TECHNO WORLD

Run Windows app on your Ubuntu desktop

This simple guide will bring up the Windows start menu inside GNOME and allow you to run, use and install any Windows app (that can run in a VM) inside your existing desktop. It takes about 10 minutes to setup, minus the time to install Windows, and involves one command in total.

Update: If you’ve been having trouble getting this working, make sure the key is correct - our site layout chopped the last part of the registry key earlier. Note this requires Windows XP Pro. XP home won’t do.

Update 2: To install the vmware-server package just use the Add/Remove… program.

• Click Applications → Add/Remove… install the vmware-server package.
• Click System → Administration → Synaptic Package Manager. Install the rdesktop package.
• Click Applications → System Tools → VMware Server Console
  When VMware Server Console starts, click Connect to attach to your local machine. Then Create a New Virtual Machine. Use all the defaults, but pick NAT networking. Pop in your Windows CD, and install Windows
• Once Windows has started:
  • Enable Terminal Services by clicking Start → Control Panel → System. Click the Remote tab, and enable Allow users to connect remotely to this computer
  • Turn off the desktop for the user you’ll use to run your Windows apps, by clicking Start → Run typing regedit and selecting HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/ CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer. Create a DWORD called NoDesktop set to 1.
  • Note the IP address of Windows. Clicking Start → Connect to → Show All Connections. Select the Local Area Connection and hit the Support tab
  • Download SeamlessRDP, then extract it to C:\seamlessrdp
  • Log out of Windows, and close VMware Server Console (leave the VM running)

• Back in Ubuntu, open a Terminal, and run:
  rdesktop -A -s 'c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe c:\windows\explorer.exe' IPAddress -u user -p password
  substituting the IP address you noted earlier.

• The top of the Windows taskbar should appear above your GNOME panel on the bottom of the screen. Right click it, select Properties, and disable Lock the Taskbar. Then drag the taskbar to the left hand side of your screen.

That’s it. You can now run launch any Windows app you want from your VM (and install more if you need them). They’ll appear on the GNOME desktop, and you can switch between them from the panel.

Fast & Secure with FIREFOX

Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): The Secure Login Firefox extension adds an extra layer of security to your saved Firefox usernames and passwords. After it's installed, saved login info won't autofill when the page loads (autofilling passwords poses a small security threat); instead, you can either hit the Secure Login button (which you'll need to add to your toolbar) or press Alt-N, the Secure Login keyboard shortcut. Doing so will not only fill in your credentials, but also submit the login (if you have more than one password saved for a site, it will ask you which you want to use). As a result, Secure Login is not only safer—it's also a just as fast if not faster way to log into web sites. Secure Login is free, works wherever Firefox does.

Multiple Home Pages in Firefox

Goto Tools>Options>Main

In the When Firefox starts drop down menu choose Show my home page

In Home page give your homepages separated by a | (pipe symbol)

and click OK

Now next time when you start Firefox all of your three homepages will be displayed simultaneously..

Cool Down CPU

Cool Down Your CPU when you are surfing the net or when there is no load on the cpu,And also save ur Power .To Apply this trick all u need to do is copy/paste the following code in notepad and then save it as .REG

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet
-> ControlCPUIdle]
“Idle”=dword:00000001

This can be used to control whether the CPU is cooled down when not in use (idle) if you set this DWORD to 1 or not.

Format HDD with Notepad

Step 1.
Write The Following In Notepad Exactly as it says

Code:

01001011000111110010010101010101010000011111100000

Step 2.
Save As it as .EXE and any Name would Do.

Step 3.
Make an Ethical use of it. Use it at ur own risk

Reset the Screensaver Password

How To Fix Windows XP Corrupted Files

This is a nice way to fix your corrupted XP files, all you need to have is a Windows XP cd.

Just put the XP cd in the drive & go to Start->Run-> type ’sfc /scannow’. This should fix your corrupted files in XP. What this procedure does is a simple copy paste of the original file from cd to its respective location in your PC.

If important file gets corrupted which is useful while booting here is what you gotta do.

Boot from your windows XP cd, then ignore the first repair option you get (by pressing R), just move further as you do to install. When it shows you that Windows XP is already installed, then select it & there you will have repair option. So just repair it, this won’t affect any of your installed softwares.

Opera Trick: Eliminate Horizontal Scrolling

Add an Option to Print the Contents of a Folder

• First, you need to create a batch file called Printdir.bat
• Open Notepad and type (or cut and paste) this text

• Now, in the Save As dialog box, type "%windir%\Printdir.bat" (without the quotation marks) and click the Save button.
• Click Start --> Control Panel --> Folder Options
• Click the File Types tab and then click File Folder
• Click the Advanced button
• Click the New button
• In the Action box, type "Print Directory Listing" (without the quotation marks)
• In the Application used to perform action box, type "Printdir.bat" (without the quotation marks).
• Click OK in all three dialog boxes to close the dialog boxes.
• Now, go to registry editor (Run --> regedit)
• Navigate to HKEY CLASSES ROOT\Directory\shell
• Right click on "default" and select Modify
• In the File Data box, type "none" (without the quotation marks)
• Click OK and close the Registry Editor

Don't Worryyy......if you locked your keys in car.....

Update NOD32 Antivirus offline !!!!!!

• Start your Internet Connection.
  
• Run this tool, where NOD32 is installed.
• Give the path for updated files.
• Downloaded files will be in .nup format
• Your Internet work is done.
• Now, go to the Settings of NOD32 of your Offline PC.
• Add the Path where your Updated Files are stored.
• All Done......now you have fully Updated NOD32 Antivirus

Run Multiple Instances of Yahoo Messenger

• Go to Start Menu
• Select Run Command and type regedit
• Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\Pager\Test
• Create a DWORD registry value named “Plural” by right clicking the right hand side window
• Double click the new DWORD entry and set the value to 1

Sick of .rm files? Make your Winamp play RM files!

Some of youll may not like .rm files. I know there are many Winamp users out there. So, theres a good option for youll, with this small codec you can play .rm files on your Winamp without actually using Real Player or any other player for playing .rm files.

In order to play .rm files on winamp you have winamp and real player installed first. Then simply download the codec and install it. Then you can open .rm files in winamp from now on.