unable to create new library (windows 7)

symptom: when click on the "New library" button on the top of the folder, nothing happens.
also when right click on "Library" on the side bar and mouse over to "New", it says "empty" instead of "New library".

the cause is the missing of the registry code.
here is an article that describes how to fix it.
simply download the No.7 fix "to remove or restore library".

How to Remove and Restore the Default "New" Context Menu Items in Windows 7 and Windows 8

"gfxui has stopped working" on win7

i have tried most of the solution i found on google.
but i decided to just remove the display driver from intel and let it detect and install the driver by itself.

what i did was go to start, right click on 'computer'.select 'properties'.
on the window that opens, on the left pane, click 'device manager'.

open 'display adapters', it should show the display card. right click on that item and click on 'uninstall'.

windows will ask you to restart computer. do that. and when it comes back on, it will detect the display driver by itself and install it.
windows will ask you to restart again. do that.

then the intel display driver was replaced by the driver that's signed by microsoft.
i actually like it better because there's no 'intel hd graphic menu' running on startup.

Solution to eliminating the default SimSun font in MS Word even using Pinyin IME

this is so awesome i have to post about it.
i have been bothered with word 2010 when typing chinese, the font would automatically revert to simsum no matter what you do. no matter what setting you change.
then finally this solution came up.
thanks to the guy who figured it out.
just follow the instruction.
the logic is to change pinyin IME to another category. in my case is changing google pinyin to chinese (traditional) category.
and then the problem was solved.

here is the link,
Solution to eliminating the default SimSun font in MS Word even using Pinyin IME 

allow right click on Firefox 3

Firefox 3 does not support the extension "always allow right click." To enable this feature, go to Tools->Options->Content-Advanced and unclick "Disable or replace context menus."

this information comes from here (Iyov)

celtx customize typeset

i love celtx. it's a great open source software to write a screenplay.

but i have always wanted to be able to change font size or border when using typeset to generate PDF files. however, it was not possible to do so, because there's no function designed for it. in the discussion forum they also stated it's currently not able to do so.

but i have figured out a work around to make it possible.

first go download PDFcreator. it's also an open source software. free.
after downloaded it, just click on the exe file and install it.

then open up your script in celtx. in script mode, go to file/print preview. now click on 'page setup', and select tab 'margins & header/footer'.
here you can adjust where you want the border and the header, footer. after you finished adjustments, click ok. the script will auto adjust according to the parameter you set.

when you are happy with the setting, click 'print'.
in the popup menu, select drop down menu to choose printer 'PDFcreator'.

name the pdf file and save it to whereever you like on your computer.

there you go. done.

sony vaio laptop audio problem

i recently installed windows xp pro on my sony vaio laptop VGN-S series.
everything went well. i made the system restore cds and searched online for step by step instructions.

there's only one problem. there was no sound.
(initially, the modem was not working either.)
i checked the system profile, it indicated that the audio high definition device has no driver.
after some googling, i found out there's xp sp2 updates needed to be installed.

the updates are kb835221 and kb888111. they can be found through google.

here is another copy of kb888111 xpsp2, if the other one doesn't work.

so what i did was uninstalled audio device from system profile. reboot. run kb835221, then run kb888111 xpsp2. (the kb888111 didn't work for my laptop. don't know why.)

then run the audio driver from system restore disk. which can be found in folder
vaio\Drivers\Audio

after installed the driver, reboot.

that solved my problem.

sony vaio laptop --- reinstall xp

to reinstall xp home, just press F10 after start up.

it will bring up a menu, from there choose reinstall xp.