May 12 2010

Windows 7 – GodMode

godmode
Sounds impressive eeeh?
This is a real deal check it for yourself.

How to make a godmode shortcut on your desktop?

Make a new folder in desktop and copy-paste the following code

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

This is actually the icon that will appear

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May 28 2009

Top 12 Windows 7 Hacks

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If you are looking for Windows 7 hacks, I am sure you can finds loads of them on web. What matters is, how many of them are really important. Do you think unlocking the Taskbar in Windows 7 is something very exciting? Obviously, not for the majority of users its nothing cool. Instead if you are interested in Windows 7 Hack that can help you to get rid of expiry date, remove watermark, or disable send feedback link then my article can surely help you out. I organized a set Top 12 Windows 7 Hack You Must Know. This list includes some of the handy posts on Windows 7 hacks in our blog. I have also provided the sources where you can find the hacks.

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May 27 2009

Fix Chrome on Windows 7 RC / Beta

chrome settings

right click on your chrome icon then select properties. Under the shortcut tab you will see Target. The line ends with chrome.exe so just add –in-process-plugins after that. So the line should look something like this:


C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --in-process-plugins


May 11 2009

How to make Logmein work with Windows 7


How to use LogMeIn Free with Windows 7 Beta/RC:

1. Download the LogMeIn software to your desktop from this site: https://secure.logmein.com/logmein.zip

2. Unzip the folder to a new folder on your desktop named “logmein”.

3. Go to the start menu and search for “cmd. When you find the Command Prompt entry, right click it and select “Run as Administrator”, and Click through the warning prompt.

4.In command prompt type “cd\users\\desktop\logmein\x86” without quotes and press enter. (If you are running 64-bit Windows change the ‘x86′ to ‘x64′)

5. In command prompt type “logmein install” without quotes and press enter.

6. The installer will run and you should then see the tray icon when it’s finished. Right click on the icon and select “Open LogMeIn…

7. Firefox will open and you’ll get an error box. Just click “OK“.

8. Copy and paste this address into the address bar: https://127.0.0.1:2002/

9. Click through if you get a popup warning you about a certificate. On the page itself you will see something to allow an exception. Click on that and then click ‘Get Certificate‘ in the next box. Again you will probably get another warning but just click add anyway.

10. You should see the familiar LogMeIn screen. Just put in your computer user credentials and then you will be asked for your LogMeIn credentials.

It is a pretty straightforward process, but does take a bit of workaround to get it setup. Hopefully over the next few months LogMeIn will add support to Windows 7 for its installer package.

You ll be suprised when entering as you used to your username and password worked ok.
In Windows 7 if you use it this way u ll get this error message:
Error: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. (1326)

REMEMBER to type the username like this

computername\username
password


May 7 2009

Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) – download

The 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 RC are available in five languages: English, German, Japanese, French, and Spanish.

The RC will expire on June 1, 2010. Starting on March 1, 2010, your PC will begin shutting down every two hours. Windows will notify you two weeks before the bi-hourly shutdowns start. To avoid interruption, you’ll need to install a non-expired version of Windows before March 1, 2010. Penty of time till then.

Download

I already installed the new version of Windows 7.

First Impressions???

Didn’t have to install any drivers. (windows update did that for me, although everything work ok at First logo in)

Nice Design and overall responsiveness

All programs used in Vista worked ok in Windows 7.
The Only issue I had was with an ActiveX (logmein.com) (see next post). This problem was bypassed cause remote desktop connection work pretty well.

UAC Warning messages were fewer

Network and Sharing Center look better now (i can manually change the ip with no 2-3 UAC warnings !!! was very annoying)

Taskbar can hold easily 1o times more Apps with no problem. (tip: Shift + Click to open a new instance)

Visual Studio 2008 work ok with no problems
Adobe CS4 Suite work ok with no problems
Nero 9 work ok with no problems
WampServer 2 work ok with no problems

What are you vista ppl waiting for… give it a try


Apr 25 2009

Grub Loader – Error 17

When you try to install a linux distro, in some cases …. (mine’s too) i had problems with grub loader. Grub is actually a program that prompts you which operating system will be launch on boot.

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Apr 25 2009

Repair or Fix Master boot Record using Os installation CDs

Problems with the master boot record (MBR) of a system may prevent the system from booting. The MBR may be affected by malicious code, become corrupted by disk errors, or be overwritten by other boot loaders when experimenting with multiple operating systems on a host. This recipe describes one method of repairing the MBR for an XP host using the recovery console.

Boot with the XP installation CD.

When prompted, press R to repair a Windows XP installation.

If repairing a host with multiple operating systems, select the appropriate one (XP) from the menu. If you have only one operating system, enter 1 to select it.

Enter the administrator password if prompted.

To fix the MBR, use the following command:

fixmbr

This assumes that your installation is on the C:\ drive. You will be presented with several scary warning lines the reading of which will make you want to say no. Microsoft is exceptionally vague regarding the conditions under which fixmbr can cause problems although they are clear about the consequences (losing all data on the hard drive), so use this at your own risk.

Type y and ENTER to fix the MBR.

Type exit to leave the recovery console and reboot.

In Windows Vista

You can automatically solve most startup problems with the Startup Repair tool. If you prefer a more manual approach, you can use the BootRec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery environment.

First, follow these steps to load the Windows Recovery Environment:

1. Restart the computer from the Windows Vista DVD (the computer must be configured to start from CD/DVD), and start setup.

2. Configure your language preferences.

3. When prompted, click Repair your computer.

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4. Startup Repair will automatically detect a problem. When prompted, click Repair and restart, and then restart your computer from the Windows Vista DVD. If Startup Repair does not automatically detect a problem, continue to the next step.

5. When prompted, click Repair Your Computer.

6. Click Command Prompt from the System Recovery Options.

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BootRec.exe provides the following command-line paramters:

  • /FixMbr. Re-writes the master boot record (MBR) of the system partition to start Windows Vista. This won’t overwrite the existing partition table.
  • /FixBoot. Writes a boot sector onto the system partition to start Windows Vista.
  • /ScanOs. Scans all disks for Windows Vista installations and displays them to you. Oddly, this didn’t work for me, even on a test system that was starting just fine.
  • /RebuildBcd. Scans all disks for Windows Vista installations and prompts you to pick the ones you want to add to the BCD.

Mar 25 2009

Fix IE8 Styling and behavior

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IE8 is still in a premature version. For all the developers that need to re-insure that web pages will be displayed and work as before there is one quick tip. A single line of code to add to your pages.

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />


This meta tag will make IE8 work as IE7 did.
Maybe there are still very few ppl that browse with IE8 (browser statistics) but i thought you should know this tip.


Mar 15 2009

Copy command to USB printer

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If you need to sent a dump text to your printer for testing purposes you can you this command

> copy test.txt lpt1:
(in case your printer is connected to that port)

What do you do when we want to use copy command to a usb connected printer ?
In the printer properties , Ports tab, as you can see the port name is usually as USB001 or USB002.

If you change the command to
> copy test.txt usb001
a new file named usb001 will be created as a copy of test.txt.
But we need to sent the test.txt content for printing..

Here is what we do to override this..

First Step
>net use lpt1: \\localhost\printername
(lpt1: will be useless after that, also printer must me shared)
Second Step
> copy test.txt lpt1:

try it…
it will do the job if you want to make your tests.


Feb 12 2009

Apache Protected Folder – How to

In normal Windows Installation
Path to your Apache Folder (C:\apache\ )
Path to your Apache Config Folder ( C:\apache\conf )

In Windows WampServer
Path to your Apache Folder (C:\wamp\bin\apache\apacheX.X.X )
Path to your Apache Config Folder (C:\wamp\bin\apache\apacheX.X.X\conf )

In Linux XAMPP
Path to your Apache Conf Folder ( /etc/httpd/conf/)

1.Open the httpd.conf file located in the Apache

2. Look for the word “AccessFileName .htaccess”
and change it to “AccessFileName ht.acl .htaccess”

3. this is how it should look like

AllowOverride All
Options None
Order deny,allow

4. Go to Apache bin directory and execute these commands

c:\apache\bin>htpasswd
(will show the available options)

c:\apache\bin>htpasswd -c -b passwd.txt username password
(A text file will be created holding the username and password, be careful if there are already passwords stored for other folder in your apache server using the same named convension)

If you execute a dir or ls in the apache\bin directory a password file name “psswd.txt” will be created

5. The next step is to create the .htaccess file in linux or ht.acl in Windows
The reason we added ht.acl file in htppd.conf is because in Windows machine its a hard thing to name a file that way. (the only solution I found was to download a file from my net hosting provider and edit it later for my use)

Here are the contents in the .htaccess or ht.acl file

AuthUserFile c:/apache/passwd.txt
AuthName "My Secured Folder"
AuthType Basic


require valid-user

6.Place this file in the root of each directory you want to secure

7. Restart Apache ( just in case)

8. This is the resulting modal authentication screen each time
you open the folder with your browser

htaccesspop

JUST IN CASE YOU MISUNDERSTOOD THIS IS A TUTORIAL FOR YOUR LOCAL APACHE SERVER.
If you have a hosting there are other more simple ways to do that. (in case you forgot your paying the hoster, ask them to do it for you)