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Have you tired entering question “How to search unknown driver for hardware ?” into search engine? Or, you might forget to back up your computer driver CD or lost it somewhere. Meanwhile, you just did a fresh installation of operating system. For that problem, I have solution that you might find useful in your daily routine involving hardware driver installing process.

1. Open Device Manager in your computer/laptop. Click Start, then right click on My Computer, then click Properties.

After System Properties dialog box pop-up, choose Hardware tab and then choose Device Manager.

2. On Device Manager, right click on the unknown hardware driver. Click Details tab.
You can find keyword needed to identify the device. In this case, the keyword is “VEN_14F1&DEV_2BFA”. Having this keyword, we know that the Vendor Code is 14F1 and the Device Code is 2BFA.

3. Then, open PCIdatabase.com website, this is a popular website providing information about computer device. Enter the Vendor Code or the Device Code to start the searching process. For your information, PCIdatabase.com only provides information about the device, you can also find URL to download the driver most of the time. In case there is no URL, just search the required driver in the Internet. Having information about the device name, IMHO, is enough to retrieve several links from search engine.

I hope this information can be useful for you.

I just found this image in my computer. I don’t remember where I got this image. One thing for sure is that the image depicts the internet speeds and costs around the world. I am not sure in which year the graphic was created. It was probably around 2008-2009. The graphic contains top 20 Nations in ITIF Broadband Rankings.

What I can understand from the image is that Japan has been penetrated with 61mbps internet connection and the cost is only $0.27/month. YES, IT’S TRUE. WOWWWW!!!!. Well, sorry for my hysterical response. I couldn’t help it. Indonesia is not even in the top 20, not to mention the internet cost.

I thought The Netherlands would be in the top 5 countries for Internet speed and costs (I lived in The Netherlands for 3 years), but I was wrong. The Top 5 countries were Japan, Korea, Finland, Sweden, and France (61mbps, 46mbps, 22mbps, 18.2mbps, and 17.6mbps, respectively). Netherlands was in sixth position. How about USA? Uncle Sam was behind Iceland and Germany (4.8mbps). In the 20th position was Greece.

I almost forgot to mention that about 60% of Japanese (approximately 76 million people out of 125 million people, data 2009) has access to this broadband internet connection. In USA, only about 8%-10% of American (approximately 27 million people out of 308 million people, estimated data 2010) has the access to the broadband internet connection.

I hope the cheap and fast broadband internet connection will penetrate Indonesia in near future.

You might a little paranoid when someone is trying to access their flash disk, external hard disk, or CD/DVD in your personal computer or laptop. You do not have clues of where those media have been “traveling”. They could be infected by malware from computer somewhere.
Worse, you might not know that when you plug your flash disk, hard disk or trying to access your CD/DVD, Windows will do autorun by default. What is autorun? Autorun is a process run by operating system when a drive is mounted. In most of the time, virus was also trying to execute itself when autorun is running.
What the malware would do to computer? Well, the bottom line is your productivity will decrease and not to mention, your stress level could be skyrocketing.
Then, how to disable Windows autorun? You could try these steps:

• Click Start button
• Click Run
• Type GPEDIT.MSC. Then Group Policy screen will appear
• On Computer Configuration dan User Configuration menu, click Administrative templates
• Click System
• Right click on Turn On Autoplay, choose Properties. Then the Turn on Autoplay propeties screen will appear
• In Setting tab, pilih Enabled
• In Turn off Autoplay on column, chooseAll drives
• Click Ok

Well, good luck trying!