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Make the best out of your PC. Here you can find some nice, useful tips and tricks that can be used to tame your PC. I hope you will find the tricks posted here useful. I have made the language as simple as possible so that it can be understood even by a noob. If you have any queries or want help feel free to question, I will try to shelp you out. If you have any good trick that you want to share with us, please tell us. Your suggetions/comments are always invited.

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December 31, 2008

give ur title 2 internet explorer

Give a uniqueness to your internet explorer give it your name.

Run gpedit.msc

go to user configuration>windows settings>internet explorer maintainance

then go to browser user interface>browser title

select the customize text box and enter ur title n press OK

now titlte bar will be in the form of..............
microsoft internet explorer provided by (ur title)

This trick will not be available for vista users as to open group policy editor in vista is not that easy. I will be giving the trick how to open gpedit in vista soon.

Look google search images are flying

This trick will make the images searched fly.
1. Go to Google.com
2. Click images Tab
3. Type "flowers" or any other word.
4. You will get a page which is having full of images
5. Then delete the item from the address bar ( the place where u type website addresses) and paste the below code in it and press enter. To stop simply close the tab or window.



javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i < dis="DI[" position="'absolute';" left="Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5;" top="Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval('A()',5);">

December 30, 2008

Remove read-only from all files in a folder

After copying a bunch of files to your Windows PC from a CD or DVD, you may discover that all the copied files carry the read-only flag. The most obvious way to remove the read-only flag from a file is to right-click on its icon, choose “Properties”, and uncheck the “Read-only” box. But what if you have hundreds, or even thousands of files marked read-only?

You can remove these read-only flag from multiple files using the attrib command from a command prompt. The Windows Command Line site has a tutorial on commands everyone can use, which includes an explanation of performing this task with the attrib command. The section on the attrib command is titled “Changing file attributes with ‘attrib’”, and is located about three quarters of the way down the page.

In short, first open the command prompt, press Ctrl+R and in the run box type cmd and enter. Navigate to their folder from a command prompt and type attrib -r ./*.* /s. For example if you want to do that for images, type this: attrib -r ./*.jpg /s.

Keyboard types over other words

Sometimes you may see that the words you are typing are being typed over the letters on the right of the cursor.

People frequently press the “Insert” key by accident, which puts your computer into a different mode of input. In this mode, everything you input is typed over anything that already exists to the right of the cursor.

The input mode you are used to inserts characters at the cursor and forces everything to the right over once space. Pressing the “Insert” key switches between these two input modes.

Find the “Insert” key on your keyboard. It is usually located to the right of the “Backspace” key, above the arrow keys. Press “Insert” once. Resume typing.

December 29, 2008

COM surrogate has stopped working

I personally got this problem, and after a bit of surfing on other sites, I found some ways to fix this problem. This usually happens when you browse a folder full of video or some media files and computer throws a dialogue box saying "COM surrogate has stopped working".

The reason behind this is the codecs and other COM components installed by various programs that aren't fully Vista-compatible, like some versions of DivX or Nero.

There are a number of possible solutions and the right solution for you would depend upon what software is actually causing the problem. DivX and Nero are the most well-known problem causing software.

Solutions

  • If using DivX, upgrade it to latest version(6.8+)
  • If using Nero, upgrade to its latest version(9+)
  • You can also disable Thumbnail previews, it will surely make the problem go away but its not an optimal solution.
  • Use a new codec pack http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/
  • If you'd like to uninstall Nero entirely, there is a utility that they provide to help with complete uninstall that helps a lot in instances where you have a bad installation of an older version. http://www.nero.com/nero7/eng/FAQs_Nero7_NeroVision.html
  • Some users have recommended installing the Vista Codec Package in order to update all your codecs to the correct versions. I can't confirm that this works because I have not tried it myself. As always, be careful when installing unknown components and create a restore point.
  • You can use the very useful MMCompView free utility from Nirsoft to disable any codecs on the system. This is very useful to help troubleshoot exactly which component is causing the problem.
  • Use DEP
    Right click on Computer, and choose Properties
    Click on Advanced System Settings, and then under Advanced, click Settings
    Select the "Data Execution Protection" tab, and then click Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I select?
    Click on the Add button, and then browse to C:\Windows\System32\dllhost.exe as shown
    Click Open, and then OK.

This should solve your problems.