Friday, March 30, 2007

eicar The Anti-Virus or Anti-Malware test file

If you are active in the anti-virus research field, then you will regularly receive requests for virus samples. Some requests are easy to deal with: they come from fellow-researchers whom you know well, and whom you trust. Using strong encryption, you can send them what they have asked for by almost any medium (including across the Internet) without any real risk. More >>>

remove msn messenger

Start/Run RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove


Wednesday, March 21, 2007

iTunes and QuickTime for Windows cannot be installed without Visual Basic Script (VBScript)

The iTunes and QuickTime Installers uses a technology called "Windows Installer", provided by Microsoft. If you see this error, it may be because the Windows Installer technology is unable to process the Visual Basic Script embedded inside the iTunes and QuickTime Installers. You may resolve this issue by installing the latest VBScript engine from Microsoft.

If the VBScript is installed, it might not be registered within Windows. To re-enable the VBScript engine, follow these steps:

  1. On the Start menu, click Run.
  2. In the "Open" field, enter the following command and click OK.
    regsvr32 %SystemRoot%\system32\vbscript.dll
  3. A message should appear stating that the "DllRegisterServer in C:\WINDOWS\system32\vbscript.dll succeeded."
  4. Click OK and try installing iTunes or QuickTime again. More >>>

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Fixtool (SDFix) remove the Trojan Services then make some repairs to the

Download
SDFix
and save it to your desktop.

Please then reboot your computer in Safe Mode by doing the
following :

  • Restart your computer
  • After hearing your computer beep once during startup, but before the
    Windows icon appears, tap the F8 key continually;
  • Instead of Windows loading as normal, a menu with options should appear;
  • Select the first option, to run Windows in Safe Mode, then press "Enter".
  • Choose your usual account.
  • In Safe Mode, right click the SDFix.zip folder and choose Extract
    All
    ,
  • Open the extracted folder and double click RunThis.bat to
    start the script.
  • Type Y to begin the script.
  • It will remove the Trojan Services then make some repairs to the
    registry and prompt you to press any key to Reboot.
  • Press any Key and it will restart the PC.
  • Your system will take longer that normal to restart as the fixtool
    will be running and removing files.
  • When the desktop loads the Fixtool will complete the removal and
    display Finished, then press any key to end the script and load
    your desktop icons.
  • Finally open the SDFix folder on your desktop and copy and paste the
    contents of the results file Report.txt back onto the forum with
    a new HijackThis log

Friday, March 16, 2007

Wine 0.9.33 Released

The wine devs have an unbeatable speed with releases :) "Wine 0.9.33 was released today, with the following main changes: Many Direct3D fixes and performance improvements, More comctl32 tests and some bug fixes, Compatibility improvements in cmd.exe, Still more fixes to builtin OLE, Support for process control on Solaris, Lots of bug fixes" More >>>

Monday, March 12, 2007

Daylight Savings Time - Fix for Windows 2000 Servers

In order to get started, download the tool to your Windows 2000 server from Microsoft from the following link: http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/8/a/58a208b7-7dc7-4bc7-8357-28e29cdac52f/TZEDIT.exe

After downloading, run the file, and extract the tzedit program somewhere on your server (The default of Program Files\TZedit is usually fine)

Run the extracted program - by default, the current timezone is already highlighted for you, so go ahead and click "Edit"

Now, enter the new date settings in DST portion of the timezone:
Starts 2nd Sunday of March at 2:00 AM
Ends 1st Sunday of November at 2:00 AM

That should be the only change you need to make - Click "OK", then "Close".

In order to make the server re-read the zone file - you will need to do one of two things:
Reboot the server or Double-click the clock to pull up time and date settings, and under the Time Zone tab, pick a different timezone and hit Apply, and then re-select your real timezone and hit apply again.

You're done! Your server has been updated with the new DST rules, and will change its clock at the appropriate date. More >>>

time zone update for Microsoft Windows operating systems

RESOLUTION

Update rollup information

The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

DownloadDownload the Update for Windows Server 2003 package now. (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=554A94FE-A478-47A7-B004-0277A292E90E)

DownloadDownload the Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems package now. (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5D16F9EC-BE72-487B-84E8-E4368049A644)

DownloadDownload the Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition package now. (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=53D4F49B-AA6F-48A9-9244-6A1F7DCF2A94)

DownloadDownload the Update for Windows XP package now. (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=66F1420C-DF2D-400B-A8A9-EF9061A9A3CA)

DownloadDownload the Update for Windows XP x64 Edition package now. (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6404F3E9-736D-449A-911E-F7CC99A375A4)

Release Date: February 7, 2007

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Printing from a Mac to a shared printer connected to a PC

Links:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...inter+with+Mac
http://iharder.sourceforge.net/curre...winmacprinter/
http://homepage.mac.com/william_whit...o_windows.html
http://www.computing.net/mac/wwwboard/forum/9771.html

Daylight savings Fix

If you use Windows Update, the Daylight Savings Time update probably was already delivered to you with the last batch dated February 13. It is KB931836. You can also get it from the link provided by nganvu
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst
There is a separate update for Outlook called tzmove.exe
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en


You should really try to fix the timezone rather than just changing the time. If you just change the time, then anything which is actually handled in UTC (like timestamps on emails) will appear to be an hour off. Not a critical issue in Win9x, but it's worth getting right.

With later versions of Windows it becomes more important to get right in some environments -- machines on a domain are only allowed to be 5 minutes off from the domain controllers or they don't get access to anything.

The main options for a change like this in order of preference are:

  • Fix the timezone info (good).
  • Leave it as is and deal with your clock being an hour off (okay -- at least you know everything that's affected).
  • Leave the timezone as is and change the clock (bad -- this will tend to bite you in strange ways).

Friday, March 09, 2007

Vista Keyboard shortcuts

See the following tables for some of the most useful shortcuts:

Ease of Access keyboard shortcuts

Press this key

To do this

Right SHIFT for eight seconds

Turn Filter Keys on and off

Left ALT+left SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN (or PRTSCRN)

Turn High Contrast on or off

Left ALT+left SHIFT+NUM LOCK

Turn Mouse Keys on or off

SHIFT five times

Turn Sticky Keys on or off

NUM LOCK for five seconds

Turn Toggle Keys on or off

Windows logo key Picture of Windows logo key +U

Open the Ease of Access Center

General keyboard shortcuts

Press this key

To do this

CTRL+C

Copy the selected item

CTRL+X

Cut the selected item

CTRL+V

Paste the selected item

CTRL+Z

Undo an action

DELETE

Delete the selected item and move it to the Recycle Bin

SHIFT+DELETE

Delete the selected item without moving it to the Recycle Bin first

F2

Rename the selected item

CTRL+RIGHT ARROW

Move the cursor to the beginning of the next word

CTRL+LEFT ARROW

Move the cursor to the beginning of the previous word

CTRL+DOWN ARROW

Move the cursor to the beginning of the next paragraph

CTRL+UP ARROW

Move the cursor to the beginning of the previous paragraph

CTRL+SHIFT with an arrow key

Select a block of text

SHIFT with any arrow key

Select more than one item in a window or on the desktop, or select text within a document

CTRL+A

Select all items in a document or window

F3

Search for a file or folder

ALT+ENTER

Display properties for the selected item

ALT+F4

Close the active item, or exit the active program

ALT+SPACEBAR

Open the shortcut menu for the active window

CTRL+F4

Close the active document (in programs that allow you to have multiple documents open simultaneously)

ALT+TAB

Switch between open items

CTRL+ALT+TAB

Use the arrow keys to switch between open items

Windows logo key Picture of Windows logo key +TAB

Cycle through programs on the taskbar by using Windows Flip 3-D

CTRL+Windows logo key Picture of Windows logo key +TAB

Use the arrow keys to cycle through programs on the taskbar by using Windows Flip 3-D

ALT+ESC

Cycle through items in the order in which they were opened

F6

Cycle through screen elements in a window or on the desktop

F4

Display the Address bar list in Windows Explorer

SHIFT+F10

Display the shortcut menu for the selected item

CTRL+ESC

Open the Start menu

ALT+underlined letter

Display the corresponding menu

ALT+underlined letter

Perform the menu command (or other underlined command)

F10

Activate the menu bar in the active program

RIGHT ARROW

Open the next menu to the right, or open a submenu

LEFT ARROW

Open the next menu to the left, or close a submenu

F5

Refresh the active window

ALT+UP ARROW

View the folder one level up in Windows Explorer

ESC

Cancel the current task

CTRL+SHIFT+ESC

Open Task Manager

SHIFT when you insert a CD

Prevent the CD from automatically playing

Dialog box keyboard shortcuts

Press this key

To do this

CTRL+TAB

Move forward through tabs

CTRL+SHIFT+TAB

Move back through tabs

TAB

Move forward through options

SHIFT+TAB

Move back through options

ALT+underlined letter

Perform the command (or select the option) that goes with that letter

ENTER

Replaces clicking the mouse for many selected commands

SPACEBAR

Select or clear the check box if the active option is a check box

Arrow keys

Select a button if the active option is a group of option buttons

F1

Display Help

F4

Display the items in the active list

BACKSPACE

Open a folder one level up if a folder is selected in the Save As or Open dialog box

Microsoft keyboard shortcuts

Press this key

To do this

Windows logo key Picture of Windows logo key

Open or close the Start menu

Windows logo key Picture of Windows logo key +BREAK

Display the System Properties dialog box

Windows logo key Picture of Windows logo key +D

Display the desktop

Windows logo key Picture of Windows logo key +M

Minimize all windows

Windows logo key Picture of Windows logo key +SHIFT+M

Restore minimized windows to the desktop

Windows logo key Picture of Windows logo key +E

Open Computer

Windows logo key Picture of Windows logo key +F

Search for a file or folder

CTRL+Windows logo key Picture of Windows logo key +F

Search for computers (if you are on a network)

Windows logo key Picture of Windows logo key +L

Lock your computer (if you are connected to a network domain), or switch users (if you're not connected to a network domain)

Windows logo key Picture of Windows logo key +R

Open the Run dialog box

Windows logo key Picture of Windows logo key +T

Cycle through programs on the taskbar

Windows logo key Picture of Windows logo key +TAB

Cycle through programs on the taskbar by using Windows Flip 3-D

CTRL+Windows logo key Picture of Windows logo key +TAB

Use the arrow keys to cycle through programs on the taskbar by using Windows Flip 3-D

Windows logo key Picture of Windows logo key +SPACEBAR

Bring all gadgets to the front and select Windows Sidebar

Windows logo key Picture of Windows logo key +G

Cycle through Sidebar gadgets

Windows logo key Picture of Windows logo key +U

Open Ease of Access Center

Windows logo key Picture of Windows logo key +X

Open Windows Mobility Center

Windows Explorer keyboard shortcuts

Press this key

To do this

END

Display the bottom of the active window

HOME

Display the top of the active window

NUM LOCK+ASTERISK (*) on numeric keypad

Display all subfolders under the selected folder

NUM LOCK+PLUS SIGN (+) on numeric keypad

Display the contents of the selected folder

NUM LOCK+MINUS SIGN (-) on numeric keypad

Collapse the selected folder

LEFT ARROW

Collapse the current selection (if it is expanded), or select the parent folder

ALT+LEFT ARROW

View the previous folder

RIGHT ARROW

Display the current selection (if it is collapsed), or select the first subfolder

ALT+RIGHT ARROW

View the next folder

ALT+D

Select the Address bar

Windows Sidebar keyboard shortcuts

Press this key

To do this

Windows logo key Picture of Windows logo key +SPACEBAR

Bring all gadgets to the front and select Sidebar

Windows logo key Picture of Windows logo key +G

Cycle through Sidebar gadgets

TAB

Cycle through Sidebar controls

Windows Photo Gallery keyboard shortcuts

Press this key

To do this

CTRL+F

Open the Fix pane

CTRL+P

Print the selected picture

ENTER

View the selected picture at a larger size

CTRL+I

Open or close the Details pane

CTRL+PERIOD (.)

Rotate the picture clockwise

CTRL+COMMA (,)

Rotate the picture counter-clockwise

F2

Rename the selected item

CTRL+E

Search for an item

ALT+LEFT ARROW

Go back

ALT+RIGHT ARROW

Go forward

PLUS SIGN (+)

Zoom in or resize the picture thumbnail

MINUS SIGN (-)

Zoom out or resize the picture thumbnail

CTRL+B

Best fit

LEFT ARROW

Select the previous item

DOWN ARROW

Select the next item or row

UP ARROW

Previous item (Easel) or previous row (Thumbnail)

PAGE UP

Previous screen

PAGE DOWN

Next screen

HOME

Select the first item

END

Select the last item

DELETE

Move the selected item to the Recycle Bin

SHIFT+DELETE

Permanently delete the selected item

LEFT ARROW

Collapse node

RIGHT ARROW

Expand node

Keyboard shortcuts for working with videos

J

Move back one frame

K

Pause the playback

L

Move forward one frame

I

Set the start trim point

O

Set the end trim point

M

Split a clip

HOME

Stop and rewind all the way back to the start trim point

ALT+RIGHT ARROW

Advance to the next frame

ALT+LEFT ARROW

Go back to the previous frame

CTRL+K

Stop and rewind playback

CTRL+P

Play from the current location

HOME

Move the start trim point

END

Move to the end trim point

PAGE UP

Seek to nearest split point before the current location

PAGE DOWN

Seek to nearest split point after the current location

Windows Help viewer keyboard shortcuts

Press this key

To do this

ALT+C

Display the Table of Contents

ALT+N

Display the Connection Settings menu

F10

Display the Options menu

ALT+LEFT ARROW

Move back to the previously viewed topic

ALT+RIGHT ARROW

Move forward to the next (previously viewed) topic

ALT+A

Display the customer support page

ALT+HOME

Display the Help and Support home page

HOME

Move the to beginning of a topic

END

Move to the end of a topic

CTRL+F

Search the current topic

CTRL+P

Print a topic

F3

Move to the Search box

OCgeeks Knowledgebase

OCgeeks News

Latest Tech News

Daily Techno-Babble