Archive for the 'Microsoft' Category
Visual Test to Check Conficker Infection
The April Fools Day Special Conficker worm and its variants have been dreaded by computer users across the world for some time now.
Even though it may seem that the virus has been maintaining a low profile for the past few days, security experts warn that the virus is still a threat. In reality, it has [...]
Fix ‘COM surrogate has stopped working’ error in Windows Vista
A recent and annoying ‘bug’ in Windows Vista (both 32- and 64-bit versions) is the ‘COM surrogate has stopped working’ error. This happens almost whenever you browse a folder containing media files like mp3, avi, wav etc. A lot of people have attributed this to the presence of non Vista-compatible codecs installed on the computer. [...]
Microsoft Offers iPod Prizes for Search in Australia
Microsoft is offering iPod nanos, shuffles, and touches as prizes to promote their Live Search in Australia, according to the Brisbane Times on Wednesday. Microsoft is working through a joint venture in Australia with Nine Network, ninemsn, for Internet search.
Microsoft said that using a competitor’s products in this way is frowned upon. However, the Zune [...]
Microsoft releases XP Service Pack 3
Microsoft released Windows XP Service Pack 3 to its manufacturing channels (RTM) and hopes to reach OEM and enterprise customers by the end of April. The Beta release includes the new Windows Installer 3.1 v2, IPsec Simple Policy Update, Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2), and Network Access Protection (NAP) among others. We hope this won’t [...]
Double-click to shut down
Here is another batch file that you will find useful,
Double-click to shut down your PC
Open Notepad and type
shutdown.exe -s -t 00
Note that there are two zeros and not the letter ‘O’.
Save it on the desktop as Shutdown.bat and double-click. Voila, Windows will shut down immediately.
Internet connection problems?
You can release the DNS and renew to solve most issues. An easy way to do it is to create a batch file. Open Notepad and type the following:
@echo off
echo Easy Internet Refresh by Krishna C. Mandava
pause
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
START http://www.google.com
Now save the file with .bat as the extension. You can always edit it by [...]
Vista Service Pack 1
If you are using Windows Vista, then watch out for the Service Pack 1 release this week. Don’t forget to upgrade….
Presentations: An addition to Google Docs
In addition to documents and spreadsheets, Google will add presentations as well. This is surely going to be watched keenly by Microsoft whose market for the Office package will surely take a hit with users lapping up the easy and convenient option. It’s surely the age of remote hosted applications where the consumer doesn’t have [...]