S.Balagurunath

Q. Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems?
A. Vinod Khosla


Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of thetoday's computers run on it)?
A. Vinod Dahm


Q. Who is the third richest man on the world?
A. According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is Aziz Premji, who is the CEO of Wipro Industries. The Sultan of Brunei is at 6th position now.


Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program)?
A. Sabeer Bhatia


Q. Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT & T-Bell Labs is the creator
of program languages such as C, C++, Unix to name a few)?
A. Arun Netravalli


Q. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard?
A. Rajiv Gupta


Q. Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000,
responsible to iron out all initial problems?
A. Sanjay Tejwrika


Q. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?
A. Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.

We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even
faring better than the whites and the natives.
There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (1.5% of population).

*Albert Einstein said: We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.


*French scholar Romain Rolland said: If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India

*GO Start>open run
*Type telnet
*Now click ok
*A command prompt box come
*Now type o {not the number 0}
*Hit Enter
*Now type towel.blinkenlights.nl and hit enter and wait for a few seconds depends how fast your computer.
*Now enjoy the movie.

[THIS MOVIE NO SOUND}
[IF YOU WANT TO WATCH THIS MOVIE YOU MUST HAVE INTERNET.OTHERWISE IT DON'T WORK]

 

One of our member asked that Run Command is not showing to his Start Menu.

Run Command box is an important part of Operating System. Whether for running applications or Registry editing. For changing startup setting or running Group policy editing. Every software/data present in your PC could be run/opened with Run command box.

In some cases it could be hided by some naughty friend of yours or by some virus infections.

You may want to hide it for protecting your system from someone to change important setting of your PC.

Here is the step by step guide to hide/Show Run Command box from Start Menu.

• Right click on TaskBar to open Taskbar Menu and select Properties to open Taskbar Properties.

• Taskbar Properties window will be opened.Select StartMenu tab and click on Customize.

• Customize Start Menu window will be opened. Select Advanced tab and Check (√) “Run Command” checkbox to show and uncheck it to hide “Run Command”from Start Menu.

• Click on Ok button and its done.

 

In our previous posts we have told you how to disable process and services from starting up and taking unnecessary resources. But you have to do this carefully, cause in case, if you disable some important service of the computer, there will be one of the days when you bang your head in frustration that some things are not working and you will not have a damn clue about it!

So to save you from this situation and also to save ourselves from a lots of curses, we give you all the needed information about which services and which process to disable. 1st of all we will tell you about the various services. And after reading this carefully, you will know if you need them or not. But 1st if don't know about services, Just see this article.
Now lets see what to disable or not.

• Alerter: If you don't have a network connection, i.e. if your computer is not joined with network cables or otherwise with another computer like in a Cyber Cafe, You DO NOT need this service, cause the alert is for some changes in the network. So you do not need it and could disable it.
• Automatic Updates: This is a kind of a hidden curse kind of a thing. If you are using a limited data transfer based internet connection, this will surely help you to lighten your pockets. This sometimes runs without the notice of the user and draws some bandwidth, and also before you know it, you have lost some valuable MB of data. But in the contrary, from the name of it, it updates your XP, keeps it up-to-date. But a very cautious word to those, who use Pirated XP and have internet connection. Be sure to disable it cause if you don't,after downloading and installing the "Genuine Advantage Validation" Update, the Pirated XP tag will haunt you down and it will be really embarrasing to show of your computer to your friends, unless they also have have the same tagg slapped to their PC.
  
• Computer Browser: Now again, If you are not using a networked compter you don't need this also. So simply Disable it.
  
• Cryptographic Services: Set this to manual if you are not sure you need it.
• DNS Client: This service resolves the DNS of the computer. This is also a network based service. But it is also used for internet connection. So don't disable it. Jus set it to manual so it will run only when it is needed.
  
• Error Reporting Service: Ok, now have you seen a program getting non-responsive, and the a window came giving 2 options, "Send", and "Don't send" and thats when if you have people peeking behind you will say, "Don't send". And you click the "Don't send" button. So here microsoft created an error reporting service solve your problems but believe me. They don't. It's an useless service and if you click on "Send" button, and if you expect some solution to that definite problem, you are asking Sun to come out of the west! So better disable it.
  
• Fast User Switching Compatibility: Disable it if you have only a single user on your computer, or if you do not use fast user switching feature much. That is, if you completely log-off and then allow other users to use your computer, then you do not need this. Note that this service is completely useless for low memory computers. And if you don't even know what 'User' means here, then you definately need to Disable it.
  
• FTP Publishing: Disable this if you do not use FTP.
• Help and Support: If you need any help, just come here or e mail us, or call someone who knows all this. Don't waste your RAM's resources to run a program for "Help and Support". So disable it.
  
• Indexing Service: This indexes all your hard drives files, so when you search for a certain file or folder using the search feature, it shows the results very quickly. But also it continuously runs on background to track all your files and data. So uses a greater part of CPU. So you can disable it.
  
• Net Logon: Disable this feature also if you are not on a network.
  
• NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing: Disable this if you do not use Remote Desktop feature. If you don't know what it is, then disable it anyways.
  
• Network Provisioning Service: Disable this, it’s also useless if you are not on a network.
• NT LM Security Support Provider: Disable this, its useless too.
• Office Source Engine: This is for MS Office feature. If you have MS office this is for recovering sudden crash in MS office. Disable this if you have the MS office setup file.
  
• Print Spooler: Disable it if you don’t have a printer.
  
• Remote Desktop Help Session Manager:Disable this anyways. Cause you will not get any support and help from Microsoft any ways.
  
• Remote Registry: This is a SERIOUS sequrity thread turned on in every XP by default. So turn it off NOW.
  
• Security Center: This is a really useless feature. They will always show you some faults on your computer. Its better stay disabled.
  
• Server: Set it to manual or disable it if you are not on network.
• Smart Card: Disable it. Seriously if you use smart card for your computer, you must be my long lost great great Grandfather!
  
• Telnet: Set it to manual if you use this feature, otherwise disable it, especially if you are home users.
• Terminal Services: If you aren't using remote desktop. Disable this one also.
  
• Uninterrupted Power Supply: If you don't have an UPS attached to the serial port, disable it. If you don't know what I was talkng about, Serial port is the port where you stuck your pen drive. If any one of the serial port is attached with the UPS, don't Disable it. Otherwise Disable it. If you still don't know what I am talking about, just leave it alone.
• Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS): Disable this if you have another firewall software installed, otherwise let it remain ON for better security.If you don't know what Firewall is, Then leave this alone also.
• Wireless Zero Configuration: Disable if not on a wireless network.
• WMI Performance Adapters: Disable it, useless service for basic usage.
• Workstation: Disable this one againg for you are not on a network.

Now apart from all these services listed above, let all the others stay as they are. Don't even try to change anything other than this. This may harm your computer and may cause a lots of frustration.

Now for the next step, the "Start Up" process. This one we will let you know in the next article. So keep watching. Till then, happy servicing.

 

SYMPTOMS
When you try to change the desktop wallpaper in a Microsoft Windows XP-based computer, the options may be missing or unavailable. Therefore, you cannot change your wallpaper or use other options that are located in the Display Properties dialog box. This problem may occur after you remove spyware from the system.

CAUSE
his problem occurs when a registry key is set to hide or to lock the display settings on the computer. The registry key can be set by an administration policy or by malicious software.

RESOLUTION
Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs.


To resolve this problem, follow these steps:

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

3. In the right-pane, right-click the NoDispAppearancePage value if the value exists, and then click Delete.
4. Repeat step 3 for the following registry values if these values exist in the registry:
• NoDispCPL
• NoDispBackgroundPage
• NoDispScrSavPage
• NoDispSettingsPage

Note Locate any registry value that says "Wallpaper" if it exists. In the right pane, right-click the registry value, click Delete, and then click OK.

5. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

6. In the right-pane, right-click the NoDispAppearancePage value if the value exists, and then click Delete.
7. Repeat step 6 for the following registry values if these values exist in the registry:
• NoDispCPL
• NoDispBackgroundPage
• NoDispScrSavPage
• NoDispSettingsPage

Note Locate any registry value that says "Wallpaper" if it exists. In the right pane, right-click the registry value, click Delete, and then click OK.

8. For the changes to take effect, you may have to restart the computer after you delete these registry values