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Internet Explorer Team Wants To Know If You Are Good EnoughAugust 8

IE8 beta team wants to know why you would be a great beta tester for their upcoming IE Beta 2 release. Are they serious? Though widely used stats still shows that IE has the largest browser share, the gap between IE and Firefox is too close for comfort. I won’t be surprised if FF takes the browser share lead by the next major release. Yet IE team has the audacity to cherry pick beta testers for a free product, that is going to be released soon.

When pressed about it on comments and asked why they don’t follow examples set by success full projects (read FF) and have a publicly accessible bug tracking tool; they argued that the IE users are hundreds and millions in numbers and they would easily litter bug tracking database with “stupid” bug reports. They insists that there is a problem with mozilla bug database is that it is way too easy to file a bug report. This is too funny, you have to read their reply to comments to understand how close-minde

Quick tip: Running Spybot From CommandLineJune 19

Here is a quick Tip.

For a command-line junkie like me, this is a geeky fun way to scan your system with spybot with CMD, with few easy parameters. For a spyware only version of the scan I used this parameters:
“C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search &
 Destroy\SpybotSD.exe” /taskbarhide /autoclose /autocheck /autofix /onlyspyware


For a list of other available parameters, (from Spybot website):

  • /taskbarhide
    Runs Spybot-S&D completely hidden (no window, no taskbar icon), so make absolutely sure you use it only in combination with /autoclose (otherwise it would remain in memory sitting idle). Useful only in combination with /autocheck, /autoupdate or /autoimmunize, as it cannot be controlled when completely invisible.
  • /minimized
    Starts the window minimized.
  • /uninstall
    Uninstalls Spybot-S&D. This command line parameter is very outdated - unins000.exe should be used instead!
  • /blinduser
    Starts with support for blind users (special menus).
  • /autoupdate
    Does an update after starting the program.
  • /autocheck
    Starts scanning immediately.
  • /autofix
    Fixes problems after scan.
  • /autoclose










Defraggler: The Best Substitute for Windows Disk DefragmenterApril 17

If you have been using windows long enough, you should know by now that windows disk defragmenter shipped with the OS is less than optimum solution for your disk defragmentation problem. Disk fragmentation, existing in all modern OS, does not effect system the way NTFS based windows system gets effected. Although with each iteration of windows OS fragmentation of system file has been minimized, it still possess a problem big enough for commercial Disk Defragmenter program to do a profitable business.

Diskeeper, which sells a dumbed down version of it’s program which gets shipped with Microsoft OS, along with PerfectDisk are the leading commercial defragmenter out there. While there has been many free alternative, nothing was good enough to rival their performance, until now. Defraggler is a free disk defragmenter, which is not only a free alternative to commercial counterparts but also very good at it’s job. Defraggler is brought to you by the same guys who made CCleaner, a useful file and registry cleaning software.

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Create Custom Manufactured By Logo in System PropertiesMarch 27

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The process of creating a custom “Manufactured and Supported by” logo involves two parts.

1) First you have to create a logo with the size not bigger than 180×114 pixels. Save it as a bitmap file with the name oemlogo.bmp. Save the file inside C:\WINDOWS\system32 subfolder.

2) Create an configuration file with a text editor and save it as oeminfo.ini. Save this file also inside C:\WINDOWS\system32 subfolder. My configuration file looks like this:

[general]
Manufacturer=blah
Model=

[Support Information]
Line1= Windows 2003 is better Than Windows Vista
Line2= Osx is better than Windows 2003
Line3= Ubuntu is better Than OSX

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Using Command Prompt from Any DirectoryMarch 25

Windows in it’s default setting doesn’t allow you to CMD from a specific folder by “Right-click”, or any other reasonably easy way. Even doing trivial tasks like moving from one folder to another is no easy task. The best way to do this would be go to Starts –> Run –> CMD –> Ok; than browse to your desired folder. Or you could put a cmd.exe in every single folder. None of the options are very convenient.

We could do a little registry hack to make “CMD Here” option appear in every folder by a simple right click, and it will prompt from the desired folder, like this.

For this hack we have to edit the registry. Go to Start –> Run –> Regedit.

The entry that we will edit is located under, HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ Directory\shell, we will navigate into that folder and add a new key called “command”, edit the entry and call it whatever you want. I named it “CMD Here”, which is what it will say when you right click a folder.

Now create another key right under the “command”