Solution: External Drive – Autorun Trojan Virus

Antivirus found a “INF/Autorun.gen trojan” on any hard drives. Trojans still coming back whenever you cleaned it with antivirus because some major parts are still being left.

Here’s how to solve it.

1. Open the drive that detects a virus.
2. Click Tools in the windows menu
3. Select Folder Option

4. In the view tab select, “Hidden files and folders”
5. Select the option “Show hidden files and folders”
6. Uncheck the “Hide protected operating system files(Recommended)”
7. Click Apply

In the drive you should see all hidden files. If you can see a hidden “Autorun.inf” and some “XXXX.exe” (XXXX = any file name).

Delete it.

And your done, Tell me if it solve your problem.  :)

Speed up the Start Menu

1. The default speed of the Start Menu is pretty slow, but you can fix that by editing a Registry Key. Fire up the Registry Editor and navigate to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ MenuShowDelay By default, the value is 400. Change this to a smaller value, such as 0, to speed it up.

2. If your confounded by the slow speed of the Start Menu, even after using the tip above, then you might try the following: Navigate to Display Properties then Appearance then Advanced and turn off the option titled Show menu shadow . You will get much better overall performance.

Activate your Screensaver in a click

1. Click the Start button, click Search.
2. In the Search Window, click All file types.
3. Then type *.scr in the search input
4. Check Local Hard Drives. ( Drive C or the drive where you have system files stored on your computer)
5. Click Search.
6. You will see a list of screensavers in the results. Pick a screensaver you want. You can preview it by double-clicking it.
7. Right click on the file, choose Send To, and then click Desktop (create shortcut).
8. To activate the screensaver, double-click the icon on your desktop

Changing the Registered Owner

Would you like to change the Registered Owner of your operating system? Here’s the Trick.

1. Start Regedit
2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
3. From there you can edit the name in the Registered Owner key

Enabling Administrator Account in XP Welcome Screen

1. To get Admin account on the “Welcome Screen”, Press “ctrl-alt-del” twice. a standard windows interface will popup enables you to enter your username and password.

2. Just type in the username: Administrator password: none ( This will still work if the administrator account is not being passworded/edited/customize)

3. You should have logged in to the Administrator account now.

note: In step2, If you wanted to go back to  the XP welcome screen, just press escape button.

Common Command Console Utilities

WindowsXP comes with quite a few console utilities you can easily run from the command line:

Computer Management – compmgmt.msc
Disk Managment – diskmgmt.msc
Device Manager – devmgmt.msc
Disk Defrag – dfrg.msc
Event Viewer – eventvwr.msc
Shared Folders – fsmgmt.msc
Group Policies – gpedit.msc
Local Users and Groups – lusrmgr.msc
Performance Monitor – perfmon.msc
Resultant Set of Policies – rsop.msc
Local Security Settings – secpol.msc
Services – services.msc
Component Services – comexp.msc

Enhance your System Performance

Do you have a 512mb or more of memory? You can enhance your system performance by having the core system kept in memory!

1. Start > RUN > Regedit then enter
2. Go to  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\DisablePagingExecutive
3. Set the value to be 1
4. Restart Computer

Solution – Task Manager has been disabled by Administrator

When a Task Manager Has Been Disabled due to Virus or such, here is a simple Run command to enable it again.

Change the Task Manager Option through the Run Line

1. Click on Start, Run
2. Type the following command exactly and press Enter
REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

How to Rename your Recycle Bin

Do you want to customize your recycle bin by renaming it? Try here:

Navigate to the following registry branch:
1. Click RUN in start menu, and type in REGEDIT click ok.
2. Find the values in registry;
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\
3. On the right window, find the registry key of LocalizedString. And double click.
4. Change the registry default value of “@%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll,-8964″, and write in your desired name ex. “My Trashcan” (without quote).
5. Refresh your desktop. You will see the ‘recycle bin’ name changes to your desired name.

Works on Platforms: Windows XP, 2000, NT, Me, 98 or 95

Photoshop – Different Pen Tool Technique

Are you new in using Photoshop? Having Difficulties in using the traditional way of using “Pen Tool”? Click and Drag? Well no problem! ‘Coz I’ll be explaining here in this tutorial on how to use the Pen Tool in a different way, basics of all basics! Beginners of all beginners! I’ll be calling this the “CONNECT THE DOTS Style” – Pen Tool Intro: I’ve come up with this tutorial because, I myself, has been in the stage of being a beginner – self tutoring. I am glad that I’ve overcome this tool by providing it my ‘Own Way’ of using the pen tool. So here it goes.

(note: for images right click and show image = to show full image details)

Step 1:
- First we wanted to select a picture that we will work with the Pen Tool.
- As for my selection I’ll use this image to start with.
- Now select the Pen Tool ( We will be starting to ‘connect the dots’)

Step 2.
1. In this picture, we wanted to select the Image.(wood carving)
2. Select the Pen Tool.
3. Select the Pen Tool Option as “Path”
4. Trace the image you wanted to select/copy/cut by clicking the edges of the selected target.
5. Complete the Paths by selecting the last point into the first point of the paths.
(See screenshot for more references)

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6. Once done in tracing the edges of the desired image, we will now be selecting the “Add Anchor Point Tool” which is located in Pen Tool > Add Anchor Point Toole>

step 4:
7. It’s a good thing to use the “Add Anchor Point Tool” in a Zoomed workspace. So let’s zoom the image to a 200% ( depends on what close you wanted to work with, more detailed the image is, the better we can smooth things around).

Well ‘zooming’ also works well in “Add Anchor Point Tool” in detailing parts where many edges and curves are needed to be selected too.

step 5:
8. In this step, we can use “Add Anchor Point Tool” in any place we wanted to start first.
a. So I’ll gonna start first at the side-head of maori.
b. Use “Add Anchor Point Tool”
- Click the path where you wanted to drag to form a ‘line bend’
- just use 1 click to have a point
c. Now click and HOLD the point area and stretch and drag to the edges of Maori.
d. Now do the same thing with the other lines,click and drag. Until you form the shape of Maori

step 6:
9. Now you need to do the rest. – it’s time for you to click and drag. i’ve finish mine look

Now if you wanted to delete some paths / points that messes your work, you can use the “Delete Anchor Point Tool” Located in Pen Tool > Delete Anchor Point Tool

step 7:
10. Once connecting the dots and dragging is done, time to select to crop/cut/copy your selected paths.

Click the Right-Button of the Mouse and this choices will appear. Selections are self explanatory
* Create Vector Mask
* Delete Path (deletes what you have work with) – oops not this
* Define Custom Shape
* Make Selection
* Fill Path
* Stroke Path

and so on.. Feel free to play with this function, as it may help you grow more with the other components of the pen tool.

step 8:
11. As for my case, I wanted just to cut the image out of his background, so I use the “Make Selection”. Then I Cut and Paste.
Now let’s see what we have finished here tada~! Nice and Clean.

Have FUN! Hope this help to those beginners of all beginners out there.
This is good also for those experts who wanna try “The New Way”!

That’s it! happy connecting the dots!

Goodluck! Tell me if you learn something