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It is time to update your Garmin GPS Map. My last update was 7 months ago,too old.

The latest MFM GPS Map (Malfreemaps lite v1.63) comes with more new features:

1. Link to Navnet map in Kalimantan
2. Coverage of Southern Thailand
3. Optional Chinese POI
4. Improved SG Postal Code & Address map with instant search result
5. New POI icons
6. New POI categories with custom icons (soon)
7. New MFM map generator with option to generate either Full or Lite version
8. Coloured topo polygons are added into Full-version map
9. New multi-language installer
10. No more error when uploading map through Mapsource

I think this lite version is more than enough for me to travel around Malaysia. But sad thing is it don’t have Mac version. Mean you have to download the EXE map file into your Windows. Extract it then transfer to Garmin GPS. Anyway it is not a big problem. (more…)

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It is important to properly shutdown your computer. Windows system file may corrupt if the computer was shutdown unexpectedly.

When the next time you boot up the computer and saw “Windows XP System File Missing or Corrupt”, what should you do? Same error happened on my user’s computer and I have learned the quick way to fix it! (more…)

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Few things are as devastating as be right in the middle of an important project only to have your computer suddenly crash without any warning. Even if you’re not in the middle of anything important, you still have tons of files stored on your computer that (unless you’ve recently backed up your files) are going to be gone forever.

Although a computer crash often comes on suddenly when you’re least expecting it, occasionally you may get some warning signs. Also, although you can’t always stop it from happening, there are some preventative measures that you can take to decrease the chance of it happening to you. (more…)

Today a user phone me that his computer couldn’t boot into Windows. From his description I thought it is hard drive problem?

Reach user side, switch on computer to verify the problem again. The actual error was

Windows could not start because the below file is missing or corrupt: C:\Winnt\System32\Ntoskrnl.exe

Restore Missing / Corrupted Files

A file corrupt is better than hard disk corrupted. Restore back the corrupted files with few steps below:

1. Insert the Microsoft Windows XP CD.
2. Reboot the computer, as the computer is starting you should see a message to press any key to boot from the CD. When you see this message press any key.
3. In the Microsoft Windows XP setup menu press the R key to enter the recovery console. (more…)