Wednesday, June 27, 2007

How to run Windows media player 5.1 in Windows XP

Windows Media Player 5.1 is the basic version of Media player started from Microsoft Windows 3.1.

Though you installed the Windows Media player 11 in your Windows XP, you can get the WMP 5.1 as the executable file is still hidden in the Windows system folders.

Do the steps to get the Windows media player 5.1 in Windows XP.

Steps:

a) Start --> Run
b) Type "mplay32" and press ok.

You will get the basic media player version in Windows XP as you see in the picture.

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

How to enable Build configuration in Visual Studio 2005


As you know Build configurations are associated with Solution(.sln) files in Visual Studio 6 and later. So how will you enable/disable the Build Configuration menu item in Visual Studio 2005. Follow the below steps to do that

Steps:

a) Open Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 -> Open Project
b) Go to Tools -> Options
c) Choose "Projects and Solutions" and "General" tab
d) Check/Uncheck the check box item "Show advanced build configurations"

Now you are all set to get the Build Configuration menu item under Build Menu.

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Remove rond.starsdoor.com popup

Basically Rond.startsdoor popup is the trojan/adware downloaded through Activex Controls in IE.

When i tried with AVG antispyware, Spyware Doctor, they were not able to clean those.

But it can be easily removed by uninstalling this exe file.


Steps:

1) Start --> Control Panel -- > Add/Remove Programs

2) Search for "Winpop" in the Installed programs.

3) Delete the "Winpop" and reboot the system.

4) Once you rebooted the system, run the below fix to get rid of this popup completely.

Combofix

Related : Get rid of rond.starsdoor.com popup

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Videos from around the web.. Search for video

SearchforVideo is the Web 2.0 site which searches the videos from around the web. Right now the publishers in searchvideo include HBO, Forbes, Discovery Network, BBC, Metacafe etc.

The site has divided into categories ranging from movies, music, podcasts and Entertainment.

If you know any video that is good and not listed in this site, you can submit here.
http://www.searchforvideo.com/misc/info_submit.php

As their subtitle says, find the video what you want here.
http://www.searchforvideo.com

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

How to use favicon in Googlepages.

Favicon is the favorite icon or custom icon for your website. Since many of us are using blogspot/wordpress right now, they dont have any other place to store the images and ico files.

If you are a blogspot user or Wordpress user, you can use Googlepages to store small images for your blog entries.

But in Googlepages if you store favicon.ico in the root folder of Googlepages and point that favicon to your blog, it wont work. Because Googlepages itself has the favicon associated with that ico.

Instead of trying like this,

<link href='http://xxxx.googlepages.com/favicon.ico' rel='icon' type='image/x-icon'/>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://xxxx.googlepages.com/
favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">

rename favicon.ico to xxxx.ico and mention like below 


<link href='http://xxxx.googlepages.com/myico.ico' rel='icon' type='image/x-icon'/>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://xxxx.googlepages.com/
myico.ico" type="image/x-icon">


It will override the Googlepages favicon.ico and you will get the required favorite icon on your website.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

How to remove OuterInfo Adware Popup

Outerinfo is the desktop advertesing software which will be downloaded if you have enabled Activex controls in IE.

If you are infected with the Outerinfo Popups, no need to run the HijackThis.
Just download this exe file from that site , uninstall it and reboot the system.

http://www.outerinfo.com/OiUninstaller.exe

For more details about how to uninstall see here.
http://www.outerinfo.com/consumers.uninstalloi.html

Monday, June 11, 2007

Technical Guide & Tips

Basically I am a Software Engineer working in New York,United States. Started this blog today to keep track of what I am doing daily in my day today life and the technical stuff which I have learnt when I am doing programming/architect the project.

First of all, If you find any errors please leave the comments and I wanted this blog to be more interactive with the users and me.

Have a nice day.