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How to Access your computer from Home or anywhere in the world

It’s not that hard to setup your computer to be access from outside the network and anywhere in the world. There is few things you need to know how to setup and how to use it after you setup. You have three different options: One through ISP (Internet Service Provider), Second software and third through internet services.

First Option:

You can pay extra $5 dollars or so to get your own static IP address. And configure your router to allow access from outside.

Second option:

Let’s look at software that allows you to let you have access to your computer from outside/anywhere in the world:

· Cross Loop

· Show My PC

· Log Me In

· AMMYY

· Go To My PC

· Any Place Control

· And many more

Third Option through services:

You will need to sign up for DNS (Domain Name System) services there are many out there:

I use www.dyndns.org

For complete list of all DNS providers: http://www.technopagan.org/dynamic

Once you have choose the option that works for you can you can setup your computer to access anywhere from the world. I would highly recommend that you use strong password. I have seen many people use very simple password it’s a risk for your personal data to be get access by hacker.

I will be posting details on next topic to cover each one of these options to finish up the setup…


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Increase Virtual Memory on Your Computer

Sometimes when using your computer you might get some errors saying that virtual memory on your computer is low. This normally happens when you have many applications open on your system and your computer has run out of virtual memory space. What’s virtual memory anyways – you might be wondering? Virtual memory is a computer system technique which gives an application program the impression that it has contiguous working memory (an address space) while in fact it may be physically fragmented and may even overflow on to disk storage. Systems that use this technique make programming of large applications easier and use real physical memory more efficiently than those without virtual memory. Cool, now that you know what virtual memory is all about, how can you increase it on your computer, so you don’t get those dreaded errors, and hopefully your computer runs a little faster? Here is how you do it:

On your desktop, go to MY COMPUTER right click it and go to PROPERTIES

Select the ADVANCED tab, and under the PERFORMANCE option click on the SETTINGS

on the performance option window click on the ADVANCED tab again

On the VIRTUAL MEMORY option click “CHANGE”

Select the system drive, normally C: and make sure Custom Size option is checked. Increase the initial size (MB) numbers to double of what you have. If you have 1024 increase it to 2048 and then increase the maximum size (MB) to double of the initial size number. Click on OK and restart your computer.

That’s it; hopefully, you won’t get those virtual memory errors anymore.


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How to move your Start Menu

How do you move your start menu around your desktop screen? If your taskbar is locked then you need to unlock it first. Then Drag and Start menu to the “Right”, “Left”, or on “Top”. Then lock it back so you don’t move by accidentally.

How To:

1.  Right-click anywhere on the Taskbar. If you see “Lock the Taskbar” is selected just click on it to de-select.

2.  Once your Taskbar is unlocked then left click and hold then drag to where ever you want to move it to.

3.  Once you have moved to the right place then right click on Taskbar to lock it.

LEFT side Task panel View:

TOP side Task panel view:

RIGHT side Task panel view:


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How to change start menu view

As you may notice on some computers using Windows XP have two types of views. One is XP view and second classic view. Do you know how to switch between them? Follow these easy steps:

  1. Right click on the “Taskbar” then click on “Properties”
  2. Click on “Start Menu” then choose “Start menu” for XP view.
  3. For Classic view click on “Classic Start menu” then click ok.

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Creating a shortcut to your Desktop

Creating a shortcut is very basic but I have seen many people move the program or file intend of creating the shortcut. The best way is just right clicking on the program or file then click on “send to” then “Desktop (Create shortcut)”. There are many other ways to create shortcut too. Here is a basic way.

How to create the shortcut of the program:

1. Go to “Start”> “All program” then choose the program that you want then click on “Send To” then choose “Desktop (create shortcut)”

How to create a shortcut to file:

  1. Right click on the file that you want a shortcut. (It does not matter if it’s a local file or network file) Then choose “Send to” then “Desktop (create shortcut)”.

2.  All shortcut has an arrow on the Icon as you can see in the screenshot on the bottom: