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Drivers Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS and RM 1500 for Windows 10 / 8.1 / 8 / 7 SP1 / Vista SP2 / XP SP3 - x86/x64

Published: 21 Sep 2012 | Updated: 14 Aug 2017 | Author: Mentor
Creative has always been one of the best sound cards manufacturers, now the sound chip is almost always integrated on the motherboard, but those who want a good dedicated sound card can only take a Creative; Unfortunately, Creative has messed, or rather did not guarantee support for new versions of Windows to a number of its products. Who, for example, has a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy ZS 2...

Logitech Setpoint 6.32 x86/x64

Published: 21 Sep 2012 | Updated: 03 Aug 2015 | Author: Mentor
Who has a Logitech kit Keyboard+Mouse knows what i'm talking about; Logitech Setpoint is the software that manages this hardware. Unfortunately, the original setup that comes out on the media at the time of purchase is outdated and do not correctly works with the latest versions of Windows 7, especially for the x64 architecture, in fact every boot will need to reconnect all input devices. To...

How to move the Firefox profile folder to another partition

Published: 06 Sep 2012 | Updated: 03 Oct 2015 | Author: Mentor
When we run Firefox the first run it creates a folder with an alphanumeric name containing all profiles. Its path is: C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ This folder contains all your bookmarks, extensions installed, everything but everything the profile. Doing a backup and restore of this folder you can save and restore all that you have done with Firefox; In the light of...

How to install Mandriva 2011.0 x64

Published: 05 Sep 2012 | Updated: 19 Aug 2015 | Author: Mentor
Always the graphics cards from ATI have problems with linux, this is because ATI does not release valid drivers; Usually the problems presented themselves after installation and you could solve using the generic vesa driver with the inconvenience of not being able to use 3D effects or the non-free fglrx drivers. With the release of Mandriva 2011.0 the problems for the owners of VGA ATI occur...

Direct links to legally download ISO Windows 7 x86/x64

Published: 04 Sep 2012 | Updated: 08 May 2019 | Author: Mentor
Thanks to the Digital River we can download from their server quickly and legally a copy of Windows 7. It is convenient download the ISO of Windows 7 from theri server for a lot of rasons: the download is direct , high-speed so in just over an hour you can download the version you want it is totally legal the ISO are updated to the SP1 the ISO are 100% virus free To download a copy of Windows 7...

How to backup Windows before formatting

Published: 02 Feb 2012 | Updated: 03 Aug 2015 | Author: Mentor
Before formatting your PC you can backup a lot of files used by some softwares , here the paths where the most commonly used programs store their data in operating systems Windows Vista/ Windows 7 . In this way is possible to restore the data after formatting and reinstalling Windows. N.B.: to be able to access at these paths you have to enable the viewing of hidden files. Here the paths: Firefox...

How to update the flash player on Mandriva 64bit

Published: 25 Nov 2011 | Updated: 03 Aug 2015 | Author: Mentor
Unfortunately, as usual when it comes to Mandriva at 64 bit and flash player are stomach pains. Lately, many sites require updating to the latest version of flash player and as usual in the repository does not exist; on the site of adobe there is a thin illusion, in fact we find the rpm ready for the 64 bit architecture, but installing it does not work, it is because the files are placed in the...

How to find the password of your facebook contacts

Published: 25 Aug 2011 | Updated: 31 Jul 2015 | Author: Mentor
And now we will touch a very sensitive argument trying to give concrete answers and trying to dispel myths and legends. How many of you have asked at least once how to find the password of a contact facebook? I think in many; on the web there are many requests from people who want to discover passwords of alleged girls who betray, of molesters of children and so on ... the legends tell of tricks...

Enable preview .mp4 files on Windows Vista/7

Published: 31 Jul 2011 | Updated: 03 Oct 2015 | Author: Mentor
On Windows Vista and Windows 7 by default are not enabled previews of many files, including the files .mp4. To enable previews of the files we have to edit the registry as follows: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp4] @="VLC.mp4" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp4\ShellEx] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp4\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11D1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{F6E3DA91-1220-4fb3-85EC-CF494D9FF7DD}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp4\ShellEx\{...

Reconfigure the network interface on linux after changing motherboard

Published: 30 Jul 2011 | Updated: 31 Jul 2015 | Author: Mentor
In case you have unfortunately burned the motherboard of your computer and you have luckily replaced it with an identical motherboard your computer will work perfectly without you having to format and reinstall everything. Your Windows operating system will work perfectly, it does not notice anything but on Linux will not be the same... linux will understand that the motherboard has been changed...

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