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How To Install Window XP on Vista DELL Inspiron 1420

Vista is Full of BS!…

I thought by operating in Vista , I can use all latest software and can update from Microsoft. Remember my slogan : Update, Hi Tech, Sosphiscated. Just kidding

Well, problem arise when my principle asked me to install XP because their software is not compatible with Vista. I need the software to test and to check all vessel equipment to interface with our hardware.

In fact, my principle from France keep saying Vista is BS haha. I have to admit that Vista security is quite annoying and Vista theme tend to make your PC hang.

So I started to Google for how to create dual booting system in my Dell Inspiron. Remember, Internet is the best teacher. Anyway I took 3 days to install XP on my preinstalled Vista. With lack of sleep and food haha.

It’s not that hard, it just messy. You have to know the right step. I need my Vista because it is original software and need the update.That’s all. I don’t want to rely only on one OS and pirate hehe.

Installation Preparation

1. Get yourself a Windows XP that boot from CD

2. Software to create dual booting from both XP and Vista.”VistaBootPro”download the free version from SoftPedia.

3. Recovery CD drivers for hardware and device on your laptop

3. Your laptop of course, well mine is DELL Inspiron 1420

Install Windows XP

1. You have to create partition in your hard drive . The easiest way is to use Shrink Volume feature in Vista. So you can create and format the new partition.

Where to find the Shrink tools ? Just open the computer management panel or under Administrative tools or just right click the computer icon on the start menu and choose manage.

Click the Disk Management item on the list.

You will see your hardisk drive and recovery partition. In my case for DELL laptop, the hard disk is divided into 4 partition. The problem is that Vista only allow 4 partition. So I have to delete one partition.

Choose your main hard disk, and click right to choose Shrink Volume.

What ever you do, just don’t choose default value for shrink, in my case I only use 12 Gig just enough.

2. To make our reformat and configure the hard disk drive more efficiently, I would like to advise to change the Drive Letter.

Change the drive letter for your optical drive from D to E. If you have already Recovery partition, then just change your CD drive to F. So that your new XP partition will take the letter D or E. Just make sure you know what is the letter assign for your new XP partition. That’s all.

After you create the new partition, click the New Simple Volume to format the storage to NTFS. Just follow the wizard and remember your assign drive letter.After than REBOOT!

3. After restart, you can rename your new drive to XP and main drive to Vista. So that you can distinguish clearly in DOS environment.

So now you are ready to boot your laptop from XP cd. But first you have to disable your SATA drive in your BIOS setting. This step is important to enable your computer to recognise all the drives.

Then insert your XP Bootable CD and restart your laptop. Press F 12 to choose boot from CD (depend on your laptop configuration,on which button to press to configure boot setting). (more..)

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Kill-Vearn

salam dell jenis 1420 ni mmg takleh install vista ke? kwn aku ada complain.. so kalo vista takleh, windows 7 ...

22 August 09 at 08:25

lankapo

@ kill-vearn bukan bro. Vista memang dah di install masa beli. But software aku nk pakai je tk compatible dengan vista. ...

22 August 09 at 08:33

Nuffnang Glitterati Status NO MORE

No more VIP Status

Since Nuffnang was born I have been loyal to them. I never use other Online Advertising from Malaysia, but why my status is suddenly change to ordinary user. No more glitteratti, the exclusive club for Nuffnang. Why all me ?

I was about to email and ask Nuffnang Customer Service but I found other similar question:

13. I was awarded Glitterati status but recently it reverted to “Ordinary”.

Tags: glitterati, exclusive

Added: 14 Jan 2008

First of all make sure that you are indeed not running any other SEA ads on any of your blogs.

We have encountered a minor bug where a blogger does not properly detect as exclusive when he has multiple blogs and some of them regularly have no unique visits.

This is because our crawler excludes dormant blogs to save time. But when your status is displayed, the blog in question may have had hits on that given day, before the crawler has managed to update its list of dormant blogs.

This leads to your account being flagged as “Ordinary” because one of your blogs is not exclusive. A simple way to avoid this is to make sure all your blogs have visits.

Alaaa, they should email about this new TOS. So all blogger aware that they have to update all their blogs. I admit that I have a couple of dormant blog, since I am quite busy rite now. But at least le tme know, before you take back my precious prrrrrrecious Glitterati

Solution:

I have removed all my not so active blog . Hope Nuffnang Team can give me back my Glitterati status. Please please !

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earnword

nanti ko dapat la balik. janji traffik ko dari pelbagai tempat..

3 April 09 at 02:14

mazuki selangor2u

aku pon kena gak hari ni...aku pon dah delete dah blog dormant tuh .-= mazuki selangor2u´s last blog ..Kenapa Status Gliteratti ...

11 September 09 at 09:38

Open Office vs Microsoft Office

The Culture

When we buy a new laptop, usually it is preinstalled with original home Vista. Sometime the sale person will offer to install other software for free such as Office, Adobe, CD software and etc.

in my case, when I bought my DELL laptop I asked the guy to install me everything that he have for “free”. Free aka pirated software. Yup, I know its illegal but  as long as my Vista is original then all my software doesn’t have too rite.

Unfortunately I really have  a bad habit, I will update anything that need to be update and will  fix any update message and error I prefer all my software and OS to be updated. Why it is bad ?

When I run update for my WIndow ,I accidentally click update to Microsoft Office . You know what happen when you update online your pirate software, you will busted by Microsoft  online police. This time it’s called OGA, Office Genuine Authentication.

Microsoft police will detect the pirated software and show every time I use office. It will remind me that I maybe a victim of software pirate whom kidnap me and force me to install their software hehehe.

Short Solution

Even I tried to install a fresh cracked Office, OGA still recognise my software as illegal version. Then I search for OGA Remover, . Well I did find one and there is no more warning message. Then when I get a new update, the same thing happen again. Plus, sooner or later, Microsoft will soon fix this crack and I need to find a new crack version of OGA. So this things will keep move in a circle. I need to find a complete solution.

Ease of Mind

At last, I decided to fully use Open Office. Because I don’t want to end up l like my Project Manager, when his adobe professional reader crack version was not working during a presentation. Everyone can read the warning message for not using the original version.

Lesson to be taugh

I am in the process to fully use Open Office to replace Microsoft Office which is quite challenging but not impossible. It’s all begin within your mind. For your information, the Goverment sector are also switching to Open Office to cut cost and support Open System here in Malaysia. My wife from MAMPU  has started to use Open Office since last year.

Hopefully Education Minister can implement Open System Education to our kids soon. This need to be exposed when their are young so that they can learn that Microsoft is not everything

Currently I am using Foxit FDF Reader, Firefox & Chrome Browser, Open Office , VLC Media Player and GIMP.

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sharkbytes

I have not tried Open Office, but I hear good things about it. Thanks for another push in that direction.

17 March 09 at 22:28

lankapo

@sharkbytes, It's not rumours anymore, it's true story my friend. open Office will rule!

30 March 09 at 16:42

Cheap Broadband Malaysia

Cheap Broadband in Malaysia

The broadband internet culture in Malaysia is developing fast, and since 2006 nearly three quarters of a million people have been connected to the internet via a broadband connection. Everything from ADSL services to fibre optic cable broadband and mobile broadband are available from a variety of providers all competing for business, which keeps the market competitive.

Malaysian Broadband Providers

The largest provider of ADSL broadband in Malaysia is TMnet, and arm of Telekom Malaysia, and they offer a good value, cheap broadband package called Streamyx which offers up to 4Mbps download speeds, and the cheaper packages are sold with a fixed amount of hours use available each month. For slightly more money you get faster speeds, a fixed monthly price with unlimited usage and a free modem, but there is a lot of choice in terms of what kind of package you can afford and you can choose based on price as well as your individual needs. TMnet also offer business broadband packages which are tailored to the needs of business use, from the home worker right up to the medium or large business. Jaring Flite Wired is the second largest provider, offering up to 1Mbps download speed during peak times on a 24 month contract with monthly payments. Alternatively you can pay one lump sum at the beginning of a 12 month period are receive a free modem, and of course you then won`t have to worry about paying for your service monthly. Each package comes with 5 free email addresses and 500MB of inbox space. If you want a wireless solution rather than an ADSL service then airzed is a good choice. They offer both Wi-Fi hotspots in more than 200 locations around Malaysia as well as the latest in Wi-MAX technology for homes and businesses. Wi-MAX is essentially a very powerful Wi-Fi broadcast that can cover wider areas than Wi-Fi hotspots and makes is a viable alternative to land line broadband and direct competition for mobile broadband.

Finding Cheap Deals

The best way to find cheap broadband packages and compare deals in Malaysia is to use a broadband comparison website. Ranking ISPs by their speed, coverage and monthly costs will help you decide, and it`s always important to decide what you want from your broadband connection before you start looking so that you have a rough idea of what kind of deal will suit you, whether it is a fast connection or the convenience of Wi-Fi or Wi-MAX. Keep your budget in mind and don`t just settle for the first deal you see, as comparison sites will take the time and effort out of shopping for a cheap broadband package.

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lankapo

haha bro, correction ini bukan paid post la.. ini dia offer exchange link je..entry ni dia yg buat aku post kan je.

8 March 09 at 19:31

Make money online | how to make money online from home

It might be cheap but hardly worth the price. TM especially really have lousy service.

18 March 09 at 14:06

Fring, free call using your mobile

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All this while I’ve been testing my Nokia N95 with new application and software. So far, Fring has really caught my attention.

Its ability to connect to almost  all my favourite social network. Skype, YM, Google Talk,MSN Messenger and even your VoIP service.

So you can chat and talk in the same time. You can even use VoIP such as VoIP Stunt to call your friend’s mobile or land line thru you mobile, isn’t that great.

fring™ is a mobile internet community and communication service that allows friends to connect, share experiences and enhance their online communities together.

Using your handset?s internet connection, you can interact with friends on all your favourite social networks including Skype®, MSN Messenger®, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™ and AIM®.

You can listen to music with your Last.fm friends, check out what each other are up to on Facebook, receive alerts of new Google Mail™ and tailor make your very own fring by adding more cool experiences from fringAdd-ons™.

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Using Fring to call Goggle talk user.

I use Fring using my WiFi network in my house to call my friend Adi in Terenggganu. The result is quite impressive, Adi can hear my voice clearly in his laptop. I did even tried to call my self  in Google Talk using Fring and talk back,it is so clear like using normal phone. Plus you must have a mic and speaker.

As for now, Fring only allow user to call to Skype and Google Talk user. But you still can chat with your YM, MSN and Facebook.

Call using VoIP Stunt

For your information, I manage to use my old account in VoIP Stunt that still have credit to call my wife mobile handphone.Seriously, VoIP Stunt offer the lowest price ever, imagine you can call land line almost all the country in the world for 3 month after your top up your credit.

FREE CALLS COUNTRY

VoipStunt is a free program that uses the latest technology to bring free and high-quality voice communications to people all over the world.

When you use the free VoipStunt software, you can call regular phones in various popular destinations for free or call at an incredible low rate to any other phone on the planet.

After 3 months, they will charge you but still minimum charges. Only one setback using this software, the quality of voice is quite low and lagging. So the cheap price come with one setback. But you can still sms your friend and tell them to log in on social network .

Anyway, Fring still offer the best alternative for us to use VoIP or social network to get in touch with all our online friends.  Just make sure you have a 3G phone and internet connection. Your online world will be always on your hand.

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maayan Gordon

great news about the announcement, and great post. thanks,

2 March 09 at 03:23

Bingo Live

You can listen to music with your Last.fm friends, check out what each other are up to on Facebook, receive ...

2 March 09 at 15:24