Problem with sleep option ( Computes wakes up automatically after few mins)

After installing few windows updates on the Windows 7, my system started behaving weirdly that it wakes up automatically within few minutes after I put the system in sleep mode.

After some research and troubleshooting following solved my problem 


Device Manager à Network adaptersà wireless adapter (select speific wireless) and uncheck the “Allow this device to wake this computer” option

Resources

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Sleep-and-hibernation-frequently-asked-questions

Switching between Integrated Intel Graphics HD 4000 and Nvidia graphics

Came across the following related to the behavior of graphic cards in laptops/desktops.

my system have both integrated intel graphics and also Nvidia graphics card and I was under impression that I am using the Nvidia graphics card but later realized that most of the times system is using the Intel graphics card .

After some research found that the Nvidia graphics card uses its “Optimus Technology” to switch between the integrated intel graphics with Nvidia graphics to save the battery life.

Based on above , never be able to use the Nvidia graphics unless you play 3D games or connecting to external desktops ..etc (Offcourse there is way you can specify which programs can use the Nvidia but still screen will always uses the intel graphics)

I have disabled the “Nvidia Optimus Technology” in BIOS settings as Nvidia graphics has dedicated RAM and I will be on the power cable most of the times instead of on battery to get most out of the Nvidia graphics card.

Resources:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/optimus_technology.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Optimus

DDR 3 memory – clock speed

Recently started looking recent technology and hardware changes , learned few interesting things

Was thinking DDR 3 means triple channel memory but as name stands DDR(Dual data rate)  all DDR , DDR2 and DDR3 are just dual channel memories only

And also regarding advertised clock speed of these like DDR3 1333mhz , 1600mhz and 1866mhz , are not the real clock speeds.

DDR3 1866mhz RAM runs at 930 to 933 mhz on each channel and combined 1866mhz.

Oracle Buys Web Content Management Company Fatwire Software

Oracle has just announced a new acquisition today—web experience management company Fatwire Software. Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close mid-2011, were not disclosed.

Fatwire Software’s web content and experience management software powers web presence for organizations, allowing them to deliver relevant customer content, build community engagement and drive site stickiness and loyalty. FatWire currently serves more than 500 customers in industries, including financial services, media, technology, manufacturing, public sector, retail, healthcare and more.

The acquisition will be used to offer Oracle clients improve online engagement across web, mobile and social channels, through website optimizations.

Oracle’s also acquired ATG recently ClickHere for more details

Run Commands In Windows XP

Various commands you can access by going through START-->RUN or Simply Click Windows Key+R

Accessibility Controls - access.cpl

Accessibility Wizard - accwiz

Add Hardware - Wizardhdwwiz.cpl

Add/Remove Programs - appwiz.cpl

Administrative Tools control - admintools

Adobe Acrobat (if installed) - acrobat

Adobe Designer (if installed)- acrodist

Adobe Distiller (if installed)- acrodist

Adobe ImageReady (if installed)- imageready

Adobe Photoshop (if installed)- photoshop

Automatic Updates - wuaucpl.cpl

Bluetooth Transfer Wizard – fsquirt

Calculator - calc

Certificate Manager - certmgr.msc

Character Map - charmap

Check Disk Utility - chkdsk

Clipboard Viewer - clipbrd

Command Prompt - cmd

Component Services - dcomcnfg

Computer Management - compmgmt.msc

Control Panel - control

Date and Time Properties - timedate.cpl

DDE Shares - ddeshare

Device Manager - devmgmt.msc

Direct X Control Panel (If Installed)- directx.cpl

Direct X Troubleshooter- dxdiag

Disk Cleanup Utility- cleanmgr

Disk Defragment- dfrg.msc

Disk Management- diskmgmt.msc

Disk Partition Manager- diskpart

Display Properties (w/Appearance Tab Preselected)- control color

Display Properties- control desktop

Display Properties- desk.cpl

Dr. Watson System Troubleshooting Utility- drwtsn32

Driver Verifier Utility- verifier

Event Viewer- eventvwr.msc

File Signature Verification Tool- sigverif

Files and Settings Transfer Tool- migwiz

Findfast- findfast.cpl

Firefox (if installed)- firefox

Folders Properties- control folders

Fonts- control fonts

Fonts Folder- fonts

Free Cell Card Game- freecell

Game Controllers- joy.cpl

Group Policy Editor (XP Prof)- gpedit.msc

Hearts Card Game- mshearts

Help and Support- helpctr

HyperTerminal- hypertrm

Iexpress Wizard- iexpress

Indexing Service- ciadv.msc

Internet Connection Wizard- icwconn1

Internet Explorer- iexplore

Internet Properties- inetcpl.cpl

Internet Setup Wizard- inetwiz

IP Configuration (Delete DNS Cache Contents)- ipconfig /flushdns

IP Configuration (Display Connection Configuration) - ipconfi/all

IP Configuration (Display DHCP Class ID)- ipconfig/showclassid

IP Configuration (Display DNS Cache Contents)- ipconfig /displaydns

IP Configuration (Modifies DHCP Class ID)- ipconfig /setclassid

IP Configuration (Release All Connections)- ipconfig /release

IP Configuration (Renew All Connections)- ipconfig /renew

IP Configuration(RefreshesDHCP&Re-RegistersDNS)-ipconfig/registerdns

Java Control Panel (If Installed)- javaws

Java Control Panel (If Installed)- jpicpl32.cpl

Keyboard Properties - control keyboard

Local Security Settings - secpol.msc

Local Users and Groups - lusrmgr.msc

Logs You Out Of Windows - logoff.....

Malicious Software Removal Tool - mrt

Microsoft Access (if installed) - access.cpl

Microsoft Chat - winchat

Microsoft Excel (if installed) - excel

Microsoft Frontpage (if installed)- frontpg

Microsoft Movie Maker - moviemk

Microsoft Paint - mspaint

Microsoft Powerpoint (if installed)- powerpnt

Microsoft Syncronization Tool - mobsync

Microsoft Word (if installed)- winword

Minesweeper Game - winmine

Mouse Properties - control mouse

Mouse Properties - main.cpl

Nero (if installed)- nero

Netmeeting - conf

Network Connections - control netconnections

Network Connections - ncpa.cpl

Network Setup Wizard - netsetup.cpl

Notepad - notepad

Nview Desktop Manager (If Installed)- nvtuicpl.cpl

Object Packager - packager

ODBC Data Source Administrator- odbccp32.cpl

On Screen Keyboard - osk

Opens AC3 Filter (If Installed) - ac3filter.cpl

Outlook Express - msimn

Paint – pbrush

Password Properties - password.cpl

Performance Monitor - perfmon.msc

Phone and Modem Options - telephon.cpl

Phone Dialer - dialer

Pinball Game - pinball

Power Configuration - powercfg.cpl

Printers and Faxes - control printers

Printers Folder – printers

Private Character Editor - eudcedit

Quicktime (If Installed)- QuickTime.cpl

Real Player (if installed)- realplay

Regional Settings - intl.cpl

Registry Editor - regedit

Registry Editor - regedit32

Remote Access Phonebook - rasphone

Remote Desktop - mstsc

Removable Storage - ntmsmgr.msc

Removable Storage Operator Requests - ntmsoprq.msc

Resultant Set of Policy (XP Prof) - rsop.msc

Scanners and Cameras - sticpl.cpl

Scheduled Tasks - control schedtasks

Security Center - wscui.cpl

Services - services.msc

Shared Folders - fsmgmt.msc

Shuts Down Windows - shutdown

Sounds and Audio - mmsys.cpl

Spider Solitare Card Game - spider

SQL Client Configuration - cliconfg

System Configuration Editor - sysedit

System Configuration Utility - msconfig

System File Checker Utility (Purge File Cache)- sfc /purgecache

System File Checker Utility (Return to Default Setting)- sfc /revert

System File Checker Utility (Scan Immediately)- sfc /scannow

System File Checker Utility (Scan On Every Boot) - sfc /scanboot

System File Checker Utility (Scan Once At Next Boot)- sfc /scanonce

System File Checker Utility (Set Cache Size to size x)-sfc/cachesize=x

System Information - msinfo32.

System Properties - sysdm.cpl

Task Manager – taskmgr

Task Manager – taskmgr

TCP Tester - tcptest

Telnet Client - telnet

Tweak UI (if installed) - tweakui

User Account Management- nusrmgr.cpl

Utility Manager - utilman

Windows Address Book - wab

Windows Address Book Import Utility - wabmig

Windows Backup Utility (if installed)- ntbackup

Windows Explorer - explorer

Windows Firewall- firewall.cpl

Windows Magnifier- magnify

Windows Management Infrastructure - wmimgmt.msc

Windows Media Player - wmplayer

Windows Messenger - msmsgs

Windows Picture Import Wizard (need camera connected)- wiaacmgr

Windows System Security Tool – syskey

Windows Update Launches - wupdmgr

Windows Version (to show which version of windows)- winver

Windows XP Tour Wizard - tourstart

Wordpad - write

Yahoo mail search tips

You can also use the minus sign (“-”) to remove specific messages from your search results. For example:

• To find messages that mention a person but aren’t from that person, type:
  person -from:person
• To find messages containing specific text, but not from a specific user, type:
  text -from:user
• To find messages containing specific text that do not contain other specific text, type:
  text -otherText

Header Shortcuts

Shortcut	Description	Examples
To:, Cc:, Bcc:	Search your folders for a specific recipient. You can use a name, a fragment at the beginning of a name, or a full first and last name in quotes (if the mail was sent with the full name in the To: field). No space after the colon.	to:mary cc:ma bcc:“Mary Poppins”
From:	The From: shortcut can be used to search for a specific sender. You can use a name, a fragment at the beginning of a name, or a full name in quotes (if the mail was sent with the full name in the From: field). Use quotes for full names.	from:Mikki from:mi from:“Mikki Tucker”
Subject:	The Subject: shortcut can be used to search for messages containing specific text in the subject. Use quotes for multiple-word subjects.	subject:dinner subject:“favorite route”

Attachment Shortcuts
The attachment shortcuts can be used to search for properties of an attachment.

Shortcut	Description	Examples
attachment:	Search for text inside any text-based attachment (it can’t search for words in a picture).	attachment:reservation attachment:“great year”
attachmentname:	Search for messages containing attachments with the specified text in the filename.	attachmentname:reservation attachmentname:resume attachmentname:“final results”
attachmentcount:	Search for messages with a specified number of attachments. To find messages with more or less than a specific number of attachments, use the greater-than or less-than symbol.	attachmentcount:1 attachmentcount:>0 attachmentcount:<5
attachmenttype:	Search for messages containing a certain type of attachment (for example PDFs). Your choices are: .pdf file: pdf .doc or .rtf file: msword .xls, .xlsb, xlsm, .xlsx: excel .txt: text .bmp,.gif, .jpg, .png, tiff: image .bmp: bmp .jpg: jpeg .gif: gif .png: png .tif, .tiff: tiff .mpg, .mpeg (MPEG movie): mpeg	attachmenttype:pdf attachmenttype:msword attachmenttype:excel attachmenttype:text attachmenttype:image attachmenttype:jpeg
attachmentlanguages:	Search for attachments in a specific language. Your choices are: Chinese: cn French: fr German: de Indian: in Japanese: jp Korean: kr Spanish: es	attachmentlanguages:it

Gmail Search Tips

You can also use advanced search operators by clicking on Show search options beneath the Gmail search box.

Operator	Definition	Example(s)
from:	Used to specify the sender	Example: from:amy Meaning: Messages from Amy
to:	Used to specify a recipient	Example: to:david Meaning: All messages that were sent to David (by you or someone else)
subject:	Search for words in the subject line	Example: subject:dinner Meaning: Messages that have the word "dinner" in the subject
OR	Search for messages matching term A or term B* *OR must be in all caps	Example: from:amy OR from:david Meaning: Messages from Amy or from David
- (hyphen)	Used to exclude messages from your search	Example: dinner -movie Meaning: Messages that contain the word "dinner" but do not contain the word "movie"
label:	Search for messages by label* *There isn't a search operator for unlabeled messages	Example: from:amy label:friends Meaning: Messages from Amy that have the label "friends" Example: from:david label:my-family Meaning: Messages from David that have the label "My Family"
has:attachment	Search for messages with an attachment	Example: from:david has:attachment Meaning: Messages from David that have an attachment
list:	Search for messages on mailing lists	Example: list:info@example.com Meaning: Messages with the words info@example.com in the headers, sent to or from this list
filename:	Search for an attachment by name or type	Example: filename:physicshomework.txt Meaning: Messages with an attachment named "physicshomework.txt" Example: label:work filename:pdf Meaning: Messages labeled "work" that also have a PDF file as an attachment
" " (quotes)	Used to search for an exact phrase* *Capitalization isn't taken into consideration	Example: "i'm feeling lucky" Meaning: Messages containing the phrase "i'm feeling lucky" or "I'm feeling lucky" Example: subject:"dinner and a movie" Meaning: Messages containing the phrase "dinner and a movie" in the subject
( )	Used to group words Used to specify terms that shouldn't be excluded	Example: from:amy (dinner OR movie) Meaning: Messages from Amy that contain either the word "dinner" or the word "movie" Example: subject:(dinner movie) Meaning: Messages in which the subject contains both the word "dinner" and the word "movie"
in:anywhere	Search for messages anywhere in Gmail* *Messages in Spam and Trash are excluded from searches by default	Example: in:anywhere movie Meaning: Messages in All Mail, Spam, and Trash that contain the word "movie"
in:inbox in:trash in:spam	Search for messages in Inbox, Trash, or Spam	Example: in:trash from:amy Meaning: Messages from Amy that are in Trash
is:important label:important	Search within messages that Priority Inbox considers important.	Example: is:important from:janet Meaning: Messages from Janet that were marked as important by Priority Inbox
is:starred is:unread is:read	Search for messages that are starred, unread or read	Example: is:read is:starred from:David Meaning: Messages from David that have been read and are marked with a star
cc: bcc:	Used to specify recipients in the cc: or bcc: fields* *Search on bcc: cannot retrieve messages on which you were blind carbon copied	Example: cc:david Meaning: Messages that were cc-ed to David
after: before:	Search for messages sent during a certain period of time* *Dates must be in yyyy/mm/dd format.	Example: after:2004/04/16 before:2004/04/18 Meaning: Messages sent between April 16, 2004 and April 18, 2004.* *More precisely: Messages sent after 12:00 AM (or 00:00) April 16, 2004 and before April 18, 2004.
is:chat	Search for chat messages	Example: is:chat monkey Meaning: Any chat message including the word "monkey".
deliveredto:	Search for messages within a particular email address in the Delivered-To line of the message header	Example: deliveredto:username@gmail.com Meaning: Any message with username@gmail.com in the Delivered-To: field of the message header (which can help you find messages forwarded from another account or ones sent to an alias).