On Windows 7, I was trying to edit the host file using Komodo and was getting Permission Denied, and tried notepad too still got permission denied. I thought initially it was McAfee Anti Virus that was disabling the edit of host file as this file is an important system configuration file.

Laptop and LCD Monitors are poor in reproducing the actual colors compared to conventional Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) Monitors. If not properly caliberated, the colours displayed can vary drastically. If you are using a laptop or LCD monitor, see the coloured box below.

The above box is a very light gray color. If your gamma or colour is not caliberated correctly the box can appear reddish, bluish or greenish.

The Sony Vaio CW Series (VPCCW26FG) Got Experience index of

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Installed and Usable memory as shown by windows differs when you have installed a Graphics card which shared memory. If you have a graphics card of 1gb memory with shared option, the 1 GB of memory is not usable by other processes. So the usable memory is lower than that is installed.

Ever wondered if you could want more out of the windows command line ?

Usually on windows command line in order to select a piece of text, you have to right click the command line title and select mark and then mark the piece of text selected and press enter. And to paste we have to right click on the title and in the Edit menu select paste, which is a painful way of doing it.

Symlinks is a utility that allows two paths to point to the same set of files and subfolders. This is a handy utility on linux which lets you point one path on linux to another path. To do achieve the same functionality on Windows XP, software called junction can be used. provided by SysInternals.

Here is the help from the junction.exe

D:\>junction /?
Junction v1.05 - Windows junction creator and reparse point viewer
Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Mark Russinovich
Systems Internals - http://www.sysinternals.com

Does this window appear when you open CHM files ?

This happend to me after upgrading to Internet Exporer 7.

If you are wondering why you cant read the CHM files, just do the steps below :

• Close the CHM file
• Open it again and you will get the same popup as shown below