How to change Facebook profile picture

There are two ways to change a profile picture in Facebook, which we are going to be cleared about, right here.

There are also several reasons why you should have a profile picture defined for your profile. With a profile picture, you can easily be recognized by friends searching you on Facebook, can easily be recognized by friends of friends. Sometimes you might not have in mind to add someone to your Facebook contacts, but immediately recognize their photos, maybe in friends of friends you are amazed and for sure will like to make them friends by adding those you know.  There is also possibility that someone could have your friend request ignored, simply because you have no profile picture and with that they can’t recognize who really you are. There are different people existing with the same names, but they can’t have the same faces too, so a photo should confirm who you are.

Changing a profile picture in Facebook is important so you can update your profile photo even on daily bases, but what if you don’t know how to do that?

It is very simple and all you need is pertinence and time. 

a. Log into your Facebook account and make sure you are viewing the home page to be able to make changes to your profile as easy as possible. Note that if you are not logged in, you will not be able to make any changes. 

b. Click on your profile name from top right or left menu, and then hover (move your mouse over) your present profile picture at left hand side bellow your profile cover image to view more options. 

c. Click “Edit profile picture” or "Change picture" on hover.

d. From the drop down option list, choose "Upload Photo".

e. Choose a picture from you PC in the window that opens, then click open and it will be uploaded. If the picture is too small then you might have to look for another one since Facebook does not allow too small pictures. The process is done and your profile photo is set. Since Facebook updates on daily bases, you might be ask some fewer questions, but you shouldn't be stressed at that point, because the most important part is out.

Another means

If you can’t get through that process, then there is also another means and very easy of course.

a. Click your profile picture from top left or right menu. Click photos in the page that opens. In here you can see your photo albums, with names if at all you did create any. If there are no albums, then don’t worry cuss  you will still be able to access other photos uploaded to your profile on empty ground.

b. Just as you click on each of your photos to view in full size, click settings tap then “Make profile picture” at bottom of the current image in full screen. 

A page opens and prompts you to crop image to your desired position. Use the square light box over the image to adjust witch part of the image should be displayed in your profile. 

c. Click “done cropping” at bottom right of the cropped picture, you are done; good luck.

Your photo is set, but a page reload will confirm everything. 

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How to change computer date and time

Changing date and time, could be done simply by allowing your computer to boot to windows, or by changing right before the computer boots (system or bios setup).

To change date and time at windows level, double click time in system tray. In the window that opens, click the change date and time button and you are there. You can use the scroll bars to change values, or simply highlight and type in the correct hours, minutes and seconds.

Just above time, you can change date by simply selecting the right month and day, you are done, good luck.

 

Change date and time in bios setup

In most computers, you will always be asked to press F1 or Del to run setup as the computer starts up, but since all computers are not the same, some will ask you to press different keys for setup access, as well as different setup screens. At this point, I can’t tell you where exactly to access your date and time settings, since I don’t know witch computer you are using, but for most Intel computers, the date and time always falls in the first setup screen, and can be change from that point. Please if you don’t know how to change any settings at this level, then find someone to help you through. Make sure any changes you make should be of your understanding what effects they can course.

Good luck.

 

How to change computer settings with deep freeze enabled (date/time)

How to change settings in a deep freeze enabled computer (date/time)

        Deep Freeze is a software, mostly used in cyber cafes to freeze or make hard drives unable to accept installations, changes and generally any settings made to the computer in which it is installed on. In most public computers, for example: Cyber cafe computers are public computers and most have Deep Freeze installed on them to clear private data of every user, every time the computer powers off.

However, using a Deep Freeze to prevent access to unauthorized persons is important and should be taken to consideration. 

How Deep Freeze works?

The function of Deep Freeze software on a computer is to make sure everything about the previews user is cleared before others can access the same computer. For example Emails, Passwords, Browser history, System settings, Saved websites, Bookmarked websites etc.  If you saved a good number of websites on a Deep Freeze enabled computer, there is high possibility that you will not find them after the computer restarts, no matter if you saved or not. That applies same with other settings and browser histories in the computer. If you most have noticed that every public or cyber café computer hardly suggests names of web sites as you start typing them, with reason being that the previews session has been cleared by the software and you can’t gain access to files of the previews session.

Remember that these settings are only cleared if the computer powers down/restarted before it is being used again. If I may advice or remind cyber café owners that there are a good number of software that allows you to configure either if a computer should be restarted in every session timeout (when users time runs out) or not. Assigning a restart in every session timeout is best and should increase a high level security in your business place.

 What if I want to install a program?

Even the most complicated machines has their own way of getting through and making changes, best suiting your want. Same with Deep Freeze, there is also a means of installing programs even with the Deep Freeze installed on the same computer. There are many types of software that plays such rolls, but I will be talking meanly on Deep Freeze, (Faronics software). There are also others like Returnil 2008 and maybe the latest versions are available, but so far Faronics sotware (Deep Freeze) is most common and does work well.

Before you even start anything, you have to disable the software to liberate the computer from its frozen mode. When the computer is unfrozen, you are allowed to make changes to the computer as much as you want, with no fear of losing them in case the computer powers down, unless you did not save.  To disable Deep freeze for program installation, press and hold ctrl + alt + shift + F6 and the login windows pups up. Login with the password you provided during or after installation. Select Boot Steward, then click apply and reboot button, confirming a warning message will reboot the computer and make it free for possible changes to be made. You are free to install, but make sure there is an X on the Deep freeze icon in the system tray. Remember to go through the same process and choose “Boot frozen “to enable it again.

Do I need that process to change system date and time too?

Changing date and time in a frozen computer could be very difficult at windows level, since the frozen computer will not be allowed to accept any changes till its set free. Well, there is a difference between changing something that won’t stay after a restart, and trying to change what cannot be changed or trying to change what you are not given access to even for a restart or not. What am I saying? The Deep Freeze will not stop you from accessing the date and time settings area, but the difference is what will happen after the computer goes off and on. Changing system date and time every times the computer boots could be tiring and you may sometimes forget. However running a computer with wrong date and time could course several problems to your computer, running in the box and either with or without your knowledge. including the ones you see physically, for example. If you have hard your computer scheduled to scan or update the whole system every 4PM, knowing fully well that the computer freezes during this process and allow you less privileges to work, even playing music could be difficult. You have the computer set to perform these tasks at that time because you know you’re always free and might not be working on the computer, meaning you understand the stress the computer goes through while it scans or update and at the same time you use. But now, what if the system time is wrong, and starts performing these tasks right before you are done, maybe still at 12 noon in the correct time zone? It’s annoying as compared to my own case when my computer freezes, I just fell like heating till it gains stability, and of course that’s not the right step to take, but simple (CORRECT DATE AND TIME) Some problems encountered as a result of wrong date and time could be “Un-trusted connections”. When you are working online, the internet and computer time work in hand, to make sure the same day on computer should be the same with the internets. Each and every web site is certified and made easy and trusted for you to browse through your computer, with the help of date and time.  If your computer date and time displayed 4/10/2012 instead of the current date, each web site you visit compares the current sever date and time with yours, and if it’s different from each other, the browser things the certificate of the site your viewing has expired and will try to prevent you from using web sites with outdated certificates due to wrong date and time. We will know more about site certification in the upcoming articles.

I know I almost went off the whole deal, but I hope it did help explain the outcomes of wrong system date and time. Diving back to our main target (Do I need that process to change date and time?), I will show you a very easy and simple way of changing date and time without even the interest to know if there is any deep freeze installed or not.

One good thing

Deep freeze only functions at windows level and cannot affect any changes made in BIOS setup or before the system boots.

Change date and time in system BIOS setup

With the system BIOS setup, you can make several changes to your computer without any fear or awareness of whether there is a deep freeze installed in the computer or not. In the system BIOS, you can change or correct date and time, right before the system boots. Settings made at this level are never cleared by the Deep freeze, with reason being that the Deep freeze only functions at windows level immediately the computer boots. But because system setup is accessed before the computer boots, the Deep freeze is denied access and cannot be in charge of anything at this level.  

Take for instance; if the Deep freeze had powers over the whole system even in BIOS then formatting a computer with Deep freeze installed would be a big problem. If you noticed, then you most have found out that each time you save changes in the system setup, (bios) the computer restarts and starts booting afresh, following instructions as assigned in the previews setup, and if Deep freeze where to work through the whole system then those settings will be lost after the computer restarts, but because it’s not that way you are able to format a computer by assigning the first boot device to be the CD ROM without any fear of losing when changes applied restarts the computer, so go on and change your date and time.

Good luck. 

How to change date/time in computer?

How to register a new Skype Account

1, Registering on Skype web site online

There are two ways of registering or creating a new account in Skype, 1 by visiting the Skype web site

https://skype.com/ and clicking Join Us or click the following link to directly go to registration page https://login.skype.com/account/signup-form.

Fill the following information as demanded and click “I Agree –Continue”. If your profile name worked, you will be taken to your main page where you can adjust other settings as you want. If you have not download Skype for your pc, then you can download at that level, though that most not be the usual process of downloading Skype, but that works much better since you are recognized as a registered member.

It is recommended to download Skype for your PC, ells you might not be able to log in and chat with your online contacts. Viewing Skype online will not show you available contact neither will you be able to chat through it. This process is only for registering to get an Id to use in the Pc version, or any other futures. If you registered either on Skype web site or the PC version, you can login from any of them, depending what you want to do.

Registering through Skype web site is some how better to me. At the web site, you can register and get and email responds immediately, asking you to confirm, but registering through the installed Skype on your computer might take a longer time to get you through.

Another way of registering is by lunching Skype from your computer, already installed. This method is simple and easy to access, but not as fast as visiting the web site directly and personally clicking Join Us.

2, Registering through the installed version on PC

                                     First step

Double click the Skype icon on your computers Desktop, or Start Menu or right click and choose open from the menu, then wait for a while as it opens.

You might be prompted to login, instead of Sign Up. With an installed version of Skype, it opens with the 

name of the person that uses or lastly logged in and demands for a password to continue, but for your own case, you are registering and cannot Sign In anyway.

Just bellow the Skype name (user name) input box, click “Don’t have a Skype Name?”

Fill in the correct information in the                                       
page provided. Click “I Agree – Create Account”. Skype will load and 

with this information displayed, 

                                  Second step

                                                            “Checking your Skype name is available”

If the name you choose cannot be used just as it is, Skype will add numbers and suggest for you to choose the one you like, for example. If your user id was pfortoda and can’t just be used as single as it is, Skype will add pfortoday44, pfortoday754, which is now you on choice to choose. If you do not want any of them, then there is still a box bellow the suggested names where you can re-enter a new name or modify the previews, for example. Pfortoday_pfortoday, pfortoday.pfortoday, p_fortoday, p.fortoday, and you should be able to get one of them working for your profile. You can now add a profile picture, add your profile description, search, add and talk to friends.

Note: If you used a wrong or and email that does not exist, you might not be able to Sign in after signing out. Skype sends registration confirmation message to the emails provided during registration, where you will click to confirm your account. If you used a wrong email, Skype will not deny you access from registering, but the problem is now yours. You might be able to login anyway, but if there is a problem with your account, you will equally have no emails to ask Skype to send information to. You will have no emails to receive notifications or reset your password, in case you decided to change the current password.

Choosing a Skype name

 The Skype name you fill is the one people will recognize you as, so if you gave a wrong name people will refer you for someone ells or you will not be found at all, so be sure to fill in the right information.

You are done Good luck.

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How to View all system specifications in one place.

View all system specifications in one place.

The DirectX Diagnostic Tool (DXDiag) is a Windows-based DirectX tool that presents information about the components and drivers of the DirectX application programming interface (API) installed on your system. Administrators or users can test sound and graphics output and DirectPlay service providers, and disable some hardware acceleration features.  

If you are buying a second handed computer, it’s obvious that you will want to know the amount of available memory,  processor speed, bios version, operating system type and version, system model, direct version, language, date and time. If it’s all about telling you by words of mouth, then you a lot of people will cheat others.

Viewing your system properties in one place is handy and far much better than checking just few. Check your drive capacity by opening my computer, point to the drive and a message displays the drives available and used memory, or right click and choose properties from menu.

Let’s say you just checked your drives capacity and everything is OK. What about checking other system properties like amount of available memory, the processor speed, bios version, operating system type and version, system model, direct version, language, date and time?

There is also a way of checking all these properties which is by clicking run from the start menu, then type into the box the following code, “dxdiag” without the quotations. Click OK in the next window to confirm, and you are done. 

In the next window you can find every little information about your computer’s properties including the ones you never knew could be found there. Everything you see on this screen is exactly what the computer holds and shouldn’t doubt. If the person selling told you there is a 5GB memory in the computer, and you happen to see 2GB, then something has to be done about that, because the system doesn’t lie at that stage.   

In the DirectX Diagnostic tool, you can also test if there are any sound, video drivers installed in your the computer. You can save all the information for later use or reference. 

To view other system information, click the next button as the page changes to your desired page. 

And you are done.