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fix autoplay dialog box not appearing when plug in external device
posted by raymond on november 14th, 2007
in windows xp, when you plug in an external usb hard drive, usb flash drive or even memory card, you’ll get a prompt that says “windows can perform the same action each time you insert a disk or connect a device with this kind of file type: what do you want windows to do?“.
you can open folder to view files, take no action and etc… if you check the “always do the selected action” checkbox, windows will perform the same action whenever you connect the same external usb disk. it works fine at first when all the files are intact but when i formatted and copied other types of files to the drive, the default action is useless.
you can easily restore the autoplay prompt with a few simple step.
1. right click on the drive letter that is created by the external usb device
2. select properties
3. go to autoplay tab
4. select “prompt me each time to choose an action” and click ok
the 4 easy steps above should be able to bring back the prompt the next time you plug in your usb flash drive. but there are many cases i’ve seen that this simple steps doesn’t work. this problem usually happens on windows that has a lot of software installed and somehow corrupted the registry. if the method above doesn’t work, then you can try using this fix as it worked for me.
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how to make windows autorun usb flash drives
posted by raymond on november 13th, 2007
if you didn’t know, microsoft windows does not allow you to autorun usb drives when they are inserted. the windows autorun capabilities are restricted to cd-rom drives and fixed disk drives. no, there are no registry hacks to enable usb drives autorun feature because of security issues. data theft is one security concern for example. the simplicity of reading and writing to basic usb drives and the reasonable amount of data they can hold makes them an ideal target for this.
usually when you plug in your usb flash drive, you’ll get a notification asking you what would you like to do.
if your end “explorer.exe” process, and you plug in your usb flash drive, you won’t even get the prompt. usually computers that are used for giving exams won’t have “explorer.exe” loaded and that can prevent you from copying the exam data out.
anyway, if you still would like to automatically launch the program of your choice on your usb flash drive everytime you plug it in your computer, then please continue reading. there is a way to make windows autorun usb flash drives.
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remove adware, spyware, trojans, viruses and rootkits with freefixer
posted by raymond on november 12th, 2007
most people will use anti-spyware program such as spybot and ad-aware to run a scan on the computer when they notice their computer acting weird. why? the reason is anti-spyware program automates cleaning and removing spyware, trojan or adware found on the computer which is much easier compared to manually digging through your auto startup locations which is risky if you removed the wrong file.
unlike hijackthis, which advance users will agree that it is a very powerful tool but it requires you to have plenty of experience in removing spyware so you can immediately identify the unwanted entries from the log file. if you’re a novice computer user, you might not even understand what is in the hijackthis log file.
if you’d like to try out yourself on manually removing spyware from your system, you can start off by using this free tool called freefixer.
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make your computer automatically perform tasks for you
posted by raymond on november 11th, 2007
let’s say there is a company that wants to transfer all accounts data from excel to an accounting software. can you imagine reentering the accounts information which is dated back 5 years ago to the software? if the accounting software can’t supporting importing the excel document, then you’re probably going to spend many months re-entering everything to the software. that is a waste of time and it is also boring!
what if i tell you that you can automate the copy and pasting data from your excel to the accounting software while you sit back and watch the task being performed on the screen? that’d save you so much time! this is called macro or automation software. a macro is a script containing commands that automate computer tasks. each command performs one step, such as moving the mouse, launching a program or entering keystrokes. anything that you do repetitively on the keyboard or even a sequence that requires just a few steps could be performed automatically to save you time. the possibilities are limitless.
i’ve learn about macro software many years ago when i needed to do data input. my boss was so amazed with the short time i used to complete the data input. here are the macro software that i’ve been using.
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collection of extensions to turn firefox into a security platform
posted by raymond on november 10th, 2007
we all know that we can do nearly everything with firefox browser. we can check emails, download torrents, upload files to ftp, and the list goes on… did you know that there’s a collection of extensions to turn your firefox browser into a security platform? firecat stands for firefox catalog of auditing toolbox and it is a firefox framework map collection of the most useful security oriented extensions. it can be used to turn your favorite browser (firefox) into a powerful security framework.
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12 hours of downtime today but no more in future
posted by raymond on november 9th, 2007
ok, this site was down for nearly 12 hours due to “extremely massive server resource abuse” by one of my wordpress scripts. the useful but problematic script that is always abusing the server resource is “translator“. the plugin provides automatic machine translation of my blog in different languages. this has happened a few times and frankly i am sick of it! i’ve transferred my domain to a more powerful server but it’s still not strong enough to handle all requests.
i have no choice but to upgrade my server to a dedicated server. the migration will be carried out within these few days. it is not the most powerful dedicated server but it should be able to support my website for quite a while.
one thing i am really worried about huge down time is, will it mess up any rankings(keywords, pr) for my site? after a little searching, i found out from berghausen, a google webmaster central representative that we should consider returning a ‘503 service unavailable’ with a ‘retry-after’ header indicating when we expect our site to be back up. this is a more by-the-books way of explaining that your site is down for maintenance, and you can still send along a page explaining the error. under most situations, googlebot will not index your error page, and will come back looking for updates some time after the date specified in the ‘return-after’ header.
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about recycler and system volume information folder in xp and vista
posted by raymond on november 8th, 2007
did you notice that the recycler and system volume information folder will appear at the root of your c: drive once you uncheck “hide protected operating system files” from folder options?
so what is recycler and system volume information all about? why do i get the error message “c:\system volume information is not accessible. access is denied” when i tried to access system volume information folder?
my anti-virus detected virus in system volume information but was unable to remove the virus. how to manually access system volume information folder and delete the virus?
what about the recycler folder? what is the difference between recycle bin and recycler? is it safe to delete the recycler folder? actually i noticed these 2 folders long time ago but i didn’t care about it because i “assumed” that it belonged to windows. today i had a little bit of free time and i decided to check it out.
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