Windows Problems and their Repairs

Can not delete file from windows?

noreply@blogger.com (Prince) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:04:00 +0000

Can not delete file from windows?

You can face this type of problem now and then.So here is the process to delete undetectable files from your windows xp, windows vista, windows 7:-

Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open. Close all open programs. Click Start, Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE Go to the Processes tab

and End Process on Explorer.exe. Leave Task Manager open. Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory the AVI (or other undeletable file) is located in. At the command prompt type DEL where is the file you wish to delete. Go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell. Close Task Manager.

how to add the Print Directory feature for folders in Windows XP?

noreply@blogger.com (Prince) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:01:00 +0000

how to add the Print Directory feature for folders in Windows XP?

Create the Printdir.bat file

To create the Printdir.bat file, follow these steps:-
1. Click Start, click Run, type notepad, and then click OK.
2. Paste the following text into Notepad

@echo off
dir %1 /-p /o:gn > "%temp%\Listing"
start /w notepad /p "%temp%\Listing"
del "%temp%\Listing"
exit

3. On the File menu, click Exit, and then click Yes to save the changes.
4. In the Save As dialog box, type the following text, and then click Save:
%windir%\Printdir.bat

Create a new action for file folders
1. Click Start, click Control Panel (or, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel), and then click Folder Options.
2. On the File Types tab, click File Folder.
3. Click Advanced, and then click New.
4. In the Action box, type:
Print Directory Listing
5. In the Application used to perform action box, type:
printdir.bat
6. Click OK.
7. Click OK, click OK, and then click Close.

How to Lock computer on Mouse Click?

noreply@blogger.com (Prince) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:58:00 +0000

How to Lock computer on Mouse Click?

Feel boar to press CTRL+ALT+DEL to lock your machine?! Try this process to create the icon to lock the machine.

1. Right click an empty spot on the desktop, point to New and click Shortcut.

2. In the Create Shortcut dialog box, type the following in the 'Type the location' of the item text box:
"rundll32 user32.dll,LockWorkStation" remove quotes while typing.

3. Click Next.

4. In "Type a name for this shortcut", type "" (any name as u wish) and Click Finish

5. Create a shortcut in your shortcut bar & use it.

How to trace Spam Mail

noreply@blogger.com (Prince) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:54:00 +0000

How to trace Spam Mail:-

Spammers often forge the headers of their email in an attempt to avoid losing their accounts and to evade email filters. These notes may help you track the source of spam. The most important thing is to have a mail reader that can show you the full headers of an email in question. The important lines are as follows:
From:
Who the message is from. This is the easiest to forge, and thus the least reliable.

From
As distinct from the "From:" line. This line is not actually part of the email header, but mail transfer software often inserts it when the mail is received. Many Unix mailers use this line to separate messages in a mail folder. This line will always be the first line in the headers.
This line can also be forged, but not always.

Reply-To:
The address to which replies should be sent. Often absent from the message, and very easily forgeable. However, it often provides a clue. For example, forged spam often has a legitimate Reply-To: field so that the spammer can receive mail orders.

Return-Path:
The email address for return mail. Same as Reply-To:

Sender:
The account that sent the message. Mail software is supposed to insert this line if the user modifies the From: line. Most Mail software is broken in this respect, so this line is rarely present. Some mailers provide an X-Sender: line.

Message-ID:
A unique string assigned by the mail system when the message is first created. This is also forgeable in most cases, but requires a little more specialized knowledge than forging the From: line. Also, the Message-ID: often identifies the system from which the sender is logged in, rather than the actual system where the message originated.
The format of a Message-ID: field is @

Each kind of mail software has its own style of unique string. Sloppy forgeries often get it wrong, thus a forgery can be confirmed by comparing the message id with some legitimate messages from that same site.

Received:
These are the most reliable lines in the header. They form a list of all sites through which the message traveled in order to reach you. They are completely unforgeable after the point where it was injected. Up to that point, they may be forgeries.
Received: lines are read from bottom to top. That is, the first Received: line is your own system or mail server. The last (non-forged) Received: line is where the mail originated.

Each mail system has their own style of Received: line. A Received: line typically identifies the machine that received the mail and the machine that the mail was received from. I.e.:

Received: from foo.com by bar.com id AA15057; Fri, 25 Jul 97 09:39:02

The "foo.com" part is the name that the sending machine used to identify itself. This may be forged in the case of spam. The id is for logging purposes and may help system administrators track the spam if you can get them to cooperate with you.
Many mailers will add extra information. For example:

Received: from foo.com ([129.2.3.4]) by bar.com id AA15057; Fri, 25 Jul 97 09:39:02

In this case, bar.com has inserted the IP address of the sending system. If the machine name does not match the IP address, then you have likely identified the point where the mail was forged. In other words, the machine whose address is 129.2.3.4 lied when it identified itself as foo.com. Any Received: lines that follow are likely to be forgeries.
If the IP address does not make sense (for instance, no component may be greater than 255), then this entire Received: line is a fake. Contact a system admin for more advice in determining if an IP address is bogus. If the entire Received: line is fake, then the injection point is somewhere above in the headers.

Sometimes you will see

Received: from foo.com (x.y.alterdial.uu.net [129.2.3.4]) by bar.com id AA15057; ...

In this case, the mailer has inserted both the IP address and the real name of the sending system. This will help you identify forgeries and eliminate the need to look up the IP address by hand.

Comment:
Some mailers may add additional information to the headers, such as "Authenticated sender is doe@foo.com". Forged Comment: lines can be easily added to outgoing mail, so this line is likely to be fake, but not always.
Other mailers may insert their own authentication information in the headers.

Here is an example of a forgery:
From webpromo@denmark.it.earthlink.net Tue Jul 8 13:05:02 1997
Return-Path:
From: webpromo@denmark.it.earthlink.net
Received: from denmark.it.earthlink.net (denmark-c.it.earthlink.net
[204.119.177.22]) by best.com (SMI-8.6/mail.byaddr) with ESMTP id
NAA21506 for ;
Tue, 8 Jul 1997 13:05:16 -0700
Received: from mail.earthlink.net (1Cust98.Max16.Detroit.MI.MS.UU.NET
[153.34.218.226]) by denmark.it.earthlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5)
with SMTP id NAA12436; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 13:00:46 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from adultpromo@earthlink.net by adultpromo@earthlink.net
(8.8.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id GAA05239 for ;
Tue, 08 Jul 1997 15:48:51 -0600 (EST)
To: adultpromo@earthlink.net
Message-ID: <199702170025.gaa08056@no-where.net>
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 97 15:48:51 EST
Subject: Hot News !
Reply-To: adultpromo@earthlink.net
X-PMFLAGS: 12345678 9
X-UIDL: 1234567890x00xyz1x128xyz426x9x9x
Comments: Authenticated sender is
Content-Length: 672
X-Lines: 26
Status: RO

Obviously, the To: line is a forgery; the actual recipients list was hidden, probably with a blind carbon-copy (Bcc: header)
The "From", "Return-Path:" and "From:" all identify the same email address, but that may be a forgery. You can try mailing to the given address and see if your complaint bounces.

The "To:", "Reply-To:" and "Authenticated sender" lines all identify a different account. Again, these may all be forgeries.

The Message-ID: line is an obvious fake.

The first Recieved: line shows the mail arriving at my service provider from Earthlink. I trust my service provider, so this line is almost certainly valid.

The second Received: line shows this inconsistency:

... from mail.earthlink.net (1Cust98.Max16.Detroit.MI.MS.UU.NET [153.34.218.226])

In other words, the machine that delivered the mail to denmark.it.earthlink.net identified itself as mail.earthlink.net but was actually named 1Cust98.Max16.Detroit.MI.MS.UU.NET. This is very likely a lie. However, Earthlink rents POPs from Uunet, so this might be an Earthlink customer dialing in from Uunet.
The third Received: line is completely bogus. If the mail came from a dial-in customer at Uunet, there wouldn't be any more Recieved: lines. If the mail was being relayed from Uunet, this Received: line would indicate Uunet, not Earthlink. Further, this Received: line contains email addresses, not machine names.

Clearly, this email was forged to make it look like it came from Earthlink but was actually injected from Uunet. Whether this was by an Earthlink customer or some other Uunet customer is impossible to tell without cooperation from Earthlink sysadmins.

Here is another forgery:

Received: from cola.bekkoame.or.jp (cola.bekkoame.or.jp [202.231.192.40])
by srv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA00705
for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 01:15:27 -0600 (MDT)
From: beautifulgirls585@aol.com
Received: from cola.bekkoame.or.jp
(ip21.san-luis-obispo.ca.pub-ip.psi.net [38.12.123.21]) by
cola.bekkoame.or.jp (8.8.5+2.7W/3.5W) with SMTP id OAA11439;
Wed, 30 Jul 1997 14:35:50 +0900 (JST)
Received: from mailhost.aol.com(alt1.aol.com(244.218.07.32)) by
aol.com (8.8.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id GAA00075 for <"">;
Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:19:42 -0600 (EST)
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 97 22:19:42 EST
Subject: You can have what you want...
Message-ID: <574857638458.hwf39862@aol.com>
Reply-To: beautifulgirls585@aol.com
X-PMFLAGS: 56354433 0
Comments: Authenticated sender is
X-UIDL: vjg79u26gfkjjrty38jf983j309jfyrw

Here, the second Received: line indicates that "cola.bekkoame.or.jp" received the mail from a machine which identified itself as "cola.bekkoame.or.jp", but was in fact "ip21.san-luis-obispo.ca.pub-ip.psi.net". This mail was probably forged from a Psi.net dial-in account.
As a final proof, the IP address mentioned in the third Received: line cannot be matched via whois or traceroute. It certainly doesn't match AOL, indicating that this line is bogus.

Some security Tips:-

noreply@blogger.com (Prince) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:51:00 +0000

Some security Tips:-

How to protect yourself online. There are four major areas that I'm going to cover here:-

1. Updating Windows
2. Firewalls
3. Antivirus Software
4. Email

Updating Windows is the first suggestion that I would have for you. When you installed your brand new Windows operating system they didn't have all the bugs worked out of it and they issue updates for your operating system. These updates will fix many of the security holes that were found in the original operating system. So, how do you go about updating your Windows? Go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

Next suggestion is a firewall, with the ever increasing number of people with a broadband connection and 24/7 connectivity it becomes even more important that you put a firewall on you computer. Your computer has a series of ports that are either opened or closed to receive and send information onto the net. If someone attacks these ports with D.O.S. (Denial of Service) attack they can shut your connection to the net off, but that's not that bad, but they can also look at these open ports and find openings in your computer. This is serious because they can gather information on you, can look into you hard drive, and do all sorts of malicious activities. Go to the Firewall section of the website to download one of the free software programs there. They will make your computer even more safe then it was with the security updates you just completed.

The third and final suggestion is Antivirus software. Viruses can range in severity from something simple and annoying to viruses that will wipe your hard drive clean. So you need to get an Antivirus software program. AVG is a free virus scanner that works excellently at protecting your computer. Read more about the antivirus software at the Antivirus section of this website. Antivirus software will also help prevent Trojans from getting on you computer. Trojans allows a user to have remote access to your computer, yes, just like the trojan horse it sits on your computer waiting for the person that put it there to use it...so antivirus software will work wonders on your computer. Make sure you keep the virus definitions up to date! Also avoid downloading email attachments, downloading files from an untrustworthy site, and make sure you frequently scan you hard drive.

Email - No reputable place will ask for you to fill in your credit card information in an email, delete it or sending it to your ISP to point out this danger. If you get an email from EBAY or AOL or any other big company and there is this link in the email asking you to update your credit card info, don't do it, it's a scam, don't do it, they just make a webpage that looks like Ebay or AOL. This is a quick way to get your credit information stolen...so basically use some commonsense when you're reading your emails.

10 steps for your computer security

noreply@blogger.com (Prince) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:47:00 +0000

10 steps for your computer security:-

1.Use good antivirus software and keep it updated daily.
You can use Quick Heal.
2.Apply software updates regularly and consistently.
3.Use a desktop firewall whenever possible- check with your local desktop support team first.
4.Use strong passwords with a minimum of 6 characters- uppercase, lowercase letters, symbols and numbers.
5.Change all of your passwords regularly.

6.Make routine backups of your critical files
7.Do not open emails that you don't recognize the author or that look suspicious to you- you can call your local support team for more information
8.Don't post passwords or usernames in plain sight- post it notes on your monitor with passwords and usernames break most security processes
9.Turn off your computer at night and on weekends- check with your local desktop support team first if this will break nightly updates or backup procedures
10.Don't leave old computers online- disconnect them or turn them off

How to Auto Login Windows XP without typing password?

noreply@blogger.com (Prince) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:43:00 +0000

How to Auto Login Windows XP without typing password?
Every time you start your computer, you're prompted to enter password in order to login to Windows. You find this irritating when no one else is using your computer that is sitting at home.

Follow a few simple steps below and you won't be bothered by this login prompt every again:-

1. First click on your Start button.

2. Then go to "Run"

3. Type "control userpasswords2" and click OK button.

4. A User Account dialog box will appear. Uncheck "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer." and click OK button.

5. Another dialog box will appear asking you to type in the DEFAULT user account that you'd like to login whenever you start your computer. Type in the user name and pword. You only need to do this once.

Done.

Hack Vista's Blinking Cursor

noreply@blogger.com (Prince) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:17:00 +0000

Hack Vista's Blinking Cursor:-

Windows Vista’s blinking cursor can be razor thin, and sometimes it can be very hard to find it, especially if you’re using a laptop. But it’s easy to make the cursor thicker—pretty much as thick as you want. Select Control Panel->Ease of Access->Optimize visual display. Scroll toward the bottom of the screen, until you come to “Make things on the screen easier to see.” In the box next to “Set the thickness of the blinking cursor,” select a number. The larger the number, the fatter the cursor. You’ll see a preview of the cursor in the box next to the box.
Click Save. The cursor throughout Windows Vista will now be fatter and easier to see.

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How to transforming your Windows XP laptop into a Dual- Boot XP/Ubuntu Linux System?

noreply@blogger.com (Prince) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:53:00 +0000

Transforming your Windows XP laptop into a Dual- Boot XP/Ubuntu Linux System:-

For those of us who do considerable work in the Linux environment, a Windows-only notebook is far from ideal. I worked with Unix on Windows packages such as Uwin and Cygwin for several years, but I finally decided I wanted a full Linux installation on my notebook. I started with my aging Toshiba laptop (which had about 90 percent of its 30GB disk filled) and, without losing any data, turned it into a dual-boot XP/Ubuntu Linux system with a shared partition where many of my user fi les were accessible whether I was using XP or Ubuntu. This made the
laptop much more versatile, which is ideal for a developer who works in Linux but must also work in Windows for certain applications or for Windows-based development. A few months later, the monitor on that machine gave out. I bought a new HP notebook and transformed it into a dual-boot XP/Ubuntu Linux system right away. This hack describes the steps I took to complete the dual-boot conversions.

Prerequisites: Disk Space and CDs:-
As you might expect, a dual-boot computer requires more disk space than a computer running just one operating system. I don’t recommend performing an XP/Linux dual-boot conversion with a drive smaller than the 30 GB that my older notebook had. A system with more than 60 GB disk space is a more ideal starting point.

When reconfiguring operating systems on a hard drive, you must be able to boot the system using a CD that has appropriate tools for disk partitioning, fi le editing, and so on. I used the System Rescue CD (www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page), a Gentoo Linux 2.4 Live CD (www.gentoo.org) with system utilities including QtParted, GRUB, LILO, archiving tools, editors, CD tools, Perl 5.8, CaptiveNtfs, and others. I downloaded the ISO image fi le using Windows and made my CD using Alex Feinman’s excellent ISO Recorder (isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm). I downloaded the installation ISO file for Ubuntu 5.10, “The Breezy Badger,” at Ubuntu’s download page (www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download). Again, I made the CD using ISO Recorder.

Windows Disk Preparations:-
If you’re converting a Windows system that you’ve used for some time, the disk may be nearly full, and the files will likely be scattered across it. To install Linux, you need to divide the disk into multiple partitions. One way to do this is to destructively repartition the entire disk, but then you have to reinstall Windows and all of your Windows software—not a pleasing prospect. A better solution is to resize the Windows NTFS partition, then add new partitions for Linux, Linux swap space, and a FAT32 shared partition. Because my Toshiba notebook’s disk was 90 percent full, the first thing I had to do was remove files. If you’re in this situation, see how much space you can free up by:

1. Backing up all critical files (or performing a full system backup if you have capability to do that).

2. Removing Windows software that you never use and never plan to use, using “Add or Remove Programs” (“Uninstall a program” in Vista) in the Windows Control Panel or the uninstallation programs that came with the software.

3. Removing unneeded data files.

4. Moving documents, data files, and project workspaces (for example, software development directories) that you can later store temporarily in the new shared partition to another computer.

5. Emptying the Windows Recycle Bin.

6. Doing all of these things decreased my Windows disk usage to 10 GB, leaving 18 GB free. However, the files were still scattered across the disk.

Before you can resize the NTFS partition, you must move all fi les to the “front” of the disk. You can see the locations of files on your disk by running the Windows Defragmenter utility. Go to Start->All Programs->Accessories->System Tools->Disk Defragmenter to launch the defragmenter. Figure 1-25 illustrates my disk usage after the defragmentation cycle completed.
The files were not as completely packed into the “front” of the disk (the left side of the Defragmenter diagram) as I would have expected. A little research revealed that the Windows Defragmenter applies a less-comprehensive defragmenting approach than is available in some commercial programs. I decided to rerun the Windows Defragmenter. This result looked adequate. More than half of the disk was available for my Linux installation, Linux swap, and the shared FAT32 partition.

One problem that you may encounter in defragmenting a Windows disk using the Windows Defragmenter is unmovable files (the green bars, if you’re looking at your results) located in inconvenient locations (on the right side of the display, near the end of your disk). The two most common unmovable laptop files are the Windows operating system paging file (pagefile.sys) and the hibernation file (hiberfil.sys), which stores the system state when the XP operating system goes into “hibernate” mode. An easy solution is to temporarily removing these files, then reinstall them after you’ve resized the NTFS partition. If you need help with this, see my blog entry “Moving the Unmovable: Windows Disk Defragmentation Strategies” (lyratechnicalsystems.com/?p=9).

Notebook disk usage after running the Windows disk defragmenter

Notebook disk usage after four Windows disk defragmenter runs

Dual-Boot Computer Disk Partitioning:-
When sizing your partitions, consider the following:-

1. Windows NTFS partition: Provide adequate space for the full operating system (including anticipated future patches), installation of all applications you want, and plenty of extra space (just to be safe).
2. Linux ext3 partition: Provide adequate space for the full operating system; for convenience, allow enough space for software installation in the default install locations (/usr/bin, and so on).
3. Linux Swap: Follow the standard rule of allocating swap—twice your RAM.
4. Shared FAT32 partition: Don’t make this too small. For example, if your email will reside on the shared partition, that alone can quickly occupy gigabytes of disk space. Although people often recommend creating a separate partition for the /home directory, I chose to let /home reside on the root partition, in this case. Most of the data that I would normally store in a Linux /home directory is actually in the shared FAT32 partition on my dual-boot systems, leaving /home relatively empty.

Once you’ve decided on partition sizes, boot the system using the System Rescue CD. When the rescue CD presents the boot: prompt, I recommend entering fb800 nodetect:-

boot: fb800 nodetect

This setting bypasses a full search for the devices on your computer. When I tried the default boot with my new HP, the system displayed the message “USB and PCI hot plugging” and froze, forcing me into a hard power-down. My Knoppix 3.7 LiveCD also failed to complete its boot on the HP, using the default options. Because I don’t plan to work with USB or hotplug devices, there is no need to detect them.

After the rescue CD boots, you’ll see a Linux command prompt. Enter run_qtparted to launch the QtParted disk partitioning application. (Documentation and screen shots are available from the project’s site at qtparted.sourceforge.net.) Select the Windows partition (this was /dev/hda on both my systems), and resize it: select Operations->Resize, enter the new partition size (observe your units, MB or GB), and click OK.

Next, create a second primary partition, of type ext3, for the new Ubuntu system: highlight the “02” partition, and select Operations->Create. Set “Create as” to “Primary Partition” (so that the Linux system can boot), select “ext3” as the partition type, give the drive a sensible partition label, enter the partition size, and click OK. Create the Linux swap partition by highlighting number 03 and selecting Operations->Create. Select “linux-swap” as the partition type, selects the swap size, and click OK.

Finally, create the FAT32 partition that both operating systems will share. Highlight number “04” and select Operations->Create. Set the partition type to FAT32, provide a label, and allow the partition to use the remainder of the disk.

Now, study the color-coded diagram at the top of the QtParted window. The sizes of the colored partition regions should match what you expect to see based on your disk space allocation design.
If there is any doubt, you can select Device->Undo to undo your changes, or exit QtParted and start over.

When you’re absolutely certain that everything looks correct, select DeviceCommit. The QtParted program will warn you that all partitions must be unmounted. The hard drive partitions won’t be mounted if you went directly from the CD boot to run_qtparted. Click Yes to commit your changes.

A progress window appears, and QtParted displays various messages as it performs the repartioning operations. It took about ten minutes to repartition my 30 GB Toshiba drive into the four new partitions, but on my HP all operations completed in about a minute. If everything works,
QtParted displays “Operations completed successfully.” Click OK, and then select FileQuit to exit QtParted.

Enter shutdown -r now to shut down the system. At this point, you might want to reboot to verify that your Windows system is still bootable. Windows should boot fine if you selected an adequate resize partition size based on the final Windows defragmentation map. At boot time, Windows may detect the change in disk partition size and begin to run the chkdsk utility. Let this continue so that
Windows can reset its internal information about available disk drives.

After Windows has completed its analysis of the new disk partitions and booted into its normal operating mode, open Explorer and look at the identified drives. You should see the resized boot drive, plus a new drive letter that designates the FAT32 partition you created using QtParted.

Installing Ubuntu Linux:-
To install Ubuntu Linux, reboot the system with the Ubuntu boot CD in the drive. At the Partition disks screen, select “Manually edit partition table.” On my systems, Ubuntu found these partitions:

ntfs /media/hda1
ext3 /media/hda2
swap swap
fat32 /media/hd4

The ntfs partition is the resized Windows partition. The ext3 partition is where you want to install Ubuntu. Make sure you set the mount point to / for this partition, set the bootable flag to on, and let Ubuntu format the partition. For the FAT32 partition, specify a mount point such as /share. When the configuration settings are correct, select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk. The installer will format the ext3 and swap partitions.

Installing GRUB and Making Ubuntu BootableUsing the Windows Bootloader:-

The remainder of the Ubuntu install is straightforward, until you must choose whether to install the GRUB bootloader to the Master Boot Record (MBR). To be extra protective of my working Windows installation, I chose not to install GRUB to my MBR, which led me to a screen titled Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk. Here, I identified my Ubuntu partition:
In GRUB’s zero-based drive identification convention, this indicates the first disk drive (drive hd0), second partition (partition 1).

After installing GRUB, Ubuntu will request a reboot to complete its installation running from the hard drive. On both of my systems, the reboot produced the ominous message “Missing operating system.” This message is the result of Ubuntu having set its own partition as the active partition. The Windows bootloader, which is still installed in the master boot record, cannot boot Windows, because the Windows partition is not flagged as active; the Windows bootloader also has no knowledge of the Ubuntu operating system, so that cannot boot, either.

To make the system bootable into both Windows and Ubuntu, reboot into the System Rescue CD. Run QtParted, select the Windows partition (for example, /dev/hda1), and select Operations->Set Active. Select Device->Commit to commit your changes. The QtParted progress window will display the operations, ending with Operations completed successfully. Exit QtParted, but don’t shut down.
Now you must copy data from the Ubuntu partition to a file that the Windows bootloader can use for booting Ubuntu. The FAT32 partition, which is accessible to both Linux and Windows, is useful. At the System Rescue CD command prompt, mount the FAT32 partition:

# mkdir /mnt/share
# mount -t msdos /dev/hda4 /mnt/share

# dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/mnt/share/ubuntu.bin bs=512 count=1
If you enter:
# ls -l /mnt/share

you should see the file ubuntu.bin with size 512 bytes.

Now configure the Windows bootloader. Shut down the system and let Windows boot. Copy the ubuntu.bin fi le from the FAT32 Windows drive to drive C:\. Next, edit the system startup settings. Open the Control Panel, select System, and go to the Advanced tab. Click the Startup and Recovery settings button. Click the Edit button to edit the startup options file manually (Figure 1-27). Clicking Edit loads the boot.ini file into Notepad. Add a new line at the end of the file:

C:\UBUNTU.BIN="Ubuntu Linux"

Save the file and close Notepad. Make sure the “Time to display list of operating systems” has a value of at least 5 or 10, to give yourself plenty of time to select the operating system at boot time. Click OK to save the Startup settings.
You now have a dual-boot XP/Ubuntu notebook computer. Reboot the computer and select Ubuntu Linux to complete the installation and configuration of Ubuntu. Linux configuration issues vary for different computers.

Navigating to edit the Windows bootloader startup settings

Accessing the Shared Partition from Ubuntu:-
Ubuntu mounts the shared FAT32 partition at boot time:

kevin@lyrahpnx:~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 30233928 1766828 26931288 7% /
tmpfs 517816 16 517800 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 517816 12588 505228 3% /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/volatile
/dev/hda1 19451896 3548380 15903516 19% /media/hda1
/dev/hda4 25916224 160 25916064 1% /share

By default, the root user owns the partition:-

kevin@lyrahpnx:~$ ls -l /share
total 48
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 2006-02-09 11:03 Recycled
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 16384 2006-02-09 11:03 System Volume Information
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 2006-02-09 10:56 ubuntu.bin

You won’t be able to access the shared partition from Ubuntu Linux using your normal login name unless you change this. The simplest solution is to have the /share partition mounted at boot time specifying your login ID as the owner. First, display your user ID record from /etc/passwd (substitute your user name for kevin):

kevin@lyrahpnx:~$ grep kevin /etc/passwd
kevin:x:1000:1000:Kevin Farnham,,,:/home/kevin:/bin/bash

The third and fourth items are the user ID and group ID; these are necessary when you modify the mount command in /etc/fstab. Because fstab is a critical Linux system file, make a backup copy of your working version before you edit the file. Then, edit fstab (use sudo, because root owns the file), and change the options section for the /share entry to defaults,uid=uuuu,gid=gggg, where uuuu is your user ID and gggg is your group ID. Here’s my revised /etc/fstab (note the /dev/hda4 /share entry):-

kevin@lyrahpnx:/etc$ cat fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda4 /share vfat defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
/dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

When you reboot into Ubuntu, the /share partition will be mounted with your user name having full ownership and full access.

How to move partitions around on Vista without destroying it?

noreply@blogger.com (Prince) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:49:00 +0000

Move partitions around on Vista without destroying it:-

Resizing partitions in Vista can lead to a meltdown—you may not be able to boot. Here’s how to resize and still boot up, problem free.
One of the cool things about Vista is its ability to resize partitions using diskmgmt.msc. This trick works great for those times when you need to shrink or grow a partition. Unfortunately, if you need to move things around as I did this weekend; you won’t be able to use the built-in tool.
I needed to delete a partition I wasn’t using and also give more space to my Vista partition. So I turned to the trusty Gparted (gparted.sourceforge.net), a free alternative to tools like Partition Magic. (Partition Magic doesn’t work in Vista, by the way.) It performed the partitioning flawlessly, but Vista refused to boot after that. I was prepared for that, thanks to the Gparted Vista HOWTO (gparted.free.fr/screenshots/VISTA/Howto_move_VISTA.html), and had my Vista boot DVD ready to perform the post-Gparted operation: Boot up the installation DVD Choose the repair option Let the installation DVD repair the disk automatically when prompted to do so.

This process let Vista boot, but there was still a problem . . . one that I remember from messing up drive letter assignments in previous versions of Windows: Vista booted up and took me to the login screen, but wouldn’t show my desktop. (In theory, the HOWTO should have worked perfectly, but I have a dual-boot Vista/XP system, and things got confused.)
So I had to do one more set of tasks:-
1. Log in
2. Hit Ctrl-Alt-Del to get Task Manager to appear (the desktop will not appear normally when the drive letter is messed up)

3. Use Task Manager to run Regedit and make my way to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ MountedDevices and fix the drive letter assignments.

The drive letter assignments can be tricky, because you probably need to do something like rename \DosDevices\C: to \DosDevices\D: and vice versa, but you can’t have duplicate names, so you’ll need to change one of them to something temporary, like:

\DosDevices\C: to \DosDevices\X:
\DosDevices\D: to \DosDevices\C:
\DosDevices\X: to \DosDevices\D:

Once I did that, I rebooted, and all was right with the world!

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How To Check If Windows-XP is activated or not?

noreply@blogger.com (Prince) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:48:00 +0000

Check If Windows-XP is activated or not:-

Go to Start > Run.

Type: oobe/msoobe /a

Click OK.

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How to solve 'task manger has been disabled by ur administrator' Problem?

noreply@blogger.com (Prince) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:41:00 +0000

"task manger has been disabled by ur administrator"
You can face this annoying problem any time.
so here is the solution of your problem:-

1: Close the IE browser. Log out messenger / Remove Internet Cable.
2: To enable Regedit
Click Start, Run and type this command exactly as given below: (better - Copy and paste)
REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
3: To enable task manager : (To kill the process we need to enable task manager)
Click Start, Run and type this command exactly as given below: (better - Copy and paste)
REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
4: Now we need to change the default page of IE though regedit.
Start>Run>Regedit
From the below locations in Regedit chage your default home page to google.com or other.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
HKEY_ LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
HKEY_USERS\Default\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Just replace the attacker site with google.com or set it to blank page.
5: Now we need to kill the process from back end. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del
Kill the process svhost32.exe . ( may be more than one process is running.. check properly)
6: Delete svhost32.exe , svhost.exe files from Windows/ & temp/ directories. Or just search for svhost in your comp.. delete those files.
7: Go to regedit search for svhost and delete all the results you get.
Start menu > Run > Regedit >
8: Restart the computer. That’s it now you are virus free.

it works !!

2)I don't have IIS( Internet Information Services) windows componet on my system
As far as I know one can't have IIS running on XP Home. I think u will have to upgrade it to XP Pro in xp pro That's simple get the Win XP CD, go to control panel-->add/remove programs and then to add/remove windows components. There u will find the option for adding IIS, just check the checkbox and follow the instructions

The Secrets of Windows Vista’s BCDEDIT

noreply@blogger.com (Prince) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:32:00 +0000

The Secrets of Windows Vista’s BCDEDIT:-
Baffled by Windows Vista’s BCDEDIT command-line tool for customizing multiboot startups? Who isn’t? Here’s an easy guide to its basics.
If you’re only looking to customize the basics of your Windows Vista multiboot system, there’s no need to download and install VistaBootPRO .You can, instead, directly hack the BCD store using BCDEDIT.

Before you get started, you need a little introduction to the BCD store, and how BCDEDIT lets you edit it. The BCD is made up of a series of objects, each of which is a boot environment application, such as a boot manager. Each object, in turn, is made up of a series of elements. And each element has an attribute that tells how it will be used.

For example, the Windows Boot Manager in the BCD handles the initial startup of the PC, and displays a multiboot menu. One of the elements in the Windows Boot Manager is timeout, which determines how long to display the multiboot menu before loading the default operating system. The timeout element’s option is a number, such as 30, which determines how long (in seconds) to display the screen.

There’s one more thing you need to know about the BCD. When you use BCDEDIT to edit the BCD, you often need to use a GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) of an object of some kind. For example, a partition on a PC has its own GUID, which looks something like this: {b37c75ca-dd09-11d8-9a7e-
1030581395c7}.

That GUID for the partition is unique. But there are also GUIDs that are predefined, and are exactly the same from PC to PC. For example, the Windows Legacy OS Loader, used to load Windows XP and Windows 2000, always has the GUID {466f5a88-0af2-4f76-9038-095b170dc21c}. To make it somewhat easier to use BCD, aliases represent these universal, predefined GUIDs. So instead of using {466f5a88-0af2-4f76-9038-095b170dc21c}, you can use the alias {ntldr}.

With that background behind us, it’s time to actually use BCDEDIT. It’s a command-line tool, and you need to run it as an administrator. Type cmd at the Search box on the Start menu, right-click the cmd icon that appears at the top of the Start menu, and select Run as administrator.
Before doing any editing, it’s a good idea to back up the BCD store, so that you can late restore it, if you do any kind of damage. Create a folder for the BCD store on another drive or a removable disk.
In our example, we’ll say that you’re going to back it up to your D: drive. So create a folder called \BCD Backup on your D: drive. Once you’ve done that, type this command and press Enter to back up the BCD store to it:

bcdedit /export "D:\BCD Backup\Bcd Backup"

If you later need to restore the BCD store, type this command:

bcdedit /import "D:\BCD Backup\Bcd Backup"

Next, take a look at how your multiboot system is set up. At the command line, type bcdedit and press Enter. You’ll see a listing like this:

We’re not going to edit most of this. We’re going to change only the basics, because a full explanation of how to use BCDEDIT is well beyond the scope of this book. And besides, there are much easier ways to work with the BCD store.

Note all the listings with curly braces { } around them. These are GUIDs. Most are aliases, such as
{ntldr}.

The first main listing is Windows Boot Manager, which handles the initial startup. The elements underneath it detail its path, the language it’s in, and so on. It’s mainly self-explanatory. The next listing, Windows Legacy OS Loader, is the loader used to load Windows XP or Windows 2000. The final listing, Windows Boot Loader, is used to load Windows Vista.

So what does this entire listing tell us? The multiboot window will be displayed for 30 seconds, as you can see in the timeout listing of 30 under Windows Boot Manager. Windows Vista is the default operating system that loads after 30 seconds if no action is taken. You can tell that because the default listing in Windows Boot Manager is {current}—and as you can see, the identifier directly under Windows Boot Loader is {current} and its description is Microsoft Windows Vista.

On the multiboot menu that appears when the PC starts, the first listing will be for the previous version of Windows, and the text will read Earlier Version of Windows. The second listing will be for Windows Vista, and the text will read Microsoft Windows Vista.

You can tell that because the displayorder under Windows Boot Manager is {ntldr} fi rst, and {current} second. And if you look in the description of Windows Legacy OS Loader, you’ll see Earlier Version of Windows, and in the description of Windows Boot Loader, you’ll see Microsoft Windows Vista.

To make changes with BCDEDIT, you use a variety of switches. For details, type bcdedit /?, and you’ll get a list of switches, and how to use them. You need to use the switches in concert with GUIDs and attributes. For example, if you wanted to change the boot menu so that instead of displaying Earlier Version of Windows, it displayed Windows XP, you’d issue this command and press Enter.
bcdedit /set {ntldr} description "Windows XP" Similarly, if you wanted to change the menu so that it displayed Windows Vista Ultimate instead of
Microsoft Windows Vista, you’d issue this command and press Enter:
bcdedit /set {current} description "Windows Vista Ultimate".

To change the amount of time the menu appears before booting into the default operating system to 20 seconds, type this command and press Enter:
bcdedit /timeout 15 To have your PC boot into Windows XP instead of Windows Vista as the default operating system, type this command and press Enter:
bcdedit /default {ntldr} To change the display order of the multiboot menu, so that the Windows Vista entry appears first, and the Windows XP entry appears
second, type this command and press Enter: bcdedit /displayorder {current} {ntldr}
After you make your changes, they’ll take effect the next time you reboot.

How to boot into a different version of windows quickly?

noreply@blogger.com (Prince) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:31:00 +0000

Boot into a different version of windows quickly

If you run multiple versions of Windows on your PC—for example, Windows XP and Windows 98—you know how annoying it is to go through the reboot routine when you want to boot into a different operating system than the one you’re currently using. Restart (www.gabrieleponti.com/software/index.html#restart) comes to the rescue. It appears as a green icon in your system tray..Click it to see all your available operating systems, choose the one you want to boot into, and the program reboots your PC into the operating system that you chose. It works with Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP and 2003 Server, but not yet with Windows Vista.

How to Shutting Off Services that Run at Startup?

noreply@blogger.com (Prince) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:23:00 +0000

Shutting Off Services that Run at Startup:-

Constantly running in the background of Windows are services—processes that help the operating system run or that provide support to applications. Many of these services launch automatically at startup. Although you need many of them, many aren’t required and can slow down your system when they run in the background. You can prevent services from running at startup by using the System Configuration Utility, similar to how you halt programs from running at startup, but using the Services tab instead of the Startup tab. When you go to that tab, you’ll see a very long list of services, most of which Windows requires running. A good way to weed out unnecessary services is to see which services weren’t created by Microsoft, which aren’t required by Windows, and which have been installed by a third party. You can then decide which to stop and which to run. To see non-Microsoft services, click “Hide all Microsoft services.” You’ll see a list like the one shown picture.

The System Configuration Utility is useful, but it doesn’t necessarily list every service that launches on startup. A bigger problem is that turning off services is more of a shot in the dark than disabling programs. When you disable a program, you can get a sense of what the program does. But when you turn off a service through the System Configuration Utility, there’s often no way to know what it does (or did).

A better way of turning off services at startup is via the Services Computer Management Console, shown in Figure 1-13. Run it by typing services.msc at the command prompt or Search box. The Services Computer Management Console includes a description of all services so that you can know ahead of time whether a particular service is one you want to turn off. It also lets you pause the service so that you can test out your machine with the service off to see whether it’s needed.

After you run the console, click the Extended tab. This view shows you a description of each service in the left pane when you highlight the service. The Startup Type column shows you which services launch upon startup—any services with “Automatic” in that column. Click the top of that column to sort together all the services that automatically launch on startup. Then highlight each service and read the descriptions.

When you find a service that you want to turn off, right-click it and choose Properties. In the Properties dialog box that appears, choose Manual from the “Startup type” drop-down list. The service won’t start automatically from now on (unless another service requires it in order to start), but you can start it manually via the console. If you want the service disabled so that it can’t be run, choose Disabled. (If you disable a service that a critical Windows service depends on, that service won’t be able to start either, which could cause problems.)

To test the effects of turning off the service, turn off any services you don’t want to run by clicking “Stop the service” in the left pane, or by right-clicking the service and choosing Stop. Note that some services can’t be stopped while the system is running. You’ll have to set them to “manual” and reboot to see the effect of turning them off. Table 1-1 lists some common services you might want to halt from running at startup. Note that some run on Windows XP, some on Windows Vista, and some on both.

The Services Computer Management Console

Some services and their functions:-

How to Speed Up Startup by Halting Startup Programs?

noreply@blogger.com (Prince) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:10:00 +0000

Increase your PC’s performance and speed up startup times by shutting off applications and services that you don’t need. One of the best ways to speed up your PC without having to spend money on extra RAM is to stop unnecessary programs and services from running whenever you start your PC.

When too many programs and services run automatically every time you start up your system, startup itself takes a long time—and too many programs and services running simultaneously can bog down your CPU and hog your memory.
Some programs, such as antivirus software, should run automatically at startup and always run on your computer. But many other programs, such as instant messenger software, serve no purpose by being run at startup. And while you need a variety of background services running on your PC for Windows to function, there are many unnecessary services that run on startup. For example, on many Windows XP systems, the Wireless Zero Configuration Service runs to automatically configure a wifi (802.11) network card, even though no such card is present in the system. (Windows Vista does away with the Wireless Zero Configuration Service entirely.)

Eliminating Programs that Run at Startup:-
The task of stopping programs from running at startup is particularly daunting because there is no single place you can go to stop them all. Some run because they’re put in the Startup folder, others because they’re part of logon scripts, still others because of Registry settings, and so on. But with a little bit of perseverance, you should be able to stop them from running.

Cleaning Out the Startup Folder:-
Start by cleaning out your Startup folder.
In Windows XP, it is in
C:\Documents and Settings\\Start Menu\Programs\Startup, where is your Windows logon name.
In Windows Vista, find it in
C:\Users\\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup where is, again, your Windows logon name.

Delete the shortcuts of any programs you don’t want to run on startup. As with any shortcuts, when you delete them, you’re deleting only the shortcut, not the program itself. (You can also clear out the startup items in Windows XP by going to Start->Programs->Startup and deleting items you want to remove. In Windows Vista, go to Start->All Programs->Startup.

Next, clean out any tasks that has been automatically scheduled to run. In Windows XP, you’ll find them in your Scheduled Tasks folder. Go to C:\WINDOWS\Tasks, and delete the shortcuts of any programs that you don’t want to run.
In Windows Vista, you’ll have to run the Task Scheduler, and delete tasks from there. Go to the Control PanelSystem and MaintenanceSchedule Tasks. The Task Scheduler appears. Click “Task Scheduler Library” to display the tasks that have been scheduled, as shown in Picture.
Look for any tasks that you don’t want to run. In particular, look at the Triggers column and see whether any tasks are listed “At system startup.” Such tasks start every time you run your PC. To see details about the task, including what it does, the executable file, how often it is scheduled, and so on, double-click it and look through the various tabs.

Look for any tasks that are scheduled to run at startup in
Windows Vista’s Task Scheduler, and deletes them if they’re unnecessary

When you’ve identified a task you don’t want to run on startup, highlight it, click Delete, and click OK when you’re prompted.

Using the System Configuration Utility:-
Taking the previous steps will stop the obvious programs from running at startup, but it won’t kill them all. The best tool for disabling hidden programs that run on startup is the Startup tab in the System Configuration Utility, shown in Figure 1-11. To run it in either Windows XP or Windows Vista, type msconfig at the Search box in the Start menu, in a command prompt or in the Run box and
press Enter. (If that doesn’t work, first do a search for msconfi g.exe, and then when you find the file, double-click it.)

To stop a program from running at startup, go to the Startup tab in this utility and uncheck the box next to the program. It can sometimes be difficult to understand what programs are listed on the Startup tab. Some, such as America Online, are clearly labeled. But often, you’ll see a phrase or collection of letters, such as fs20. That’s the name of the running file—in this case, fs20.exe, which is
Free Surfer Companion, a pop-up killer, cache manager, and surfing utility.

To get more information about a listing, expand the width of the Command column near the top of the Startup tab. Expand it enough and you’ll see the startup command that the program issues, including its location, such as

C:\Program Files\Free Surfer\fs20.exe. The directory location should be another hint to help you know the name of the program. When stopping programs from running at startup, it’s best to stop them one at a time rather than in groups. You want to make sure that you’re not causing any system problems by stopping them. So, stop one and restart your PC. If it runs fine, stop another and restart. Continue doing this until you’ve cleared all the programs you don’t want to run automatically.

The Startup tab of the System Configuration Utility

Each time you uncheck a box and restart your PC, you’ll get a warning stating that you’ve used the System Configuration Utility to disable a program from starting automatically. If you don’t want to see that warning, disable it by checking the box in the dialog box itself.

After you’ve used the System Configuration Utility to identify programs that run upon startup, you might want to try disabling them from within the programs themselves. Run each program that starts automatically, and see if you can find a setting that allows you to prevent it from running on startup. For example, to get rid of Apple QuickTime’s startup item, right-click the QuickTime icon in the notification area, select QuickTime Preferences, go to the Advanced tab, and uncheck the box labeled “Install QuickTime icon in system tray.”

Using the Registry to Halt Programs Running on Startup:-

Even the System Configuration Utility won’t necessarily let you identify and kill all programs that run on startup. You might also need to hack the Registry to disable them. To do so, Launch the Registry Editor by typing regedit at the Start Search box or a command prompt (see Chapter 13 for details) and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. The right pane will contain a list of some of the programs that run automatically at startup. The Data field tells you the path and name of the executable so that you can determine what each program is. Right-click any program you don’t want to run, and choose Delete. That will kill any programs that run and are specific to your account. To kill programs that run for every user of the system, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and follow the same instructions for deleting other programs that you don’t want to run at startup.

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How to Faster Boot up by BIOS hacks or tweaks?

noreply@blogger.com (Prince) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:52:00 +0000

Faster Boot up by BIOS hacks or tweaks:-

Some of the stuff your computer does at boot time is of no use. Disable those features to boot faster.

The system BIOS does a lot of work in the P.O.S.T. (Power On Self Test) phase before it gets your system to the point where it reads boot-up information from a disk drive to load an operating system. Some of the things that happen in P.O.S.T. have nothing to do with system performance, other than impeding the process of getting to the operating system to run your applications. Intel, AMD, AMI, Award/Phoenix, and the PC manufacturers were aware of this waste of time, evaluated the events involved, and in many cases took steps to reduce the number of items and the amount of time the startup process takes. To that end, there are a handful of changes you can make in order to boot up faster.

1. Disable Extended Tests:-
Many systems offer the option of allowing an in-depth test of system memory and components (an extended test) or zipping through the system and getting to bootup as quickly as possible. With RAM as reliable and economical as it is (and having so much of it) and having plug-and-play operating systems like Windows—and, to some extent, current versions of Linux—the Quick Test mode is more than adequate, and preferred for faster boot times. This parameter is shown in Figure 1-14, and specifies the depth, and thus the time involved, for testing system RAM and finding and checking the basic components of the system—COM and LPT ports and such.

2. Configure Drive Detection:-
Most BIOS’s provide the capability to automatically search for, identify, and configure different types of drives across multiple IDE and Serial ATA connections. This parameter setting usually shows up as AUTO in the IDE configuration choices. If you leave the parameter for all four possible IDE or Serial ATA devices set to AUTO, your BIOS will waste a lot of time searching for nonexistent devices. For faster boot times set the parameter to NONE, as shown in Figure 1-15, for any unused interfaces and connections that have nothing attached to them.

What is BIOS?

noreply@blogger.com (Prince) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:51:00 +0000

BIOS:-

Your system’s BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) is firmware stored in a chip on your PC that handles basic system startup—in essence, it gets your computer’s hardware ready so that the operating system can load on it. What’s important to understand about the BIOS is that it runs before Windows runs, and handles the basic tasks of recognizing and configuring your hardware.
And here is the rest of it.

How to bypass the Windows Vista Logon screen on multiaccount PCs?

noreply@blogger.com (Prince) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:48:00 +0000

Bypass the Windows Vista Logon screen on multiaccount PCs:-

Having to type in your logon information on a system with two or more user accounts can be a pain. This hack shows you how to tell Windows Vista to log on to your primary account immediately.
When you have more than one user account on a Windows Vista PC, every time you restart your PC, you’ll be presented with a welcome screen listing all the accounts on the machine, forcing you to click one and type in your logon information.
But what if, like many people, you use one primary account nearly all the time, and use others only on occasion—and you’d like to bypass the screen listing all the user accounts and be logged in automatically? You’re apparently out of luck; Windows Vista can’t seem to do it.

Actually, though, it can, as you’ll see in this simple hack. Follow it, and you’ll automatically log in to your primary account, and then be able to switch to any other account when you wish:
1. At the Search box or a command prompt, type control userpasswords2. The User Accounts screen, shown in Figure 1-8, appears.

2. On the User Accounts tab, highlight the account that you want to automatically log on with, and then uncheck the box next to “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer.
3. The Automatically Log On dialog box appears, as seen in Figure 1-9. Type in the password for the account that you want to log on automatically. If the account shown isn’t the one that you want to log on automatically, type in the username and password for the account that you want to use. Click OK.

4. From now on, you’ll automatically log in using that account. When you’re logged in, if you want to switch to another account, use Fast User Switching by clicking the Start button, then clicking the arrow in the lower right hand corner of the Start menu, and selecting “Switch User”. You’ll come to a screen listing all users on your PC, where you can log in as any other user.

How to Speed Up Boot and Shutdown Times?

noreply@blogger.com (Prince) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:44:00 +0000

Speed Up Boot and Shutdown Times:-

Shorten the time it takes for your desktop to appear when you turn on your PC—and make Windows shut down faster.
No matter how fast your PC boots, it’s not fast enough. Here are several hacks to get you right to your desktop as quickly as possible after start-up, whether you use Windows XP or Windows Vista.
1. Confirm that boot defragmentation is enabled:-
There’s a simple way to speed up Windows startup: make your system do a boot defragment, which puts all the boot files next to one another on your hard disk. When boot files are in close proximity to one another, your system will start faster.

On most systems, boot defragments should be enabled by default, but it might not be on yours, or it might have been changed inadvertently. To make sure that boot defrayments is enabled on your system, launch the Registry Editor by typing regedit at the Start Search box or a command prompt
and go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction
Edit the Enable string value to Y if it is not already set to Y. Exit the Registry and reboot. The next time you reboot, your computer will perform a boot defragment. I’ve found many web sites recommending a way of speeding up boot times for Windows XP that might in fact slow down the amount of time it takes to boot up and probably slow down launching applications as well.
The tip recommends going to your C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch directory and emptying it every week. Windows uses this directory to speed up launching applications. It analyzes the files you use during startup and the applications you launch, and it creates an index to where those files and applications are located on your hard disk. By using this index, Windows can launch files and applications faster. So, by emptying the directory, you are most likely slowing down launching applications. In my tests, I’ve also found that after emptying the directory, it takes my PC a few seconds longer to get to my desktop after bootup. You’ll also slow down launching files and opening applications, and interfere with Windows Vista ReadyBoost.

2. Hack Your BIOS for Faster Start ups:-
When you turn on your PC, it goes through a set of start up procedures in its BIOS before it gets to starting Windows. So, if you speed up those initial start up procedures, you’ll make your system start faster.
You can speed up your start up procedures by changing the BIOS with the built-in setup utility. How you run this utility varies from PC to PC, but you typically get to it by pressing either the Delete, F1, or F10 key during start up. You’ll come to a menu with a variety of choices. Here are the choices to

3. Make for faster system startups:
Quick Power On Self Test (POST)
When you choose this option, your system runs an abbreviated POST rather than the normal, lengthy one.

4. Change Your Boot Order
If you change the boot order so that your BIOS check the hard disk first for booting, it won’t check any other devices, and will speed up your startup time.
Boot up Floppy seek Disable this option. When it’s enabled, your system spends a few extra seconds looking for your
Floppy drive—a relatively pointless procedure, especially considering how infrequently you use your floppy drive.

5. Boot Delay:-
Some systems let you delay booting after you turn on your PC so that your hard drive gets a chance to start spinning before bootup. Most likely, you don’t need to have this boot delay, so turn it off. If you run into problems, however, you can turn it back on.

6. Fine-Tune Your Registry for Faster Startups
Over time, your Registry can become bloated with unused entries, slowing down your system startup because your system loads them every time you start up your PC. Get a Registry cleanup tool to delete unneeded Registry entries and speed up startup times.

Go to Download Category from there you can download Registry Repair Wizard 2009.

Speed Up Shutdown Times
It’s not only startup times that you’d like to speed up; you can also adjust things so that your system shuts down faster. If shutting down XP takes what seems to be an inordinate amount of time, here are a couple of steps you can take to speed up the shutdown process:-

Don’t have Windows clear your paging file at shutdown:-

For security reasons, you can have Windows clear your paging file (pagefile.sys) of its contents whenever you shut down. Your paging file is used to store temporary files and data, but when your system shuts down, information stays in the file. Some people prefer to have the paging file cleared at shutdown, because sensitive information (such as unencrypted passwords) sometimes ends
up in the file. However, clearing the paging file can slow shutdown times significantly, so if extreme security isn’t a high priority, you might not want to clear it.

To shut down Windows without clearing your paging file, run the Registry Editor and go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management

Change the value of ClearPageFileAtShutdown to 0. (It may already be set to this.) Close the Registry and restart your computer. Whenever you turn off Windows from now on, the paging file won’t be cleared, and you should be able to shut down more quickly.

One simple way to speed up shutdown (and startup) times is to not ever actually shut down your PC. Instead, use sleep or hibernate modes. They use very little power, and shut down and start up your PC far more quickly than when you shut off the power completely. Sometimes it takes Windows a long time to shut down because it’s waiting to see whether a service will stop on its own before prompting you to manually shut it down. Windows, by default, waits 20 seconds before prompting you, which can sometimes seem interminable. You can hack the Registry to have Windows ask you sooner than 20 seconds. Run the Registry Editor and go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
Look for the WaitToKillServiceTimeout value. By default, it’s set to 20000 (20,000 milliseconds).

Change it to another number, in milliseconds—such as 15000, which would have Windows wait 15 seconds instead of 20 before prompting you. It’s a good idea to start off lowering the number in increments of not more than fi ve seconds, to see how your computer responds. And don’t set it to lower than 5000, or you might lose data or your PC might not shut down properly.

Turn off unnecessary services
Services take time to shut down, so the fewer you run, the faster you can shut down.

How to stop IE7 prompt to save passwords

noreply@blogger.com (Prince) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:55:00 +0000

Stop IE7 prompt to save passwords:-

From the Tools menu, select Internet Options.
Click the Content tab.
In the "AutoComplete..." section, click the Settings button.
To prevent your password from being saved.

deselect the "User names and passwords on forms" checkbox.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"FormSuggest Passwords"="no"
If you want undo, follow these steps

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

UNDO Stop IE7 Prompt To Save Password

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"FormSuggest Passwords"="yes"

N.B:- Backup your Registry before any modification

Internet explorar 7 some useful tips

noreply@blogger.com (Prince) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:52:00 +0000

Internet explorar 7 some useful tips:-

How to change the ClearType font?
Open Internet Explorer and go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced. Under the settings panel you will find the Multimedia Options. Uncheck the first option “Always use ClearType for HTML” and click OK. Restart IE7 and you are done. The standard font will be used.

Use the new implemented RSS function?
This new function will let you view RSS feed on webpages.

As you already know, RSS feeds are very useful to inform Internet users about changes that take place on websites. For example, www.windows-problems-repair.blogspot.com/ provides a RSS feed with all the latest post available on www.windows-problems-repair.blogspot.com/

You can subscribe to Softpedia feed to be informed very quickly with the latest downloads. So, open Softpedia.com and - in the right corner of Internet Explorer - click the orange button representing the RSS icon. A preview page of the feed will be displayed.

On top of the page, you will be able to subscribe to the feed. Click “Subscribe to this feed”. In the window that will be displayed you can change the name of the feed and organize the feeds using folders. Click Subscribe and you are up to date!

More Tabs, multiple homepages

Just go to Tools -> Internet Options and, under the General tab, in the Homepage field type in your main sites, then click OK. Next time you start IE7 you will have your sites served.