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Remove Musicmatch from USB autorun list

2008-09-03T14:33:00.000-07:00

When you uninstall Musicmatch from your computer, some of the registry entries are left in your system. So once you plug in your USB drive, Musicmatch is still in the "Open With" list. This can be really annoying.

There's a software called ccleaner, perfect for clearing unwanted registry entries. Download it for free.

This will work with other software as well.

Erasing My Recent Document

2008-09-03T14:26:00.000-07:00

Just like I always said, clearing history and covering your track is a good habit to be practiced. If you're wondering how to clear you recent document, the simplest method is to simply press WINDOWS + R (Or click Start>Run) and type in "recent" without the quote and press ENTER.

After that press CTRL + A (select all) and press the delete key. Your document history will be cleared.

Saving Firefox plugin to disk

2008-09-03T07:33:00.000-07:00

If you discovered an awesome Firefox plugin and you wish to share it with your friend, you can save it to your hard disk and install it in your friend's pc without to download it again.

The method is simple. Instead of left-clicking the "Add to Firefox" button,right click on it and select "Save Link As". To install it into another firefox just press CTRL + O and browse the plugin file(whatever.xpi).

Restoring My Document icon on Desktop

2008-09-03T07:29:00.000-07:00

If you're running XP and accidentally deleted your My Document icon, you can get it back just by following these steps:

1)Right click on your Desktop and choose Properties
2)Select the Desktop tab
3)Click the Customize Desktop button
4)Now you can restore your missing My Document icon by ticking the checkbox.

Change sender's name in hotmail

2008-09-03T03:53:00.000-07:00

In case you misspelled or you want to change the name that will appear in the recipient's mailbox:

Open Windows live hotmail

Browse to
Options>More options>Manage your account>View and edit your personal information
>Registered information
>Change your name
>Save changes

Portable Antivirus

2007-03-20T08:28:00.001-07:00

Believe it or not,now you can scan virus in your pc using a portable anti virus. Which means, you can carry it wherever you go and just plug it to infected pc to scan the disk. This software is made by one of my friends in putera.com.

Product Features
- Scan all your hard drive in one push of button
- Scan your system process
- Scan your PC by selected path
- Giving you an choice of scanning
- Clearing your temporary folder and recycled bin during scan
- Full technical support & free updates
- Automatically fix all modified registry causes by malware

The best thing that it's FREE!.Go download it here.

edit:sorry but the programmer has stopped the software development

Task Manager

2007-03-15T00:20:00.000-07:00

Have you ever experienced this? Pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del but the Task Manager didn’t come out but only show you message that the Task Manager was disabled by Administrator. The problem is, you are the admin!

This problem might occur if your pc is infected by virus. Some AV just clean up the virus but doesn’t fix the registry key cause by the virus. If you want your Task Manager back, here’s an easy way.

Open up your registry editor by Run|Regedit.

Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System.

Then find a key named DisableTaskMgr. Double click it and change the value to 0.

Playing with registry can bring disaster. So I give you an alternative way.

Open group policy object editor by Run|gpedit.msc

Enable Task Manager by disabling the policy.

Good Luck.

Flash

2006-12-30T20:22:00.000-08:00

It's been along times since the last time I played with macromedia Flash.I remember back in time when I use Flash 4.0 to create a presentation for my class.Now macromedia already has version 9.0

Enable/Disable Task Manager

2006-10-22T01:40:00.000-07:00

If your task manager is disabled and you want to enable it back.Follow these steps.

First,open your registry by typing 'regedit' in the run command.
Now,browse to the

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MicrosoftWindows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

You should found a key value DisableTaskMgr

Now double click to edit it's value.

Change the value to 1 to disable task manager.
Change the value to 0 to enable task manager.

Good Luck

Open control panel from Task Manager

2006-10-14T00:29:00.000-07:00

To open control panel from Task Manager,click on New task [run] and type "control" without quote

For more specific command,

Accessibility Options -----control access.cpl
Add New Hardware -----control sysdm.cpl add new hardware
Add/Remove Programs -----control appwiz.cpl
Date/Time Properties -----control timedate.cpl
Display Properties -----control desk.cpl
FindFast -----control findfast.cpl
Fonts Folder -----control fonts
Internet Properties -----control inetcpl.cpl
Joystick Properties -----control joy.cpl
Keyboard Properties -----control main.cpl keyboard
Microsoft Exchange -----control mlcfg32.cpl
Microsoft Mail Post Office -----control wgpocpl.cpl
Modem Properties -----control modem.cpl
Mouse Properties -----control main.cpl
Multimedia Properties ----- control mmsys.cpl
Network Properties -----control netcpl.cpl
Password Properties -----control password.cpl
PC Card -----control main.cpl pc card (PCMCIA)
Printers Folder -----control printers
Regional Settings -----control intl.cpl
Scanners and Cameras -----control sticpl.cpl
Sound Properties -----control mmsys.cpl sounds
System Properties -----control sysdm.cpl

Change the name your computer is registered to

2006-09-11T17:18:00.000-07:00

First open your registry by
Run|Regedit

Then browse to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/WindowsNT/CurrentVersion

Just change the RegisteredOrganization & RegisteredOwner key.
To input a new data,just double-click and insert a new one.

Good Luck

Note that this works for Windows XP.For other versions,the path should be
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion

Adding background image to your friendster

2006-08-29T03:13:00.000-07:00

Log in to your friendster account and go to Edit Profile
Then click on the customize Button

Paste this code in the box below

/* MASTER BACKGROUND */
body { background-color:#ffffff; background-image:url(http://imageurlgoeshere.jpg); background-attachment:fixed; }

I prefer you to host your image at http://imageshack.us/
It's free.

Click save and your background image will change.
Good luck.

Checking the USB version

2006-08-29T03:03:00.000-07:00

To check what USB version does your computer has,just follow these steps.

1]Open the Windows Control Panel then click on System Icon

2]You should get System Properties window
3]Then click on the Hardware tab>Device Manager
4]Click on the Universal Serial Bus Controllers Folder

If your Device Manager shows an ENHANCED USB Host Controller,your system has High Speed USB (USB 2.0) capability.

Hiding Recycle Bin Icon

2006-08-22T03:23:00.000-07:00

Copy the following code into notepad and save the file as Recycle.reg and then double-click it. After that, a new option is listed in the Folder Options dialog box that enable you to configure the Recycle Bin icon.

--------------start code--------------------
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\RecycleBinOnDesktop]
"RegPath"="Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\HideDesktopIcons\\NewStartPanel"
"Text"="Show Recycle Bin icon on the desktop"
"Type"="checkbox"
"ValueName"="{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"
"CheckedValue"=dword:00000000
"UncheckedValue"=dword:00000001
"DefaultValue"=dword:00000000
"HKeyRoot"=dword:80000001
-------------------end code-----------------------

Now follow these steps.
1.In Windows Explorer,click Tools>Folder Options
2.On the View tab, under Advanced Settings, do one of the following:
- Select the Show Recycle Bin icon on the desktop check box to show the icon on your desktop.
- Clear the Show Recycle Bin icon on the desktop check box to remove the icon from your desktop.

Good Luck

Disable Yahoo messenger at startup

2006-08-19T00:58:00.000-07:00

Click Messenger|Preferences
Then uncheck this option.

Good luck

Fowarding gmail to mobile phone

2006-08-19T00:47:00.000-07:00

Did you know that you can foward your gmail to mobile phone?
First,log in to your Gmail account.

Go to the Google Settings page and click on Forwarding and Pop tab.

Here you can setup the email fowarding setting.
In the receiver textbox,insert your mobile-number@service-provider

For example:
numbergoeshere@mobile.att.net

Inserting youtube video in blog

2006-08-18T06:30:00.000-07:00

Open the youtube video webpage and copy this code.It should be on the top right corner.

Log in to blogger.com and create a new post.Click the Edit Html tab and just paste the whole code.

You should get something like this

Changing Windows XP Home to Windows XP Pro

2006-08-14T03:13:00.000-07:00

This tutorial is for educational purpose only.If you want to get the Window Xp Pro legally,buy the original. Alternately, use Linux, or get a Mac.

1. Copy the root directory and the i386 directory of the WindowsXP CD
to your harddisk
2. Extract the Bootsector of your WindowsXP CD
3. Change 2 Bytes in i386\Setupreg.hiv :
a) Open Regedit
b) Highlight HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
c) Menu: File -> Load Structure -> i386\Setupreg.hiv
d) Assign an arbitrary name to the imported structure e.g. "Homekey"
e) Goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Homekey\ControlSet001\Services\setupdd
f) edit the binary key "default" and change "01" to "00" and "02" to
"00"
g) Highlight "Homekey" and select menu: File -> unload structure
4. Burn your new XP Pro CD
5. Install WindowsXP as usual. Your XP Home Key will work.

Try at your own risk.

Creating a Power Point Show file

2006-08-12T06:20:00.000-07:00

In order to run your Power Point slides without opening Power Point,you need to save the file as Power Point Show [.pps]

Maybe this picture can explain how.

Using IM without downloading it

2006-08-11T06:50:00.000-07:00

Some people may have problem downloading and installing Yahoo messenger in their computer.
Try this http://216.129.112.97/

Now have fun chatting with your friends!

Changing profile and Delete Yahoo Account

2006-08-11T06:24:00.000-07:00

Open your email account.
Click the Option link.It should be on top right.

Click on Account Information.You may be asked for password again.
Now you can change your personal details.

To delete your email,just click here: https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user

Tracing the email sender [Yahoo]

2006-08-11T03:22:00.000-07:00

In this post,I want to teach you how to trace the email sender.
In your mail,click the full header link in bottom right.

Then,look at the X-Originating-IP.
Go to http://www.arin.net/whois/
Paste the Ip adress in the query box.Click the Search Whois button.And you will get the sender's information.Note that the sender may spoof the indentitiy,making it's hard to get the real information.

Sending picture using Yahoo Messenger

2006-08-11T02:41:00.000-07:00

To send picture to your friend,you need to click this button

Browse the picture file and click send

Scanning IP address In LAN

2006-08-09T05:45:00.000-07:00

This is the basic skill of IP scanning.

I use Angry IP scanner.You can download it for free at http://www.download.com

Open the IP scanner and insert the IP range.
Basicly,for LAN it should be like this

192.168.1.1-192.168.1.255

Then click the start button.It will start scanning.
A list of IP address with hostname will be displayed.
You can also specify the port you want to scan.

What can you do with IP address?It's up to you.

Transferring font to another computer

2006-08-09T05:18:00.000-07:00

To transfer the font,you need to know what's the font's name.
Then Open Run>fonts

A list of fonts will be displayed.

Just select the font you want to copy and press CTRL + C

Paste it in a diskette or USB drive.Then copy it back to fonts folder.

P/S:You need admin privilege to install font.

Clearing yahoo toolbar search history

2006-08-03T09:17:00.000-07:00

Simply,

Burning ISO file using Nero

2006-08-03T08:49:00.000-07:00

First open Nero.Choose Copy and backup|Burn Image to Disk

Then select the ISO file.Note that Winrar may signed ISO file as an archive.

I used slax as the example.

Lastly,burn your file to disk.I often choose the write speed as 4X.
The slower,the lower chances of corrupting the file.

Note that some software ,Winrar for example,might recognize ISO file as an archive.DO NOT extract the file.

Clearing your track in web browser

2006-08-03T05:40:00.000-07:00

For firefox

ToolsClear Private data

Or you can just press Ctrl + Shift + Del

For Internet Explorer

To clear history
ToolsInternet OptionClear history

To delete cookies
ToolsInternet OptionDelete Cookies

To delete temporary files
ToolsInternet OptionDelete Files

To clear AutoComplete
ToolsInternet OptionContentAutoComplete
and click the Clear Forms & Clear Passwords button

For Internet Explorer 7

It's easier to clean your browser's track using IE7.
Just follow these steps.

Next,

Disable windows hot key

2006-08-02T21:21:00.000-07:00

You can disable all built-in Windows hotkeys except Win+L and Win+U by making the following change to the registry.You may need to reboot after changing the registry value.

First,Open registry. Run|regedit

Browse to this nodes

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Policies\Explorer

Create a new DWORD value
Title:NoWinKeys
Value:1

Blocking web page in Internet Explorer

2006-08-02T21:08:00.000-07:00

Have you ever thought about blocking your annoying sister from visiting myspace?

First you need to open the HOST file
located in

C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

just right click the file and click open with Notepad.
Then add this following line:

127.0.0.1 myspace.com
Have fun.
Credits to Jibs for correcting my previous post.

MSpaint cannot save as JPEG

2006-08-02T08:44:00.000-07:00

Cause:
You may not see these two filters listed if you have not started Microsoft Photo Editor, or if you have not opened any files of these types in Paint.

Solution:
To see these two filters in the Paint Save as type list, follow these steps. If you have not installed the necessary graphics filters, first follow these steps:

Start Office Setup.

Click Add or Remove Features.

In the Microsoft Office 2000: Update Features dialog box, click the plus sign (+) next to Converters and Filters.

Click the list next to Graphics Filters , and then click to select Run all from My Computer.

Click Update Now.

Start and then quit Photo Editor.

Start Paint.

Showing the IE adress bar

2006-08-02T02:28:00.000-07:00

Sometimes the adress bar gone and here is what you should do.

Sending GIF or play music by email

2006-08-02T02:01:00.000-07:00

The first step is to create a html file that will include the GIF url.
Open your notepad and write this code.Write the picture's URL in the [PICTURE URL] space.

Save as page.htm.Make sure that it's not page.htm.txt.

In your email,click compose and click attach file.

Then browse the htm file that you have created before.

Finally,send the email.

The recipient will get something like this.

To send music,just attach this code

Just change the yourmusic.mid with the music's URL.
You may need to host it somewhere first.

How to extract .rar file?

2006-08-02T01:04:00.000-07:00

To extract rar file,you need winrar.Download it here

After install,all rar files should look like this:

Just right click at the file and choose extract here.

Now you will have the original file.Enjoy.

Messing with Net Send

2006-08-02T00:21:00.000-07:00

This simple software was made by my friend.It will send a message to computers in your network.To send to all computers,just write "*" in the [To:] textbox.

Password:rumit
Download here

Cutting the Naruto out

2006-08-01T23:57:00.000-07:00

We have a Naruto manga cover.But wait,there's Sai at the back.
How are we going to remove Sai from this picture?

Open Adobe Photoshop and use this magic wand.

Select any unwanted part and press [delete].I changed the background layer colour to green so I can know which part already done.Press [shift] to select multiple area.

Finally we got this.

Change Display Image in MSN Messenger

2006-08-01T23:40:00.000-07:00

Tools > Change Display Picture

Select desired picture and click OK

Download video from youtube

2006-08-01T19:36:00.000-07:00

First,visit KeepVid

Paste the video URL,and select the option as youtube.It may download the file as .htm.You need to rename to .flv.

To play the video,get the flash video player here.

Google Dark

2006-08-01T05:24:00.000-07:00

Want to have dark google like this?

3 simple steps.

1)Install greasemonkey
2)Install Google Dark Script
3)Visit google

This tutorial is for Firefox user only.Dont have one?Get one now.

Programs Aren't Minimized in the Taskbar

2006-07-31T09:32:00.000-07:00

I recently got a help call.The problem stated that running programs are not shown at the taskbar.I honestly don't have any clue about how this can happen.But this function commonly used by Cybercafe client that has it's own designed taskbar.

By the way,this problem can be solved by editing your registry.But for newbie,I recomended to use this code:

Download

Just run the script.Note that some Antivirus may recognize this as harmful script.Nothing to worry about.

Introduction to PHP

2006-07-30T21:07:00.000-07:00

PHP was known as "Personal Home Page" when it was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994 to track his webpage's visitor.As PHP grew,it came to mean "PHP:Hypertext Preprocessor".PHP basically runs on the server side,taking PHP code as its input and creating Web pages as output.

PHP commonly bundled together with Linux[as the OS] and MySQl [as the database]
If you are interested in learning PHP,you can go here:

w3schools

I also have a simple tutorial and examples,that can be downloaded here.

Tor: An anonymous Internet communication system

2006-07-30T19:47:00.000-07:00

Ever heard about tor? Well, some of you may use proxy as the anonymous toolset to surf the internet. Same goes to tor, but the method is different. For proxy, the only medium between user and the internet is the proxy itself. By using tor, the connection goes through a random path between any other tor users. For example, if A want to connect to D, the connection will pass through B & C. But B & C don’t know that A is connecting to D.This project originally sponsored by the US Naval Research Laboratory,and became an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) project in late 2004.

Image from tor homepage

So,you can surf the internet safer.Although the connection speed depends on the online users, but maybe in the future the problem vanish as the tor user increases.

Get your tor here

Nasa Hacked

2006-07-30T08:47:00.000-07:00

The war in Lebanon is now showing its consequences in the digital world and a huge number of websites has been attacked and defaced as a protest against the invasion of Lebanon by Israel.

Two NASA websites were attacked as well. The intrusion was carried out by the Chilean group of crackers known as Byond Hackers Crew through a leak in the SQL Injection they entered the system and subtracted user names, passwords and e-mails from the NASA web server.

After that these information had been stolen, they managed in entering the administrative area by using an administrator user ID and password , and finally they made the defacement replacing the homepage with their message.

The defaced site contains an image of an injured child with a message no war.

This picture is a mirror from zone-h

Read more

Bypass RapidShare Wait Limit

2006-07-30T08:27:00.000-07:00

Are you a rapidshare regular user and stingy enough to sign up a premium account?And you keep complaining about the wait time?Here's an easy way to bypass it.
While waiting,simply paste this code to the adress bar.

javascript:alert(c=0)

You will get a msgbox after that.Just click ok.
How does it work?
Rapidshare uses simple javascript function to countdown the time.The code change the time variable to 0,completing the count down.

Set background to folder

2006-07-30T05:29:00.000-07:00

Hello again guys,in this topic I want to teach on how to set a background to folder.Remember back in time,this function was easily done but for windows XP,the method is slightly different.

Ok,the 1st step is to open your notepad and write this code:

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
iconarea_image=C:\My Pictures\picture.bmp

You have to change the path to the desired background picture.

Then save the file as desktop.ini.Make sure that it is not desktop.ini.txt

Place the file to any folder you want.For example C:\takatoo.
Open command prompt and type this code:

Attrib +s C:\takatoo

Change "C:\takatoo" to the folder path.

Now you should get the result like this:

Hide the desktop.ini file if you want to.Good luck.

Registry

2006-07-30T02:10:00.000-07:00

In windows,the settings and options are saved in a database called registry.Playing with regedit [registry editor] in windows can be dangerous.Just like DNA,a tiny change will affect the whole system. Now I will give you a simple example to use registry.We want to change the Internet Explorer title to look like this

first,open Run>Regedit

You will get something look like this.Noticed that windows registry has 5 main branches.[KEY]
Then Browse to \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main.
Create a new string value.

Change the value name as "window title" and value data as anything you want.[I used tk2 explorer]

Now open your Internet Explorer and see the different.To remove this,just delete the key that you has just created.

Have phun.
p/s sometimes you need to restart your pc too take the effect

Removing Brontok

2006-07-29T22:39:00.000-07:00

Automatic removal instruction:

1. Disable system restore (Windows XP/ Windows Me).
2. Update the antivirus signature file.
3. Run a full system scan and delete all the files detected as Brontok Worm.
4. Use the automatic removal tool to remove the worm.

Sophos:
Details on how to use the automatic tool can be refereed at:http://www.sophos.com/support/disinfection/brontok.html

The tool can be downloaded from: http://www.sophos.com/support/cleaners/brontgui.com

Trend Micro: http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/products/tsc/sysclean.com

5. Enable the System Restore (for Windows XP/Windows Me).

Lost Icon

2006-07-29T22:09:00.000-07:00

ShenWoo:As you can see, it all happen about last weekend. I dont know what I did. Anyone when to similiar problems? Most of the icons, even some times my documents will be replaced with a "unknown apllication" icon.

Tk2:You may have deleted some important files in the temp folder.Sometimes temp folder used by Windows Installer to store details of program installations,icons for example.There’s no way to get the files you’ve deleted back, short of reinstalling the programs, which is the safest way of dealing with the problemIn worst case,you may need to reinstall your window.Zannen..

Screen Capture

2006-07-29T20:59:00.000-07:00

Johnques:Anyone know how to capture the screenshot..for window XP sp2???

Tk2:On your keyboard,press the print screen button and open any photo editor [mspaint fox example] and paste.[ctrl+V]You may edit or save the picture if you want to do so.

Johnques:but where can i find the picture??Normaly it will save at where??

Tk2:it's stored in your pc's memory.You need to paste it in any photo editor to reveal it up.

Ok kana?