Bi-hourly shutdowns for the Windows 7 Beta

May 26, 2009


Over the weekend, some of you may have received an email from us reminding you that the Windows 7 Beta expires on August 1st, 2009. In that email, we ask that if you are still on the Windows 7 Beta that you should consider moving to a “non-expired” copy of Windows such as the Windows 7 RC or Windows Vista because bi-hourly shutdowns will begin June 1st.


The Windows 7 Beta does expire on August 1st, 2009; unfortunately the date for when bi-hourly shutdowns will begin for the Windows 7 Beta was incorrect however.


Bi-hourly shutdowns for the Windows 7 Beta will begin July 1st, 2009

Source: http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/05/25/clarification-on-the-date-for-bi-hourly-shutdowns-for-the-windows-7-beta.aspx


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Edit any website

May 18, 2009

Hacking a website isin't easy, but wasn't that cool that you edit some big website and show off to your friends that you are a "hacker", and you know how to hack into any website and edit its content?

It lets you edit any webpage but as soon as you refresh your page all the contents get lost, so use this trick to edit any website and then take screenshots of it and show them to your friends.


Let's do it-

1. Go to the webpage you would like to edit

2. Copy/Paste the following in the address bar:
javascript: document.body.contentEditable= "true"; document.designMode= "on"; void 0
3. Press Enter

Done!
Now you can move images, edit text, and do whatever you want.

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Hidden Meanings

May 8, 2009

Dear All,

Hope you will njoy this!!!!!!!!!

Today's Professional Management FUNDAS


1."We will do it" means "You will do it"


2."You have done a great job" means "More work to be given to you"


3."We are working on it" means "We have not yet started working on the same"


4."Tomorrow first thing in the morning" means "Its not getting done "At least not tomorrow!"


5."After discussion we will decide-I am very open to views" means "I have already decided , I will tell you what to do"


6."There was a slight miscommunication" means "We had actually lied"


7."Lets call a meeting and discuss" means "I have no time now, will talk later"




8."We can always do it" means "We actually cannot do the same on time"


9."We are on the right track but there needs to be a slight extension of the deadline" means "The project is screwed up, we cannot deliver on time."


10."We had slight differences of opinion "means "We had actually fought"


11."Make a list of the work that you do and let's see how I can help you" means "Anyway you have to find a way out no help from me"


12."You should have told me earlier" means "Well even if you told me earlier that would have made hardly any difference!"


13."We need to find out the real reason" means " Well I will tell you where your fault is"


14."Well Family is important; your leave is always granted. Just ensure that the work is not affected," means, "Well you know..."


15."We are a team," means, "I am not the only one to be blamed"


16."That's actually a good question" means "I do not know anything about it"


17."All the Best" means "You are in trouble "


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How to resize Hiberfil.sys

Hiberfil.sys is hibernation file that store whole Windows state, when hibernation in action. Its located in system drive (generally C: drive’s root). The size of file depends on total installed physical RAM, so it requires space in HDD as much your system RAM. But its too annoying we need to free space, so here is the solution.

Let's do it-

1. Reduce size/Resize
Go to Run and type CMD and press Enter

POWERCFG -H -Size


Specifies the desired hiberfil.sys size in percentage of the total memory. The default size cannot be smaller than 50. This switch will also enable the hiberfil.sys automatically.

2. Remove

POWERCFG -H OFF

Disables the hibernate feature and removes hiberfil.sys

3. Re-enable hibernate feature

POWERCFG -H ON

Allows to revert back to default and create hiberfil.sys according to system RAM.

Source: http://www.itsmywindows.com/how-to-reduce-the-sizeresizeremove-of-hiberfilsys

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Kill a process when your Taskmanager is disabled

You all may have stuck with your disabled Taskmanager, when a nasty virus enters your Computer and take away all your happiness. You try hard to find the exe file name of this virus to kill it, but worst it disbales your taskmanager therefore you are not able to know which processs are running.

Therefore I came up with an tutorial to show you which all processes are currently running on your system so that you can look for any running malicious program.
The command which we are using is TASKLIST.

Syntax: TASKLIST [/S system [/U username [/P [password]]]]
[/M [module] | /SVC | /V] [/FI filter] [/FO format] [/NH]



This command line tool displays a list of application(s) and associated task(s)/process(es) currently running on either a local or remote system.

Parameter List:

/S system Specifies the remote system to connect to.

/U [domain\]user Specifies the user context under which
the command should execute.

/P [password] Specifies the password for the given
user context. Prompts for input if omitted.

/M [module] Lists all tasks that have DLL modules loaded
in them that match the given pattern name.
If the module name is not specified,
displays all modules loaded by each task.

/SVC Displays services in each process.

/V Specifies that the verbose information
is to be displayed.

/FI filter Displays a set of tasks that match a
given criteria specified by the filter.

/FO format Specifies the output format.
Valid values: "TABLE", "LIST", "CSV".

/NH Specifies that the "Column Header" should
not be displayed in the output.
Valid only for "TABLE" and "CSV" formats.

Here are some eg. which will show you how to use it effectively.
Examples:
TASKLIST
TASKLIST /M
TASKLIST /V
TASKLIST /SVC
TASKLIST /M wbem*
TASKLIST /S system /FO LIST
TASKLIST /S system /U domain\username /FO CSV /NH
TASKLIST /S system /U username /P password /FO TABLE /NH
TASKLIST /FI "USERNAME ne NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" /FI "STATUS eq running"



So now you have got the list of all process running on your system now its time to kill the malicious program.
The command which we are using for this is TASKKILL.

Syntax: TASKKILL [/S system [/U username [/P [password]]]]
{ [/FI filter] [/PID processid | /IM imagename] } [/F] [/T]


This command line tool can be used to end one or more processes. Processes can be killed by the process id or image name.

Parameter List:

/S system Specifies the remote system to connect to.

/U [domain\]user Specifies the user context under which
the command should execute.

/P [password] Specifies the password for the given
user context. Prompts for input if omitted.

/F Specifies to forcefully terminate process(es).

/FI filter Displays a set of tasks that match a
given criteria specified by the filter.

/PID process id Specifies the PID of the process that
has to be terminated.

/IM image name Specifies the image name of the process
that has to be terminated. Wildcard '*'
can be used to specify all image names.

/T Tree kill: terminates the specified process
and any child processes which were started by it.


Well if you want some more detaliled description go to command propmt and type TaskKill/?

Here are some eg. which will show you how to use it effectively.
Examples:
TASKKILL /S system /F /IM notepad.exe /T
TASKKILL /PID 1230 /PID 1241 /PID 1253 /T
TASKKILL /F /IM notepad.exe /IM mspaint.exe
TASKKILL /F /FI "PID ge 1000" /FI "WINDOWTITLE ne untitle*"
TASKKILL /F /FI "USERNAME eq NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" /IM notepad.exe
TASKKILL /S system /U domain\username /FI "USERNAME ne NT*" /IM *
TASKKILL /S system /U username /P password /FI "IMAGENAME eq note*"





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Vodafone’s new Ads - ZooZoo

May 7, 2009

Vodafone has launched a series of Add at this season of IPL. They seems quite impressing one. If you are thinking that they are Animated Characters than here you will be amazed to know that they are not animated characters but humans. yes i said Humans. They are human beings who were made to wear body suits. “The design of the characters is such that one gets fooled into thinking it is animation.

So who are ZooZoo?
Zoozoos are local theatre slim built women actors dressed in white costumes who were pratically blind and not animated as it appears.


The company plans to roll out 30 different commercials on similar lines which are 20-30 seconds long.

Let's see the making of ZooZoo




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How to: format USB drive into NTFS format

May 1, 2009

There are a lot of benifits of using NTFS format rather than default FAT format in Windows XP. For those who really understand what they get from NTFS here is the tutorial which will tell you how to format your USB/flash/pen drive in Windows XP.

Before beginning let just have a look on some special features of NTFS
a.) Allows you to encrypt your files.
b.) Allows file compression.
c.) Aloow you to transfer/send large files.

1. Plug in your USB drive that you want to format.
2. Right click on My Computer and go to Properties > Hardware tab than click on Device Manager Button.
3. Now Expand Disk Drives, and Right click on your USB/Flash Drive and select Properties.
4. Go to Policies tab and select for Optimize for Performance and apply.

Yooooooooo Hooooooooooo!!!

It's all done, now just open explorer and right clgk on your Pen drive and select Format, now you will find NTFS formating option too.

or you can just type Format X: /FS:NTFS
in Run dialog box, where X is replaced by your USB drive letter.


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