing data between your PDA and PC. It loads itself automatically, syncs your PDA with your PC, then sits there, patiently waiting to synchronize any piece of data that you change. What if I only need to charge my PDA but not synchronize my data? It means ActiveSync is sitting around in memory using up valuable resources. Even more annoying is the fact that if you try to remove the registry entry that automatically loads ActiveSync, it very kindly adds it again (as long as it’s running) meaning it always stays open. So I need to kill off wcescomm.exe process from Windows Task Manager if I don’t want to sync my data.

Here’s an easier alternative method on how to disable ActiveSync from synchronizing.

I have a lot of files and icons on my desktop and it’s filling up nearly 75% of my desktop space. Even though it’s quite messy but I remembered where I placed the icons and files that I always use because I never move them around. Yesterday I booted my computer into Safe Mode and the screen automatically changes to a bigger resolution. When I booted back to normal Windows, all my files and icons on my desktop automatically reshuffled! It took me sometime to rearrange the icons and files back to the place where it used to be. Here’s how I solve this problem in case next time my icons and files gets reshuffled without my knowledge.

There are easily hundreds of torrent tracker sites and I’ve introduced a software that auto search for torrents on multiple sites without going site after site to perform a search. There are also quite a number of PRIVATE bittorrent tracker sites which has a lot of fast seeders and the download speed can easily maxed out your download bandwidth. I’ve got an account on TorrentBytes before, that’s why I know. However, these private torrent tracker sites are very strict. You MUST maintain a good ratio in order to continue being a member of that site. When it drops below 0.5, you account will be banned. Problem is, the sign-ups don’t come by very often and you wouldn’t know when they will open their bittorrent tracker site for registration. Here’s how you can automatically check for registration openings on a whopping “66″ torrent tracker sites!

For a computer technician or engineer, it’s important to always bring along softwares that is able to inspect Windows. It can be very helpful in identifying your customer’s computer because there are a lot of people who buy computer and use it but they never make an effort to remember their own computer specifications. Here’s a free tool that is able to inspect Windows.

Most of the time pictures taken from digital camera is quite large in file size considering the camera nowadays can support quite large Mega Pixel. So how do you resize your pictures from your digital camera to send it to your friend via email? Attachments that are too big will result your email being bounced back. I know a way on how to resize pictures without even installing any software!