Archives: April 2009

Lost Search Companion??

Have you ever faced this problem?

I lost my search companion recently. Now I’ve recovered it.

Method 1
Log on to the computer by using an account with administrator permissions.

Click Start, click Run, type %systemroot%\inf, and then click OK.

Locate the Srchasst.inf file.

Right-click the Srchasst.inf file, and then click Install. This reinstalls the files that Search Companion uses.

NOTE: You may need your Windows XP CD-ROM to finish installing Search Companion.

If this doesn’t work, Try Method 2

Method 2
1 – Go to Start / Open Run
2 – Copy paste each of the command listed below (one at a time)
Note: There is a single space after regsvr32

regsvr32 wshom.ocx
regsvr32 jscript.dll
regsvr32 urlmon.dll
regsvr32 vbscript.dll

3- Restart the Computer

That’s all.

Computer Memory

Memory is the location where the Information is stored that is currently being used or utilized.

Units of Memory & Storage

Quantity

Information

Bit

Smallest unit of data, either a 0 or 1

Byte

8 Bits

This is the lowest ‘data’ level and is a series of 0s and 1s

Eg: 00111010 = 1 Byte with each 0 or 1 equal to 1 bit.

Each keyboard character = 1 byte

Kilobyte (KB)

1000 Keyboard Characters = 1000 bytes or 1KB (kilobyte)

In reality it is really 1024 bytes which make a kilobyte, but generally people refer to 1000 bytes as a kb

Megabyte (MB)

1000 Kilobytes = 1MB (1 million keyboard characters)

Gigabytes (GB)

1000 Megabytes = 1GB (gigabytes or 1 billion characters)

Terabyte (TB)

Equal to 1,099,000,000,000 bytes

Memory

There are 2 Main types of Memory; Random Access Memory (RAM) and Read-Only Memory (ROM).

ROM (Read-Only Memory): ROM cannot be altered by the user. Its held on a computer chip. Users cannot store their own data on ROM, Since It’s used to hold the instruction for starting up the computer. ROM is a non-volatile memory.

RAM (Random Access Memory: Users can write data into RAM and also read data from RAM. It’s a volatile memory and RAM is held on a computer chip. RAM are used to hold data and programs. It needs power. If the power is switched off the data in RAM disappears.