Technical Guide & Tips

How to run Windows media player 5.1 in Windows XP

noreply@blogger.com (Techie Guy) — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:34:00 +0000

Windows Media Player 5.1 is the basic version of Media player started from Microsoft Windows 3.1.

Though you installed the Windows Media player 11 in your Windows XP, you can get the WMP 5.1 as the executable file is still hidden in the Windows system folders.

Do the steps to get the Windows media player 5.1 in Windows XP.

Steps:

a) Start --> Run
b) Type "mplay32" and press ok.

You will get the basic media player version in Windows XP as you see in the picture.

How to enable Build configuration in Visual Studio 2005

noreply@blogger.com (Techie Guy) — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:15:00 +0000

As you know Build configurations are associated with Solution(.sln) files in Visual Studio 6 and later. So how will you enable/disable the Build Configuration menu item in Visual Studio 2005. Follow the below steps to do that

Steps:

a) Open Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 -> Open Project
b) Go to Tools -> Options
c) Choose "Projects and Solutions" and "General" tab
d) Check/Uncheck the check box item "Show advanced build configurations"

Now you are all set to get the Build Configuration menu item under Build Menu.

Remove rond.starsdoor.com popup

noreply@blogger.com (Techie Guy) — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:24:00 +0000

Basically Rond.startsdoor popup is the trojan/adware downloaded through Activex Controls in IE.

When i tried with AVG antispyware, Spyware Doctor, they were not able to clean those.

But it can be easily removed by uninstalling this exe file.

Steps:

1) Start --> Control Panel -- > Add/Remove Programs

2) Search for "Winpop" in the Installed programs.

3) Delete the "Winpop" and reboot the system.

4) Once you rebooted the system, run the below fix to get rid of this popup completely.

Combofix

Videos from around the web.. Search for video

noreply@blogger.com (Techie Guy) — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:11:00 +0000

SearchforVideo is the Web 2.0 site which searches the videos from around the web. Right now the publishers in searchvideo include HBO, Forbes, Discovery Network, BBC, Metacafe etc.

The site has divided into categories ranging from movies, music, podcasts and Entertainment.

If you know any video that is good and not listed in this site, you can submit here.
http://www.searchforvideo.com/misc/info_submit.php

As their subtitle says, find the video what you want here.
http://www.searchforvideo.com

How to use favicon in Googlepages.

noreply@blogger.com (Techie Guy) — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:15:00 +0000

Favicon is the favorite icon or custom icon for your website. Since many of us are using blogspot/wordpress right now, they dont have any other place to store the images and ico files.

If you are a blogspot user or Wordpress user, you can use Googlepages to store small images for your blog entries.

But in Googlepages if you store favicon.ico in the root folder of Googlepages and point that favicon to your blog, it wont work. Because Googlepages itself has the favicon associated with that ico.

Instead of trying like this,

rename favicon.ico to xxxx.ico and mention like below

It will override the Googlepages favicon.ico and you will get the required favorite icon on your website.

How to remove OuterInfo Adware Popup

noreply@blogger.com (Techie Guy) — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:44:00 +0000

Outerinfo is the desktop advertesing software which will be downloaded if you have enabled Activex controls in IE.

If you are infected with the Outerinfo Popups, no need to run the HijackThis.
Just download this exe file from that site , uninstall it and reboot the system.

http://www.outerinfo.com/OiUninstaller.exe

For more details about how to uninstall see here.
http://www.outerinfo.com/consumers.uninstalloi.html

Technical Guide & Tips

noreply@blogger.com (Techie Guy) — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:57:00 +0000

Basically I am a Software Engineer working in New York,United States. Started this blog today to keep track of what I am doing daily in my day today life and the technical stuff which I have learnt when I am doing programming/architect the project.

First of all, If you find any errors please leave the comments and I wanted this blog to be more interactive with the users and me.

Have a nice day.