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Monday, December 27, 2010

Hidden commands in windows

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
Just like the commands of Windows, The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. If you turn the pages and insert your head in the basic of Windows then there are some thing to explore, here are few examples of some hidden secret commands in Windows:

1. ‘systeminfo’
It boasts how long it can stay up. Whereas previous versions of Windows were coy about how long they went between boots, XP is positively proud of its stamina.
Go to the Command Prompt in the Accessories menu from the All Programs start button option, and then type ‘systeminfo’. The computer will produce a lot of useful info, including the uptime. If you want to keep
these, type ‘systeminfo > info.***‘. This creates a file called info.*** you can look at later with Notepad. (Professional Edition only).

2. gpedit
You can delete files immediately, without having them move to the Recycle Bin first. Go to the start menu, select Run… and type ‘ gpedit.msc‘; then select User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, Windows Explorer and find the Do not move deleted files to the Recycle Bin setting. Set it.
Poking around in gpedit will reveal a great many interface and system options, but take care — some may stop your computer behaving as you wish.
(Professional Edition only).

3. rundll32.exe
You can lock your XP workstation with two clicks of the mouse. Create a new shortcut on your desktop using a right mouse click, and enter ‘rundll32.exe
user32.dll,LockWorkStation‘ in the location field. Give the shortcut a name you like. That’s it — just double click on it and your computer will be locked. And if that’s not easy enough, Windows key + L will do the same.

4. sysoc.inf
XP hides some system software you might want to remove, such as Windows Messenger, but you can tickle it and make it disgorge everything. Using Notepad or Edit, edit the text file /windows/inf/sysoc.inf, search for the word ‘hide‘ and remove it. You can then go to the Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel, select Add/Remove Windows Components and there will be your prey, exposed and vulnerable.

5. schtasks
For those skilled in the art of DOS batch files, XP has a number of interesting new commands. These include ‘eventcreate‘ and ‘eventtriggers‘ for creating and watching system events, ‘typeperf’ for monitoring performance of various subsystems, and ‘schtasks’ for handling scheduled tasks. As usual, typing the command name followed by /? will give a list of options — they’re all far too baroque to go into here.

6. ipv6
XP has IP version 6 support (the next generation of IP). Unfortunately this is more than your ISP has, so you can only experiment with this on your LAN. Type ‘ipv6 install‘ into Run… (it’s OK, it won’t ruin your existing network setup) and then ‘ipv6 /?‘ at the command line to find out more. If you don’t know what IPv6 is, don’t worry and don’t bother.

7. taskkill
You can at last get rid of tasks on the computer from the command line by using ‘taskkill /pid‘ and the task number, or just ‘tskill’ and the process number.
Find that out by typing ‘tasklist’, which will also tell you a lot about what’s going on in your system.

8. zipfldr.dll
XP will treat Zip files like folders, which is nice if you’ve got a fast machine. On slower machines, you
can make XP leave zip files well alone by typing ‘regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll‘ at the command line. If you change your mind later, you can put things back as they were by typing ‘regsvr32 zipfldr.dll

How to Delete Locked or Undeleteable Files in Windows

You may have came across a situation when you try to delete a file and Windows does not allow you to do that. You might get a pop up saying “file might be in use or is not deletable”.

Actually, locked files are one which is locked by explorer.exe process, which prevents you from deleting the file. In many situations, it is advisable not to touch those files because they might be useful for proper working of your system. But if you know that it’s not, you may follow this step by step guide to delete that file.

1. Open Command Prompt by typing cmd in the Start Menu search field and hitting the “Enter” button. Keep it open.

2. Locate the file you want to delete.

3. Now, open Task Manager by using “Ctrl+Shift+Esc”. Click the Process tab. Find explorer.exe and click on “End Process” button. (do not close Task Manager)

4. Now go back to the command prompt and locate the file by navigating through directory. Type cd to enter in a particular directory. For example if you want to go through file present in a folder C:Documents and SettingsMy Documents Folder Filename then type the command cd c: Documents and Settings My Documents Folder in the command prompt to go to that folder.

5. Now delete the file using del filename command where filename is the name of file you are deleting.

6. Once the file is deleted, open Task Manager again and click on New Task by going to File > New Task.

7. Type explorer.exe in the box appeared and hit Enter.

Note: Deleting files through cmd commands is an easy process but you should locate it correctly before deleting. Deleting any important Window file or other useful file might cause problem in your operating system.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Access Orkut when blocked

Now adays most of the folks are addicted to Orkut and it became part of life.. If you are accessing orkut from the company/college and if they ban it... whats the alternative...
Here is the solution... Orkut

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Marketing concept

A professor at IIM was explaining marketing concepts:

1. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say: "I am very
rich. Marry me!" - That's Direct Marketing

2. You're at a party with a bunch of friends and see a gorgeous girl.. One of
your friends goes up to her and pointing at you says: "He's very rich. Marry
Him." -

That's Advertising.

3. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and get her telephone
number. The next day, you call and say: "Hi, I'm very rich. Marry me." - That's
Telemarketing.

4. You're at a party and see gorgeous girl. You get up and straighten your tie,
you walk up to her and pour her a drink, you open the door (of the car)for her,
pick up her bag after she drops it, offer her ride and then say:"By the way, I'm
rich. Will you marry me?" - That's Public Relations

5. You're! at a party and see gorgeous girl. She walks up to you and says:

"You are very rich! Can you marry ! me?" - That's Brand Recognition.

6. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say: "I am very
rich. Marry me!" She gives you a nice hard slap on your face. - That's Customer
Feedback.

7.. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say: "I am very
rich. Marry me!" And she introduces you to her husband. - That's demand and
supply gap.

8. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and before you say
anything, another person come and tell her: "I'm rich. Will you marry me?" and
she goes with him - That's competition eating into your market share.

9. You see a gorgeous girl at a party.. You go up to her and before you say:
"I'm rich Marry me!" your wife arrives. - That's restriction for entering new
markets.

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Email Etiquettes

The rules of email etiquette are not "rules" in the sense that I will come after you if you don't follow them. They are guidelines that help avoid mistakes (like offending someone when you don't mean to) and misunderstandings (like being offended when you're not meant to). These core rules of email etiquette help us communicate better via email.

1. Take Another Look Before You Send a Message - Email Etiquette Tip
Don't send anything you don't want to send.

2. Do Not Default to "Reply All" - Email Etiquette Tip
"Reply" is good. "Reply to All" is better. Right?

3. Keep Emails Short - Email Etiquette Tip
Do not intimidate recipients with too much text.

4. Properly Format Your Email Replies, and Be Lazy - Email Etiquette Tip
Do you think quoting original text in your email replies perfectly is a lot of work? Don't let the '>' intimidate you! Here's a very comfortable, relaxed, quick and still clean and compatible way to reply properly.

5. Clean Up Emails Before Forwarding Them - Email Etiquette Tip
Forwarding emails is a great way of sharing ideas, but make sure the original idea is not hidden in obfuscation.

6. When in Doubt, Send Plain Text Email, Not HTML - Email Etiquette Tip
Not everybody can receive your fancily formatted emails. Some may even react furious. To be safe rather than sorry, send plain text emails only when in doubt.

7. Don't Forward Hoaxes - Email Etiquette Tip
Email hoaxes often contain stories that are intriguing, and sure to irritate. Here's how to spot and stop urban legends.

8. Use Current Antivirus Software, Keep it Up to Date, Scan for Free
Make sure you're not spreading worms and viruses via email or act as a vehicle for spreading spam. All this can be caused by malicious emails. Fortunately, there's protection.

9. Write Perfect Subject Lines - Email Etiquette Tip
Do you make these mistakes in your email subjects? (The key to getting your messages read is not to be clever.)

10. Do Let People Know Their Mail Has Been Received - Email Etiquette Tip
Did the spam filter eat my message? Spare others this nagging question and let them know you got their email.

11. Ask Before You Send Huge Attachments - Email Etiquette Tip
Don't clog email systems without permission.

12. Talk About One Subject per Email Message Only - Email Etiquette Tip
Help make the world less confusing. Try to talk about one subject per message only. For another subject, start a new email.

13. Punctuation Matters; in Emails Too - Email Etiquette Tip
Comma, colon, hyphen and semicolon — all exist for a reason: they make it easier to understand the intended meaning of a sentence. Don't make life more difficult and possibly less interesting for the recipients of your emails. Pay some — though not too pedantically much — attention to punctuation.

14. Use Acronyms Sparingly - Email Etiquette Tip
DYK? Not everybody knows every acronym, and they don't save that much time anyway.

15. Resize Pictures to Handy Proportions Before Inserting Them in Emails
When your photos look good in your email, you look good, too! Here's how to make sure your images are not larger than screens and mailboxes by resizing them in style — online and for free.

16. Writing in All Caps is Like Shouting - Email Etiquette Tip
Don't shout in your emails (and all caps is so difficult to read).

17. Be Careful with Irony in Emails - Email Etiquette Tip
No, really! I mean it. Honestly!

18. Set Your System Clock Right - Email Etiquette Tip
Make sure you don't send messages from 1981.

19. Avoid "Me Too" Messages - Email Etiquette Tip
"Me too" is not enough content, but too much annoyance.

20. In Doubt, End Emails with "Thanks" - Email Etiquette Tip
If you don't know how to say good-bye at the end of an email, there's one thing that will almost always be appropriate. Thanks.

Monday, September 08, 2008

Diary in Notepad

There is a simple feature in Notepad that can make it work like a personal diary for you. Here is how to go about it:

1. Open a blank Notepad file.

2. Now write .LOG as the first line in the file, and then press enter. Now save the file and close it.

3. Open the notepad file now and you will find that the current date and time has been appended (put) at the end and the cursor is in the next line.

4. Type your notes and then save and close the file.

5. Each time you open the file, Notepad repeats the process that is it appends the date and time to the end of the file and places the cursor below it.

This way you can keep track of all your entries, you can easily maintain what you wrote when. This can work very much like a personal diary.

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Free E-Books

General Knowledge

1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in?
2. What is the expansion of YAHOO?
3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?
4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?
5. What is expansion of "ICICI?"
6. What does "baker's dozen" signify?
7. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot - India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?
8. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?
9. From what four word expression does the word `goodbye` derive?
10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
11. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?
12. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?
13. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?
14. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned from internationalcricket and later represented Zimbabwe ?
15. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?
16. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by only one country(other than Vatican )?
17. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?

ANSWERS

1. Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym Ajax .
2. Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle
3. ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports
4. Satellite Television Asian Region
5. Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India
6. A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 1 more than the items in a normal dozen
7. That match was abandoned after people heard the news of Indira Gandhi being killed.
8. Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is Indian's National anthem and another one is for Bangladesh- (Amar Sonar* *Bangla)
9. Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you'.
10. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa.
11. South Korea ..
12. Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR , as it was known during the cold war)13. Geoffrey Boycott
14. John Traicos
15. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln
16. Lesotho surrounded from all sides by South Africa ..
17. Polo.

Friday, August 08, 2008

Credit Card Fraud

Please go thru the mail from a credit card fraud victim:

" Last weekend I was a victim of a Credit Card Fraud. Luckily for me I had activated the option of receiving Email notifications each time the credit limit on my crossed a certain value or percentage (e.g.: 25%, 50%, etc)

On Monday (June 23rd) I saw one such notification saying that the transactions on my card had crossed the credit limit. Since I had not swiped my card for any such high value transactions, I checked with my bank and found that my card was used to make some 10-12 online transactions by some unscrupulous persons to the tune of 1.2 Lakh!

I found from my bank that someone had used my card during the weekend (Sat June 21st and Sun Jun 22nd) to buy Air Line Tickets, when the card was very much with me during the weekend. Myself and my husband and some friends immediately swung into action and contacted each of the 5 respective Air Lines to find out that all the flights had been taken in the weekend and some 30-40 people had happily traveled all over India(Kolkata, Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Indore etc) on my credit card. Luckily for us, one flight from Kolkata was arriving to Bangalore on Monday (June 23rd).

I went to one police station Police, to lodge an FIR but they directed us to Airport Police.(FIR has to be launched from the location where the crime has been committed, since this is online, they were not sure. we also did not have too much time, since the flight was landing on the same day itself.). We requested the Airlines to allow the passengers to travel to Bangalore and drove down to the Devanahalli Airport . Along with the Airport Police we were able to nab 4 people
(1 guy managed to escape) who traveled with my credit card. Then we brought them to the city police station at 10 in the night and they were questioned(I guess you all know how). After 1.5 days tension, explanations, requests, influences, blames and threats we were able to finally lodge an FIR. This has been submitted to the bank for further investigation for 45 days. Hopefully, I do not have to pay the 1.2 lakh( I just hope).

On questioning, the arrested guys said that they had no clue about any credit card and had paid an agent to arrange for tickets and deliver them home. 1 guy spilt the beans about a local agent in Bangalore who used the Credit Card details to buy these tickets online. Still the case is under investigation as it is looks like a huge chain.

But the question is How Did This Agent Get The Card Details when I haven't transacted ever with this agent???

Online Air ticket booking does not need any verification, like other transactions. We just need to give the card number, CVV number and Expiry date of the card.

I recalled having used the card in the previous week for Shopping at two malls and at a Restaurant. We give out our card to the waiter/cashier and all he has to do is to memorize your 3 digit CVV number... At one such place when I gave my card to be swiped, the CVV # (which is a last 3 digit # found on the back of the card) was noted down/memorized by the cashier / waiter/God knows who. The card # and expiry date of the card anyways shows up on the transaction slip.

I heard from some people that the CVV #, Expiry Date and Card # is sold to Credit Card Fraudsters for as low as Rs. 100/- to 200/-!! (Can you believe it!!!!)

Some Steps to Protect Yourself from Credit Card Fraud

1) Check your Credit Card Statements regularly

2) Check with your bank if you have an option to receive email / SMS notifications for High Value Transactions. If available, activate the same. Look at the back of your card and see if the CVV # is mentioned. If yes, note it elsewhere and Score it off with a permanent marker from your card

3) Sign your cards as soon as they arrive.

4) Carry your cards separately from your wallet, in a zippered compartment, a business card holder, or another small pouch.

5) Keep a record of your account numbers, their expiration dates and the phone number and address of each company in a secure place.

6) Keep an eye on your card during the transaction, and get it back as quickly as possible. In restaurants, we send the card in the folder with the waiter. And finally when you are thinking of how to save for the flight tickets for your next vacation with the family, someone else is happily flying places on your card. And then finally you end up paying for someone else’s vacation, and cancel yours.

7) DON'T sign a blank receipt. When you sign a receipt, draw a line through any blank spaces above the total.

Although credit card fraud is certainly on the rise -- and credit card fraud on the Internet is rising even more dramatically -- many savvy Internet shoppers know that the reality is that it's actually much safer to enter your credit card number on a secure online order form than it is to give your credit card to a waiter at a restaurant.

After all, what's to stop the waiter from writing down your credit card number and then selling the details for a mere 200/-.

If you think that this happens to others, it’s NOT true. YOU May be the next victim!

Hence, removing the CVV number from your card is much better than going through this mess, risks and tensions. I hope you learn from my experience rather than wait to experience it yourself. The pain of feeling cheated and then the risks and tension involved is really horrible.