Enable One Button Scanning From Brother MFC 7820n

The solution can be found at the Brother website for Windows XP to 7. It involves changing the Windows Firewall settings to open a port for incoming 7820n scan saves to the designated computer.

http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/BSC/public/us/ca/en/faq/faq/000000/002500/000097/faq002597_000.html?reg=us&c=ca&lang=en&prod=mfc7820n_all#step2sp2

Reset Laptop Wireless Radio To 802.11n

My 802.11n wireless laptop seemed sluggish when transferring files. I looked at the status of the connection and it was pegged at 54 Mbps which is the maximum throughput for 802.11g and no matter what I did with the laptop radio settings and the wireless router settings, it was stuck on 802.11g.

One note, since my cable internet connection gets up to 30 Mbps, having G does not affect my internet browsing, of course, unless there are several other wireless G connections browsing at the same time. So really, having N is only important when transferring files between computers on a home network, particularly during media streaming.

One other note, to achieve 802.11n maximum throughput of 300 Mbps, authentication settings have to be WPA or better. Specifically, WEP authentication limits throughput to 54 Mbps.

To reset the wireless N laptop connection stuck on 802,11g:

1. Start>Control Panel>Network and Sharing Center (Windows 7)
2. Click on Wireless Network Connection
3. Click on Wireless Properties
4. Click on the Security tab
5. Change Security Type to No Authentication (open). The authentication will reset and you will lose your connection.
6. Reconnect back to your wireless SSID and enter your password.

Checking the Status of your connection should reveal faster throughput to 802.11n.

Windows 7 Remote Desktop Reset To Full Screen

I often have Windows Remote Desktop (RDP) open to another computer and minimize it in the background. Since playing Starcraft II where the screen resolution changes, the RDP session reverts down to a lower resolution and is then enclosed in a window with scroll bars. It loses the original fullscreen appearance. There are several ways to resolve this.

1. A tedious but logical solution would be to close the RDP session, open the RDP application, click on Options, click on the Display tab and drag the Display Configuration back to Fullscreen. Then Connect.

2. The more elegant nonexistent Windows manual solution: While in the RDP session that has been downgraded from fullscreen, type Ctrl+Alt+Break.

3. What if your computer is a laptop without the Break key? Try Ctrl+Alt+Fn+End or Ctrl+Alt+Fn+Pause, where Fn=Function key.

Clean Install a Windows 7 Upgrade

You can clean install from Windows 7 Upgrade software. You don't need to pay for a full version, especially if you already paid for Windows XP.

My approach was to install into a faster and larger SATA hard drive, specifically a Seagate 1.0 T drive and leave my XP system in my old drive intact.

I went into BIOS and configured it to boot from my NEC DVD/CD drive first, after placing my Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade disk into the drive. The Windows 7 install loaded, and I chose my new drive as the destination for the new Operating System install.

I did not immediately put in my serial and activate the software during the install process to be safe, but I think it would have probably been OK since the Install Software did detect that my old drive had an OS System in it.

After installation has completed, update everything through Windows Update and then Activate it by right clicking on Computer and choosing Properties.


http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/clean_install_upgrade_media.asp

Disable Subtitles in MKV Files

Certain MKV video files automatically display subtitles in Windows Media Player, VLC Media Player, and Media Player Classic. If you carefully notice, there are actually 2 subtitles being displayed, one large and behind it, another one very small. Procedures to disable the subtitles are below.

Windows Media Player and Media Player Classic: To remove or disable the unwanted subtitles, simply disabling it within the media player does nothing.

Go to the Codec folder Start>All Programs>eg CCCP or K-Lite>Filters

Select VSFilter Configuration

Click on the General tab

Select Do Not Load in the Loading section

Click OK

Go to the Codec folder Start>All Programs>eg CCCP or K-Lite>Filters

Select FFDShow Video Decoder Configuration

Click on the Subtitles box on the left sided menu to uncheck/deselect/disable Subtitles

Click OK

VLC Media Player: Do the 2 above procedures and within VLC Media Player, while playing each MKV video, right click on the video and select Subtitle Track>Disable

Filezilla FTP Client Drag and Drop a Download Gives an Error

Windows XP OS.

After newly installing the freeware Filezilla FTP Client version 3.2.6.1, an error occurs stating, "Could not determine the target of the Drag&Drop operation. Either the shell extension is not installed properly or you didn't drop the files into an Explorer window." While in an FTP server, dragging a file for download directly to the desktop causes the error. The error does not occur if you dragged a file for download into the Filezilla directory on the left half of the application window. I read several solutions. One solution was to run cmd and register the shell extension, the other solution, reboot the computer. After fudging with the cmd lines, and not succeeding because Windows kept giving an error about my command syntax, I decided to reboot the computer and drag and drop worked without an error.

Working solution: Reboot.

Sources:
http://trac.filezilla-project.org/ticket/4385
http://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8607

Outlook Express Spell Check Language is French

There is an oversight of Microsoft and no apparent reaction from them regarding Outlook Express' default language for spell checking apparently being French (France). This is a problem if Office 2007 is installed, particularly if you have a trial version on a new computer. Most users let it expire and use Outlook Express, but having pre-loaded crapware such as Outlook 2007, the updated 2007 dictionaries are incompatible with "outdated" and "neglected" Outlook Express. The fix is to install and older version of the dictionary from and older version of Office. If you never bought one, Microsoft gives you the finger and you are are SOL and better start learning French. Alternative to a Microsoft dictionary is to get a free dictionary for Outlook Express such as Snapfiles.

Procedure to fix the dictionary for Outlook Express are to do a custom install from an older version of Office with the languages needed. Link.

Sources:
http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2006/20061228.htm
http://blogs.chron.com/helpline/archives/2007/04/outlook_express_1.html
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932974
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/spelloe.html