OPENSKY Connection Manager on Windows 7
Are you unable to connect to your Opensky satellite internet account on windows 7? the same thing happened to me, even though I was using the “Windows 7″ version of the application.
Anyway, I found a way around to make it work.
1. insure that your satellite card is running, set on the right transponder, and the right PIDs are on.
2. Download and install the OPENSKY Connection Manager, enter all settings correctly and choose direct access. this is supposed to be it, but you will be unable to connect yet.
3. click the network icon near the clock on the task-bar of windows 7, then right click, properties, the OPENSKY direct access.
4. on the security tab select “Layer 2 tunneling protocol”
5.save everything, then try to connect, it should work!!
If you get connected but for some reason unable to browse, then the problem can be one of the following:
1.your satellite card tuner is off, not on the right transponder, not on the right pids, or does not have a signal at all.
2. For some Magic reason, sometimes on windows 7, your cards MAC address will read as zeros, if that is your case, you must manually set your subscription MAC address through the device manager, ask me if you need help doing that .
Hope this works for you. but always remember, satellite internet IS NOT SAFE, read about that here
Internet, files and printers sharing on a windows 7 computer
Windows 7 has brought a change in the Windows handles Internet sharing ( internet sharing is one computer is connected to the internet and the rest of the computers on the LAN connects to it to get online).
For windows XP and Vista, internet sharing is achieved by setting the IP of the computer’s network card to 192.168.0.1 then enabling a DHCP internal windows service to provide IP addresses to the rest of the computers. Windows 7 uses the following IP address instead : 192.168.137.1. I don’t know what’s so cool about 137 other than the fact that it is not zero, which is the sub network used by many network admins and that could create conflicts when a used starts internet sharing.
to get Windows 7 to share an Internet connection, just right click the modem/ network card that is connected to the internet select properties then sharing, enable sharing to your LAN, that’s it.
Things get more complicated if you try to share a windows 7 internet connection through a wireless access point. Usually access points have a dedicated network port to be connected to the internet source (that is the case with D-link). if you just plug that into your computer it will not work, not only because of the fact that you will need to use a crossover (needs testing to confirm) to switch the send\receive lines. but also you will be unable to get file and printer sharing normally from the server computer. because the IP that your computer is proving the access point will be considered a WAN IP, and the access point will not be able to DHCP the client computers to the same IP range as the WAN IP.
The solution here is to place a switch between the wireless AP and the computer, with DHCP off. the AP will get the wan IP from your computer, something like 192.168.137.100, then with the AP’s DHCP it will assign IPs in the range of 192.168.1.xxx to other wireless clients.
to get file and printer sharing you will need to directly connect to the server computers IP, as it will not appear as a regular computer in your network.
to create a shortcut to the server’s shared files :
right click your desktop, select new then click shortcut
for the address write :
\\192.168.137.1
If you have file sharing enabled through your windows 7, you will be able to access shared files and printers.
I also have another approach that is not that catholic, and that is to place a normal network cable between the AP’s LAN ports and the switch. this will create an irregularity where the AP tries to assign an IP to the server, and the server already has an IP and that is the WAN IP of the AP, if you are lucky, your server will appear as a regular computer with other wireless clients, but this is a very unstable method and I wouldn’t recommend it.
I also noticed that file sharing speed through this method is not that great, I will look some more into that.
Any Ideas, thoughts or discoveries? please share 
MSWINSCK.OCX for 64 bit Windows 7 & Vista
MSWINSCK.OCX is a file requred by many old application in order to listen to a certain port or just allow. network connections. This OCX will not register as most of know, by putting in in the system32 folder and typing the command “regsvr32 MSWINSCK.OCX”. With newer 64 bit systems it is a bit tricky. Here is how to do it
1. download the file here
2. Copy it to c:\windows\syswow64
3. type the following “Run” command : “regsvr32 c:\windows\syswow64\MSWINSCK.OCX” and yes, you must type the full path to the file, not just the name.
4. That’s it it should work now.
Upgrading ASUS laptops to windows 7
Newer asus laptops (the ones sold under Vista) are a little tricky to upgrade to windows 7, they have a small hidden partition that handles the boot and recovery processes.
Once you format your C: to install 7 you will lose some files related to the recovery application. The boot handler in the small hidden partition will try to check the recovery files because it assumes that your windows installation is corrupted, but some file are missing, and that will result in a big red ERROR written on the screen, it looks pretty much like this one.
ERROR
to fix this do the following.
- Insert your window 7 CD and chose to repair your windows installation.
- Open the command prompt.
- write “bootsect /nt60 c: /mbr”
- restart
everything should work fine.
what you did was to rewrite the master boot records to load windows7 and ignore loading the recovery process
Windows 7 RC to begin restarting every 2 hours on 03-02-2010
If you are still using Window 7 RC with a beta key, you will notice that windows 7 will be auto restarted every two hours starting today March the 2nd 2010.
This is an effort from Microsoft to force the people that are still suing the pre-release version to get the full version on windows 7, or downgrade to a previous OS.
So if you have noticed that your windows server began restarting (apparently randomly) after Marsh the first, don’t worry, it is not a hardware issue, it is just a wake up call for you to move on before the beta key you’re using completely expires on June 2010
If you are unsure if you have an RC version on windows 7, just press the start button and type “winver” then hit enter, if you see “Evaluation copy: expires on: 03/02/2010 1:59AM” then you have an RC version
This is a sad day for many many kids around the world.
Automatically Detect and Download all your PC drivers
During the last decade, I got the chance to try many driver repairing tools, some of them were free, some were not. I never liked any of them though, some couldn’t correctly detect the hardware that is unrecognized by windows, some provided dead driver download links, and some were loaded with spywares are scarewares.
When I was working on a friends Acer laptop, trying to find almost all of it’s drivers that Windows curiously was unable to recognize any of them. Even the manufacturer was not quite sure what the hell they put in this model.
That is when I tried a software called Device doctor, I kinda liked it for the following reasons.
1. Free
2. Was able to detect all the needed drivers.
3. Was able to provide driver updates for the installed drivers.
4. All drivers were hosted at the device doctor website.
5. No registration required !
6. There is even a portable version of the software, to be used without installing from a flash drive, if you were geeky enough for that.
I still haven’t got the chance to really check it’s capabilities, but so far, it’s looking good.
You can download Device Doctor here
Also you can get the Portable Device Doctor here
Windows 7 godmodes and hidden settings.
Hi.
Today We’ll be discussing the hidden settings (and shortcuts) in windows 7.
Windows 7 has some developer oriented settings and control panels, for example shortcuts to directly access GPS setting (yes there are GPS settings), biometry settings, or just printer settings.
To unlock these modes all you need to do is to create a folder with any name (angrybyte of instance) then a single dot “.” and then a special code for the required panel
an example would be to create a folder named:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
opening this folder will open the master control panel ( or the godmode as the guy that originally discovered it calls it).
There are also some other modes and hidden settings, I have came up with a method to create them all in one go. You can read more about it in the post : Unlocking all hidden settings & godemodes in windows 7 in the forums
have fun, and remember, it will break down eventually.
Recording any sound that is being played on your speakers windows 7
Hi everyone. Today we will learn how to record any music , radio, game sound, just anything that your computer can play and save it. This was easy back in days on windows XP. But now it has become a little tricky because the stereo mixing device is now disabled by default in windows 7 and Vista.
To enable it just right click the speaker icon near the clock, then click “recording device”. Then right click any blank space below your devices list and click “Show disabled devices”. Then enable the “Stereo mix” device and set it as the default. Now you can start recording.
This is a first, but I tried to add a video description to this post. please check it out and tell me how you like it. should I have these video descriptions more often?
activate the Missing Hard disk partition in windows 7
after I installed windows 7 on my pc, I noticed that 1 of my 5 hard disk partitions was missing. the real cause of this is not yet clear to me, it is probably related to the ability of the windows 7 installation process to assign driver letters to a big number of partitions, but who knows.
Anyway to get back your partitions do not try extreme solutions such as BIOS settings and chipset INF files, just follow the following steps.
1. right click “Computer” and select “manage” . click “disk management” from the list on the left.
2. locate the missing partition, it is usually the partition without a driver letter.
3. right click it and assign a driver letter to it.
That’s it ! everything should work just fine now.
By the way what was you first impression after installing windows 7? I don’t know about you but I was a little disappointed
Installing dual boot Windows 7 RC on your Laptop
This is a complete guide on how to install Windows 7 RC1 on your laptop computer. for this test I used HP dv4
Please read this guide carefully before starting, if you have any questions please ask before you start. and please remember that this procedure can be dangerous, I can help you but I can’t be held responsible if you fry your laptop or lose important data
Since Windows 7 in not yet released, Microsoft is offering you to try Windows 7 for free till June 1st 2010. which is almost 1 year from now.
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