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Different methods through viruses may be transferred

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:58:00 +0000

There are different methods through viruses may be transferred from one computer to another.
Now- a-days, most of the viruses spread due to receiving unknown e-mail messages that contains viruses। When a user opens such an infected message, the virus is also loaded into the computer memory। In this way, many other program files loaded into the memory are infected। This virus is also transferred to other computers when e-mail messages are sent from the infected computer to them. Due to these viruses, some time an auto generated email message from your email ID sends to your friends from your side with different virus messages. Never open unknown and attractive subject line email messages, always scan first even if you know the sender of the message.
Another way of spreading virus is by using Internet and other networks. For example, when you download infected executables files or data files from the Internet or from a shared disk on the network, viruses are transferred to your computer. It must be noted that many software are available on the Internet with free of cost. Most of that software contains viruses, for example free PHP or ASP scripts are the main source of virus, always get these scripts from reliable sources. In an LAN, if a computer contains a virus, then all the computers on the network may be infected with that virus.
One important means of exchanging data is through the use of removable media like, CDs, MP3 player, ipod and flash devices. So, when you copy the data from one computer to another by using a removable media, the viruses are also transferred.
The virus can also infect your computer by using pirated software. The software, which is installed into your computer without license is referred to as pirated software. Some companies may intentionally attach some virus programs into their software. This program will only activate when it does not find some special files like license files on your computer.

How to find a lost file on your Computer?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:57:00 +0000

This will help you to enjoy the quick and easy way to find lost files on your computer. Here I recommends you, try to search a file with its file extensions (for example for word file, type *.doc, Excel *.xls, Acrobat *.pdf, *.ppt and *.exe for executable files। If you don't know the name of file but know that it contains a string of text then try to search for files containing specific text, type the text you want to find from any file or folder। This is time taking process but creates very precise result. In Look in, click the drive, folder, or network you want to search. To save time, always select the specified drive or location instead of whole computer.

Click Start Button, point to Search, and then click For File or Folders, a Search Results dialog box will appear। In Search for files or folders named, type the file name or folder name you want to find in containing text.

To specify additional search criteria, click Search Options, and then click one or more of the following options to narrow your search:

Select Date to look for files that were created or modified on or between specific dates.
Select Type to look for files of a specific type, such as a text or WordPad document.
Select Size to look for files of a specific size.
Select Advanced Options to specify additional search criteria.
Click Search now.

How to recover corrupted PowerPoint file using TEMP folder?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:56:00 +0000

Today tip will help you to recover the unreadable and corrupted file of Microsoft PowerPoint. Normally PowerPoint open files can become corrupted when you are trying to save it or if you were working on it and your PowerPoint application or windows crashed due to power failure. Windows saves a duplicate copy of working file as a temporary version. There is no need to use any third party software to manage these types of corrupted files, because you can recover them from TEMP folder.

Follow the given steps to recover the corrupted files in MS PowerPoint:

First click on Start button then click on Search option to start your search process।

Here type the *.TMP in "All or part of the file name" box then choose the "Local Hard Drives" option in "Look in" box।

click on Search button to start the search process of temporary files on your system local drives.

After some time, windows locate the list to temporary files। Here arrange the all temp files as Date modified.

open the PowerPoint and try to open these temp files or double click on that file to run in PowerPoint.

How to enjoy Windows Media Player using shortcuts keys?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:55:00 +0000

In Windows Media Player, you can use the combination of different keyboard keys to accomplish routine task. By using these keys, you can increase the working speed in media player, otherwise require a conventional mouse to select menus and buttons options. Basically keyboard shortcuts keys help you to save time and you can perform any tasks without leaving the keyboard keys.

Shortcut keys Action

ALT+1 Adjust zoom to 50 percent

ALT+2 Adjust zoom to 100 percent

ALT+3 Adjust zoom to 200 percent

ALT+ENTER Display the video in full mode

ALT+F Go to media player File Menu

ALT+T Go to media player Tools Menu

ALT+V Go to media player View Menu

ALT+P Go to media player Play Menu

ALT+F4 Use to close media player

CTRL+P Use to Play or Pause the item in media player

CTRL+T Use to Repeat the items in media player

CTRL+SHIFT+B Use to Rewind a file in media player

CTRL+SHIFT+F Use to Fast Forward a file in media player

CTRL+SHIFT+S Use to play items slower than a normal speed

CTRL+SHIFT+ G Use to play items faster than a normal speed

CTRL+SHIFT+ N Use to play items at normal speed in media player

F8 Use to mute the volume in media player

F9 Use to decrease the volume in media player

F10 Use to increase the volume in media player

CTRL+2 Display media player in skin mode

CTRL+B Use to play the previous item in media player

CTRL+F Use to play the next item in media player

CTRL+E Use to Eject CD or DVD from CD or DVD drive

Increase the printing speed of your printer

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:54:00 +0000

You can improve the printing speed of your printer with managing the print spooler option. Basically printer spooler holds your prints for some time then send to printer for print out. By default on most printers, printer spooler option is enabled but you turn off to specify that the file should be sending to the printer and not spooled.

Here printer spooler option might be different location in your printer but on most printers you can turn off by going to Start, Setting then Printers. Now right click on the icon of the printer that you are using. Click Properties and select the Advanced tab. Here click on “Print directly to printer” option. This will tie up your application until the printer has all the data, but your print job should finish more quickly. Printing directly to the printer will also come in handy if your print spooler crashes and you need to print before you reboot your PC.

Overview of the Linux file system

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:53:00 +0000

/bin All commands which are used by normal users
/etc System conf files
/var Server data logs Mail proxy cache
/dev All devices name stored in /dev
/sbin All commands which are used by supper user
/boot Linux kernel ( vmlinuz , initrd ) Grub directory
/usr All gui tools installed in /usr
/proc System information’s ( picture of RAM )
/home User's home dir's
/tmp Temporary files
/media Auto mounted devices mount point in /media

Hidden User Account

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:52:00 +0000

For my next trick I will make a user account disappear, yet remain a full functioning account. Today's Security Tip is another way to lock down your system, and it does this by hiding specified user accounts. This feature is only available in XP and 2000, so unfortunately the rest of you are out of luck. This process does involve an easy registry edit, but if you're uncomfortable with that you might want to think twice about attempting this.

Normally when you log into XP, you see the startup screen where you see all the icons for the users who can access. What this tip does is allow you to hide a desired account from this screen. If you want to log on as this user you have to press Cntrl+Alt+Del twice at the Welcome screen to make a Windows Security dialog box appear. Here you can type in the user name and password of the hidden account and log in. Limited Users shouldn't be able to see any sign of you except for the listing in the Documents and Settings folder. Other administrative users will be able to see your hidden account in Control Panel/User Accounts, so keep this in mind when you're planning this out.
All right, now down to the good stuff. If having a hidden account sounds like your cup of tea, and you have no problem with small Registry augmentation, then let's go:
* First we need to open up the Registry Editor. Go to Start/Run and type "regedit" and click OK
* You should be looking at the Registry editor, and what we need to do now is navigate to H-KEY\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\Userlist . You will not see this folder if you do not have "show hidden system files" turned on.
* Once here we need to create another DWORD value. This is easier than it sounds, right click on the User list label file on the left side of the screen and select New>DWORD . You'll see the new entry in the right pane of the window, rename this value the name of the user account you want hidden (exactly how it is listed in the Startup screen, case sensitive) and leave the value at 0.
* Close your Registry Editor and restart the PC. When the Welcome screen comes up you'll notice that there's no icon for the user you just concealed. So how do you log in? This is where you press Cntrl+Alt+Del 2x's and the Windows Security Dialog box will come asking you to authenticate (name/password) after this the system should log you in.
Here's one more thing you might want to keep in mind, Windows logon screen. This is the screen where you see the available users you can choose to log in as. You can turn this option on/off in the User Accounts ( Start/Control Panel/User Accounts then "Change the way Users log in or off" and "Use Windows Welcome Screen" and you need to turn it off if you plan on using a hidden account and there are no other accounts on the system. The reason why is that the Windows doesn't have any user accounts to display in the Welcome screen, so it will continuously reboot. Now if you do run into this or any problems simply enter Safe mode at the next boot, this will allow you to go to the User Accounts Window and fix any problems. If you find that you can't log in at all with your hidden account go back and look at the registry value you created. Make sure you're spelling the user name is correct and that it's in the right location in the registry.

Turn on a screensaver with adding a shortcut

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:52:00 +0000

-You can run screensaver on your system with a single click, If you have any screensaver file like .scr extension, or first download it using Internet, there are many free sites for screensaver downloading.
-If you have not any .scr file then please go to Start button, and click on Search button. Here in search windows type *.scr and search all screen saver file from your hard disk.
-Here you will find a list of screensavers in the results. Pick a screensaver you want. You can preview it by double-clicking it.
-Right click on the file, choose Send To, and then click Desktop (create shortcut).
-To activate the screensaver, double-click the icon on your desktop.

Defragmenter Program to Optimize the Placement of Files

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:50:00 +0000

This utility program is used to re-organize the files and un-used space on the hard disk, so that operation system can access data more quickly and easily. When operating system stores data on the disk, it stores the data in the first available sector on the disk. In this case data of a file is stored on disk in a scattered form; it is referred to as “File is fragmented”. The fragmentation slows down the data accessing speed of computer. You can improve the performance of your computer by de-fragmenting your hard disk. In De-fragmentation process, the data of each file is stored in continuous sectors. There are many third party software’s available in market for this purpose but you can use windows built-in utility program called Disk Defragmenter. To start disk defragmenter utility, first make sure all running program are closed.
To run disk defragmenter utility, go to the Start button and type dfrg.msc in Run option then press ok. Now here a disk defragmenter window will appear. Select any drive and press defragmenter button. If you have a large hard disk, this process can take several hours. I recommend you doing this after one month if you want to improve the performance of your computer

Windows Repair Installation

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:49:00 +0000

Some time windows missing the startup files due to the power failure, virus's attack and any illegal action by user. You can solve the windows startup problem with running the windows repair installation. Almost all windows serious problem can be solved using windows repair function. For repair windows XP, you should have the bootable windows CD.
First boot your computer using bootable windows XP, CD. To boot from CD, first change the booting order setting in your system BIOS.
When first blue screen will appear, do not choose any option here; simply press the Enter button to go for next option.

Next you will get "Windows License agreement" page, simply press F8 button to accept this agreement.

Now in second blue screen press the R on your keyboard to repair the windows XP installation. This recovery function repaired the all-missing windows features.

In half an hour windows will complete all recovery process. This recovery process will not disturbed your Desktop and My Document data. May be your some windows sitting will change after completing process.

Smart Phone

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:06:00 +0000

Sep

Smartphone | Apple iphone 3G 8GB

Labels: Apple Iphone 3G, Mobile Reviews

Apple latest offering proves that revolutionary tech products do not have to be that revolutionary. This brand is quite popular among their products like PC, I-pod, and now new version of mobile series. It provides all latest features and a very loyal customer base. It has seen that it attracts business professionals as it favors the business world as it is very effective in surfing web and other web activities. Apart from this, it offers you many finger print safety mechanism so that one can store its important data in it without any worries. Now, this technology has launched its new Apple iphone 3G version mobile product which their own fruitful unique features.

Mobile Reviews

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:57:00 +0000

Jun

HTC’s Hero Handset Powered by Android

Labels: Google Gadgets, Mobile Reviews

Google’sAndroid mobileoperating system finally showed its hand as a serious competitor to the iPhonetoday.

At a press event in London, HTCunveiled its newHero handset powered Android. HTC android has sleek good looks with extreme power.

Its main features are, and auto focus camera of 5.0 mega pixel, AssistedGPS, digitally powered compass , gravity sensor , 3.5mm stereo headset jack and MicroSD memory that is expandable, where as the hardware is best as that of old Android handsets. To make it stay clean it’s coated with Teflon.

Google Gadgets3

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:57:00 +0000

May

Google Executive Combo Pen Set

Labels: Google Gadgets

Google Executive Combo Pen SetThisset comprises a ballpoint pen and mechanical pencil made fromsustainable wood with a chrome clip.The set is presented in a stylishgift box made entirely from recycled card, making this the most ecofriendly gift set in the world.GO9025Price : $9...