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Byteback
PakSEF E-forum has started a second e-forum due to the recent high volume discussions on religion and science. It is called the Islamic Science Forum (www.yahoogroups.com/group/islamic_science/).
Relationship between Islam and science is a hot topic these days. Given the fact that most of us on the PakSEF E-forum are Pakistani Muslim scientists and engineers, we want to make it known that there is little friction between Islam and science.
Bringing about a harmonious relation between Islamic science and western science would go a long way in creating a progressive image of Islam, eventually neutralize the effect of the extreme right wing groups of Islam.
To join the PakSEF Islamic Science Forum (PakSEF-ISF) you can send a blank email to islamic_science-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
Abdulrahman Rafiq
Pakistan Science and Engineering Forum
Removing BIOS battery
Munib Shahid
Editor’s reply: The answer is no. By removing the battery of the motherboard you effectively erase everything that was being stored on the memory.
Recovering files
Agha Tauqir
Lahore
Editor’s reply: After you have scanned your system with antivirus for any viruses, install and program such as Ontrack Easy Recovery 6 or Recover4all. These will help you restore the older versions of the files.
Keyboard for symbol
Kamran Ali
Lahore
Editor’s reply: You may need to map the keyboard for Latin 1 or Latin 9 font map or use some software utilities such as Fontware available on the website www.fontware.co.uk/fontkey.htm.
Overclocking graphics card
Amir Jamal
Karachi
Editor’s reply: It is not recommended to overclock your onboard graphics card, however, read the manual that came with your motherboard to check if you happen to have a motherboard containing a BIOS that will allow the graphic bus speed and graphics chip clock speed to be increased. There are programs such as Powerstrip that helps in increasing the get a little boost power, however, it heats up your RAM causing your computer to shutdown.
Device file
Aizad Waheed Ahmad
Faisalabad
Editor’s reply: This usually happens when you abnormally delete any software, rather than using it’s uninstall program. It is suggested that you modify the system startup settings by typing “msconfig” at Start>Run. Go to the startup tab. Uncheck any of the software that you think are not relevant to the system. Press Apply and Restart. You can also look under the “Add/remove” of Control Panel, and see if any software exists that you might have deleted.
Multiple queries
1. How should I activate the Rich-Text editor on my hotmail account using Opera Browser?
2. Whenever I run the game “Age of Empires” it exits on its own and its display colours change to 256. Why?
3. Can I run “Counter-Strike 1.6” on a P2 with 64MB RAM?
Basil Andrews
Karachi
Editor’s reply: The answers to your questions are mentioned below:
1. Hotmail’s RTF has been designed to work with ActiveX plugins found in Internet Explorer. Opera/Firefox, and Mozilla related browsers don’t use ActiveX, and thus cannot use many of functionalities that IE takes for granted. Thus, to answer your question, to get hotmail’s RTF, you will have to use IE only.
2. There might be some problem with your display drivers. Get the latest drivers for your card from the company’s website. Secondly, ensure that you’re meeting the minimum system requirements.
3. It might if you use the lowest video modes available.
Restoring registry
Umair Shahzad
Editor’s reply: The only one way, aside from a fresh reinstallation of operating system, might be “System Restore.” However, this is also only possible if an Automatic System Recovery (ASR) backup exists only your system. Type restore in Run and then click on rstrui. Take your system back to the last checkpoint that was created by the system or the longer method:
Select Start, Programs (All Programs in XP) , Accessories, System Tools, System Restore to bring up the System Restore Wizard. To back up your Registry in the future, choose Create a restore point; to restore the Registry right now, select Restore my computer to an earlier time.
Rundll 32 error
Ali Sajjad
Hyderabad
Editor’s reply: There could be various reasons to this problem, ranging from incompatible or corrupt drivers to system requirements not being met to missing installation CD files and virus or corrupt system files. Also see if your video memory is enough for support the game. IF this is fine, than reinstall Windows. That will fix the problem.
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