Suns General I

The general, of course it is a higher rank than the warrior if you are in the army. But in this context it is not so different as this specific general has the same abilities as the other warriors. The only different is this general is the brother of the Suns's owner, hehehehe. The general name is General Bino. He has a good sense of humor, Here is his complete profile.

Name : AA Ngurah Dharma Putra
Nickname : Bino
Occupation : Highschool student
School : SMU Negeri 2 Denpasar
Status : In a relationship
Friendster : Bino

10 Simple Ways To Speed Up Your Windows XP

1. Defrag Disk to Speed Up Access to Data

One of the factors that slow the performance of the computer is disk fragmentation. When files are fragmented, the computer must search the hard disk when the file is opened to piece it back together. To speed up the response time, you should monthly run Disk Defragmenter, a Windows utility that defrags and consolidates fragmented files for quicker computer response.

* Follow Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter
* Click the drives you want to defrag and click Analyze
* Click Defragment

2. Detect and Repair Disk Errors

Over time, your hard disk develops bad sectors. Bad sectors slow down hard disk performance and sometimes make data writing difficult or even impossible. To detect and repair disk errors, Windows has a built-in tool called the Error Checking utility. It’ll search the hard disk for bad sectors and system errors and repair them for faster performance.

* Follow Start > My Computer
* In My Computer right-click the hard disk you want to scan and click Properties
* Click the Tools tab
* Click Check Now
* Select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box
* Click Start

3. Disable Indexing Services

Indexing Services is a little application that uses a lot of CPU. By indexing and updating lists of all the files on the computer, it helps you to do a search for something faster as it scans the index list. But if you know where your files are, you can disable this system service. It won’t do any harm to you machine, whether you search often or not very often.

* Go to Start
* Click Settings
* Click Control Panel
* Double-click Add/Remove Programs
* Click the Add/Remove Window Components
* Uncheck the Indexing services
* Click Next
4. Optimize Display Settings

Windows XP is a looker. But it costs you system resources that are used to display all the visual items and effects. Windows looks fine if you disable most of the settings and leave the following:

* Show shadows under menus
* Show shadows under mouse pointer
* Show translucent selection rectangle
* Use drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop
* Use visual styles on windows and buttons

5. Speedup Folder Browsing

You may have noticed that everytime you open My Computer to browse folders that there is a little delay. This is because Windows XP automatically searches for network files and printers everytime you open Windows Explorer. To fix this and to increase browsing speed, you can disable the “Automatically search for network folders and printers” option.

6. Disable Performance Counters

Windows XP has a performance monitor utility which monitors several areas of your PC’s performance. These utilities take up system resources so disabling is a good idea.

* Download and install the Extensible Performance Counter List (http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/existing/exctrlst-o.asp)
* Then select each counter in turn in the ‘Extensible performance counters’ window and clear the ‘performance counters enabled’ checkbox at the bottom button below

7. Optimize Your Pagefile

You can optimize your pagefile. Setting a fixed size to your pagefile saves the operating system from the need to resize the pagefile.

* Right click on My Computer and select Properties
* Select the Advanced tab
* Under Performance choose the Settings button
* Select the Advanced tab again and under Virtual Memory select Change
* Highlight the drive containing your page file and make the initial Size of the file the same as the Maximum Size of the file.

Windows XP sizes the page file to about 1.5X the amount of actual physical memory by default. While this is good for systems with smaller amounts of memory (under 512MB) it is unlikely that a typical XP desktop system will ever need 1.5 X 512MB or more of virtual memory. If you have less than 512MB of memory, leave the page file at its default size. If you have 512MB or more, change the ratio to 1:1 page file size to physical memory size.

8. Remove Fonts for Speed

Fonts, especially TrueType fonts, use quite a bit of system resources. For optimal performance, trim your fonts down to just those that you need to use on a daily basis and fonts that applications may require.

* Open Control Panel
* Open Fonts folder
* Move fonts you don’t need to a temporary directory (e.g. C:\FONTBKUP?) just in case you need or want to bring a few of them back. The more fonts you uninstall, the more system resources you will gain.

9. Use a Flash Memory to Boost Performance

To improve performance, you need to install additional RAM memory. It’ll let you boot your OS much quicker and run many applications and access data quicker. There is no easiest and more technically elegant way to do it than use eBoostr (http://www.eboostr.com).

eBoostr is a little program that lets you improve a performance of any computer, powered by Windows XP in much the same way as Vista’s ReadyBoost. With eBoostr, if you have a flash drive, such as a USB flash thumb drive or an SD card, you can use it to make your computer run better. Simply plug in a flash drive through a USB socket and Windows XP will use eBoostr to utilize the flash memory to improve performance.

The product shows the best results for frequently used applications and data, which becomes a great feature for people who are using office programs, graphics applications or developer tools. It’ll surely attract a special attention of laptop owners as laptop upgrade is usually more complicated and laptop hard drives are by definition slower than those of desktops.

10. Perform a Boot Defragment

There's a simple way to speed up XP startup: make your system do a boot defragment, which will put all the boot files next to one another on your hard disk. When boot files are in close proximity to one another, your system will start faster.

On most systems, boot defragment should be enabled by default, but it might not be on yours, or it might have been changed inadvertently. To make sure that boot defragment is enabled:

* Run the Registry Editor
* Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction
* Set the Enable string value to Y if it is not already set to Y.
* Exit the Registry
* Reboot

Hope you find these 10 tips useful. Have a nice day!

Get Yourself Started In Blogging - The Right Way

As of September 2007, more than 106 million blogs have been tracked which makes one wonder just what blogging is.Blogging is that wonderful world where you can write your personal thoughts about what you think on any subject imaginable, whether good or bad, with or without anonymity, although in reality anonymity really doesn’t exist when it come to the Internet. Your website, your email has an ISP address which is easily traceable to any given computer.

In general, blogs are articles you write and post on the web for the entire world to see. Your blog puts you, your thoughts in the forefront, which lets others see your brilliance or idiocy. You can have your own website dedicated to your thoughts, or you can respond to a particular article that has been written which allows you to voice your opinion about the subject or article, although use tact when responding. Most news media allowing you respond to a written article requires you to provide a valid email address in order for you to make a comment.

Most subscribers to the Internet post there blogs on personal web pages or websites their ISP provides. Other bloggers post their comments on the multitude of websites available for posting their thoughts, usually indexed by subject. To find a blog site, simply type “blog/s” in any search engine and behold you will find thousands of blog sites you can read or post.

Methods for blogging vary which you should consider before doing any posting. Blogging in response to a particular article, as well as posting on dedicated blog sites are permanent blogs, in that they can not be changed once posted. With that in mind, you really need to think about what you want to say before posting your thoughts. It’s somewhat like making a comment, once spoken it can’t be undone.

The other side of posting on an open blog site is the libel issue. At present, blog sites are not libel for what you say, so use caution when blogging.

The other method of blogging is to have your own website or page where you write your own blog. Using this method, you can edit your blog, write about another subject or simply delete the blog entirely. This method in my opinion is perhaps the safest method of blogging, but there is a caveat to this method. When you write something on your computer using a word processor and save the document, even if you delete the article, or document, it still resides on your computer and unless you completely reformat or destroy the hard drive, it remains on you computer forever. If someone wants to prove you wrote the article, with the proper software they can retrieve it.

You may wonder if blogging is without peril. That depends. If you are blogging about your Aunt Tilly’s super fruit cake recipe, you’re safe, but if you’re blogging about a politician, an organization, the government, religious leaders, a company, an individual, you need to be careful about what you have to say, as you just might be libel. Presently, in the US, the courts are undecided about blogging, weighing in on the free speech side of the argument, however; individuals have been imprisoned and/or fined for their blogs.

To be safe when blogging, it’s important to use the correct adjectives, or follow the method the news media use when writing an article. Words like; alleged, subject to, suspected of, and the like may keep you out of trouble. Although, innuendos you make can been seen as an attack, an accusation, by some very sensitive people and they just might decide to take action against you.

Even when using safe words, that doesn’t mean you’re not going to suffer the consequences for your big mouth. Many states have what is known as; “The Right To Work Law,” which simply means employers can fire an employee for any reason, or for no reason. Individuals have been fired from their jobs for posting blogs about their company.

Many blogs are instructional in nature from how to grow a tree, wash a cat to building an explosive device. Here again you need to be careful. Those blogs about explosive devices just might cause a visit from a federal agency. Unfortunate as it is, when it comes to blogging, “Big Brother Is Watching!”

K4L0N6

Probably you will be wondering what is the meaning of the title above. K4l0n6 is local virus developed by an Indonesian (in his blog he also put the antivirus) which will disabled:
1. Task Manager - you won't be able to invoke the task manager using Ctrl-Alt-Del. It will say that the task manager has been disabled by your administrator. Although you've logged in as a user who has the administrator rights it will also display that message.
2. Regedit - if you run regedit.exe/regedit32.exe, it will be debugged with notepad.
3. It will disabled the cmd.exe, msconfig.exe, folder options and many more.

Symptoms:
1. If you do a double click on C drive or any drive, it won't show the contains of the folder (unfortunately you have just activated the virus).
2. You can't run regedit, cmd, msconfig, instead it will show notepad.
3. You can't see the folder options.

How to remove:
1. Kill the process of WScript.exe (you won't be able to use the task manager, so you need another program to do it. ProcessXP is one of the softwares you can use. Download it here.)

2. Run Autoruns (if you don't have it already, download it here). Go to Image Hijacks sections. Delete all entries there except the last (it is related to file ntsd.exe, don't delete it as it is needed by windows).

3. Copy this code below and save it as "antivirus.vbs":
[Version]
Signature=”$Chicago$”
Provider=Fariskhi

[DefaultInstall]
AddReg=UnhookRegKey
DelReg=del

[UnhookRegKey]
HKCU,Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main, Window Title,0, “INTERNET EXPLORER”

[del]
HKCU, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer, NoFind
HKCU, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer, NoFolderOptions
HKCU, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer, NoRun
HKCU, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System, DisableRegistryTools
HKCU, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System, DisableTaskMgr
HKCU, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer, NoViewContextMenu
HKLM, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Winlogon, LegalNoticeCaption
HKLM, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Winlogon, LegalNoticeText
HKLM, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, Systemdir
HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\cmd.exe, Debugger
HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\install.exe, Debugger
HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msconfig.exe, Debugger
HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\regedit.exe, Debugger
HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\regedt32.exe, Debugger
HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\RegistryEditor.exe, Debugger
HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\setup.exe, Debugger
HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\PCMAV.exe, Debugger
HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\PCMAV-CLN.exe, Debugger
HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\PCMAV-RTP.exe, Debugger

4. Search and delete these two files: autorun.inf and k4l0n6-x.dll.vbs.

After you have done all the steps above, you should be able to see the folder options again and run cmd or msconfig. Note: if you have opened an explorer before doing the cleanup just close and reopen. All options are now back where it belongs.

For the full information about this virus please refer to the author's blog. It is really amazing what he can do, but although he has put a disclaimer to his post, I am still convince that this is wrong. Sharing knowledge is one thing but if the use of knowledge for wrong purposes that is really destructive. My advise to the author is please be careful with what you are posting because your blog can be read by many people of which we can't control all of them.