Jun 19

Listing a Directory

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Just yesterday I wanted to check added/deleted files from  hundreds of files in two directories. In the most rude manner I could have taken snap shot of two directories and printed it for manual checking.

But that option was ruled as they were enough to keep busy whole day. So the next thought, what if I could somehow list the files of all directories? Won’t it be easy to list the files in excel sheet and use vlookup to find the missing/new files?

But How do I list the files? I know there are hunderds of freewares on net which will help you to that and hunderds of scripts guiding you to design your own software.

I found the simplest and the most effective solution using DOS.

2 commands and the list is ready for you!

1. Go to Start button> Run

2. Type cmd & press Enter

3. Now, using ‘cd’ command go to the directory which you want to list.

4. Once you are in the dirrectory us following command to create the listing:

dir /b > list.csv

Tada! The list is created in the same directory. Now you can one the file in excel and save it as a .xls file for further use. No software, no installations. A clean, simple way!

That’s for the day!

nJoy.

Apr 19

Gtalk Shell

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Ever caught in a situlation where your boss is looking at your screen and your friend pops you up on gtalk with all sorta “friendly” talk? I was once….

boss : Wow! that’s great! Now they have put the pictures on sametime? (Sametime is  IBM’s chat msngr)

me: err…yeh… kinda… jus for testin…

boss: oh really? they should keep it!

me: oh yeh…. (hushhh….thank god!)

and then I thought, I need to do something to get rid of this problem..

n here is d solution…. Gtalk Shell.. a damn cool gtalk plugin.

Just install it and Done!

Instead of opening gtalk, open Gtalk Shell.

When’s your boss is around, just press Ctrl+Alt+Q. All gtalk windows will be hidden instantaneously. Press it again.. they’ll reappear!

you can explore more feature like anti-boss etc in the shell menu.

Just google “gtalk shell”.. you’ll find the downloading link..

nJoy.. Happy Chatting! (in office hours :P )

Nov 28

A Macro way to Excel

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Ever tried to find the uppercase button in Microsoft Excel or tried to strike through text in the cell?

Yes! You will end up with a big surprise that there are no such one-click buttons available in MS Excel. So what will you do to change all uppercase letters from a row to Sentence case?

Difficult? Not really! Here is a 2 step solution to add these MISSED features:

  1. Download : Personal.xlsb
  2. Copy the downloaded file to following location : C:\Documents and Settings\<your-username>\Application Data\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART

So How does this benefits you?

This Excel Binary File contains macros for following operations:

  1. Toggle Uppercase (Ctrl+u)
  2. Toggle Lowercase (Ctrl+l)
  3. Toggle Sentence Case (Ctrl+Shift+s)
  4. Toggle Strike Through (Ctrl+k)
  5. Toggle Superscript
  6. Toggle Subscript

Impressive? Aha! You can add all you want with macros.

So learn to look at the Macro level :)

Note:

1. Please make sure macros are enabled.

2. All those who want to look what exactly goes behind the screen, goto MS Excel VB Editor and have a look at the code.

Nov 19

Tip 2 : .Exe to .Com

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If you ever face a problem where in all application (.exe) files (e.g. notepad.exe) are not opening, you can try renaming them to “.com” (e.g. notepad.com) . It might work for you perfectly till you resolve the problem.

This is extremely effective when your system is infected with virus which is not allowing you to execute .exe files and you want to access windows system applications like msconfig, regedit or even command prompt (cmd).

Oct 01

SendTo: Wonderful tool

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Ever wondered how to open a file, associated with a program, in other program? Ever Struggled to open a zip file (associated with WinZip) in WinRar? Ever wondered how to open an avi/mpg/dat file in VLC Player or KM Player, without associating them with that player? (yeh yeh.. I know.. the ‘Open With…’ wala funda)

If yes, please continue reading! (Others can read it as well… off course if you have couple of minutes to spare :D )

Its just 4 step process :
1. Create a shortcut of the application. (e.g. Notepad, WinRar, VLC, KM Player, Irfanview or whatever)
2. Goto “Run” (Start Button – > Run)
3. Type “Sendto” and press Enter (A folder will open)
4. Copy the Shortcut in that folder

Its done.. now you can use these softwares any time with two mouse clicks only.
Just right click on the file, select “sendto” menu and select the program in which you want to open the file.

Sep 28

Vladstudio.com

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Couple of weeks ago, I was seaching for new and refreshing MS Style for Windows XP… offcourse using google. There I came across an extremely beautiful theme ‘Manice 2XG‘ by ameaeli on deviantart. Now that I had the theme, the only thing remaining was the wallpaper.

The theme author has recommended a site called Vladstudio.com. Since last few days, I have been using Vladstudio companion. And tell you frankly, this is THE BEST site I have ever come across for computer graphics. The textures, colors, combinations every thing is extremely good. But the most interesting fact is that if you thing a little, you will find a deep emotion in each and every wallpaper.

Just visit the site once, and you will come to know what I am talking about.

Surf Safe, Surf Wise! :)

Aug 19

mjBookMaker – Read Books on the Go!

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Plz dont beat me.. I know I m very bad blogger. Damn bad actually! Its been almost a year (1 yr  29 days actually) since my last post. PS was  pressing me to write one, but I m as moody as rains in Mumbai.
I was trying to write post which i promised to PS, and it is still pending.. (PS, Hope to complete it soon :D )

Neways, lets come back to the topic! Since long I have been searching a pdf reader for my mobile (Sony Ericsson W550i- JAVA based). But it was all vain as all i could locate was a .SIS file (yeh, even Google could not locate  single useful tool) – which was as useful to me as grass to a hungry Lion.. :D
Main problem – all the free softwares available were designed for Symbian OS.

But why do I need a pdf reader for my mobile? Offcourse, to read ebooks on the go! I tried various softwares (Bookreader, text reader, doc reader and even Mini-Opera) to read txt/doc/html files but the in-build OS security system is extremely irritating. So I stopped my search!!!
And one day I stumble upon a wonderful software – mjBookMaker ( Thanks AK for recommanding this one)
It is not a pdf reader. But it solved my purpose – now I can read books while i am traveling!

So what is mjBookMaker? It is a PC based utility to covert text/doc/rtf files to JAR files which can be installed on JAVA-based mobile.
In short – it converts a ebook into mbook!

All you need is an electronic copy your favorite book.
How do I go about it?

1. First, copy all text of your pdf ebook into a text file and save the text file.
2. Open mjBookReader.
3. Click “…” button and browse to the text file.
4. Give the book name & name of the author (its optional, but dont be so lazy :P )
5. Click on start.

AND YOUR  MBOOK IS READY.
But where is it? – Click on the “Show midlets” to view the mbook.( It may be divided in series of files depending on the size of book)

6. Now, copy all the files starting with the book name and ending with .JAR extension to your mobile.

7. Browse the files from your mobile file explorer and install the first part of the book!

THAT’S IT! THE MBOOK IS WAITING FOR YOU!

You can grab the instruction manual for the software at :
http://72.14.235.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://mjsoft.nm.ru/booke.htm&usg=ALkJrhgZUbqVrMAuBf5ju65qHENIj3BQ0Q

And the sofware is available at:
http://mjsoft.nm.ru/prog/mjBookMaker.zip

HAPPY READING!

NJOY! :)


P.S.:
PS : Pushkar Sheth
AK : Aka Aks – Akshay Kadu

Jun 20

Still Stuck up wid Autorun Problem? – .MS32DLL

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Well Guys…n gals…

I have been really happy since my last post that finally I got rid of the virus from my friends computer (Yeh…. Luckily my PC is not yet infected! :) ). But then last week, one of my friend, Sachin, told me that hs is facing same problem again… but this time the drive is exploring instead of asking ‘Open with…’ Option… So I said… lets see whats there….

Hm…. new virus?…well has to be… I had tried to remove previous one even when knowing that its not there!.. so I started looking for some unusual stuff… n here is what I got…

Each drive had following two hidden files in their root directory..

  1. autorun.inf (the usual one)
  2. .MS32DLL.DLL.vbs (or u may say .MS32DLL.DLL if extensions are hidden)

beside there are few unwanted entries in the startup list :

  1. MS32DLL
  2. Winboot

And following process running (shown in the task manager)

  1. wscript.exe

So again we start with manual Method.. Well this time its purely mine!

  1. As usual, Turn off the ‘System Restore’ Option
  2. Boot your system in Safe Mode
  3. open task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del)
  4. Find the process called ‘wscript.exe‘ from ‘Processes‘ tab
  5. Right Click on it and select ‘End Process Tree‘ from the popup menu.
  6. Now search following hidden files and delete them with ‘Shift+Del‘.
    • [drive]:\.MS32DLL.DLL or .MS32DLL.DLL.vbs
    • [drive]:\autorun.inf

    7. Where[drive] is the drive letter..e.g. C, D, etc..

  7. Well there is two more file remaining… ‘%windir%\boot.ini‘ and ‘%windir%\.MS32DLL.DLL.vbs‘ where %windir% is the Windows folder, generally its ‘C:\windows\boot.ini‘
  8. We need to delete this file also!
  9. Whats next?…. open run box and type ‘regedit‘ and click ok… a window titled ‘Registry Editor‘ will open…
  10. Go to Edit> Find… and type in .MS32DLL.DLL
  11. delete all the entries containing this name
  12. Goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE>Mircrosoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Run and delete Entry saying ‘winboot‘
  13. All Done!

Now Just restart the computer and Check if its really workin!

There is a major problem in this method. I dont know exact reason but I think due to this virus, the ‘View All’ Option in Folder Options Stop Working!

So we start wid The Simpler one : The One Click Option!

Just Download following file and double click it!

http://www.samsden.org/storehouse/techlog/Remove_MS32DLL.vbs

nJoY! KeeP SMiLiNG!!!

May 05

Are you Recycled? ;-)

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With Flash (USB) drives being so cheap (thanx to the leaks in some of the defense departments :D ) almost everyone in my class has those little memory devices with them.

But from past few months the devices are acting strangely! When you double click on the flash drive icon in my computer, you either get a message saying the device is inaccessble or could not be recognised or a dialogs box will appear with ‘Open with..’ title.

And the flash drive contains following hidden files n folders.

  1. autorun.inf
  2. Recycled (folder)
  3. Recycled\driveinfo.dll
  4. Recycled\voinfo.dll
  5. Recycler (folder)

So what to do?
The best and easiest way is to update your antivirus system with new virus definitions. What if you cant? There is one more way!
Do it Manually! Be a virus hunter!But how?

Follow the steps.

1. first we need to boot the PC to a safe mode of Windows.
2. Open the registry (click START, then click RUN, type regedit and click OK.
3. On the Registry Editor, look for the entry which contains “inetsrv” (press ctl-f, type inetsrv and click OK)
4. Delete all entries that contains inetsrv.exe.
5. Repeat step 3 and 4 until it will prompt you that the files are not found, which means that the entries that contain “inetsrv” are all deleted.
6. Change the View option of the Windows explorer to “View All”, for us to view hidden files.
7. Search for the files created by this worm as mentioned above and delete them all.
8. After these, restart the PC and boot it to normal.

(The steps are given by Symantec.

Well there is one more way to remove the virus and you DON’T HAVE TO RESTART THE COMPUTER!.

1. Download the following files.

remove_usb.bat

remove_vir.bat

2. Place remove_vir.bat in the C: (or system) drive and reomve_usb.bat in the flash drive.

3. Whats next? Run them by double-clicking!! :)

(If this doesn’t work, try to Disable the System restore

1. Goto Run & type ‘msconfig’ and press Enter.

2. click on ‘Launch System Restore’ button

3. View System Restore Settings’ and Disable the System Monitoring!

4. Enable it after you run those .bat files

Although it won’t harm computer, but its not recommended !)

Finally, a word of caution: I have been using these file to remove the virus for quite a long time, but I do not take 100% guarantee that it will work on your PC!

Feb 17

Folder Option : Why can’t I unhide my hidden documents

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This problem is faced by a lot of ppl.

The “Folder Option” in the “Tools” menu is missing, even if you are logged in as a Administrator.

Follow the steps to get the menu back.

  1. Log in as a Computer Administrator ( or any account with admin rights).
  2. Go to Start>Run
  3. Type in ‘gpedit.msc’. The window like shown below will open:
  4. Go to ‘User Configuration > Administrative Settings > Windows Components > Windows Explorer’
  5. Now double-click on “Remove thee folder options menu…….” from the right pan.
  6. Disable it…. and save the settings.

And Now you will have your ‘Folder Options’ Menu back in Place…

nJoy!!

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