Category Archives: Microsoft

Conficker Visual Test

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: April 9, 2009
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Visual Test to Check Conficker Infection

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: April 8, 2009
The April Fools Day Special Conficker worm and its variants have been dreaded by computer users across the world for some time now.
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Fix ‘COM surrogate has stopped working’ error in Windows Vista

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 12, 2008
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. [...]
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Microsoft Offers iPod Prizes for Search in Australia

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: July 2, 2008
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.
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Microsoft releases XP Service Pack 3

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: April 22, 2008
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 [...]
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Double-click to shut down

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: January 4, 2008
Here is another batch file that you will find useful,
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Internet connection problems?

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: December 18, 2007
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:
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Vista Service Pack 1

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: December 9, 2007
If you are using Windows Vista, then watch out for the Service Pack 1 release this week. Don’t forget to upgrade….
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Presentations: An addition to Google Docs

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: April 18, 2007
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 [...]
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