Enable Wireless (Wi-Fi) in Windows Server 2008 (R2) To Fix No Connections Available Error

After installing Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2, the wireless adapter or WiFi adapter is not working or functioning. System cannot detect or see any wireless networks
with no wireless networks available error message, and system cannot connect to Internet
or wireless LAN.

To make matter worse, users have installed the proper signed driver for the wireless adapter, either through Windows Update, drivers CD from vendor or download latest and correct driver from OEM or manufacturer’s website. In Device Manager, the wireless or WiFi network adapter is working properly. And, when using Windows Server built-in diagnostics feature to troubleshoot the no wireless connection problem, it indicates that the wireless adapter is either having driver or hardware issue.

The cause of the no wireless connection is that Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 disables and turns off Wireless LAN service by default, which supports the wireless WLAN Auto Configuration service, and configures WLAN AutoConfig for automatic startup.

In order to turn on Wireless LAN and WLAN AutoConfig service in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, go to Server Manager (in Administrator Tools). Go to Features branch and click on Add Features. Click and tick the check box for Wireless LAN Service. Complete the installation wizard to install wireless support.



The Wireless LAN Service configures the WLAN AutoConfig service to start automatically, regardless of whether the computer has any IEEE 802.11 wireless adapters installed. When enabled, WLAN AutoConfig enumerates every wireless network adapter installed on the computer, manages IEEE 802.11 wireless connections, and manages the wireless connection profiles that contain the settings required to configure a wireless client to connect to a wireless network. WLAN AutoConfig allows user to connect to an existing wireless network (data encryption key or network key may be required), change wireless network connection settings, configure a connection to a new wireless network, and specify preferred wireless networks. WLAN AutoCofig also notifies user when new wireless networks are available. When switching wireless networks, WLAN AutoConfig dynamically updates your wireless network adapter settings to match the settings of that new network and a network connection attempt will be made.

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Optimize And Maintain Windows With Free Perfect Utilities

Probably you might need to run several utilities tools to figure out what have been gone wrong with your Windows OS and do some fixing on it. Now you may try out Perfect Utilities as an alternative to your existing utilities tools. Perfect Utilities is a simple and user friendly tool that will optimize your PC and fix computer problems like slow speed, blue screen, deadlock errors and etc. It also able to maintain system stability, security, keeps system running smoothly and improves the overall performance.


he Perfect Utilities is featured with more than 20 systems optimization and cleaning tools including Junk File Cleaner, Registry Cleaner, Disk Cleaner, Memory Optimizer, System Information, Registry Backup Tool, File Encryption Tool, Safe Uninstaller, Duplicate File Finder, File Shredder, File Recovery Tool, Disk Defragment Tool and etc. All of the tools have been organized into categories and provides graphical statistics whenever possible.

Perfect Utilities includes the following features:

* Repair more than 99% of computer problems like deadlock, blue screen and comprehensively improve its potential performance.
* Optimize your hard disk, memory and whole Windows system to give your computer maximum performance.
* Lower the probability of errors like pops, deadlock and others to boost your PC efficiency.
* Clean up all junk files to free up disk space and improve the performance of your computer.
* Repair the bugs that cause IE malfunction, clean up all IE history to protect your privacy and optimize data transmission to improve your web surfing speed.
* Clean up your computer history to avoid leaving your privacy and personal information like Account, Password, Credit Card Number and others vulnerable to the public.
* Manage Windows startup applications to keep your Windows fast and secure.
* Remove the installed applications that you no longer need to save valuable disk space while keeping your device clean and trouble-free.
* Provides you with the Backup and Undo option to easily recover any changes so you can restore your Windows Registry to a previous state.
* Scan your system and display the update option to help enjoy the latest advances in technology and protect your computer.
* Get Full Optimization for your PC in a minute and you will get faster PC, more disk space, all unused files removed and all issues broken fixed.
* Optimize RAM and boost your system performance up to 200% by cleaning the content of your RAM and let you know the CPU information, memory usage and applications running on your computer.
* Offers you with the One-Click Maintenance, an all-in-one system maintenance tool that will repair, optimize and protect your computer to improve its overall performance.

Perfect Utilities is compatible with Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7. It is available as a freeware.

Download Prefect Utilities: Perfect Utilities v2.01 (en) and Perfect Utilities v2.01 (zh_CN).

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Download Free ConvertToWMV To Convert Video File To Microsoft Windows Media Video (WMV) Format

Are you looking for an application that converts any video file to Microsoft Windows Media Video (WMV) format? There are tons of video conversion software utilities (aff) that can help on this. Here is a simple yet useful utility that you may try out, known as ConvertToWMV. ConvertToWMV is a free Windows application that converts almost any video file to Microsoft Windows Media Video (WMV) format.


ConvertToWMV has been designed with an intuitive and easy to use graphical user interface for communication with video processing command line tool FFmpeg. In order to start the conversion, the users can simply press the Import button to locate a video file or drag a video file onto the ConvertToWMV application window. The users have the option to choose the output video bit rate as well as the video size before converting. Processing of a video file is performed by FFmpeg in command prompt. Depending on the video size, it may take several minutes to complete the conversion. Once completed, the users can simply double click on the video file name in the “Conversion output” window, then a popup media player window will start playing the converted video.

In addition, ConvertToWMV is also features with “Output JPEG frame” option which will result in a video frame being captured from the video as a jpeg image. The video frame is captured by default at the 1 second position.

Download Free ConvertToWMV

Note: FFmpeg is a free software which developed by Fabrice Bellard that can record, convert and stream digital audio and video in numerous formats. The software is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License or GNU General Public License.

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Highlight and Add Sticky Notes To Web Pages Via WebNotes

One great disadvantage about e-reading is you can’t highlight the electronic material or add some notes to them. Of course you can print out the content to make remarks, annotate notes, add comments, etc. However, it consumes time and incurs printing costs if you do so. Furthermore, it creates a lot of hassle for you to compile, organize and store the printout. To make life easier and to overcome the problem, users can try the free e-material highlighter or sticky note. That is how the idea for Webnotes service comes about.



Available free in the basic version, users can sign up with WebNotes to create a personal account. Once the account is created, users can download and install the WebNotes toolbar in the browser. There are various useful buttons available at the toolbar. Users can click the Highlighter button to activate the feature. To highlight some important parts in a page, users just need to drag their mouse across the texts and the highlighted effect will be shown immediately. Users can choose yellow, orange, blue or green to make the marking.


Highlight Important Notes with Various Colors

Besides highlighting important text, users also can click on to the “Sticky Note” button to create annotations and stick on the page.

Stick Note

Users can save the pages appended with notes and highlighted points, or share with others. Users particularly educationists , researchers, students, writers and analysts will find the services in WebNotes useful and practical to record and organize information for future use. Students, for instance, can highlight the key points in some articles and share these within their study group.

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PCI Express 3.0 Specifications Release Pushed Out to 2010

PCI Express
3.0 is a newly enhanced specification that is expected to be released by this year. However, a recent announcement from Al Yanes, PCI SIG President has confirmed that the specifications release date will be pushed out to next year due to additional time and effort needed to testify and ensure its backward compatibility capability with existing PCI-Express based products.

If you recall, PCI Express 2.0 is clocking at 5GHz which is twice as fast as its first generation PCI Express 1.0 stuck at 2.5GHz. However, due to nature of its 8 and 10-bit data encoding scheme, there is overhead that is needed to be compensated and hence the effective bandwidth is only at 4GTps for PCI Express 2.0, which is no longer sufficient for high end graphics card and gaming requirements. Now with the new definition and technology shift, PCI Express has able to achieved 3.0 specification with bus speed scaling up to 8GHz. Besides, the new data encoding schmets at 128-bit and 130-bit has managed to eliminate the overhead required, boosting the effective bandwidth to 7.99GTps suitable for more intensive graphics requirements.

Regardless of its full capability, there is a need to ensure the new specification is fully backward compatible with existing version which is one of the main reasons that contribute to the delay. Nevertheless, we should expect the new specification to be finalized and released by second quarter of 2010, with the new PCI Express 3.0 compliant devices available by 2011.

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Optimizing Windows Memory Usage with Minimem

Running too many applications
can cause computer performance to slow down or even crashed. Most of the times you need to identify and close applications that consume a lot of memory usage or reboot
computer in order to solve the performance issue. Instead of taking action only when you encounter the slowdown issue, now there is a utility, named as Minimem that is able to proactively optimizes processes by reducing memory usage running in background.


Minimem is a free utility that is originally designed to reduce memory usage caused by Firefox only, but now it has been enhanced to optimize memory usage for any other applications by staying at system tray and running silently in the background. You can configure to optimize as many processes as you preferred and at the same time, it provides you some options to configure the interval to optimize memory regularly, do not optimize if overall RAM available is more than the specific memory usage as well as do not optimize the foreground process. Once processes are selected to be optimized, it will optimize memory by removing as many of non-necessary pages as possible on every interval in order to ensure low CPU usage at all times. These removed pages will only be loaded back whenever there are needed to further optimize the overall system by fully-utilizing the memory usage.

Minimem version 1.3 (minimem1.3.msi) by minimem.kerkia.net has a user-friendly GUI and doesn’t require any special skill to operate, it is tested and confirmed running well on Windows XP 32 bits
SP3 and should support all Windows versions. The only pre-requisite to run Minimem is you must have .Net Framework 2.0 installed on your computer.

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Apple 3G S iPhones Potentially Capable of Running Full HD 1080p Media Clips

Previously we mentioned about the teardown analysis that showed a 720p HD capable processor being embedded in Apple latest’s iPhone 3G S, but in actual fact, the processor is claimed to be capable of delivering 1080p full HD media decode capability based on testing conducted by a forum member at Weiphone.


During the testing, a full HD with 1920 X 1080 resolution media clip was copied from PC then played in iPhone and surprisingly, it is claimed to be able to run smoothly at 30 fps (Frame per second) without any lagging. Furthermore, the media playback was run on its original iPhone player without any tweaking or third party software assist. If this is true, quite interesting and wonder why Apple Inc doesn’t advertise its full capability as the best mobile device in terms of media playback. Some do speculate that the main concerns could be due to the excessive power drawn when the processor was run at full speed, which eventually impact the battery life to be used as a conventional mobile device. Besides, HD video generally consumes much more storage space and can easily take up the full capacity available even at 32GB maximum storage.

Nevertheless, with current capability of

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