Create a bootable CD or DVD with or without floppy

With the CD-ROM available on almost every computer nowaday, floppy drives become a history. However, for those who find computers a hobby, might run into a situation when they need to create a bootable CD that works just like the old floppy disk. Unfortunately, to do this, you still need a floppy drive to read your bootup floppy disk. Wait, the good news is, you can just down load a bootable ISO image and burn it to a CD. And even better, we have a copy of an ISO image right. You can download this image and follow the instructions below, or you can do a web search for more options.

The information on this article will guide you step-by-step how to create a bootable CD/DVD, either using a bootup floppy disk or a boot image file. You will end up having a bootable CD or DVD, with CD-ROM driver supported, that could startup your PC and bring up the command prompt. This is going to be a good starting point, then you can run other utilities such as hard drive ghost, etc..

Many current CD/DVD burning software support the bootable feature. If you already have your favorite burning software, look around to find the bootable option. For this article, I will use the steps and sample screen-shots with the burning tool called Nero.

You will need a boot disk (floppy) or a bootable ISO image to start. If you don't have one, you can download an ISO image . This boot image is Windows-98 based, which means it uses the Windows 98 bootup sequence, which should do what we need. You can also download different boot disk images from the internet. I've found bootdisk.com has a very good collection.

I assume that you already have Nero installed. Also, it is highly recommended to use a rewritable disc so you can redo the process if you have to.

1. Launch Nero Burning ROM
2. At the New Compilation Window, select "CD" from the drop-down menu and select "CD-ROM (Boot)" for CD, (or select "DVD" and "DVD-ROM (Boot)" for DVD)
3. If you use a bootup floppy disk, insert the floppy disk and select "Bootable logical drive..."
4. If you use an image file, select "Image File" then click "Browse" to browse to the image. At the "Open" Window, browse to the location where you saved the boot image and choose the image you wish to use and click "Open" (you might need to change the "Files of type" to "All Files" in order to see files with different extensions.)
5. Click "New" at the New Compilation Window.
6. Nero New Compilation Window disappears and Nero brings up its main screen where you can add more files to the CD/DVD if you wish. For example, adding a "ghost" folder with the file "ghost.exe" as follows.
   Once you're done adding all the files you wish to, click on the "Burn" icon.
   
7. At the "Burn Compilation" Window, select "Burn"!

5 Lesser Known Browser Tips and Tricks

Triple-click to select paragraph
To select an entire paragraph, such as this one, left click on it three times. This works in IE and Firefox (but not in Opera, however it might work in others like Safari or Konqueror). From there you can press CTRL+C to copy and paste into Notepad, Word or wherever you wish.
CTRL+F5 to force-reload
You’ve heard the phrase a million times, "Clear your cookies/cache and restart browser to view X properly." Most of the time the same thing can be done via a CTRL+F5. The F5 is to refresh the page. When used in combination with CTRL it overrides the cache and loads everything as new.The CTRL+F5 function to the best of my knowledge universally does the same thing across all web browsers.
CTRL+H to view history
It’s true you can view browser history simply by examining the address bar, but if you want to see where you’ve visited by day, most visited and so on, you need look at the browser history. This is done in IE or Firefox via CTRL+H. This opens up a sidebar with all your history in it.
Jumping to tab by number
Each tab you have open in your browser is assigned a numerical value. You can easily jump to the first 9 by pressing CTRL and the corresponding number.
For example, if you have three tabs open and want to jump to tab 2, press CTRL+2.
F3 to search again
Searching for text on a web page is easy. Just press CTRL+F and type what you want to find. This is (as far as I’m aware) universal across all web browsers. When you do this, the first instance of what you were looking for is found.Most people use clickable arrows to continue searching for the same text. However it’s much easier just to press F3 if you want to keep searching the page for the same text. To search in reverse direction, use SHIFT+F3.

How To View And Remove Saved Password In Google Chrome

Saved passwords can be a security loophole as anyone with access to your computer can view them. In this post I will tell you how you can view and removed saved passwords inChrome. This guide can also be useful for retrieving forgotten passwords from your Firefox browser.First of all, click the Control button next to address bar and select Options Or Settings.From the Personal Stuff tab, select Manage Saved Passwords.

This will display all saved passwords, usernames to the associated websites. Select an account and clickShow to unencrypt the password. The saved passwords can be removed by clicking on the “x” option next to each saved password.