General Computer tips

1) How to avoid wireless not detected while waking the computer from sleep in Win 7?

i) Go to Control Panel
    type wireless
    Select Device Manager
    Network Adapters
      Intel Wireless - Double click
       Power management
         Disable "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power"

ii) Go to Control Panel
    type power options and select it.
    power saver -> change plan settings
   change advanced power settings
   Wireless Adapter settings
    power saving mode,
    on battery: select maximum performance


  

2) How to have fast remote connection from Windows to fedora?

    Go to Fedora, Install the following

    i) yum install xrdp.i686
   ii) /etc/init.d/xrdp start
   iii) Go to Windows, Open Remote Desktop connection
         Enter Fedora IP address, click connect

         Enter Fedora username and password


3) If your keyboard gets num locked(abcdefgh51230n6*qrst4vwxyz), try the following
 
  i) press NumLk or
  ii) press Fn + NumLk or
  iii) Press Shift + NumLk


4) How to kill all the background Firefox process in windows 7

   open the cmd prompt and type
   taskkill /IM firefox.exe /F

Type "taskkill /IM firefox.exe /F" to the right of the command prompt and then press "Enter." This kills all running Firefox processes on the computer.