“My Computer” Drive opening errors in XP…

The 2 common errors while Opening the “My Computer” hard disk drives are:

 

Error 1 : When I click on c drive it shows an error message This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action Create an association in the Folder Options Control panel?

Solution:

1) On any File Window go to Tools->Folder Options…2) Click on the View tab.

3) Click on the Show all hidden and files and folder

4) Uncheck “Hide protected operating system files”

5) Type c: in the Address Bar

6) Delete the autorun.inf file

7) Restart your computer

You will have to do this for all your drives.

Error 2 :  In “My Computer”, drives open with Search Results

Solution:  It requires fixing the Registry. You can follow these guidelines

open Notepad and copy the following and save it to the
> desktop as “FolderFix.reg”
>
> ——————–
> Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
>
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory]
> @=”File Folder”
>
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell]
> @=”none”
>
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive]
> @=”Drive”
>
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell]
> @=”none”
>
> ——-
>
> then double click the “FolderFix.reg” to import to the registry.

> thats it……..

her smile is heaven’s heart…

Pranu got a gorgeous smile. Her smile can take away all d days tension of a person. The smile that flickers on her face gives a relaxation to the one watching her… When ever we try to shoot a pic of her while smiling, she broadens her smile to full length and laughs.  She got a photogenic face. Her smile is very awesome. Check it out….

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Pranu is now 6months old baby….

hi friends,

My neice Pranu, staying in U.S is now a 6months old baby with this 25th i.e., April 25th.  She now can rollover very easily and can stay with the support of her hands for longtime. she sits wells without any trouble.  She smiles while she is in that posture. She also started talking a bit..  she makes lot of noises these days whenever her mom leaves her even for a minute. She knows well when she is on camera, and spontaneously gives a good expressions. She is very very cute now. she has turned a thin now. She eats Cerelac daily. I and my mom watch her daily on skype,  we enjoy her cute talks, and smiling expressions. she plays well with her mom, gives her a shake-hand, she is very cute now.  Got newz that they r coming this june, so we waiting excitedly for there arrival….

with support of two hands rollver….

Pranu playing with pillow

Pranu playing….

Cute pranu…:-)

Uninstalling all Oracle products from Windows manually, when oracle default uninstallation fails

During the Oracle Installation process, any installation/sytem error  or sudden power failures causes Incomplete Installation. The Operating System does not allows us to either reinstall the Oracle product or uninstall the existing Oracle components. Here is a procedure to Uninstall all the Oracle components manually, when Installation Failure occurs.

Uninstall all Oracle components

1.  Run regedit.exe and delete the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ORACLE key. This contains registry entries for    all     Oracle products.
2. Delete any references to Oracle services left behind in the following part of the registry:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/Ora*
3. It should be pretty obvious which ones relate to Oracle.
4. Reboot your machine.
5. Delete the “C:\Oracle” directory, or whatever directory is your ORACLE_BASE.
6. Delete the “C:\Program Files\Oracle” directory.
7. Empty the contents of your “c:\temp” directory.
8. Empty your recycle bin.

At this point your machine will be as clean of Oracle components as it can be without a complete OS reinstall.

Remember, manually editing your registry can be very destructive and force an OS reinstall so only do it as a last resort else before making any changes in REGISTRY export its settings so that any they can be imported if any errors occur.

I am also attaching the PDF file which explains the step by step procedure to Uninstall all Oracle products from Windows

Uninstalling all Oracle products from Windows systems

Holi with Mr. HARRY……

hi friends,

Happy Holi friendz.  Hope u all had  celebrated Holi very well. Me too celebrated an unexpected holi this time. I usually dont play holi, as i dont have the habit of playing this festival since my childhood.

Wish you all  a very happy and colorful HOLI….

So, on Holi, i along with Mr. Harry went to RKmath for Yoga classes, and after the session was finished, we came out for breakfast. After we finished our breakfast, We were about to start, Then…

i(left) along with Mr. Harry.....

This fellow all of a sudden took a small box containing  Gulal(color powder)  added to water to it, and his hands were in pink color, and tried to applied to me. As i was escaping he filled the bottle with color water and poured on me,

Oh god! i was totally in holi gulal color, my favourite blue t-shirt was in pink color now.  It was a suprise Holi and i had no color to apply to that fellow.

But later taken from him and applied to him too. We then came to home, and called my bro Arun from outside the gate. He came as usual to checkout, and we applied color on his face too.  He was also colorful now. We shoot some picz of each other and then wished Mr. Harry once again a happy holi and he left.

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Speed-up Boot and Shutdown in WinXP

Steps to Speed-Up Boot Process in Win XP

1. Click on Start, then Run, and type “msconfig”. Wait for a new window to pop up.
2. Look under the “BOOT.INI” tab. You will see a box labeled “Timeout:”, and a numerical value. By default, it’s 30, which means 30 seconds of wait time before boot. This can be changed, make it 3 seconds. (Note: if you have more than one operating system, this means the wait time to startup to the highlighted Operating System. Sometimes you might want a bit more than 3 seconds than you can opt 5 or 10 seconds)
3. Delete The Temporary Files Periodically From Your Computer To Make The Applications Run Faster. Type %Temp% in the run dialog box by clicking on Start -> Run, and click on “OK”. You will see an open folder with many files. Click on the Edit menu and click on Select all and then click on the File menu and select Delete. Note: Always confirm that the folder which is opened has a “temp” on the top of menu bar and the folder indicates that it is a temporary folder.
4. Perform a Scandisk To See That Your Computer Hard Drive is in Healthy Condition and it helps Your Computer Run Faster
5. Always Perform a Disk Defragmentation at least once in a month. Start the disk defragmentation from the system tools available in the accessories from the start menu. It takes a longer time and it is advised not to run any applications in the computer including the screen savers, while running disk defragmentation.

Speed up shutdown times

It’s not only start-up that you’d like to speed up; you can also make sure that your system shuts down faster. If shutting down XP takes what seems to be an inordinate amount of time, here are a couple of steps you can take to speed up the shutdown process:

1. Don’t have XP clear your paging file at shutdown. For security reasons, you can have XP clear your paging file (pagefile.sys) of its contents whenever you shut down. Your paging file is used to store temporary files and data, but when your system shuts down, information stays in the file. Some people prefer to have the paging file cleared at shutdown because sensitive information such as unencrypted passwords sometimes ends up in the file. However, clearing the paging file can slow shutdown times significantly, so if extreme security isn’t a high priority, you might not want to clear it.
2. To shut down XP without clearing your paging file, run the Registry Editor (click Start > Run, then type regedit in the Run box) and go to:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
3. Change the value of ClearPageFileAtShutdown to 0. Close the Registry, and restart your computer. Whenever you turn off XP from now on, the paging file won’t be cleared, and you should be able to shut down more quickly.

Note: Please be careful when editing the Registry; you can do a lot of damage here. Don’t change or delete anything unless you know exactly what it is. Its better to export the Registry settings before any changes are maid in Registry Editor.

For more information on Windows Registry you can checkout my blog “Registry Tips & Tricks  for Win XP “

Registry Tips & Tricks for WinXP

Registry Tips & Tricks for Windows XP

The Registry in Microsoft Windows XP is a database that stores settings used by Windows XP. This includes individual user settings, software settings and hardware settings. While Microsoft does not advise making manual changes to the Windows XP registry, many an avid user has tweaked their registry to achieve a variety of effects.

Registry Changes
To make any changes to your Windows XP registry, you will need to use Regedit, which can be accessed by clicking “Start”->”Run” and typing Regedit into the text box and pressing “Enter.” From there, your registry can be navigated similar to any other file explorer window. Use the directory tree on the left window to locate the entries referred to in this article. The right window will contain the settings, and can be modified by double-clicking on the “Name” of each property. Also, right-clicking on a blank area on the right window will give you the ability to create a new setting value. Remember that changes to the registry won’t take effect until the computer has been restarted.

Registry Backup
There are a lot of Windows XP Registry modifications available out there, but before making any changes to your Registry, you should create a backup in case the functionality of your computer is affected by any changes made. To create a backup, start Regedit and click “File”->”Export…” and then name your registry backup. Select a location that will be easy to find and click “Save.” To reload a registry backup, simply double-click on the backup registry file.

sra1′s Birthday Celebrations @ Nalgonda…

hi friends,

Sravan’s birthday was on jan 27th. Sravan is my college friend. We planned for my friends village(Nalgonda).we wer totally 4 including Sravan, me, Naresh, Sairam(his village). Sairam said his village is famous for a ancient Temple which is located on the Top most Mountain. Actually we planned for a cake cutting @ that top of the hill.

Me and Srav1

So, all set we started by 7:00 am in the morning, . Enjoyed our time in Bus. Reached der around 11:00 am, hired a auto to reach the temple. Climbed some 250+ steps and Atlast reached the temple Top. We had darshanam of Lord Venkateshwara. To Reach on the top of the cliff, there were strange steps, Those were not exactly steps those were small steel rods planted into the mountain, and with the help of those rods we had to climb up the mountain. It was like a Trekking kinda thing, but the main problem was i fear of heights. My 3 fellows climbed up very easily as they have nice experience climbing mountains and trees, but me never tried that. so i denied climbing that mountains. It was too risky for me.. But after there repeated encouragement mainly Naresh, i atlast made it.. climbed the mountain.

You can see the pic where am climbing to reach top and my friends extending hand.

me climbing...

Oh god! it was really a risky business for me, but at the same time i felt excited and wanted to climb again and again. we shoot some picz and then we started cake cutting programme. Sra1 the birthday boy cut the cake, It was a very exciting moment. we were on topmost part of the cliff, from were we can see the complete village , and it was like a helicopter view if see the ground from there.

That sra1 fellow was happy that we were celebrating his birthday in a different style and also memorable style. So, we were on the top of the cliff for a long time.. took nice photo-shots, enjoyed our stay there .. and then returned back.

One more adventurous thing i forgot to mention was the Two Mountain Gap pass. There was a small gap between two huge mountains, and it was the belief of the local villagers that any person able to come out of that gap successful, is the one who never did any sins in his life. The gap was very narrow, no one can get out that so easily, we have to adjust our posture like sometimes bend sometimes inhale deeplyand go through that, we should move our head and hand in right direction and move, it is the only way we can get out, it was not like a straight walk though.

Naresh Passing Through that Gap

These fellow were very thin that they got through that easily and i was struck, am a bit fat now, puton some weight, and i was in too much doubt that i can’t make it.. these fellow on reaching the other side, started encouraging me again, There encouragement was like i can do anything, but that gap was not much that i can easily get through. After too much of thinking, took a deep breath and started, got strucked in between, the main problem was my belly, there was no enough space to move easily, i was full of sweat, for a minute i felt like i will be strucked for a long time here, just like in 127Hours  movie, it was the very very strange

situation out there, can’t explain in words, but my dear fellow, Naresh’s encourage ment with words has at last made me out of that. so by bending, and deep inhaling(to make stomach low) atlast made the move, Thank god i made it, But during my walk through that gap, i hurt myself, my right leg fourth toe was bleeding, not much but little bit of pain …

I enjoyed that minute, felt very excited, but the real problem was how will i get back, no alternative route to come down, again hav to pass through that gap to come out.

Myself

But to my surprise, i made it out easily as confidence grew in me, that i can!!! before meThis naresh fellow left, so that he will again encourage me, but really because of that fellows words i made it easily or else i would have been a bit down. So atlast that Adventurous thing is over. I just said my fellow friend Sairam, ” Baas yaar, no more excitements, and adventures”, so we full tired after getting down the cliff, Had lunch and left for fields. At around 4:00pm we drank Pure Cocunut Water (hope u got me……;-) ) and left. We returned back to Hyderabad through Train, while waiting @ station we played shettle for while on platform, we enjoyed every moment that day.

Me @ fields....

It was a very rocking and memorable trip. We guys really rockd, we 4 will be planning for a same kind of trip but a non-trekking place… it really

a like a nightmare coming through that gap of mountain. Really man, itz equal to my worst nightmare, for a couple of nights after that time, i got dreams as if am strucked in that gap. oh god! just imagine that situation……..
Thanq guys for viewing my long blog… tc….

Wish You Happy New Year 2011

Hi friends,

                           Wish You all  a Happy and a Prosperous New Year 2011,  Hope you all have rocked the last night to maximum. Me too enjoyed but for a little time, as i had to get up early and visit  The Chilkur Balaji Temple,  Gandipet.  Its a centiment for me that if i visit the Temple on the  First day of the Year, My year will full of happiness and joy. It happened so in my previous years.

So,   I along with my friend Srinivas, visited the Chilkur Balaji temple, It was a very good feeling, Waking up early in the morning , riding on bike all the way to temple crossing  25kms distance, at a average speed of 50. After reaching there,we saw  a long queue there,  But thats was not a big deal, as visiting Chilkur and getting the darshanam of Lord Venkateshwara on the first day of the Year was important. So we were Standing in the queue and chanting the mantra “Govinda Govinda”  along with the other devotees in the line . It was a good Feeling, Really.  We did 11 pradkshanas, and went for Darshanam.  we Spent a while der and returned back.  Finally it was a nice experience visiting Chilkur( My favourite Place) in the early hours of the first of the Year….

Farewell party to our Dear Vallisree Ma’am

hi frndz,

we now into Final Year of  Ist sem of MCA are busy with our miniproject submissions, as valli sree mam was leaving the college. So we had to hurry up preparing the records to get certified by Madam.  And before date we all students successful completed the record work and got certified from Madam.  Madam has taken Software Engineering and Object Oriented Analysis(OOSD) subjects for us in MCA II/III yr.  Her classes are very interesting and very practical, Compares each and every topic with the real world scenario so as to make it easy for the students to grab the subject.  We really miss her classes, and of all we miss her very much in the Last SEM of MCA, becoz the Last SEM deals with Main project, and for the past few years madam has handled the batches and now she is not there to handle our batch. we felt a bit dissapointed,  We guys the 3 once again were into a plan of giving a good Farewell to Madam,  so we proposed the same thing in the class, and everyone was happy with the plan.  Madam last working day in college was on 30th nov, and 2 days were left for that date. So we hurried, and made all arrangements in 2 days and finally on the 30th November evening arranged a small farewell party also a get together party for all the MCA final years students (as it was after a long time that we all have gathered so planned it two way).

Myself near the Podium..

So all arrangements over,  invited our Valli sree madam , Pradeep Sir(H.O.D), (principal), Chandan Babu sir.  So we had a funny interactive session.  some students want expressed there thankfulness to Madam, where as other expressed there apologies for their mischief in class, and some spoke about the college, and some topic or the other, everyone participated in the event very well.  Our Principal sir, gave a speech about the events to be taken place for the MCA final years (mainly Placements),  and our H.O.D sir about the project and the resources available @ college regarding that, and finally our dear Valli Sree ma’am gave a speech, it was very good one. About her experience @ college,  and also with our batch. It was a bit sad moment as she was leaving.

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Group Photo with Valli Sree maam........

We then had Dinner,  shoot some group picz with Valli sree mam, enjoyed the moment, Maa’m then left. We then gather after dinner, for DJJJJJJJJJJJ……. we all danced for a while, especially Teen Maar, then we all left… It was really a memorable event, as everyone we invited was present there. All our fellow class mates were present there, it was really a very gr8t party.  we 3 organisers made the party a good one, in a short period of time..  Thanx to Vijay & Ranith for cooperating with me..