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Reset iPod Video (Fifth Generation)

saurabh — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:31:07 +0000

Toggle the ‘Hold’ switch on and off. (Slide it to Hold, then turn it off again.)
Press and hold (about 6 to 10 seconds) the ‘Menu’ and ‘Select’ buttons until the Apple logo appears.
You may need to repeat the above mentioned steps.

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Reset iPod Nano

saurabh — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:24:34 +0000

Toggle the ‘Hold’ switch on and off. (Slide it to Hold, then turn it off again.)
Press and hold (about 6 to 10 seconds) the ‘Menu’ and ‘Select’ buttons until the Apple logo appears.
You may need to repeat the above mentioned steps.

For any query please send email to saurabh(at)techwhiz(dot)in

Reset BIOS password of desktop computer

saurabh — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:28:33 +0000

If you have forgot the BIOS password of your desktop computer, then you need a simple way to change your BIOS password. Its not that difficult because you just need a simple trick to reset your BIOS password.

Shutdown your desktop computer and switch off the power to the CPU
Open your CPU cabinet
Find a circular, (mostly) silver metallic object on the motherboard. This is the CMOS battery
Carefully remove the CMOS battery and leave it out for about 120 seconds. This will flush the CMOS memory which stores the BIOS password and all other configuration.
Set the battery back into place and power on the computer.
The computer should then warn you that the CMOS configuration could not be found. You can either reconfigure it yourself or restore defaults. Restoring the default configuration should be fine.
You will notice that the BIOS password has been cleared and you can boot without it.

Note : Once you remove your battery from the mother board, you will find that all your time settings in your computer would be lost, and some softwares may stop working which are based on your computer time.

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Recover / Reset Gmail Password

saurabh — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:00:58 +0000

I have listed down steps to recover lost password of gmail.

Visit ‘https://www.google.com/accounts/ForgotPasswd?service=mail&fpOnly=1’
Enter your username and click submit
You will be taken to another page where you would have to enter the characters seen in the image to continue
Enter the answer to your secret question and reset your password.
If you do not remember the answer to your secret question then click on ‘Change your password by sending an email to your secondary address’. Follow the instructions of the mail received in your secondary email address and reset the password.

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