Missing Fingerprint software on your HP laptop
It’s a weird issue since wouldn’t provide their fingerprint software in recovery partition although your system has fingerprint reader. And HP website doesn’t good at providing information about it that much. It’s intuitive and easy to find drivers enough for Windows, so it won’t bother you about missing any. However, after I had tried several times, all drivers and apps available in the product page are not enough to make the machine perform as good as HP factory image. Maybe I miss something? But that should mean HP give me less info too If you have any recommend, please share. I have tx2500z.
Well, anyway, if you are restore your OS back with HP recovery partition or disc, you will not have Fingerprint Software with you and the thing is there are 2 different softwares available from HP; first is Bioscrypt VeriSoft Access Manager and another one is Digital Persona. Frankly you can use both of them–but should be only 1 at a time, ok? I believe that the first one is originally for older system (2007 or before) and the latter one is for newer one. I do recommend the 2nd one, it’s really good one. You can even save password for your IM or any programs since its logo would float almost all the time when there is password field show up.
Here is the link for Bioscrypt VeriSoft Access Manager and surely this is for Digital Persona.
Have fun swipe your finger!!
Note: if you are not yet doing restoration/clean installation, don’t forget to archive C:\SWSetup. That’s all you need–everything, all drivers and apps that you have since the first you got your machine.
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Bypass Windows XP/Vista/Win7 login screen
If you prefer the fast way (less secure), Vista does provide an easy GUI for configure this.
Here is the what you have to call. I just wonder why they don’t provide this in normal User Account page. Then you just to select the account you want to access automatically, then uncheck this:-
It will ask you a password of the selected account. Then next time, you restart the computer, you will never have to put a password anymore
Update before Win 7 launch (Oct 19, 2009): Although this command works with Vista and XP, it doesn’t seem to work with Windows 7. The alternative is using ‘netplwiz‘ instead of ‘control userpasswords2′ and yes, netplwiz works on Vista and XP too. Quite good, huh?
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This was not my issue until today. I just got my hand on tx2500z and as usual HP provides us tons of good & crap pieces of software. I decided to live with this configuration for a while and see how HP manages on its own image. So that I could review it as it really is out-of-the-box. However, one annoying thing I found so far was Adobe Updater from Acrobat Reader was popping up to download newer version all the time. It was quite a big file, so I could cancel it before it finished. By the way, after restarting it was still showing again and again.
So I needed to fix this so badly. The problem was Adobe Updater didn’t have a shortcut available for easy access. You guys might find this after completing first update and be able to disable it. But if you are not that patient, so you have to get into
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater5
You will see AdobeUpdater.exe file which oddly have no beautiful icon for even regular size. Seems like Adobe doesn’t like us to find this really. When you open this little app, you have to click "Preference" to customize its behavior.
Once you uncheck this, Adobe Updater will never bother you no more.
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Dropbox – first take
If you guys are familiar with Live Mesh but no need of remote connection what soever, this might catch your attention. Dropbox is basically an online storage service–2GB for now–which has cross-platform client running natively on Windows, Mac, and surprisingly Linux also.
After couple days of trying it, it just works. There is no fancy feature or customized location yet. But it gets job done with less memory than Mesh, of course. It works flawlessly so far on my several PC and Mac. Since it’s only BETA, you will be expected to test its flow, report and suggest to the developer. If you guys would like to try, I have 10 invites available. =)
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Google Chrome: completing the circle of Google’s world
This might be the day Google trying to complete their circle after playing around web applications from the beginning.
Google Chrome is the browser based on AppleWebkit, the core that drives Safari nowadays. It sure is the proved solid browser.
Now it’s only on Windows OS. I could tell that it’s surprisingly fast, clean and nice UI. It’s also imported all my bookmarks from Firefox without a hitch. I’m pretty sure of that Google will release this on every OSes soon.
Now Google already moves to build its own platform. It just surprises me that they haven’t chosen Gecko as their platform after released so many add-ons for it. Probably it is way too many to be able to support them all [and other's too].
However, the only thing that keeps me using Firefox, instead of ie8 and others, is its add-ons!! Will see how Google will react on that issue.
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Dell Studio Hybrid got reviewed.
Desktopreview.com has reviewed Dell Studio Hybrid, the tiny desktop which built by notebook’s part as expected. With the spec:-
CPU: Pentium Dual-core up to Core 2 Duo
Memory: 1-4GB (SODIMM)
Hard drive: upto 320GB (in fact, you could grab 2.5″ 500GB HDD putting yourself)
Optical drive: CD/DVD burner and Blu-ray as an optional
Wireless: 802.11n (optional with PCIe)
Ports: 5*USB, 1*HDMI, 1*DVI, 1*Gigabit LAN, 1*IEEE1394 4pin [no VGA port, sorry =)]
Also, you can grab the extra colorful cover for just $17 each. This is starting at $499 [$399 usually if promotion is concerned] I think it’s pretty nice. With a notebook standard, this little box is also sucking the juice less than regular desktop. Moreover, all parts is easily accessible and upgradable.
Check out more detail @ desktopreview.com
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