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These days, who don’t know Oracle? Many firms and DBA use this software to keep them earn money and keep their database that contains many sensitive information. But unfortunately, installing Oracle is a bit difficult, because for the beginner, they don’t know many words, words that they never hear before, and moreover Oracle gave many configurations that I think those are too difficult to understand and not likely too necessary to show those settings configuration, but these may be important for experienced user to do those. I think Oracle should give two options for installation, express and custom like another software.

Setup Wizard

Back to topic, after you insert the Oracle DVD or after you download it, just start install Oracle Database (setup.exe from Database).

This picture above is the first step you install the database, just choose basic installation and choose the installation directory. In this page you have to choose whether you create starter database, created by Oracle itself, or you can create your own database later after the installation, for beginner I suggest you choose to make Oracle starter database, just choose your global database name and password. Many people think this password is for SYS and SYSTEM username, but they’re wrong. These people can’t log on into Manager Console as administrator (SYSTEM) because of this. You have to set SYSTEM password manually later. Just click next and so on until you get firewall warning, just click unblock to javaw.

Unblock javaw

Just wait until the installation is finished and click exit. I will show you how to create the database in the next post. Hope I have enough power to post it! Any questions?

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Just a month ago, I decided to buy a new rig. I bought AMD Phenom X4 9650 with 2.3 GHz, Biostar TA790GX XE, DDR2 Kingston 2GB PC 6400, and a HDD WDC with 640GB capacity. I installed Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 and it’s ran smoothly. Then, I installed AMD Over Drive and Everest 5.0, just want to make sure I had no problem with temperature. I saw the processor clock at 2300.x MHz at that moment. I saw it at idle and do nothing. Just a week after that, I decided to install Vista, with service pack 1. So, I installed it. Run faster, smooth, and no problem. But, I just got shocked to see my Phenom clock at 1150 Mhz, cut by half.

CPU-Z

Well, AMD Cool’n'Quiet™ tehcnology can not be enabled in Windows XP or below, just try it. I’m glad now I can see the AMD Cool’n'Quiet™ tehcnology runs in my desktop, make my home more light and energy-saving. This problem probably XP doesn’t support this feature, you have to change the power scheme in XP to activate it. Open the Power Options from Control Panel and choose ‘Minimal Power Management’ and click OK. If this still not working,  just try to update your processor driver and try to look at the BIOS. Hope this information helpful.

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As you know or not, Windows XP and Vista has a delay when you mouse over a menu. By default, Windows takes 400 miliseconds to show the menu items after you mouse over the menu. Sometimes, we think it’s too slow and of course we have a not so fast computer, make it so slowpoke’s performance. Actually, we can shorten the delay, even make it to zero. But, I recommend not to set it to zero, because it’s “too fast!”.

This is how to do it:

1. Open the registry editor (click “Run” and type “regedit”)
   

   run regedit

2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
   

   Menu Show Delay Key

3. Double-click the MenuSHowDelay or right-click and click modify
4. Modify the value of the delay lower than 400, or if you want to make it slower because your computer it’s too fast for you just input the value hingher than 400, but I recommend to trade your computer with mine.
   

   Edit value

5. Click OK and restart your computer to take effect.

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