Flickr is a very popular web hosting service used by many people to store photos and videos, as well as share them with others. However, it is not particularly easy to upload entire photo collections, unless you find the right application to help you out. Flickr Uploader is a fairly simple utility that can send all your photos and videos to a Flickr account automatically, and is also capable of creating albums based on folder names. Easy-to-use tool that allows you to start uploading in seconds First and foremost, you need to select the folder you wish to backup and specify whether or not both photosRead More →

When you experience high memory usage on Windows, but when you open Task Manager, you don’t see any program using too much memory.  There is some memory usage that is not visible in task manager, i installed RamMap , a part of SysInternals tool, i was able to find the hidden memory usage. I can quickly free that memory by going to the menu Empty -> Empty System Working Set. Thanks to this Post [Solved] High Memory Usage by Metafile on Windows 2008 R2Read More →

  If you use the default Photos App on Windows 10, you will see that the photo is not clear. When we use Windows 7, we have Windows Photo Viewer, it’s clearer, now we dont see it any more. Here is the trick to restore the Windows Photo Viewer app. Copy the following content  and save it as a file with .reg extension Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes.jpg] @=”PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff” [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes.jpeg] @=”PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff” [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes.gif] @=”PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff” [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes.png] @=”PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff” [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes.bmp] @=”PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff” [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes.tiff] @=”PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff” [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes.ico] @=”PhotoViewer.FileAssoc.Tiff” Double click on the file you just save. Select Yes to import this content into your registry. Now, right click on any photoRead More →

If you can’t start Junier SSL VPN and got the error below in system viewer: taskhost (2940) WebCacheLocal: Database recovery/restore failed with unexpected error -1032 Here is the fix: Delete this file: “C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WebCache\WebCacheV01.dat” Wecache is a hidden folder, make sure you change the option to see it.Read More →

A user came to me with this laptop, he said his powerpoint is not working, when he open an existing powerpoint, it’s very slow to load that powerpoint. I tried all my troubleshootings, clear MS office Temp files, remove add-ins , repair , re-install MS Office, but it still didn’t work. My last try was to create a new windows profile for him, and it worked perfectly. So, my thought is: if user is having problem with Office, creating a new profile for him/her is the best way. It might take more time, but it should work.Read More →

Today i tried to update a driver for my USB Storage, the installation seems OK, but after it finished, i couldn’t use keyboard/mouse any longer. I know that my new driver has caused the problem. I rebooted the machine, try to login to safe mode with the hope to uninstall this bad driver. Unfortunately, the safe mode boot ok, but i still can’t use keyboard/mouse when i saw the login screen. I rebooted the machine as normal again, the windows booted fine. My thought: i can’t use keyboard/mouse physically, but the machine boots normally, so might be i can connect it from a different machineRead More →

Today, i just had interesting case, a client came to me and asked me why she could not insert  page number into her powerpoint slide. Well, i thought it was easy. I sat down at her desk, open the Powerpoint slide, click on Insert -> Slide Number , nothing happened. I checked the Slide Layout, open the Slide Master, yeah, this Layout does not have page number on its footer. I added it to the slide master, go back to my normal view, nothing happened, i selected Reset Slide, the slide became messy, but there was still not page number there. What’s going on here…Read More →