The Witcher 2: Assassins of King

I am so excited for waiting this game. Must prepare for the new system to get playing ^_^...

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is an upcoming sequel to The Witcher, developed by CD Projekt RED. Before Assassins of Kings was officially announced, a video showing the game was leaked on 16 September 2009. On September 18, 2009, CD Projekt RED officially confirmed that the game is in development for PC. On March 25, 2010, the first gameplay video was shown to the audience. They have also stated that they will likely release console versions of the game once development for the PC version is complete and a publisher has been found. While the game is being published by CD Projekt itself in Central Europe, distribution in North America will be handled by Atari. Publisher for West Europe will be NAMCO BANDAI.

CD Projekt has developed an new game engine for The Witcher 2 and, in the process, has redone many of the tools that the developers used to create the game. As a result, they hope to create a smoother play experience with faster combat and a more engrossing feel. The game should be available for the PC during the first part of 2011.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witcher_2:_Assassins_of_Kings
http://www.thewitcher.com/

Hide Icons in Sytem Tray

Sometimes, icons in sytray is so annoying. so that, I deleting the icons.. well.. not delete, just hide,.. and seek :p. PCOPtimizzer - July 30, 2010

Here are the steps to set the icons in sytem tray to be hidden. Actually, this is not so important. But sometime the icon looks like so faze. It doesn't affect to the system performance.
First, open registry editor from start menu by clicking windows button > run > and than type 'regedit' in run windows.
affter that, find this string in registry editor by expolring:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

In 'Explorer' key, create a new DWord value and name it as NoTrayItemsDisplay. As you can see in the image bellow.

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for value data in, set as 1. To deactivate the string, just set the valua data as 0.
Close registry editor and restart or log off the system to take the effect.

Task Manager Has Been Disabled, How to Fix It?

Task Manager Has Been Disabled By Your Administrator Step by Step Methods for Fixing Task Manager

Many times when working on a computer that has been infected with a virus, trojan, or piece of spyware I find myself with the Task Manager being disabled. Malware creators like to disable Task Manager so it makes solving the problem and removing the issue difficult.

If this happens you'll normally have to edit the Windows registry to fix the problem. A restriction has been placed on the user to not allow them to run Task Manager, this might be ok in an office environment where the IT department wants to control things, but in a home office this can cause major problems trying to fix a malware or virus issue.

Listed below you will find the many ways to reenable Task Manager along with an automatic method that works wonders.

To open the Task Manager, you normally would do one of the following:

• Press CTRL-ALT-DEL on the keyboard
• Press CTRL-SHIFT-ESC on the keyboard
• Right-click on a blank area on the start bar and choose Task Manager
• Click on Start, Run and type TASKMGR in the run box and press Enter
• Sometimes instead of Task Manager opening you'll see the following screen. In these cases, you'll have to follow the methods below to re-enable access to the Task Manager.
  

First we'll begin with the various registry modification methods for correcting this problem.

Method 1 - Using the Group Policy Editor in Windows XP Professional

• Click Start, Run, type gpedit.msc and click OK.
• Under User Configuration, Click on the plus (+) next to Administrative Templates
• Click on the plus (+) next tSystem, then click on Ctrl+Alt+Delete Options
• Find Remove Task Manager in the right-hand pane and double click on it
• Choose the option "Not Configured" and click Ok.
• Close the Group Policy Window

Method 2: Change the Task Manager Option through the Run line
Click on Start, Run and type the following command exactly and press Enter

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Method 3: Change Task Manager through a Registry REG file

• Click on Start, Run, and type Notepad and press Enter
• Copy and paste the information between the dotted lines into Notepad and save it to your desktop as taskmanager.reg
  

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"DisableTaskMgr"=dword:00000000
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• Double click on the taskmanager.reg file to enter the information into the Windows registry

Method 4: Delete the restriction in the registry manually

• Click on Start, Run, and type REGEDIT and press Enter
• Navigate to the following branch
  

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies\ System

• In the right pane, find and delete the value named DisableTaskMgr
• Close the registry editor
  

Method 5: Download and Run FixTaskManager program

1. Click on the following links and download the program FixTaskManager to your Desktop Main Site Backup Location
2. Double-click on the file FixTaskManager on your desktop and run it

Source: www.pchell.com

Clear Paging File

PCOptimizzer - February 28, 2010
For privacy reason and maybe security reason, 'paging file' is need to be cleared because people can exploring somebody's activity in computer from page file.
This is the steps to set page file automatically cleared from the computer after system shutdown.

• Open control panel menu from 'start windows> Control Panel'.

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• In classic view, click on 'administrative tools', such as the image below.

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• Click on 'local security policy', the new window will be shown as the image below.

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• In this window, click on 'local policies> security option'. In the right pane, search 'shutdown: clear virtual memmory page file' and double click.

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• Set to be Enabled and click OK.
  

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After that, the page file will be deleted after system shutdown

No Sound on Startup and Shutdown Windows

Sound is not played when computer is turned on and off, but sound such as music from media player or games are working correctly. PCOptimizzer - Jan 22, 2010

Maybe you ever have this problem with your computer. Sound properties in contol panel have been checked, but nothing wrong. Sound driver have been updated too, but still doesn't work. Despite this issue doesn't affect the functionality of the system.

I'll try to share something to do with my PC and the sound is working correctly. First open sound and audio properties from control panel. Click on Sound tab and set sound scheme to "No Sound", as you can see in the image below

Click Apply and Ok.
Second, you must check something in the registry editor. Find this entry: (Default) REG_SZ

The correct value is: (Default) REG_SZ (value not set)

If this entry is not the same with that, you must delete it by right clicking on your mouse and select delete. You can find this entry from HKEY_CURRENT_USER. You can see it in the right pane. See the image below (In the image is the correct entry)

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Close registry editor, restart computer and reset sound scheme to windows default.


I hope this is working with your computer.