Friday 28 September 2012

Ping Transmit Failed Error Code 1231 Windows Vista Home Could Not Find Any Networks



The error message suggests you have a propblem with you IP configuration or settings or with TCP/IP. Jere's how to reset the TCP/IP Stack:

Go to the Start Menu, type cmd and right click or (Ctrl + Shift and hit Enter), and select "Run As Administrator"

Type the following commands, each followed by pressing enter.


  1. ·         ipconfig /flushdns
  2. ·         nbtstat -R
  3. ·         nbtstat -RR
  4. ·         netsh int reset all
  5. ·         netsh int ip reset
  6. ·         netsh winsock reset

Thursday 27 September 2012

How to disable guest account in ubuntu 12.04(Precise)

By default ubuntu 12.04 comes with guest account.You can disable this account using the following procedure.Guest account is a paswordless account which allow users to get access to Ubuntu machine

1) Open /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf file from your terminal using the following command
gksudo gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
2) Add the following line
allow-guest=false
3) Save and exit the file

After adding the above line you should see similar to the following in lightdm.conf file
[SeatDefaults]
user-session=ubuntu
greeter-session=unity-greeter
allow-guest=false
4) Finally you have to restart lightdm using the following command from your terminal
sudo restart lightdm
Note:- After executing above command all graphical programs running will be closed (Thanks to sergio)

Monday 10 September 2012

Show Desktop Button

Show desktop button is very usefull botton on the Quick launch toolbar. IF you press once it bring you the desktop to you and all open application is minimized and if you click it again all application is restore and you get your open application in front of you.
 
If the file accidentally corrupt or deleted, you can re-created or Restore it you can find the Show Desktop.scf file at blow path %UserProfile%\Application Data\microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\show Desktop.scf
 
1) Restore the show desktop.scr file :- just open the other user profile and copy the      
    Show Desktop.scf and paste the file to above mention path. or
 
2)Re-create the Show Desktop.scf file:-
 
   a) Start Notepad, and write blow lines :-
    
     [Shell]
 
     Command=2
 
     IconFile=explorer.exe,3
 
     [Taskbar]
 
     Command=ToggleDesktop
 
    b) open file menu, select the save button  and save it to %user Profile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch folder  you must give the file name is Show Desktop.scf
 
Note :- it is for Windows xp and windows 2003 server.

NTLDR is Missing

NTLDR is Missing
Press any key to restart
 Solution :-

1. Change your pc boot Priority and make first boot cd rom/dvd

2.than restart from cd and wait till it ask you for press r for Recovery

3. press r

4. choose which windows if you have more than one os install in your pc write the number and press enter key

5. provide your pc's administrator password and run below command to reslove the problem

copy e:\i386\ntldr c:\

copy e:\i386\ntdetect.com

here, e:\ is the cd rom drive

if it ask for overwrite than press "y"

than,

write exit press enter
than root from your hard disk
now window will start work

How to find the IP address of the sender in Gmail

How to find the IP address of the sender in Gmail
When you receive an email, you receive more than just the message. The email comes with headers that carry important information that can tell where the email was sent from and possibly who sent it. For that, you would need to find the IP address of the sender. The tutorial below can help you find the IP address of the sender. Note that this will not work if the sender uses anonymous proxy servers.

Finding IP address in Gmail:

1.Log into your Gmail account with your username and password.

2. Open the mail.

3. To display the headers,* Click on More options corresponding to that thread. You should get a bunch of links.* Click on Show original.

4. You should get headers like this:Gmail headers : nameLook for Received: from followed by a few hostnames and an IP address between square brackets. In this case, it is65.119.112.245.That is be the IP address of the sender!

How to find the IP address of the sender in Yahoo! mail

When you receive an email, you receive more than just the message. The email comes with headers that carry important information that can tell where the email was sent from and possibly who sent it. For that, you would need to find the IP address of the sender. The tutorial below can help you find the IP address of the sender. Note that this will not work if the sender uses anonymous proxy servers.

Finding IP address in Yahoo! Mail

1. Log into your Yahoo! mail with your username and password.

2. Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail.

3. Open the mail.

4. If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed. To display the headers,

* Click on Options on the top-right corner

* In the Mail Options page, click on General Preferences

* Scroll down to Messages where you have the Headers option

* Make sure that Show all headers on incoming messages is selected

* Click on the Save button

* Go back to the mails and open that mail.

5. You should see similar headers like this:Yahoo! headers : nameLook for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ]. Here, it is 202.65.138.109.That is be the IP address of the sender!

6. Track the IP address of the sender

How to "Delete administrator Password" without any software

Boot up with DOS and delete the sam.exe and sam.log files from Windows\system32\config in your hard drive. Now when you boot up in NT the password on your built-in administrator account which will be blank (i.e No password). This solution works only if your hard drive is FAT kind.

Method 2

Step
1. Put your hard disk of your computer in any other pc .

Step 2. Boot that computer and use your hard disk as a secondary hard disk (D'nt boot as primary hard disk)

Step 3. Then open that drive in which the victim’s window(or your window) is installed.

Step 4. Go to location windows->system32->config

Step 5. And delete SAM.exe and SAM.log

Step 6. Now remove hard disk and put in your computer.

Step 7. And boot your computer :-)

Friday 7 September 2012

No devices are listed in Device Manager

It would appear that you have acquired some Malware on your system. Posted below is a link along with instructions for using the tool.

This should help!

Download AproposFix from the link below to your desktop, but do NOT run the tool after downloading:

http://swandog46.geekstogo.com/aproposfix.exe
Reboot your computer in Safe Mode, here's how:

1. Restart your system
2. Once you hear a beep during the startup, but before the Windows icon appears, press the F8 key on your keyboard.
3. Additional options should now appear. Select the first option, which is "Run Windows in Safe mode".

Once in Safe Mode, double click the prior downloaded aproposfix.exe file and unzip it to your desktop. Open the aproposfix folder on your desktop and run: RunThis.bat. Follow the onscreen prompts.

When the tool has finished, reboot your system to normal mode, and post the entire contents of the log.txt file in the aproposfix folder.

Thursday 6 September 2012

How to Fix ‘Open in New Tab/Window’ problem in IE8 ?

There is a bug detected in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, which creates problem to open links in a new tab or a new window. This issue occurs when a user right-clicks a web link/address on a web page, and then click [Open in New Window] or [Open in New Tab]. This bug makes the web page cannot be opened in a new window/tab.





This is caused due to some registry problems occurred, when the program doesn’t get installed properly. To resolve this issue, follow the below steps:
1.  Go to Start > Run, type cmd and click ok.
2.  In cmd window, type regsvr32 actxprxy.dll and enter it.





3.  Now you will receive the following message: DllRegisterServer in actxprxy.dll succeeded. Click Ok



4.  Restart your computer.

UPDATE - (New Method)

To resolve this issue, re-register the DLL files that are related to Internet Explorer. To do this, follow these steps:
1.  Click Start, and then click Run
2.  Type regsvr32 urlmon.dll in the Open box, and then click OK.
3.  Click OK when you receive the following message:
  • DllRegisterServer in urlmon.dll succeeded
4.  Repeat steps 1 through 3 for the rest of the DLL files by replacing the regsvr32 urlmon.dll command in the Open box with the following commands:
  • regsvr32 actxprxy.dll
  • regsvr32 shdocvw.dll
  • regsvr32 mshtml.dll
  • regsvr32 browseui.dll
  • regsvr32 jscript.dll
  • regsvr32 vbscript.dll
  • regsvr32 oleaut32.dll
Now your IE8 Open in New Window/Tab feature, should work simply fine.
Source:  Microsoft

Update – New Working Method

Download this registry file and run it. Click ‘Yes’ when dialog box appears to add it to Windows registry. Hope it works! Thanks lasiek & neil for the tip.

Wednesday 5 September 2012

FIX: Error trying to browse SQL Server with the Object Explorer in MS SQL Server Management Studio.

You get the following error when trying to browse SQL Server with the Object Explorer in MS SQL Server Management Studio:
Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop.IServiceProvider'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{6D5140C1-7436-11CE-8034-00AA006009FA}' failed due to the following error: No such interface supported (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE)).

Solution:

There are many possible solutions to this problem.
The first thing to try is to unregister and then re-register two dll's and then reboot.

1. Re-register ieproxy.dll:
regsvr32 /u "C:\program files\internet explorer\ieproxy.dll"
regsvr32 "C:\program files\internet explorer\ieproxy.dll"
For windows 7 Replace the 2 lines above with the following 2 lines.
regsvr32 /u "C:\program files (x86)\internet explorer\ieproxy.dll"
regsvr32 "C:\program files (x86)\internet explorer\ieproxy.dll"

2. Re-register actxprxy.dll:
regsvr32 /u "C:\windows\system32\actxprxy.dll"
regsvr32 "C:\windows\system32\actxprxy.dll"

3. Reboot your computer.