newbie gadgets 2011

DC X725 by Benq

Benq amazes us once again with the launch of the new compact classy digital camera. The DC X725 is as small as 12.5 millimeters, and the material from which it is made of is steel, so it is stainless and more resistant. It comes in four different colors, black, red silver, or pearl. It has a 1/2.5 CCD and can go up to 3x optical zoom. The ISO sensitivity can go up to 1600 on photos and 4000 on videos. You can also increase the memory, as it has an SD/SDHC memory card support. The range of mega pixels is, for the time being, unknown, but we can assume it has more then the previous release of Benq that had 7.2. We also have no information regarding the price.

Pillete

Pillete, the new concept of Bluetooth headset is so tiny, it’s almost invisible to the untrained eye when you are wearing it. So you don’t have to worry anymore about looking like Robocop when walking down the street with it, but you have to consider the possibility of people starting to think you’ve lost your marbles and you’re talking to yourself.

The downside is the fact that people have different sized ears and the device might be too small and slip out or to big and not fit. People who often use earphones will tell you I’m right. But once they’ll figure out a way to make the Pillete adjustable, this design will be the future of all headsets.

B20, IRiver’s mini DMB television

IRiver has just announced the release of the all-new mini DMB television, the B20. It is equipped with 4 GB of flash memory which you can expand through the miniSD memory card slot. It has a 2.4-inch LCD display with 320 x 240 pixels and a range of colors of 260k. It also has a FM tuner that can be used also as a voice recorder. It supports MPEG-4, OGG, MP3, WMA, WMV9 formats and you can also view JPEG images on it. The battery holds for 26 hours of MP3 playback, 5 hours of videos and 4 hours of DMB TV. The price is set at 267$ for the 4 GB version and 213$ for the 2GB one.

Sonic Screwdriver

This Sonic Screwdriver is a gadget for all those Doctor Who fans that weren’t satisfied with just th Tardis USB hub. Remember that saying, “if it’s made like a screwdriver and it looks like a screwdriver, it must be a screwdriver”? Oh, and you are so very wrong! It actually has a pen on one head and a beam of UV light at the other.

So now you you can write anything you want with UV ink and not worry about other people reading it. Just imagine handing your boss an amazingly favorable report and between the lines your real thoughts. Ha, ha, ha what a subtle revenge. And the revenge costs only 12.99$ and 3 AG 13 batteries. Small price to pay!

io-Jacket

Although all modern gadgets have the goal to combine good-looks with multifunctional technology and effectiveness, this is so much better then the others! Why? Because you can actually wear it! It has all the cool stuff in it like a Bluetooth and built-in MP3 player or touch sensitive control pads. But the ability through which its promoted is its compatibility with GPSoverIP. It uses a hybrid GPS technology which enables you to look for the person wearing the jacket even inside a building. The person who wears the io-Jacket can upload the information to a mobile phone or to the internet giving the watcher (probably a deranged parent) the opportunity of observing his/her every move. Londefrey, the company which produces it has sold one for humanitarian causes carrying out an auction in the purpose of saving money for the “Humans for Humans foundation. It seems though that none other have been made for commercial purposes so we just have to sit and wait.

DPP-FP90 & DPP-FP70

Koreans should be very happy people because, for now at least, their country is the only one in which Sony released their new compact printers. The two models, ‘DPP-FP90′ and ‘DPP-FP70′, provide you with dye sublimation and with high-resolution prints in just 45 seconds.

The reason why these printers are so innovative is the option of printing without the need for a PC. They can support 24 models of memory cards and have multi-slots. The ‘DPP-FP90′ has a 3.6 inch color LCD screen and the ‘DPP-FP70′ a 2.5 inch one. Because both models are equipped with ‘Bionz’, an image processor that supports up to 48M image quality, therefore enabling you to modify your photos before printing them.

The printers are also portable, so when you need to be some place else and you also need your printer you just have to grab them by their handle and take off. And also, an important feature of the printers is that they have a coating option so that your photos can be kept undamaged for a much longer period of time.

A7S, F3SV, F3SC, A8SC and W7S

Even if Santa Rosa recently had a period of intense gadget releases they still have an ace up their sleeve. According to ASUS, we have to welcome the arrival of five new exceptional laptop models. The A7S-7S006C model has a 1440 x 900 screen. It runs on a 2GHz T7300 Core 2 Duo processor. It is 17 inches wide and, yes it is exciting, it is equipped with the all-new NVIDIA GeForce 8400G mobile graphics card with 896MB of RAM.

The one you see in the picture is the F3SV model. It uses processors between T7100 and T7700. It has 2GB of RAM at your disposal and of course the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M graphics, only this time it has 1 GB of RAM.

The F3SC model, although alike, has only NVIDIA GeForce 8400 graphics with 384 MB of RAM. Both F3SC and F3SV have 15.4-inch screens with a 1280 x 800 resolution.

The A8SC has the same type of graphics card. It is also equipped with a 1.8 GHz T7100 processor, a memory of 1 GB of RAM and a 14.1-inch screen with a 1280 x 800 resolution.

Last, but not least, the W7S model has a 13-inch screen with a 1280 x 800 resolution. Uses a T7100 to T7500 processor. It has 2 GB of Ram and GeForce 8400 graphics with 128 MB.

All models come with web cams of different resolutions and ample connectivity.

Reference: http://www.latest-gadgets.info/

Straight Thru UTP Cables

We will be mainly focussing on the wiring of CAT5 cables here because they are the most popluar cables around ! You will find info on wiring the classic CAT1 phone cables as well. It is very important you know how exactly to wire UTP cables because it's the base of a solid network and will help you avoid hours of frustration and troubleshooting if you do it right the first time :) On the other hand, if you are dealing with a poorly cabled network, then you will be able to find the problem and fix it more efficiently.

Wiring the UTP cables !

We are now going to look at how UTP cables are wired. There are 2 popular wiring schemes that most people use today: the T-568A and T-568B, that differ only in which color coded pairs are connected - pair 2 and 3 are reversed. Both work equally well, as long as you don't mix them! If you always use only one version, you're OK, but if you mix A and B in a cable run, you will get crossed pairs!

UTP cables are terminated with standard connectors, jacks and punchdowns. The jack/plug is often referred to as an "RJ-45", but that is really a telco designation for the "modular 8 pin connector" terminated with a USOC pinout used for telephones. The male connector on the end of a patchcord is called a "plug" and the receptacle on the wall outlet is a "jack."

As I've already mentioned, UTP has 4 twisted pairs of wires, we'll now look at the pairs to see what colour codes they have :

As you can see in the picture on the left, the 4 pairs are labeled. Pairs 2 & 3 are used for normal 10/100Mbit networks, while Pairs 1 & 4 are reserved. In Gigabit Ethernet, all 4 pairs are used.

CAT5 cable is the most common type of UTP around the world ! It's flexible, easy to install and very reliable when wired properly :)
The left and center pictures show the end of a CAT5 cable with an RJ-45 connector; used by all cables to connect to a hub or to your computer's network card. The picture to the right shows a stripped CAT5 cable, indicating the 4 twisted pairs. And to be a bit fancy, don't think that UTP CAT5 cable only comes in one boring colour... those days are over ! You get a wide range of choices today :

Pin Number Designations for T568B

Note that the odd pin numbers are always the white with stripe color (1,3,5,7). The wires connect to RJ-45 8-pin connectors as shown below:



Color Codes for T568B
Pin color - pair name
1 white/orange (pair 2) TxData +
2 orange (pair 2) ........ TxData -
3 white/green (pair 3) ..RecvData+
4 blue (pair 1)
5 white/blue (pair 1)
6 green (pair 3) ...........RecvData-
7 white/brown (pair 4)
8 brown (pair 4)

 

Reference: http://www.firewall.cx/cabling_straight.php

Unshielded Twisted Pair

Unshielded Twisted Pair cable is most certainly by far the most popular cable around the world. UTP cable is used not only for networking but also for the traditional telephone (UTP-Cat 1). There are 6 different types of UTP categories and, depending on what you want to achieve, you would need the appropriate type of cable. UTP-CAT5 is the most popular UTP cable, it came to replace the good old coaxial cable which was not able to keep up with the constant growing need for faster and more reliable networks.

Characteristics

The characteristics of UTP are very good and make it easy to work with, install, expand and troubleshoot and we are going to look at the different wiring schemes available for UTP, how to create a straight through UTP cable, rules for safe operation and a lot of other cool stuff !

So let's have a quick look at each of the UTP categories available today:




Category 1/2/3/4/5/6 – a specification for the type of copper wire (most telephone and network wire is copper) and jacks. The number (1, 3, 5, etc) refers to the revision of the specification and in practical terms refers to the number of twists inside the wire (or the quality of connection in a jack).

CAT1 is typically telephone wire. This type of wire is not capable of supporting computer network traffic and is not twisted. It is also used by phone companies who provide ISDN, where the wiring between the customer's site and the phone company's network uses CAT 1 cable.

CAT2, CAT3, CAT4, CAT5 and CAT6 are network wire specifications. This type of wire can support computer network and telephone traffic. CAT2 is used mostly for token ring networks, supporting speeds up to 4 Mbps. For higher network speeds (100Mbps plus) you must use CAT5 wire, but for 10Mbps CAT3 will suffice. CAT3, CAT4 and CAT5 cable are actually 4 pairs of twisted copper wires and CAT5 has more twists per inch than CAT3 therefore can run at higher speeds and greater lengths. The "twist" effect of each pair in the cables will cause any interference presented/picked up on one cable to be cancelled out by the cable's partner which twists around the initial cable. CAT3 and CAT4 are both used for Token Ring and have a maximum length of 100 meters.

CAT6 wire was originally designed to support gigabit Ethernet (although there are standards that will allow gigabit transmission over CAT5 wire, that's CAT 5e). It is similar to CAT5 wire, but contains a physical separator between the 4 pairs to further reduce electromagnetic interference.

The next pages (check menu) show you how UTP cable is wired and the different wiring schemes. It's well worth visiting and reading about.

How Much Should a Web Site Cost?

Determining how much a web site should cost is one of the most frequently asked but rarely answered questions in the web design world. Even now, with millions of web sites online, there exists no magic formula for calculating either the cost of a new web site or the cost of a redesign.

For this article, Many web developers, web designers and team of more professionals creating a website have worked to examine some of the most important functionality and factors when considering website cost. These include website development cost and web design cost for different components as well as a current website features cost.

Historical Perspective: How Much Should a Web Site Cost?

Like other goods and services, the cost associated with designing, developing and building a web site has changed over time. The following chart provides a timeline of historical dates compared to web site cost.

The basis for the chart was a small business (under 25 employees) located in a small city that wanted a professional web site having 15 pages, Web hosting and email, a domain name, and a aesthetic quality level of around 7/10.

Time Period	Expected Cost
1995 – 1997	$7,500 to $12,000
1998 – 2000	$6,000 to $10,000
2000 – 2004	$2,500 to $4,500
2004 – 2009	$2,000 to $7,500

As website costs have become increasingly disparate, with freelancers charging as little as $500 and web agencies charging tens of thousands of dollars for a website. The WebpageFX team developed a website cost calculator to help website visitors attempt to put a price tag to their website project.

Web Site Components and Costs

With a historical perspective in place, it is important to examine each of the components that go into determining how much a web site should cost. On average, the following figures can be applied to estimating the cost of a web site:

Web site Maintenance Cost:

$500 to $1250 a year (depending on number of updates required)

To completely answer the question "How much should a web site cost" it is also useful to review specific Web design and web site development projects.

Informational or Small Business Web Site Cost::

• 8 to 16 Web pages
• Custom graphics
• Stock photos
• Little or no flash
• Web forms sending to email accounts

Project duration: 30 to 75 days (not assuming a consistent 8 hour a day)

Web site cost range: $2,000 to $6,000

Corporate (100 or more employees) Web Site Cost:

• 25 to 75 Web pages
• Heavy use of flash
• High quality design work on all Web pages
• Content management system
• Extra components: Intranet, calendars, web site search

Project duration: 60 to 90 days

Web site cost range: $10,000 to $25,000

Ecommerce Web Site Cost:

• 100 to 1000 products
• Shopping cart
• Payment gateway integration
• Product descriptions and images
• Sales tax and shipping calculation
• Customer and administrative control panel

Project duration: 60 to 120 days

Web site cost range: $5,000 to $15,000

Database Driven Web Site or Web Application:

• Dynamic Web pages 20 to 2,000
• Administrative control panel for web site management
• Advanced programming skill sets required
• Interactivity with web site visitor
• Enterprise database (MS SQL Server or MySQL)

Project duration: 90 to 180 days

Web site cost range: $6,000 to $35,000

Based from United States of cost,

In philippines:

The cost per page is 1000 pesos per page where full HTML is required but where both PHP and html depends on the web developtment costing. It Determines the ability of the web developer when it takes a project.

Other filipino web developer free lancer where just taking hard time to create new project for the clients. The project will cost affordable in an budget cost of the company. If have php and mysql database, i would say range up to Php20, 000 to Php 150, 000 where as biggest cost in ecommerce site.

Reference:

http://www.webpagefx.com/How-much-should-web-site-cost.html

http://www.atilus.com/webpost/what_does_a_website_cost/?what-does-a-website-cost/

Here's are website calculator: http://www.designquote.net/html/dq_estimate_wizard.cfm

Network Cabling

Cabling Network topics works different type of cable. In this part, this networking discuss talk about common cables which include UTP CATS straight through and crossover, coax and a few more.

Cabling is very important if you want a network to work properly with minimum problems and bandwidth losses. There are certain rules which must never be broken when you're trying to design a network, otherwise you'll have problems when computers try to communicate. I have seen sites which suffer from enormous problems because the initial desgin of the network was not done properly !

In the near future, cabling will probably be something old and outdated since wireless communication seems to be gaining more ground, day by day. With that in mind, around 95% of companies still rely on cables, so don't worry about it too much :)

Let's have a quick look at the history of cabling which will allow us to appreciate what we have today !

The Beginning

We tend to think of digital communication as a new idea but in 1844 a man called Samuel Morse sent a message 37 miles from Washington D.C. to Baltimore, using his new invention ‘The Telegraph’. This may seem a far cry from today's computer networks but the principles remain the same. I research in Wikipedia and firewall.cx is part of many architecture that works in networking.



Morse code is type of binary system which uses dots and dashes in different sequences to represent letters and numbers. Modern data networks use 1s and 0s to achieve the same result. The big difference is that while the telegraph operators of the mid 19th Century could perhaps transmit 4 or 5 dots and dashes per second, computers now communicate at speeds of up to 1 Giga bit, or to put it another way, 1,000,000,000 separate 1s and 0s every second.

Development of new network technology

Ethernet was developed in the mid 1970's by the Xerox Corporation at its Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) in California and in 1979 DEC and Intel joined forces with Xerox to standardize the Ethernet system for everyone to use. The first specification by the three companies, called the 'Ethernet Blue Book', was released in 1980, it was also known as the 'DIX standard' after their initials.

It was a 10 Mega bits per second system (10Mbps, = 10 million 1s and 0s per second) and used a large coaxial backbone cable running throughout the building, with smaller coax cables tapped off at 2.5m intervals to connect to the workstations. The large coax, which was usually yellow, became known as 'Thick Ethernet' or 10Base5 - the '10' refers to the speed (10Mbps), the 'Base' because it is a base band system (base band uses all of its bandwidth for each transmission, as opposed to broad band which splits the bandwidth into separate channels to use concurrently) and the '5' is short for the system's maximum cable length, in this case 500m.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) released the official Ethernet standard in 1983 called the IEEE 802.3 after the name of the working group responsible for its development and, in 1985, version 2 (IEEE 802.3a) was released. This second version is commonly known as 'Thin Ethernet' or 10Base2; in this case the maximum length is 185m even though the '2' suggest that it should be 200m.

Since 1983, various standard have been introduced because of the increased bandwidth requirements, so far we are up to the Gigabit rate !

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Virtual Local Area Network(VLAN's)

Virtual Local Area Networks or VLANs are one of the latest and coolest network technologies developed in the past few years, though have only recently started to gain recognition. The non-stop growth of Local Area Networks (LANs) and the need to minimize the cost for this expensive equipment, without sacrificing network performance and security, created the necessary soil for the VLAN seed to surface and grow into most modern networks.

Since Virtual Local Area Network that requires strong background knowledge of certain areas, as they contain a lot of information as the technical and protocol unit. i believe that the reader should familiar and comfortable with the following concepts:

• Switches and hubs
• Broadcast and collision domains
• Internet Protocol (IP)
• IP routing

Cabling

Early LAN cabling had always been based on various grades of coaxial cable. However shielded twisted pair was used in IBM's Token Ring implementation, and in 1984 StarLAN showed the potential of simple unshielded twisted pair by using Cat3—the same simple cable used for telephone systems. This led to the development of 10Base-T (and its successors) and structured cabling which is still the basis of most commercial LANs today. In addition, fiber-optic cabling is increasingly used in commercial applications. As cabling is not always possible, wireless Wi-Fi is now the most common technology in residential premises as the cabling required is minimal, and it is well suited to mobile laptops and smartphones.

LAN illustration.

The following characteristics are some advantages of LAN:

• Very high network speeds and data transfer rates
• Protection from the outside world, thus creating a trusted computing environment (Firewalls are usually used to protect LANs and to provide a secure computing environment.)
• No need to lease telecommunication lines, such as those used for telephone, data and Internet services, once the hardware for connecting all the machines has been bought

 

How To Assemble And Build A PC

Ok ,, In this tutorial or we will say guidelines on how do work the pc assembly and keep challenging in how to operate the pc (personal computer). I will step by step the instruction on how to do it.See below..

Things to get in place before starting:

• Anti-static wrist strap
• Set of screwdrivers and pliers
• Piece of cloth
• CPU Thermal compound (recommended)
• PC components - such as hard drive, processor, mother board, cd/dvd rom drive, memory(RAM), thermal power and etc.

Tip: CPU Thermal compound is not a necessity but it is recommended to keep your CPU cool under load conditions by helping heat dissipate faster. It is a must if you intend to overclock your PC.

Step 1: Installing the motherboard

Make sure you have all the components in place and a nice, clean and big enough place to work with.

Put your antic-static wrist strap on to prevent your components from getting affected. Make sure your hands are clean before starting. First we will be installing the motherboard which is a piece of cake to install.

• Open the side doors of the cabinet
• Lay the cabinet on its side
• Put the motherboard in place
• Drive in all the required screws

 

 

Tip: Most motherboards come with an antistatic bag. It is advisable to put the motherboard on it for some time and then remove it from the antistatic bag before placing it in the cabinet.

Step 2: Installing the CPU

CPU is the heart of a computer so make sure you handle it properly and do not drop it or mishandle it. Also try not to touch the pins frequently so that they do not get dirty. Get hold of your motherboard and CPU manual. You need to place the CPU on the dotted white patch of the motherboard in a particular fashion for it to fit properly. There is a golden mark on the CPU to help you assist. Consult both your motherboard and CPU manual to see which position it fits exactly or you could also use try all the 4 positions.

• Lift the CPU lever on the motherboard
• Place the CPU properly on the motherboard
• Pull down the lever to secure the CPU in place

Warning: Do not try to push the CPU into the motherboard!

Got the thermal compound? Now is the time to use it. Take small amount of it and carefully apply it on the top surface of the processor. Be careful not to put it on the neighboring parts of the motherboard. If you do so clean it immediately using the cloth.

Tip: Thermal compounds should be changed once every six months for optimal performance.

Step 3: Installing the heat sink

After installing the processor we proceed to installing the heat sink. There are different kinds of heat sinks that are bundled with the processor and each has a different way of installation. Look into your CPU manual for instructions on how to install it properly.

• Place the heat sink on the processor
• Put the jacks in place
• Secure the heat sink with the lever

After this you will need to connect the cable of the heat sink on the motherboard. Again look into the motherboard manual on where to connect it and then connect it to the right port to get your heat sink in operational mode.

Step 4: Installing the RAM

Installing the RAM is also an easy job. The newer RAMs ie. DDR RAMs are easy to install as you don’t have to worry about placing which side where into the slot. The older ones, SDRAMs are plagued by this problem.

If you want to use dual channel configuration then consult your manual on which slots to use to achieve that result.

• Push down the RAM into the slot
• Make sure the both the clips hold the RAM properly

Step 5: Installing the power supply

We will now install the power supply as the components we install after this will require power cables to be connected to them. There is not much to be done to install a PSU.

• Place the PSU into the cabinet
• Put the screws in place tightly

Tip: Some PSU have extra accessories that come bundled with it. Consult your PSU manual to see how to install them.

 

Step 6: Installing the video card

First you will need to find out whether your video card is AGP or PCI-E. AGP graphics cards have become redundant and are being phased out of the market quickly. So if you bought a spanking new card it will certainly be a PCI-E.

• Remove the back plate on the cabinet corresponding to the graphics card
• Push the card into the slot
• Secure the card with a screw
• Plug in the power connection from PSU (if required)

High-end graphics cards need dedicated power supply and if your graphics card needs one then connect the appropriate wire from PSU into the graphics card.

 

Step 7: Installing the hard disk

Hard disk is another fragile component of the computer and needs to handled carefully.

• Place the hard drive into the bay
• Secure the drive with screws
• Connect the power cable from PSU
• Connect the data cable from motherboard into the drive

If your hard drive is a SATA one then connect one end of SATA cable into the motherboard and other into the SATA port on the hard disk. If your hard disk is PATA type then use the IDE cable instead of the SATA cable.

Tip: If your PSU does not support SATA power supply then you will need to get an converter which will convert your standard IDE power connector to a SATA power connector.

Step 8: Installing optical drive

The installation an optical drive is exactly similar to an hard drive.

• Place the optical drive into the bay
• Drive in the screws
• Connect the power cable and data cable

Tip: When installing multiple optical drives take care of jumper settings. Make sure you make one as primary and other slave by using the jumper. This is not applicable if the drives are SATA drives.

 

Step 9: Connecting various cables

First we will finish setting up internal components and then get on to the external ones. You will need to consult your motherboard manual for finding the appropriate port for connecting various cables at the right places on the motherboard.

• Connect the large ATX power connector to the power supply port on your motherboard
• Next get hold of the smaller square power connector which supplies power to the processor and connect it to the appropriate port by taking help from your motherboard manual
• Connect the cabinet cables for power,reset button in the appropriate port of the motherboard
• Connect the front USB/audio panel cable in the motherboard
• Plug the cable of cabinet fans

You are done with installing the internal components of the PC. Close the side doors of the cabinet and get it upright and place it on your computer table. Get the rest of the PC components like monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers etc. which we will connect now.

• Connect the VGA cable of the monitor into the VGA port
• If mouse/keyboard are PS/2 then connect them to PS/2 ports or else use the USB port
• Connect the speaker cable in the audio port
• Plug in the power cable from PSU into the UPS
• Also plug in the power cable of the monitor

You are now done with setting up your PC. Power on and see your rig boot to glory.

Step 10: Installing the OS and drivers

We are done with the hardware part. Now get your favorite OS disks ready and the CD that came with your motherboard.

• Set the first boot device to CD/DVD drive in BIOS
• Pop in the OS disk
• Reboot the PC
• Install the OS
• Install drivers from motherboard CD (applicable only to Windows OS)

Voila! You have your PC up and running. Enjoy your journey with your self assembled rig!

Jargon Buster

• CPU – Central Processing Unit
• RAM – Random Memory Access
• DDR -Double Data Rate
• SDRAM – Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
• PSU -Power Supply Unit
• AGP – Accelerated Graphics Port
• PCI-E – Peripheral Component Interconnect- Express
• SATA – Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
• PATA -Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment
• IDE – Integrated Drive Electronics
• ATX – Advanced Technology Extended
• USB – Universal System Bus
• VGA – Video Graphics Array
• PS/2 – Personal System/2
• OS – Operating System

 

Reference : http://www.digitgeek.com/how-to-assemble-and-build-a-pc/

Windows 7 Installation Guide

The Windows 7 is finally here. It's released for beta testers a few days ago and I am here with a small step by step picture guided tour through the installation process.

The installation process was just like vista setup and to my completed in just around 20 minutes in my low end Virtual hardware. This surely indicates the performance improvements Microsoft has put on this windows vista replacement.It is just like an old window xp OS(operating system) because the window 7 is upgraded and it more functional than an old window xp version.

Setting up your Computer & BIOS changes ( If required)

So, first perform in your hardrive and CD rom/DVD Drive. Insert DVD which have window 7 OS. Then as you can see below. boot into Into CD just click f8 to start the selection or press DELETE to setup to BIOS and first boot is CD.. then make done... Check this picture...

Now reboot your computer after popping in the all new Windows 7 DVD you just created in to the DVD Drive. In most cases if you do this you'll automatically boot in to the Windows 7 Installation DVD. But in some cases if the Boot device order is changed in the BIOS it may boot in to your older OS, instead of our DVD. In that case you'll need to change the BIOS settings to gt it done ( More details in a different tutorial).

Booting Up and First Installation Steps










This screen is where the installation wizard begins. The install now options will leads to the advanced install options. For repairing a corrupt installation the 'Repair your computer' button located at the bottom-left can be used. For fresh installs just click the Install now button.







This screen provides two options, Upgrade and Custom (advanced). The upgrade option is for those who wish to upgrade an existing installation of older version of Windows to Windows 7. It is confirmed that Windows Vista can be upgraded to Windows 7 with out any issues, but Windows XP is still a problem.

We will opt for the second option here, the Custom install.

Where do you want to install Windows?



Clicking on the 'Custom' button brings the install location selection screen. In the test machine we have an un-partitioned empty disk. But in the case of a normal installation all your hard drive partitions (e.g. C:\ , D:\ etc.) will be listed here. Choose the drive as you like (a 15 GB size is recommended). Make sure the drive don't have any important data or the Windows 7 installation will wipe-out the contents of that partition. You can backup the data to another partition (e.g. for installing in D:\ drive move important files from there to say E:\ drive or to an external usb drive) for safe keeping.

Partitioning /Creating or Modifying Partitions



Click the Drive options (advanced) for advanced partition management options like 'Delete', 'Format', 'New' and 'Extend'. To create a new partition click the New button. But if you have list of partitions in the previous screen, choose the one where you are planning to install windows 7 and click Format. Then click 'Next' to proceed.



The 'New' option provides a text box to enter the size of the partition you wish to create in MBs. A 15 GB (15*1024 = 15360 MB) is recommended. In this case I opted for the full size of my virtual drive, i.e. 9216 MB. Click the Apply button to continue. You may be greeted with a message To ensure that all Windows features work correctly, windows might create additional partitions for system files. . This is a new feature in Windows 7 to have a small boot partition for system files. Click Okto continue.



So here we are, A new primary partition of 8.8 GB is created along with a System type partition of 200 MB. Select the partition you just created and click Next to continue.



All right, we are all set. The Windows 7 installation begins. time to grab a cup of coffee for and wait for 15 - 30 minutes for the all new OS!

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Window XP Part 3: Complete the installation

16. Windows XP will spend 20 or 30 minutes configuring your computer and will automatically restart when finished. When the Display Settings dialog appears, click OK.



17.When the Monitor Settings dialog box appears, click OK.



18.The final stage of setup begins. On the Welcome to Microsoft Windows page, click Next.



19.On the Help protect your PC page, click Help protect my PC by turning on Automatic Updates now. Then, click Next.



20.Windows XP will then check if you are connected to the Internet:

If you are connected to the Internet, select the choice that describes your network connection on the Will this computer connect to the Internet directly, or through a network? page. If you’re not sure, accept the default selection, and click Next.



If you use dial-up Internet access, or if Windows XP cannot connect to the Internet, you can connect to the Internet after setup is complete. On the How will this computer connect to the Internet? page, click Skip.



21.Windows XP Setup displays the Ready to activate Windows? page. If you are connected to the Internet, click Yes, and then click Next. If you are not yet connected to the Internet, click No, click Next, and then skip to step 24. After setup is complete, Windows XP will automatically remind you to activate and register your copy of Windows XP.



22.On the Ready to register with Microsoft? page, click Yes, and then click Next.



23.On the Collecting Registration Information page, complete the form. Then, click Next.



24.On the Who will use this computer? page, type the name of each person who will use the computer. You can use first names only, nicknames, or full names. Then click Next. To add users after setup is complete or to specify a password to keep your account private, read Create and customize user accounts.



25.On the Thank you! page, click Finish.



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