If you are running windows operating system you may know what is Registry. The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores configuration settings and options on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It contains settings for low-level operating system components as well as the applications running on the platform: the kernel, device drivers, services, SAM, user interface and third party applications all make use of the Registry.
Assamese ( অসমীয়া) is the easternmost Indo-Aryan language. It is used mainly in the state of Assam in North-East India. It is also the official language of Assam. It is also spoken in parts of Arunachal Pradesh and other northeast Indian states.Small pockets of Assamese speakers can be found in Bhutan. Assamese has derived its phonetic character set and its behavior from Sanskrit. It is written using the Assamese script. Assamese is written from left to right and top to bottom, in the same manner as English. A large number of ligatures are possible since potentially all the consonants can combine with one another.
Firefox 4 has improved a lot from its previous versions as far as look is concern. If you are using windows Vista or windows 7 then you may have liked the new look of the Firefox 4. But even if you want to customize the look of your Firefox according to your taste, but don’t know how, then you are in the right place …..Today I am going to tell you about a addon called “Stratiform”. Once installed it appears on the navigation toolbar at right hand corner. Just click on the icon to get the settings page.
In my blog’s “About This Blog” section I have told you that I love photography. In fact I am also running a Photography Blog. Today I decided to give you a windows 7 theme called “Nature All Around’, which I have created by collecting 7 beautiful wallpapers from my Blog. All the wallpapers are in High – Resolution (1920 ᵡ 1280).
Windows 7 service pack 1 (SP1) has already been available for downloaded via Microsoft download center and through Windows update. However, when trying to install the service pack 1, some users of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 has got issues, for example error code 0x800F0A12, FFFFFFFE. and 84C40007.
Microsoft has brought Tabbed View feature to its web browser many years back. Today so called Tabbed Browsing is the most important feature of a web browser. But interestingly even on the version 2010 of the Microsoft Office there is no option to view multiple document at the same time. But now with the help of a small addin you can get this feature.
Portable applications are programs that are fully functional without having to install them on your PC. You simply copy the file to your selected folder or drive, and then run it. Portable programs do not store program settings and options in the Windows Registry.
Every time you click on a Windows Explorer shortcut in Windows 7 The Windows 7 Library view is open up. Libraries are fine but that’s probably not the location that most users want to start their file browsing session in. The following article explains how to change the default Windows Explorer page to another start page instead, something that most Windows 7 users will be more comfortable with.
The most prominent location to open a new Windows Explorer window is from it’s taskbar icon which is permanently pinned there. The icon itself is merely a shortcut to Windows Explorer which means that we have to edit the shortcut so that it opens up Windows Explorer with another default location.
RedNotebook is a modern journal Software. It includes a calendar navigation, customizable templates, export functionality and word clouds. You can also format, tag and search your entries. RedNotebook is Free Software under the GPL.
Facebook can be fun. It is often great to catch-up with friends and acquaintances. What isn’t so great is finding SPAM or malicious links on your wall or news feed. Worse yet, your privacy settings could be sharing more information than you like. Information that could prove damaging or embarrassing.So It is very important to make your Facebook account secure.
Making Facebook secure =
It doesn’t take long after you join Facebook for you to begin looking for friends, co-workers or old classmates. The average Facebook user has 130 friends and depending on the activity of your friends this could result in a relatively busy news feed which will undoubtedly contain links to websites, videos and more. As the number of your friends continues to grow the potential for a scam or malicious link to find its way onto your wall or news feed becomes pretty great. This is why you should consider an application or two to help keep you free from threats while using Facebook.
One of the security app for your Facebook account is Norton SafeWeb . Unfortunately the application did not provide enough in the way of notifications to really give the end-user an upper hand where Facebook threats are concerned. SafeWeb is created by one of the largest names in desktop security - Symantec - which will hopefully be building upon this app so it can provide real value.
The second potion have to be BitDefender Safego app. BitDefender has put together a fine utility that provides the proper notification not only to you but can also notify the friend that may have posted the threat. Safego also provided a way to clean the threat. Finally, you can also use SafeGo to keep an eye on your privacy settings. This app is extremely useful.
Other tools exist to help where Facebook privacy and security are concerned. The folks at ReclaimPrivacy.org are providing an independent tool which scans your privacy setting and alerts you if an area may be unexpectedly public. This is accomplished by placing a bookmark to the tool in your bookmarks toolbar and running the tool while viewing your privacy setting in the browser. Unfortunately the tool does not work 100% with the latest changes to the Facebook privacy settings. It still may prove useful for you and is a service to look in on occasionally.
Another tool worth considering is Defensio. Defensio is powered by Websense and includes a focus on Facebook. Defensio appears to work much like BitDefender SafeGo but has the ability to scale to business users. Defensio is able to not only monitor for SPAM and malicious links but can also monitor for profanity. While the Defensio website appears alive and well, it is worth noting the Facebook page is lacking any recent updates and the wall has comments from some pretty unsatisfied users.
The best way to repair corrupted system file is to use “sfc” command in Windows 7 system. But sometime we may receive “Windows Resource Protection Could Not Start the Repair Service” error when trying to perform the above action.
If you too have been getting the same error message, here is the fix for it. The issue behind the error is that Windows Modules Installer service has been disabled on your system. You just need to enable it!
Just Follow these steps to solve the Problem =
1. Type Service in Start menu search box and hit enter to launch Services window.
2. Locate the service named Windows Modules Installer and Double-click on the same.
3. Change the Startup type to Manual.
4. Click Ok to apply the change. You are done!
Its been a some time since the latest version of Internet Explorer IE9 has released .But Microsoft have missed one of the most essential feature in IE9, the Spell Check tool. Now here is the easiest way to add spell check feature to IE9 and have a great web experience.
1. Download Speckie add-on for Internet Explorer 9. It’s a simple spell check tool add-on for Internet Explorer
2. Close all the instances of Internet Explorer, if any running on your system.
3. Install Speckie and launch IE9.
4. For the first time, you launch IE9 after installing the add-on, it will ask you whether you want to enable or disable the add-on, just enable it.
5 .Now, you are free to make spelling mistakes on IE9 as Speckie is there, running in background, to rectify your mistakes.
Speckie works on Windows XP, Vista and 7 (32 and 64 bit) It is available for both the 32 and 64 bit versions of Internet Explorer.
It is possible the Windows 7 ISO or DVD disc media that end-user possessed may be restricted to install a single edition or version of Windows 7 only. For example, a Windows 7 Professional media may not prompt option to select which edition of Windows 7 to install, and instead will install Windows 7 Professional edition. Likewise for Windows 7 Ultimate DVD ISO image or disc which may not have edition selection screen.
However, all DVD of Windows 7 does contains and able to install all and any version of Windows 7, from Windows 7 Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional to Ultimate edition. Actually, the ability to select the version or edition of Windows 7 during setup installation, or which edition that the setup will automatically install, lies with a small configuration file named ei.cfg on the Windows 7 DVD, disc media or ISO image.
The content of the ei.cfg file, inside the source folder of the DVD looks like below:
[EditionID]
Ultimate
[Channel]
Retail
[VL]
0
When ei.cfg does not exist, Windows 7 setup process will display a screen during Install Windows wizard to ask user to select the operating system (edition) to install. The selection of OS includes Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Home Basic, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate. Thus, in order to be able to install any editions or install another different edition of Windows 7 without having to download ISO image or order a new DVD of Windows 7 with all SKUs enabled (all SKU version), use the following hack to delete or modify ei.cfg file.
1.Download and install an disc image utility such as PowerISO or UltraISO to open the ISO image of Windows 7 DVD. If you own a physical DVD disc media, the similar tool allows you to rip the DVD to ISO or other image format too.
Another alternative for user with Windows 7 DVD ISO image downloaded via torrent or from Internet is to extract all contents of the ISO image by using extraction tool such as WinRAR or 7-zip, or mount the ISO and copy contents to a folder.
2.Browse to /sources/ folder.
3.Locate ei.cfg file.
4.Depending on preference, it is possible to modify/edit or simply delete ei.cfg file, as explained below.
Choice 1: Delete ei.cfg
When ei.cfg is deleted, Windows 7 setup wizard will give user an option to select and choose which version (SKU) of operating system user wants to install during installation.
Choice 2: Edit and Modify ei.cfg
By modifying the Edition ID section of ei.cfg by replacing Ultimate (or other edition specified there) with another edition, user can preset another edition SKU of Windows 7 that user want setup to install automatically. The Edition ID available for installation are as follow:
*.Ultimate
*.Professional
*.HomePremium
*.HomeBasic
*.Starter
Save the ei.cfg after editing.
5.For user who wants to in-place upgrade to Windows 7, it is possible to run setup.exe from extracted DVD contents now. The modified ISO can also be burned to a DVD disc or saved to a new ISO image.
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, similar to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, requires user to perform activation in order to activate the Windows operating system to be used without interruption. Activation of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, except for users who bought branded OEM computer or activate via KMS host, is normally performed online to validate against Microsoft’s activation server, or via phone activation.
One inconvenience brought by activation is that Microsoft limits and restricts the number of time that online activation can be done. Anything more than that will require user to call Microsoft activation hotline to go through manual hectic process to activate via phone.
So it would be great if the “activated” activation status of Windows OS can be preserved, or backed up and restored after re-installation so that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 can be activated offline or without connecting to Microsoft’s activation server.
Try the following trick to backup activation files for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2, which has been previously been activated, prior to reinstallation.
1. Copy and save or backup the following activation-related files to external storage medium such as USB flash drive or portable hard disk drive:
%SystemDrive%\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetWorkService\
AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwarePlatform\Tokens.dat
and,
%SystemDrive%\Windows\System32\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig\pkeyconfig.xrm-ms
Note: For 64-bit (x64) OS, %SystemDrive%\Windows\SysWOW64\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig\pkeyconfig.xrm-ms have to be backed up too.
2. Retrieve and record the product key used to install and activate the current Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
Tip: If you can’t remember the product key used, there is plenty of product key viewers available to help.
3. Reinstall Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. When installation wizard prompts for a product key for activation, leave it blank (do not enter anything).
4. In the newly installed Windows operating system, stop the Software Protection Service in Services.msc or with the following command (run in elevated command prompt):
net stop sppsvc
5. Navigate to the following folder:
%SystemDrive%\Windows\System32\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig\
Note: In 64-bit (x64) operating system, also perform the action in %SystemDrive%\Windows\SysWOW64\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig\ folder.
6. Take ownership and give user full control permissions (alternatively add grant full control right click menu item) to pkeyconfig.xrm-ms file.
7. Delete the original default pkeyconfig.xrm-ms file, and replace with the backup copy.
8. Navigate to the following folder:
%SystemDrive%\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetWorkService\
AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwarePlatform\
9. Take ownership and give user full control permissions (alternatively add grant full control right click menu item) to tokens.dat file.
10. Delete the original default tokens.dat file, and replace with the backup copy.
11. Restart the Software Protection Service in Services.msc or with the following command (run in elevated command prompt):
net start sppsvc
12. Register the product key for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 with the following command (run in elevated command prompt):
slmgr.vbs -ipk xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
Replace xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx with the actual product key.
13. Windows will activated instantly, off-line. To check activation status, uses of of the following commands:
slmgr.vbs -dlv
slmgr.vbs -dli
slmgr.vbs -ato
Note that the ability to backup and restore old activation status in order to pre-activate or ready-activate a machine after re-installation must be on the same hardware without any hardware change, else user will need to activate online again. Besides, the product key used must be the same serial code too. The hack also does not apply to OEM branded computer which has Windows pre-activated and KMS host activated Windows system.
When you install the Service Pack 1 for Windows 7, it takes a considerable amount of disk space.A command can be used to regain the lost disk space. Before you proceed to type in the command, you need to remember the point that once you have regained the disk space by entering the command, you will not be able to uninstall the service pack from your machine. We recommend creating a system restore point before entering the below mentioned command.
Here are the steps to Regain Lost Disk Space after installing SP1 for Windows 7 =
1. Open Command Prompt with elevated rights. To do this, type CMD in Start menu search area and hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter. Click Yes for the UAC prompt. You can also launch the Command Prompt with admin privilege by navigating to Start menu, All Programs, and then Accessories. Here, right-click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator.
2. In the Command Prompt, type in the following command and hit Enter key. Wait for a few seconds to see “The operation completed successfully” message.
dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded
3. You are done!
We were able to recover close to 1500 MB using this method. Let us know how much disk space you have regained using this command.
When you click the Windows Explorer shortcut which is Pinned to the Taskbar, or when running explorer.exe directly in Windows 7, the following error message may be displayed with text "explorer.exe" in the title bar.
"This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Please install a program or, if one is already installed, create an association in the Default Programs control panel."
And using the WinKey + E key sequence causes "Unspecified error"
However, Windows Explorer may launch correctly when including additional switches such as /e or /n with explorer.exe, or double-click the (My) Computer icon. This problem occurs due to missing data in the "HKCR\Folders" registry key.
Registry Fix =
1. Download the registry fix file from HERE
2. Now save "Explorer Association Error FIX.reg" File to your Desktop.
3. Now Right-Click on the file and click Merge.
4. Accept the UAC warning.
5. After this your problem will be solved. For better result do a system reboot.
