November 2009 ~ bench3

Seven Essential Qualities Of Leadership | Leadership Traits

Labels: Education , Leadership , Management

You will have noticed that these qualities are very much anchored in particular fields. There may well be some commonality, but certainly the degrees to which the qualities are required will vary considerably. There are, however, some more generic or transferable leadership qualities that you should recognise in yourself – you will certainly see them in other leaders. They are set out in below.

Qualities of leadership – across the board

Enthusiasm. Can you think of any leader who lacks enthusiasm? It is very hard to do so, isn’t it?
Integrity. This is the quality that makes people trust you. And trust is essential in all human relationships – professional or private. ‘Integrity’ means both personal wholeness and adherence to values outside yourself – especially goodness and truth.
Toughness. Leaders are often demanding people, uncomfortable to have around because their standards are high. They are resilient and tenacious. Leaders aim to be respected, but not necessarily popular.
Fairness. Effective leaders treat individuals differently but equally. They do not have favourites. They are impartial in giving rewards and penalties for performance.
Warmth. Cold fish do not make good leaders. Leadership involves your heart as well as your mind. Loving what you are doing and caring for people are equally essential.
Humility. This is an odd quality, but characteristic of the very best leaders. The opposite to humility is arrogance. Who wants to work for an arrogant manager? The signs of a good leader are a willingness to listen and a lack of an overweening ego.
Confidence. Confidence is essential. People will sense whether or not you have it. So developing self-confidence is always the preliminary to becoming a leader. But don’t let it become overconfidence, the first station on the track leading to arrogance.

Some readers may question the inclusion of integrity in this list. Are there not good leaders, such as Adolf Hitler, who totally lacked integrity? There is a useful distinction between good leaders and leaders for good. Whether or not Hitler was a good leader is a debatable matter – in some respects he was and in others he was not – but he was certainly not a leader for good.

But this is all a bit academic. For leadership that does not rest on the bedrock of integrity does not last: it always collapses, and usually sooner rather than later. Why? Because that is the way of human nature.

You can see that what you are is an important strand in your leadership. Remember the Zulu proverb, ‘I cannot hear what you are saying to me because you are shouting at me.’ This strand in your leadership is also one of the main paths up the mountain.

Now, you can develop all these qualities. You can build your self-confidence, discover new wells of enthusiasm and grow in integrity. But it all takes time.

Haja is currently working in a multi-disciplinary role that combines programming including, SAP Administration, Network Management, and System Administration. He is passionate about Technology and this blog is his platform for sharing his ideas. If you like this post, Please leave a comment. And if you have any queries, mail to help @ bench3 . com

Differences And Similarities Of Leadership And Management | How To Become A Good Leader

Labels: Education , Leadership , Management

Leadership skills have now been universally recognised as a key ingredient – some would say the key ingredient – in management.

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The Role Of A Manager In An Organisation

A good manager is now by definition a leader. Equally, a good leader will also be a manager. But how do you become such a leader? Is it possible to develop your own abilities as a leader? Let me answer that last question with a resounding YES.

How about the first question? How do you become such a leader? If leadership matters to you, One word of caution: nobody can teach you leadership. It is something you have to learn. You learn principally from experience. But experience or practice has to be illuminated by principles or ideas. It is when the sparks jump between the two that learning happens. So you will have to think hard, relating what I say to your experience as you read and reflecting on it.

As with everything else in life, the more you put into this joint exploration of practical leadership, the more you will get out of it.

Let me add a bold claim for this short article. People often debate the differences and similarities of leadership and management. But the majority of practical people are interested primarily in what they have to do, and not whether it should be labelled ‘leadership’ or ‘management’ or both.

As a Chinese proverb says, ‘What does it matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice?'

Prevent Changes To A Registry Key | Avoid Softwares To Modify Your Windows Registry

Labels: Security , Windows 7 , Windows Registry , Windows Vista

Security has always been one of Microsoft’s favorite marketing buzzwords, and never more so than when Windows Vista was introduced and now Windows 7 has a bit more secure. But as it turns out, Vista and Windows 7’s security features are quite a bit more useful for protecting your PC from itself than from any alleged intruders.

The permissions system in windows VISTA and Windows 7 doesn’t just protect files and folders, it restricts who can read and modify Registry entries. This feature is tremendously important, yet most people don’t even know it’s there. It means you can lock a Registry key to prevent employees from installing software on a company PC, or prevent kids from disabling parental controls on a family PC.

Permissions also let you lock file type associations, preventing other applications from changing them. And by locking certain other keys, you can help protect your PC from viruses and spyware.

Here’s how you do it:

Open the Registry Editor, and navigate to the key you want to protect. You can’t protect individual values, but rather only the keys that contain them. This means that if you lock a key to protect one of its values, none of its values can be modified. You can, however, choose whether or not your changes are made to the subkeys of the selected key.
Right-click the key, and select Permissions.
Click Advanced, and then click Add. If the Add button is disabled (grayed out), you’ll have to take ownership of the key, close the Permissions window, and then reopen it before you can make any changes to the permissions of this object.
In the Enter the object names to select field, type Everyone, and then click OK. (The “Everyone” user encompasses all user accounts, including those used by Windows processes and individual applications when they access the Registry.)
In the next window, “Permission Entry for...”, click the checkbox in the Deny column, next to the actions you want to prohibit, as in Figure (Lock a Registry key to prevent applications or Windows from modifying it) . See below for examples.
When you’re done, click OK in each of the three open dialog windows. The change will take effect immediately.

Now, you may be tempted to remove Allow permissions for a particular user (or even all users), rather than add the Deny entry shown here. The problem is that doing so wouldn’t prevent an application or Windows from taking ownership or adding the necessary permissions and breaking your lock. Furthermore, it would make it much more difficult to restore the old permissions should you need to remove the lock; using this procedure, all

you need to do is remove the Deny rule and you’re done.

This works because Windows gives Deny rules priority over Allow rules, which means you can lock a key even if there’s another Allow rule that expressly gives a user permission to modify the item.

So, which keys do you lock, and which actions do you forbid? Here are some examples:

Make a read-only key. To lock a value yet still allow applications and Windows to read it, place a Deny checkbox next to Set Value, Delete, and Write Owner, as in the above figure.

Create a complete lock-out. To prevent all applications from reading, modifying, or deleting a value, place a Deny checkbox next to Full Control. Keep away ShellNew. To prevent applications from making new keys under the selected key, place a Deny checkbox next to Create Subkey. For instance, you can do this to file type keys to prevent applications from adding themselves to Windows Explorer’s New list. Enforce security policies.

To prevent another user from modifying a security policy, Lock a Registry key to prevent applications or Windows from modifying it the corresponding key in the Registry. Then, instead of adding a Deny rule to the key as described above, remove any permissions that allow anyone other than an administrator to delete, modify, or add subkeys to the key. Make sure that there’s still at least one rule for the Administrators group (or at least your own administrator-level account) that affords Full Control.

Lock file types. The File Type Doctor utility has a feature that uses permissions to lock file types, thus preventing applications from “stealing” them.

File Type Doctor, part of Creative Element Power Tools (available at http://www.creativelement.com/powertools/) lets you customize your context menus, change file type icons, and choose defaults.

Save Your Desktop Layout And Control The Space Between Desktop Icons In Windows Vista And Windows 7

Labels: Desktop , Display Settings , Windows Tips

Let me ask: How many times Windows rearranged your desktop icons?. This happens for a variety of reasons, most commonly any time Windows changes the screen resolution (often for games), when you update your display settings, or when you install a new video card driver.

But it’ll also happen whenever you use the Magnifier tool that comes with Vista or Windows 7, or when you change the desktop icon size (discussed next). Regardless of the trigger, it’s a petty annoyance we all could do without.

There are a variety of tools designed to combat this problem, but most have died out for one reason or another. The quick and dirty—not to mention free—solution is to use an add-on released by Microsoft several years ago; with a little tweak, it works just fine in Vista (32-bit edition only). Here’s how you install and use it:

Go to http://www.annoyances.org/exec/software/layout and download the layout.zip file, saving it to your desktop.
Open layout.zip, and inside you’ll find two files. The .dll file you can find elsewhere on the Web, but the other (the .reg file) has been specifically modified to work with Vista.
Copy the layout.dll file to your C:\Windows\System32 folder.
Double-click the other file, install.reg, and answer Yes when asked whether you want to continue.
Next, right-click an empty area of your desktop and select Save Desktop Icon Layout.
The next time Windows messes up your icons, just right-click an empty area of your desktop and select Restore Desktop Icon Layout.

Now, if Windows isn’t spontaneously rearranging your desktop icons, but refuses to let you put them where you want them, there’s a fix for that, too.

This problem is caused by either one of two mechanisms designed to help keep your desktop icons tidy, and you’ll have to turn at least one of them off to more freely place your desktop icons. Right-click an empty area of the desktop, select View, and turn off the Auto Arrange option. The other, Align to Grid, is discussed next.

Control the space between desktop icons

In the aforementioned View menu is the Align to Grid option. Leave it on, and your icons will always appear lined up in rows and columns; turn it off to have complete flexibility when dragging your icons around the desktop.

To change the spacing, right-click an empty area of the desktop, select Personalize, and then click Window Color and Appearance. Click the Open classic appearance properties for more color options link, and then click Advanced. (Or, if you’re not using Vista’s Aero interface, just click Advanced here.) From the Item drop-down menu, choose Icon Spacing (Horizontal) and adjust the spacing by changing the Size value to indicate the number of pixels between the edges of adjacent icons.

A good value is approximately 1.3 to 1.5 times the width of an icon. To find the size of your desktop icons, right-click an empty area of the desktop and select View. If Medium Icons (the default) is checked, your icons are 44×44.

For Classic Icons, they’re the standard 32×32; for Large Icons, they’re 86×86. So, if you’re using classic icons, specify 40 in the Advanced Appearance window to pack them pretty closely, or 50 to spread them apart. Next, change the Icon Spacing (Vertical) value; use the same number for both the horizontal and vertical measurements, and the result will look pretty good.

Download Google Chrome OS Source Code | Latest Screen Shots Of Google Chrome OS

Labels: Chrome , Google , Operating System

Google Chrome OS is the Google’s answer to Windows and Linux based operating systems, although this OS will be based on the Linux operating system and graphical user interface. Chrome OS is for the internet using personals since it will be completely based and work on the internet usages principle.

Google Chrome OS will run on faster Solid-State Drive (SSD) with x86 or ARM processor powered system, with the Chrome-based web browser. This operating system will save user data over internet, minimizing the usages of local hard disk and giving emphasis on the internet.

Google Chrome OS:

From the above screenshot, you can check that the web apps in Chrome OS runs in different tabs, much like a web browser. Google provided more information at a special Chrome OS event on Chrome OS features and specifications. Chrome OS will be the first ever operating system which will load up in just 3-4 seconds, it will allow only trusted web applications and system application to run, making your computer more faster and secure respectively.

Download Google Chromium Source Code

Chrome OS Screenshots

Chrome OS Chess Game

Chrome OS Image Viewer

Chrome OS Office

Chrome OS Panels

Chrome OS(Google Docs)

Being the open source operating system, Google Chrome OS source code is now available at src.chromium.org and developers can develop their own Chrome OS using the above source code and following the tutorial on MyDigitalLife. [via]

Releasing the Chromium OS open source project

In July Google announced that They were working on Google Chrome OS, an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web.

Today Google open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS. We are doing this early, a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are eager to engage with partners, the open source community and developers. As with the Google Chrome browser, development will be done in the open from this point on. This means the code is free, accessible to anyone and open for contributions. The Chromium OS project includes our current code base, user interface experiments and some initial designs for ongoing development. This is the initial sketch and we will color it in over the course of the next year.

We want to take this opportunity to explain why we're excited about the project and how it is a fundamentally different model of computing.

First, it's all about the web. All apps are web apps. The entire experience takes place within the browser and there are no conventional desktop applications. This means users do not have to deal with installing, managing and updating programs.

Second, because all apps live within the browser, there are significant benefits to security. Unlike traditional operating systems, Chrome OS doesn't trust the applications you run. Each app is contained within a security sandbox making it harder for malware and viruses to infect your computer. Furthermore, Chrome OS barely trusts itself. Every time you restart your computer the operating system verifies the integrity of its code. If your system has been compromised, it is designed to fix itself with a reboot. While no computer can be made completely secure, we're going to make life much harder (and less profitable) for the bad guys. If you dig security, read the Chrome OS Security Overview or watch the video.

Most of all, we are obsessed with speed. We are taking out every unnecessary process, optimizing many operations and running everything possible in parallel. This means you can go from turning on the computer to surfing the web in a few seconds. Our obsession with speed goes all the way down to the metal. We are specifying reference hardware components to create the fastest experience for Google Chrome OS.

There is still a lot of work to do, and we're excited to work with the open source community. We have benefited hugely from projects like GNU, the Linux Kernel, Moblin, Ubuntu, WebKit and many more. We will be contributing our code upstream and engaging closely with these and other open source efforts.

Google Chrome OS will be ready for consumers this time next year. Sign up for updates or if you like building your operating system from source, get involved at chromium.org.

Lastly, here is a short video that explains why we're so excited about Google Chrome OS.

Video On What Is Google Chrome:

Video On Google Chrome OS Announcement.

Host Monster Is Not Good For Professional Hosting | CPU Quota Suspension Errors | CPU Usage Limit

Labels: Internet Fraud , Web Technology , WebHosting

Host Monster Is Not Good For Professional Hosting | Mysql Slow Queries | CPU Quota Suspension Errors | CPU Usage Limit

I have experience with hostmonster.com. You get what you pay for (literally).

Hostmonster.com only supports small websites on their service although their bandwidth and webspace limits are high. Unless you only host static web pages.

I was satisfied with their technical support though, there were some good ones between them, unlike the billing support..

My website was quite popular and had medium traffic usage (at least 1GB bandwidth a day) but I got the "CPU limit exceeded" message every 10-15 minutes. This was very frustrating, when this message displays there is a pause of at least 5 minutes before it's accessible again.

E-mail Sending Feature

Not to forget is their E-mail sending feature! Default their limit is 10 E-mails per hour, you can ask their support staff about it. You can request it to be set at 500 E-mails that can be sent out per hour and that's the highest they'll set it at.

The hosting account was set up immediately and the website was on the net after a short period, that's an advantage.

Even tough you can request SSH access you'll also have small limits using it so forget about installing your own software as you are on a shared server.

Google ADwordS Credits

Its not going to work unless you first have some funds in google adwords.

It didn't work for us. Firstly we had to send funds to the Google adwords account and noticed that we already were -$50 even tough our ad was never online. So instead of $50 free credit we had to pay $5 (for canceling our account).

CPU Quota/Suspension Errors

CPU Quota/Suspension Errors are triggered by a single process taking more than 30 CPU seconds to run or if your total processes take more than 40 CPU seconds in any 60 second window. They are set up like this to avoid server lockups if too many people are logging on to the same server at once.

Your site will generally come back up after 5-10 minutes of suspension. If this is a repetetive issue we encourage you to investigate further the reason you are receiving these CPU Quota Suspension/Errors. Please have the Site Administrator or Programer review your log files:

Important:

The cpu_exceeded_logs contain important information about which processes you were running and their lengths that co-inside with your cpu exceeded errors.

Example:

Fri Jul 7 17:07:36 2006: used 716.27 seconds of cpu time for HTTP Request: yourdomain.com: GET /img_yourproducts/shop_images_026.jpg HTTP/1.1

Fri Jul 7 17:07:37 2006: used 0.18 seconds of cpu time for HTTP Request: yourdomain.com: GET /img_yourproducts/shop_images_027.jpg HTTP/1.1

Mysql Slow Queries

The mysql_slow_queries folder will contain individual log files listed in order by date. If you wish to view the details of these log files right click on the file you would like to open and select View from the drop down list.

Important:

The mysql_slow_queries contain important information about which queries you were running and their lengths that co-inside with your mysql_slow_queries errors. These will appear much like the above logs only providing details on your particular mysql queries.

If you are unable to resolve this issue yourself we recommend that you consult a programmer or if you would like a more detailed explanation of the issues on your account please fill out our online (CPU Exceeded Error Form).

Reported June 1st, 2009

Hostmonster has a 50,000 file limit in place. So once you go over that 50,000 file limit (about 17,000 photos uploaded to your site), your site will be suspended.

Unlimited Hosting Space. HostMonster.Com does not set arbitrary limits on the amount of disk space a Subscriber can use for the Subscriber's website, nor does HostMonster.Com charge additional fees based on an increased amount of storage used, provided the Subscriber's use of storage complies with these Terms. Please note, however, that the HostMonster.Com service is designed to host websites . HostMonster.Com does NOT provide unlimited space for online storage, backups, or archiving of electronic files, documents, log files, etc., and any such prohibited use of the Services will result in the termination of Subscriber's account, with or without notice. - HostMonster TermsOfService

Hostmonster offers the $5.95 unlimited plan, but be sure to read the fine print in the Terms of Service agreement before buying as I am sure there is other "hidden" limits that will prevent you from using the "unlimited" plan.

So, As I said: HostMonster Is a webhost for small websites.

Easy Ways To Get To Your Desktop In Windows | Make A Show Desktop Button

Labels: ShellCommand , Taskbar , Windows Tips

If you have to reach over a pile of papers just to reach your keyboard, then you’re the type who likes surfaces. The Windows desktop is no exception, and yours is probably full of files you need. Problem is, they’re always underneath everything else.

Here are some ways to get to the stuff on your desktop without much hassle: Minimize everything Hold the Windows logo key (which we’ll call Winkey, just to be cute) and press D to quickly show the desktop. Press Winkey-D again to restore your windows (although not necessarily in the same sequence). Do this many times to give yourself a headache.

Show Desktop

Don’t want to use the keyboard? Just locate the Quick Launch toolbar, the little row of tiny buttons on the far left of your taskbar, and click the Show Desktop button (the blue rectangle in Figure).

Figure: Use this handy button to show the Windows desktop without having to manually minimize all your windows. Give the button another click to restore the windows.

If the Quick Launch toolbar isn’t there, right-click an empty area on your taskbar and go to Toolbars ➝ Quick Launch. If you don’t see the Show Desktop button, it may be buried inside the tiny white arrows; otherwise, see the “Make a Show Desktop Button” sidebar for tips.

You can also right-click an empty area of the Taskbar, and select Show the Desktop to do the same thing as the button. Then, to restore your windows, right-click the taskbar again and select Show Open Windows.

Make A Show Desktop Button Using Shell Command

By default, the Quick Launch toolbar comes with a Show Desktop button, which allows you to quickly hide all open windows and access stuff on your desktop, and then quickly bring them all back when you’re done. But what if your Quick Launch toolbar doesn’t have one?

Unlike most other toolbar buttons, the Show Desktop button isn’t a Windows Shortcut. Rather, it’s a Shell Command File (.scf), which is really just a plain-text file containing a special command Windows understands. To create a new .scf file, open your favorite plain-text editor (or Notepad), and type the following five lines:

[Shell]

Command=2

IconFile=explorer.exe,3

[Taskbar]

Command=ToggleDesktop

Save the file as Show Desktop.scf (or any other name, provided that you include the .scf filename extension) anywhere you like, including your desktop. To have the icon appear on your Quick Launch toolbar, place the file in this folder(In Windows Vista And Windows 7):

C:\Users\{user}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\QuickLaunch

And For Windows XP Users, place the file in this folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

If you like the Show Desktop button, but you don’t like the clutter of the Quick Launch toolbar, you can simply eliminate the buttons you don’t use by right-clicking each one and selecting Delete.

Next, right-click an empty area of the Taskbar, turn off the Lock the Taskbar option, and then shrink down the newly sanitized Quick Launch toolbar so it’s no larger than the remaining button, like the example in Figure above. When things are the way you like them, turn Lock the Taskbar back on.

Open Windows Explorer

Another approach is to simply open a Windows Explorer window and navigate to the Desktop folder at the top of the tree. That way, you can leave your open programs intact, making it easier to drag files onto them from the desktop.

You can also drag files onto a minimized application, provided you have a steady hand and some patience. Just drag down to the taskbar and hover the file over the minimized application button you want to restore. Although you can’t drop files on the buttons themselves, if you wait a second or two, Windows will restore the application window, at which point you can drag the file over to the window and drop it.

Icons On The Taskbar

Right-click an empty area of the taskbar, select Toolbars, and then select Desktop. By default, the toolbar will probably be smushed up against the notification area (tray) and the clock, so right-click the taskbar again and turn off the Lock the Taskbar option so you can move the Desktop toolbar around. Next, right-click the Desktop title and select the Show Text option to fit more icons on the bar. It’s not the most convenient interface, especially if you have a lot on your desktop, but it’s there if you need it.

2% Of Internet Users Pay For 100% Of Internet Content

Labels: Adsense Alternative , Advertisements , Earn Online , Internet

Only two in 100 people who browse the Internet actually click on the advertisements that fund websites, according to a new report by online ad network Chitika. The study, based on the actions of 86 million Internet users over a two-week period, helps illustrate the value of an individual “clicker,” and the vast business potential that remains untapped for website owners and advertisers alike.

During a two-week period in October, Chitika monitored ad clicks of a sample of 86,683,507 anonymous individuals throughout their 60,000+ publisher network to determine what percentage could be classified as “clickers.” During the two weeks focused on for this study, 1,863,710 of the anonymous individuals actually clicked on an ad at least once, for a 2.15% “clicker” rate.

Clickers Graph

Newspaper crowd

Chitika has long championed the idea of knowing when not to show ads, claiming that by being able to accurately predict a user’s likelihood to click, the online advertising world can become at once less intrusive and more effective. Replacing old-media theories of advertising to demographics with predictive targeting towards the people most likely to act on an ad appears more and more viable with improving technology, and can go a long way towards helping online advertising dominate its traditional media counterparts.

Chitika, Inc., is a search-based online advertising network, leading the way in intent-based advertising and search engine insights. Chitika provides publishers with an innovative way to monetize search engine traffic, and advertisers a new way of generating leads with clear consumer intent. With over 60,000 sites and 2 billion monthly impressions, the Chitika network is the pulse of the online world. For more information or to join Chitika, visit chitika.com

Change The Locations Of Personal Folders In Windows Vista And Windows 7

Labels: FolderRedirection , Windows Registry , Windows Tips

Every user account on your system has its own home folder, stored, by default, in C:\Users. In this folder are such special user folders as Desktop, Send To, Start Menu, Documents, and Application Data, among others.

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Files placed in the Desktop folder appear as icons on the user’s desktop,shortcuts placed in the Start Menu folder appear as Start menu items, and so on. This arrangement lets each user have her own desktop, Start menu, etc.

There’s also an All Users folder, used, for example, to store icons that appear on all users’ desktops. Likewise, the Default User folder is a template of sorts, containing files and settings copied for each newly created user. All in all, the use of these folders is pretty self-explanatory.

You can change the default locations for any user’s special folders, but the process is different for different folder types: Home folder To change the location of any user’s home folder, open the Local Users and Groups window ( lusrmgr.msc ). Open the Users category, double-click a user, and choose the Profile tab. On more help, read How To Use Windows Start Menu.

Download TweakUI: Visit www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp to download a copy of Tweak UI. You will find the link to download the install file on the right side of the page.

Documents, Send To, etc.

To change the location of any system folder in a user’s home folder, such as the Documents folder or the Send To folder, you must be logged in as that user. Start TweakUI, open the My Computer category branch, select Special Folders, and choose the folder to relocate from the Folder list. Note that this only changes the place that Windows looks for the associated files; you’ll have to create the folder and place the appropriate files in it yourself.

Warning: It’s remarkably easy to damage Windows Registry, but very difficult to repair. And unless you go to the trouble of making your own backup copy. So, before you continue editing your windows registry. Try to backup your registry. Read more on how to back-up-registry-in-windows

For folders not listed in TweakUI, you’ll need to edit the Registry. Most user folders are specified in these two Registry keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

One of the exceptions is the Application Data folder, which is defined by the DefaultDir value in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ProfileReconciliation\AppData

Note: You’ll need to log out and then log back in for any of these changes to take effect.

Program Files

The Program Files and Common Files folders (shared by all users) are both defined in:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

For Program Files, you’ll need to change both the ProgramFilesDir and ProgramFilesPath values; for Common Files, just change the CommonFilesDir value. When relocating system folders, keep in mind that there can be hundreds of references to them throughout the Registry, especially Program Files and Common Files. You’ll probably need to use a program like Registry Search and Replace (available at http://www.annoyances.org) to easily get them all.

Debug Error Message: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Labels: ErrorMessage , Troubleshoot , Windows Tips

Explanation: This Stop message indicates that a kernel-mode process or driver attempted to access a memory address to which it did not have permission to access. The most common cause of this error is an incorrect or corrupted pointer that references an incorrect location in memory.

Also Read:

Blue Screen Of Death And Green Ribbon of Death On Windows

A pointer is a variable used by a program to refer to a block of memory. If the variable has an incorrect value in it, the program tries to access memory that it should not. When this occurs in a user-mode application, it generates an access violation. When it occurs in kernel mode, it generates a STOP 0x0000000A message. If you encounter this error while upgrading to a newer version of Windows, it might be caused by a device driver, a system service, a virus scanner, or a backup tool that is incompatible with the new version.

User Action:

This error usually occurs after the installation of a buggy device driver, system service, or BIOS. To resolve it quickly, restart your computer, and press F8 at the character-mode menu that displays the operating system choices. At the resulting Windows 2000 Advanced Options menu, choose the Last Known Good Configuration option. This option is most effective when only one driver or service is added at a time. If you encounter this error while upgrading from Windows NT 4.0 or earlier, it might be caused by a device driver, a system service, a virus scanner, or a backup tool that is incompatible with the new version.

If possible, remove all third-party device drivers and system services and disable any virus scanners prior to upgrading. Contact the software manufacturers to obtain updates of these tools. For additional error messages that might help pinpoint the device or driver that is causing the error, check the System Log in Event Viewer. Disabling memory caching of the BIOS might also resolve this error. You should also run hardware diagnostics supplied by the system manufacturer, especially the memory scanner. For details on these procedures, see the owners manual for your computer.

If your system has small computer system interface (SCSI) adapters, contact the adapter manufacturer to obtain updated Windows 2000 /2003 drivers. Disable sync negotiation in the SCSI BIOS, check the cables and the SCSI IDs of each device, and confirm proper termination. For enhanced integrated device electronics (EIDE) devices, define the onboard EIDE port as Primary only. Also, check each EIDE device for the proper master/slave/stand-alone setting. Remove all EIDE devices except for hard disks.

If the message appears during an installation of Windows 2000 / 2003 Server, make sure that the computer and all installed peripherals are listed on the Microsoft Windows 2000 Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) on http://www.microsoft.com. For more troubleshooting information about this Stop message, refer to the Microsoft Knowledge Base at http://support.microsoft.com/support.

Stop Error IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (0xA)

To debug this error, please visit the Microsoft support page here.

Secret Of Zip File Format In Windows | ZIP Compression Scheme

Labels: Windows Tips , ZipFormat

ZIP files work somewhat like folders in that they “contain” files, so it’s not surprising that they’re represented as folders in Windows Explorer. But a ZIP file is typically smaller than the sum of its contents, thanks to the ZIP compression scheme.

(Of course, other standards, like RAR, offer much better compression, but Windows doesn’t support .rar files without a third-party utility.)

The late Phil Katz conceived of the ZIP file format at his mother’s kitchen table in 1986, and soon thereafter wrote a little program called PKZip. Although his program, capable of encapsulating and compressing any number of ordinary files and folders into a single archive file, was not the first of its type, it quickly became a standard and ended up revolutionizing the transfer and storage of computer data.

For example, a folder with 10 spreadsheet documents might consume 8 MB of disk space, but when zipped, might only consume 3 MB (or even less). The level of compression varies with the type of data being compressed; zipped text documents can be as small as 4 or 5% of the size of the original source files, but since movies and images are already compressed, they’ll only compress to 95 to 98% of their original size, if that.

This compression makes ZIP files great for sending over the Internet, since smaller files can be sent faster. The ZIP archive format also has built-in error checking, so if you find that certain files are getting corrupted when you email them or send them through a web site, try zipping them up to “protect” them. Zip compression not only protects data being corrupted, but it also protects your data being affected by virus.

To open a ZIP file, just double-click it. You can extract files from ZIP archives by dragging them out of the ZIP folder window. You can also rightclick a ZIP file and select Extract All, but you’ll have to deal with a more cumbersome wizard interface.

Create a new ZIP file by right-clicking on an empty portion of the desktop or any open folder, and selecting New ➝ Compressed (zipped) folder. (The name here is actually misleading, since ZIP archives are actually files and not folders.) Then, add files or folders to the ZIP by simply dragging them onto the icon or the open ZIP window.

Another way to do this is to right-click a folder or a group of files, select Send To, and then select Compressed (zipped) folder. This is especially convenient, as there’s no wizard or other interface to get in the way: if you send the bench3 folder to a ZIP file, Windows compresses the folder’s contents into a new bench3.zip file, stored alongside the source folder.

All of this is possible because Windows supports the ZIP format right out of the box. (For years, this wasn’t the case because Katz (the founder of zip as said in the beginning of this post) reportedly despised Windows, which may explain why Windows XP, released a year after his death, was the first version of Windows to support ZIP files without a third-party program.)

Unfortunately, there are drawbacks to Windows Explorer’s built-in support for ZIP files. For example, it can interfere with searches. It can also interfere with third-party ZIP tools like WinZip (http://www.winzip.com), which adds more features and, ironically, better integration with Explorer’s own context menus. But the biggest problem is that, by default, Windows Vista And Windows 7 displays each ZIP file like a folder, which can make a big mess if you have a folder full of ’em.

Unfortunately, there’s no way to get Windows Explorer to treat ZIP files like files without disabling the ZIP feature altogether. But if you want to do it, here’s how... turn off zip support in windows vista | vista secrets.

More Ways To Copy Or Move Files To A Specified Path In Windows

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Dragging and dropping is generally the quickest and easiest way to copy or move files and folders from one place to another. Typically, though, it helps if the source and destination folders are both visible at the same time. But what if they’re not?

Solution 1: Drag patiently

In Windows Explorer, navigate to the source folder. Next, drag one or more items over the tree pane on the left, then hover the mouse cursor over the visible branch of the destination folder, and Explorer will automatically expand the branch. You can also hover near the top or bottom of the Navigation pane to scroll up or down, respectively.

If the destination folder you’re looking for is buried several layers deep, you’ll have to wait for Explorer to expand each level. This requires a steady hand and a lot of patience.

Solution 2: Use cut, copy, and paste

Select the file(s) you want to copy, right-click, and select Copy to copy the items or Cut to move them. (Or, to use the keyboard, press Ctrl-C or Ctrl-V, respectively.

When you cut a file, its icon appears faded (as though it were a hidden file) until you paste it somewhere, or abandon the operation. (Abandoning a cut operation does not delete the file, by the way.) Explorer makes no visual distinction for files you copy.

Next, open the destination folder, right-click an empty area, and select Paste (or press Ctrl-V).

Solution 3: Use a third-party add-on

If you’re not satisfied with the tools Windows Explorer provides, you can use one of the tools that comes with Creative Element Power Tools (http://www.creativelement.com/powertools/). In the Creative Element Power Tools Control Panel, turn on the Copy or Move files anywhere tool, and click Accept.

Then, right-click any file or folder, select Move To or Copy To, and then type or point to the destination folder. You can also create new folders on the fly and duplicate paths in the destination folder; the software even remembers the last dozen destinations you specified.

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Force Explorer To Remember Its Own Settings | Customise Explorer In Windows Vista And Windows 7

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One of the most common annoyances with Windows Explorer is, well, annoying, because it should’ve been so simple for Microsoft to get it right. How many times have you selected the Details view in Explorer, only to find that it has reverted to the Large Icons view the next time you open the folder?

For the most part, Windows Explorer’s apparent inability to remember its own settings is the result of a battle among three opposing forces: your saved settings, Vista’s propensity to show thumbnail previews for media files, and some poor coding on Microsoft’s part.

First, open the Folder Options window, turn on the View tab, turn on the Remember each folder’s view settings option, and click OK. Thereafter, Windows Explorer will temporarily save the settings for roughly 30 of the most recently viewed folders. Most of the time, these saved settings override your saved defaults. But how do you change the defaults?

Your choices are stored in the Registry rather than in the folders themselves, which not only explains the limit on the number of folders Explorer can remember, but exposes a rather annoying flaw in the system.

Say you choose the view settings for a folder called bench3. When you close and reopen bench3 right away, your settings will remain. However, if you rename the bench3 folder to, say, Haja, it will instantly revert to Explorer’s defaults and forget the settings you made only seconds earlier.

If you’re tired of constantly having to go back to Explorer’s View dropdown to change the icon size, or having to click the column headers to sort file listings, you can set your own defaults. But Explorer’s use of your defaults won’t make much sense until you figure out Vista’s clandestine template system.

A template is a collection of folder display settings that includes the view (e.g., Large Icons, Details, etc.), the sorting method, and the columns displayed.

Each time you open a folder, Windows Seven Or Vista automatically picks one of the five preset templates, and uses those settings to configure the view. And herein lies the source of the problem: Windows Vista / Seven is no good at picking the default template. You might open a folder full of HTML web page documents, and Explorer will choose the template for music files. Or, a folder with nothing but photos will show up in the Details view, rather than thumbnails (Large Icons).

Unfortunately, there’s nothing you can do to change how Vista chooses its templates, nor can you remove or create your own templates. But you can customize the view settings for each template so that when Windows Explorer does get it right, you’ll get the view you need.

But you may soon realize that Windows gets it wrong too often, and customizing the templates just isn’t enough. In this case, the solution is to duplicate your favorite view settings across every template, so no matter which template Windows picks, you’ll get the view you need:

1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to any folder with files in it. (This won’t work with drives, so make sure the folder isn’t a root folder.)

2. Right-click the folder in the tree, select Properties, and choose the Customize tab. Or right-click an empty area of the folder background and select Customize This Folder.

See the “Missing the Customize Tab?” sidebar, next, if these options aren’t present.

Missing the Customize Tab?

If you don’t see the Customize tab in the Properties window for a folder, all you need is a quick Registry hack to fix the problem.

Open the Registry Editor (regedit) and expand the branches to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers. Look for a subkey named {ef43ecfe-2ab9-4632-bf21-58909dd177f0}; if it isn’t there, create a new key with that name by going to Edit ➝ New ➝ Key.

Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer. Double-click the NoCustomizeThisFolder value in the right pane, type 0 (zero) in the Value data field, and click OK. Do the same for the NoCustomizeWebView and ClassicShell values. (If any of these values are absent, skip ’em.)

And finally, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer, and if the Explorer key is present, set the same three values to 0 (zero). Close the Registry Editor when you’re done, restart Windows, and try again.

3. From the Use this folder type as a template listbox, select the first entry, All Items, and then click OK.

4. Set your view settings, column headers, and sorting to your taste.

5. Open the Organize drop-down, select Folder and Search Options, and then choose the View tab.

6. Click the Apply to Folders button, answer Yes, and then click OK.

7. Repeat steps 3–6 for each of the other four templates: Documents, Pictures and Videos, Music Details, and Music Icons.

That’s it; now you have five identical templates, and you no longer need to care whether or not Windows Seven Or Vista knows what kind of files are in each folder.

Introduction To Cloud Computing | What Is Happening In The Arena Of Cloud Computing

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This article provides a snapshot of what is happening in the arena of cloud computing. What are the benefits? Why are businesses embracing it?

There is still plenty to know about it... Like, What does it mean to a business owner or executive? How does it affect the workplace? What are the payoffs and the pitfalls? Is it really ready for "prime time"?

As Computing Evolves, So Does its Jargon Few observers agree on what cloud computing is, except for what the word cloud represents. When geeks draw network diagrams, they often represent the Internet as a cloud.

Cloud computing, many say, is a form of software-as-a-service. Wikipedia defines software-as-a-service (SaaS) as “a model of software deployment where an application is hosted as a service provided to customers across the Internet. By eliminating the need to install and run the application on the customer's own computer, SaaS alleviates the customer's burden of software maintenance, ongoing operation, and support.”

The Market Landscape

The market for cloud computing applications is just beginning to heat up. Consumer applications, such as tax preparation services, sites to maintain photos and create albums, and social networking sites, have blazed the trail for successful SaaS business applications. As cloud computing matures, users are finding that it's much more than just a way to offload desktop applications to the Internet.

Cloud computing enhances the framework companies need to foster greater cooperation and collaboration among their work teams—which may include employees at multiple locations as well as advisers, suppliers, and partners outside a company’s firewall.

In addition, cloud computing opens up innovative ways to use rich-media capabilities, such as integrating video into documents or presentations. Web-based applications make it easy to publish the results of a single source file in many locations. For example, a chart containing “company results” can easily be shared in a memo to executives, a presentation to shareholders,and in an announcement to employees. Any changes to the source spreadsheet automatically flow to the multiple instances of the published charts.

Mashups provide a quick way to aggregate business or consumer services with different data types from multiple sources into integrated applications. Many map-based services integrate business data, such as real estate listings, with the mashup facilities of Google Maps or other cartographic databases. Amazon, the world's most successful online shopping site, uses mashup technologies to aggregate product descriptions with partner sites and user profiles, commentaries, and images. Travel sites, such as Travelocity, Kayak, Matador, and Travature, integrate standard content (such as airfare search engines, travel guides, maps, and hotel reviews) with comments, ratings, and images from users.

In the business arena, cloud computing is gaining momentum as companies seek applications that are easier and cheaper to implement, use, and maintain. Providers are introducing a steady stream of cloudbased services for enterprise resource planning (ERP), web conferencing, data backup, and other key applications. Some cloud applications come from established companies, such as Salesforce.com, a leader in customer relationship management applications. These companies use cloud computing as a competitive weapon against old-line companies selling conventional products and services. Intacct, for example, is an on-demand financial management and accounting system.

"A really interesting and perhaps counter-intuitive phenomenon is that there is a huge demand for SaaS services from enterprises that are firmly committed to the on-premise model," observed Phil Wainewright, ZDNet's SaaS expert. "Perhaps even more surprising is that IT departments are some of the most avid buyers of SaaS services — and they’re turning to SaaS to help them manage their on-premise infrastructure." Security services, email management and security, Help Desk and service management are among the applications that IT managers are handing over to external SaaS providers, Wainewright noted.

Wainewright also points out that SaaS is a made-to-order antidote for shrinking capital budgets during economic downturns. He wrote: "... cash-strapped businesses will find the pay-as-you-go SaaS model highly appealing — especially if it helps deliver operational cost savings at the same time.”

A survey by ScanSafe, a SaaS provider of security services, supports this thesis. The survey of 300 IT managers found that 78% of them believe economic uncertainty makes SaaS more attractive.

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