Thursday 29 August 2013



HOW TO DISABLE POP UP MESSAGE "ONLY SECURE CONTENT IS DISPLAYED" ON INTERNET EXPLORER 10.


Have you noticed lately on your Computer, Internet Explorer shows a pop up message "Only Secure Content is displayed" each time when you load up your web browser? This happens after you performed a latest update on Windows 7. In this article I am going to show you the easy way on how to disable this annoying pop up message on your Internet Explorer 10 by following the simple steps below.


1. Open Internet Explorer and go to Tools and select Internet Options.

2. Click on Security tab. 




3. On select a zone to view or change security settings, Highlight and select Internet zone ( normally is highlighted by default).

4. Click on Custom level button under Security for this zone section.

5. A pop up window "Security setting Internet zone" will appear. Stroll down by using the down arrow located on the right side of the window and locate Display mixed content setting and click on enable.

6. Click OK and if you are asked to confirm to change the settings for this zone just click OK. 

7. Close Internet Explorer and you are done.

The next time you load up your Internet Explorer web browser, it will automatically display all secure or non-secure content on a web page without warning and the pop up message will not appear again.

Hope you find this tutorial useful to you.

Joe 
Sydney Australia.





Saturday 10 August 2013

HOW TO FIX WINDOWS 7 PCI DEVICE DRIVER ERROR ON PARALLELS DESKTOP VIRTUAL MACHINE FOR MAC.



Windows 7 PCI drivers are essential for Computers running on Windows 7 operating system. It influences the performance of your Computer in some ways especially if you are running Windows 7 on Parallels Desktop on your Mac. Usually when this error occurs, Windows 7 screen cannot go full size on Parallels Desktop. In this article I am going to show you how to fix Windows 7 PCI device driver error on your Mac without spending a dollar from your own pocket or investing in any hardware upgrades. Note: you can also detect this error on Windows 7 System Devices Manager. 



HOW TO FIX THE PROBLEM:

1. Click and open Parallels Desktop Virtual Machine. On the Parallels Desktop toolbar select Virtual Machine and click on Reinstall Parallels Tools.

2. Insert Parallels Desktop CD onto your optical disk drive.

3, Load and install Parallels Tool onto Windows 7.

4. Reboot Windows 7 and the problem are fixed.

Hope you find this article useful to you.

Good luck!

Joe
Sydney Australia.

HOW TO CHANGE USER FOLDER NAME OF A USER PROFILE IN WINDOWS 7


In this tutorial I am going to show you how to change the User folder name on your Computer running on Windows 7. If by chance you have mistyped the wrong characters on your computer by accident during installation of Windows 7 and wanted to change the name that you have mistyped or you are stuck with an unwanted computer/user name then you can follow this tutorial to change it to your desire user name. 

1. If you do not have another administrator account to use, then start by creating a new administrator account. Go to Control Panel and select User Account to create a new user account. Once you have done that you can then log off and reboot your Computer. Note: When you have finished with this tutorial, you can go and delete this newly created account.

2. Log on to an administrator account that is not the user account that you want to modify or change the name. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to C:/Users. Right click on the user profile folder that you want to change the name. A popup window will appear. Select Rename and type the name (new name) that you desire to change and press Enter. Note: If you are unable to rename the user folder for some reason, just reboot your computer into Safe Mode and try again. (For Mac computer press F8 + Fn keys and reboot into Safe Mode). Now close the Windows Explorer window and click on the Start Menu. On the empty Search programs and files box type regedit and press Enter.

3. In regedit, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows NT>CurrentVersion>ProfileList. Expand ProfileList and select each long number S-1-5-..... key one by one until you see the old user name that you want to change. Then right click on ProfileImagePath and click on Modify. Type on the new user account name and click OK. Then close regedit window.


4. Open Control Panel and click on User Accounts. Select Manage another account and click on the old user account that you want to change the name. Click on Change the account name and type in the new desire user name instead and click Change Name. Now you will notice that the user account name has been replaced with the new user name. Close the Change an Account popup window and you are done.

5. Log off and reboot your Computer. The next time your Computer boot up, you will notice that the User name has been renamed to a new one.

Hope you find this article useful to you.

Good luck!

Joe
Sydney Australia.