This. Is. The. Most. Irritation. Error. Message. Ever. And. So. Is. This. Writing. Style.

Seriously, when I get this, I freak out. What does this mean? That I’m not in control of my own computer? Shouldn’t I be incharge? But viruses think otherwise. They prefer to disable the task manager and the registry. And they amuse themselves. No amount of antiviruses out there can get rid of this. At least, that’s been the case with me. A Windows reinstall is always a viable option, but not in my case. My Intel 82845G Graphics Controller is so outdated, that even Intel doesn’t consider it to be worthy of getting a decent driver. The latest driver carries this stupid trojan, which disables important stuff. Tech gurus like me always like to mess up the Windows anatomy, and set it back again. Even novice users three-finger-salute Windows occasionally always, and kill processes. What now?

As always, here at Shadow Line comes another tutorial without using any third-party application. To fix this stupid error.

1] Open Notepad, by going to Start–>Run… and typing Notepad.

2] For enabling Task Manager, paste this:

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Or, for enabling Registry Editor, paste this:

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

3] Once you’ve pasted the required one, hit enter and open the Task Manager or Registry normally. Note that you’d have to do this always to open ‘em up

Lets take it a level further. Lets make a batch file, so that you can enable both with a single click from your desktop.

4] In Notepad, paste both the lines separated by a line.

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

5] After you’ve done that, go to File –> Save. Save it as fix.bat. You can replace fix by anything. But the .bat thingy is important. Save it at the desktop. Its easily accessible now. Double-click it, and you should see a command-prompt window for a split second. Open Task Manager and Registry editor normally now. You have to repeat this again, if you want to access the registry once more.

But if you’re the busy types, and you want someone else to do the dirty work, I’ll help you. Download the batch file itself.

So, thats it! Its fixed! But if you really want to stay away from all these viruses, I suggest you go elsewhere.

I have been running Windows 7 for a week and 1 day, and today I have already experienced a major issue. When starting internet explore the CPU usage starts to running at a constant 100%, slowing down my computer. I can’t really reproduce the error every time, but I have my suspicions. I have had the error 2 times, first after visiting YouTube, and then some days later visiting a news site. Common for these site are use of flash, and maybe flash could mess something up. I’m not 100% sure, but it is something I will look after. As a note, I have to mention: the issue did not disappear after reboot, but reappeared after starting Internet Explore.

Either to fix this/these 100% usage issues, I use Task Manager.  Selecting the Processes tab I can see which process uses most computer time. Well, here is one catch, Windows 7(and Vista) hides System processes, so  the button Show processes from All users must be pressed. System processes which uses to much CPU are not shown by default, which can give a distorted image, when all processes shows 0 under CPU, and CPU Usage are 100%.

A healthy idle system should show System idle process as the must time consuming process, but in my case it was svchost.exe. This was expected but annoying, because ProcessExplorer represents a group of services, but it doesn’t tell me wich. Pressing the Services tab in the Task Manager, shows me all the services it could be. The best way to find the sick service, is to use ProcessExplorer, which is a super a task manager from Microsoft. You can get it free here at Microsoft’s tech page:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Opening ProcessExplorer, you can see all your processes running. Now find the svchost.exe which uses the most CPU time, and hold the mouse pointer over the text: svchost.exe. Now ProcessExplorer tells you what services it runs, and often it runs more than one. I my 2 issue cases it was my upnphost service which was the sinner. My solution to the problem was to press the Windows button in the bottom left corner, right click on computer and select manage. Then select Services and Applications and then Services. Then find UPnP Device Host (or what your sick service is called), right click press STOP, watch the CPU usage drop, press START.

Good Debugging

Bábel Verme munkanapló • Bábel Verme beharangozó

ist noch ein Task-Manager für Android, der die laufenden Apps in 3 Tabs darstellt. Antippen einer App öffnet eine Ansicht mit Detail-Infos zu dieser, sowie der Möglichkeit, sie zu beenden.
Sieht nett aus, ist aber für meinen Bedarf zu viel geklicke (Reiterwechsel, Infoseiten)… da fehlt mE eine Option in der Art “Tap to kill, long click to get info”.
Naja, jedem was ihm zusagt

• Reason why I read less: Never been a fan of “entertainment only” novels, but I don’t believe anyone has the ultimate answers anymore either.
• Reason why I write less: Never been a fan of “entertainment only” stories & I don’t think the “wisdom” I can offer was sufficient.
• Reason why I still read & write: Raising questions I care about, food 4 thought, belief in our minds’ power to construct personal realities.

(Copy-pasted here from my twitter feed, each post 140 characters, enough for now.)

ist ein Tool zum Wechseln zu/Beenden von laufenden Anwendungen;
beim ersten Start direkt nach dem Download zeigte es lediglich HomeSimple in der Liste an, während ein zum Vergleich direkt im Anschluss gestarteter Task-Manager fast den ganzen Bildschirm für die Darstellung der laufenden Anwendungen benötigte…

Vielleicht muß das ja so sein, weil ich die anderen Apps in der Liste nicht selber gestartet hatte, aber damit disqualifiziert sich die Software als Ersatz für einen Task-Manager und ich habe sie demnach gleich wieder gelöscht.

A következőket egy meg nem nevezett blog egy – egy hamarosan megjelenő regény borítóját beharangozó – postjára reagálva írtam. Mivel enyhén negatív hangvételű az írásom, itt (névtelenítve) adom közre, mert alapvetően pozitív szándék vezérel, csak a helyzeten, bizonyos döntéseken fanyalgok kissé.

(X festő) zseniális, csakúgy, mint a linkelt festmények. Ugyanakkor – bár kiadói szempontok miatt érthető és megérthető lépés -, szerintem nem a legjobb megoldás ezen képek bármelyikének használata. Miért? Mert a vásárlók egy részének a fejében már ránézésre az „újrafelhasználtság” gondolatát fűzik a kötethez.

Ezek a képek, mivel egy igen híres (számítógépes XY) játékhoz – a (híres játékkal) összességében sikertelenül, de azért elismerendő eredményeket felmutatva rivalizálni próbáló (másik játékhoz) – készültek, mint concept art, igen közismertek a neten: jó eséllyel mindenki látta már őket, aki érdeklődik a számítógépes játékok világa iránt. A játékok világával foglalkozó offline és netes magazinok vélhetőleg már 200(x) környékén lehozták őket, a concept art iránt komolyabban érdeklődők (oké, ez már jóval szűkebb réteg, ellenben a magazinok közönségével) pedig azóta is láthatják őket, pl. az általad linkelt galériákban. A te hazai olvasóid – az sf/f iránt érdeklődő, a számítógépek világában vélhetőleg otthonosan mozgó fiatalok (vélhetőleg főleg fiúk) – is elég valószínű, hogy találkoztak már velük, többször is.* És, mivel nagyon jó képek (és sok van belőlük, egységes stílusban), emlékezni fognak rájuk, ha máshogy nem, tudat alatt. Megjelenik a „volt már” gondolata – ami szerintem nagyon nem jó egy regénynek. Egy ilyen borító egy másik terméket, világot idéz, hamis elvárásokat, ideákat állít fel, amiket a regény nem tud, nem fog és nem is akar teljesíteni, hozni, ergo jóval nagyobb esélyt ad az olvasói csalódásra.** Persze, nem olyan erős a dolog, mintha mondjuk Darth Vader portréját raknátok ki a borítóra… de ugyanaz az irány.

Mint a hozzászólásom elején jeleztem, egyértelmű, hogy egy már kész, bizonyított kép használata igen előnyös lehet a kiadó szempontjából időt és pénzt illetően, sőt, a szerzőnek tetszhet is nagyon – de a regénynek szerintem nem tesz jót. Sőt, inkább árt*** neki – pedig a regények megérdemelnék, hogy egy egyedi, gondosan és direkt nekik készített kép reklámozza őket, nyújtson bepillantást a világukba. Persze, ez rizikó – az egyedi képet is el lehet rontani, durván, ráadásul idő és pénz, mire elkészülnek, bizonytalan eredménnyel. De azért szerencsére vannak olyan alkotók idehaza, akik eddigi munkáik alapján vélhetőleg meg tudnának birkózni a feladattal. Például Vass Richárd vagy Tikos Péter valószínűleg kiváló (és odaillő) megoldást tudott volna szállítani nektek, szerintem.

Mindezek mellett természetesen drukkolok a regénynek és neked – csak sajnálom, hogy maga a kiadó állítja elétek az első akadályt a sikerhez vezető pályán.

g.

* E képek a (játék) egy végül ki nem adott kiegészítőjéhez készültek, ergo megjelentek kb. akkor, amikor komolyabban beharangozták a játékot, aztán még párszor, kísérőképként, amikor a fejlesztés előrehaladtáról jöttek hírek, majd végül akkor, amikor kiderült, hogy ugrott a projekt.

**Ld. még ezt a cikket (főleg a végét.)

*** Így lesz az artworkből árt-work. -.- :]

Gestern hab ich schnell mal das neuste Mini-Update installiert; die damit behobenen Probleme betrafen mich zwar nicht, aber ich wollte meine Vermutung bzgl. der Kamera-App testen: ich hatte leider recht — Update aufgespielt -> Kamera geht wieder nicht :-/

Allerdings kam ebenfalls gestern im Laufe des vormittags eine Statusmeldung vom Bugtracker, offenbar will man sich des Problems jetzt annehmen…

Ansonsten ist gegen das Update nichts zu sagen, das Einspielen hat problemlos funktioniert und mein G1 funktioniert gewohnt gut – seit den 4.2ern hab ich sogar den Eindruck, das es schneller ist als vorher, aber dafür habe ich keine Belege.

Khi máy tính bị nhiễm virus, thường thì những công cụ hệ thống có thể giúp bạn phát hiện và giải quyết hậu quả do virus để lại đều bị khoá, kể cả sau khi bạn đã tiêu diệt chúng. Cách duy nhất mà bạn có thể làm là sử dụng một phần mềm như Re-Enable Portable để nó “xâm nhập” vào Registry để sửa chữa. Tôi đang test một phần mềm khác nữa, có vẻ nhiều tính năng hơn và gọn nhẹ hơn, sẽ sớm giới thiệu thôi.
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Auslogics Task Manager 1.5.6.125

License : Freeware
Developer : Auslogics Software Pty Ltd (visit page)
Dowbload : http://www.fileinspect.com/task-manager/

Task Manager ini lumayan bagus jika anda ingin mengetahui dan mengontrol aplikasi yang berjalan, proses -service, Internet bandwidth, disk usage dan juga open files. hmm siapa tahu ada proses aneh yang berjalan di belakang layar komputer anda

Step 1 (Interface)
Interface’nya cukup berbeda dari task manager bawaan windows. Ada empat main menu disitu ”applications”, “processes”, “services” dan “open files”

Step 2 (use)

>>Applications
Klick “applications”untk melihat aplikasi yang sedang berjalan. Klick kanan aplikasi itu untuk melakukan tindak lanjut seperti “end task” untuk menghentikan secara paksa, Maximize, minimize, speed/slow task atau switch to untuk berpindah antar aplikasi. Ehm jika suatu aplikasi sudah masuk database dan dites oleh FileInspect Ada label “trustworthy “alias bisa dipercaya. Kebalikannya “unknown” alias belum diketahui. Anda bisa klick kanan dan pilih “search it on FileInspect” untuk mengetahui aplikasi itu trustworthy (aman) atau tidak.
Dibawag anda bisa melihat cpu usage, memory usage, disk activity sampai internet traffic
>>Processes
Klick processes untuk mengetahui proses yang berjalan di komputer anda, siapa tahu ada proses aneh yang berjalan :p , klick kanan proses untuk melihat menu’nya. Ada “open file location” untuk membuka lokasi proses, “end task”, “set priority” untuk mengatur prioritasnya –anda bisa pilih “ketinggian” prioritynya disitu, “freeze” untuk untuk melakukan pause saja, melihat properties atau mencarinya di database FileInspect.
>>Services
Klick services untuk melihat servis yang berjalan, anda bisa melihat summary’nya disini. Stop service dan end task pun bisa dilakukan
>>Open Files

Klick open files untuk melihat semua files yang dibuka, hmmm perasaan saya tadi hanya membuka Microsoft word, tapi yang keluar disini koq banyak banget yaa. Yaa itulah semua proses dan aplikasi yang terbuka ditamplikan disini begitu. Anda bisa melakukan “unlock file” disini hmm bisa anda kembangkan sendiri hlo unlock – lock prosses’nya 

Step 2 (Other Stuff)
Anda bisa mereplace task manager default bawaan windows dengan aplikasi ini, jadi jika anda jika anda menekan ctrl + alt + del, secara otomatis akan membuka Auslogics Task Manager, caranya klick options – pilih replace standard task manager.
Yaa task manager ini cukup memberikan alternative jika anda ingin mencoba coba task manager lain, interface’nya cukup user friendly dan mudah digunakan

This reg file automatically ends tasks and timeouts that prevent programs from shutting down and clears the Paging File on Exit.

1. Copy the following (everything in the box) into notepad.

QUOTE

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]

“ClearPageFileAtShutdown”=dword:00000001

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]

“AutoEndTasks”=”1″

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control]

“WaitToKillServiceTimeout”=”1000″

2. Save the file as shutdown.reg

3. Double click the file to import into your registry.

NOTE: If your anti-virus software warns you of a “malicious” script, this is normal if you have “Script Safe” or similar technology enabled.

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I’m sure you are familiar with the traditional way to kill or end a process in Windows using Task Manager. This method is effective but not nearly as fun as killing a process in Command Prompt. Additionally, killing processes in Command Prompt provides much more control and the ability to end multiple processes at once.

All of this is possible with the TaskKill command. First, let’s cover the basics. You can kill a process by the process ID (PID) or by image name (EXE filename).

Open up an Administrative level Command Prompt and run tasklist to see all of the running processes:

C:\>tasklist

Image Name PID Session Name Mem Usage
=========== ============== ========
firefox.exe 26356 Console 139,352 K
regedit.exe 24244 Console 9,768 K
cmd.exe 18664 Console 2,380 K
conhost.exe 2528 Console 7,852 K
notepad.exe 17364 Console 7,892 K
notepad.exe 24696 Console 22,028 K
notepad.exe 25304 Console 5,852 K
explorer.exe 2864 Console 72,232 K
In the example above you can see the image name and the PID for each process. If you want to kill the firefox process run:

C:\>Taskkill /IM firefox.exe /F

or
C:\>Taskkill /PID 26356 /F

The /f flag is kills the process forcefully. Failure to use the /F flag will result in nothing happening in some cases. One example is whenever I want to kill the explorer.exe process I have to use the /F flag or else the process just does not terminate.

If you have multiple instances of an image open such as multiple firefox.exe processes, running the taskkill /IM firefox.exe command will kill all instances. When you specify the PID only the specific instane of firefox will be terminated.

The real power of taskkill are the filtering options that allow you to use the following variables and operators.

Variables:

*STATUS
* IMAGENAME
* PID
* SESSION
* CPUTIME
* MEMUSAGE
* USERNAME
* MODULES
* SERVICES
* WINDOWTITLE

Operators:

* eq (equals)
* ne (not equal)
* gt (greater than)
* lt (less than)
* ge (greater than or equal)
* le (less than or equal)

“*” is the wildcard.

You can use the variables and operators with the /FI filtering flag. For example, let’s say you want to end all processes that have a window title that starts with “Internet“:
C:\>taskkill /FI “WINDOWTITLE eq Internet*” /F

To learn more about taskkill run it with the /? command just like any other Windows command.

I haven’t written anything up recently so I thought I would start off with the fact that I am now using Google chrome as my default browser. I’m using windows, so I can’t say whether its good or not on anything but windows, but on Windows it is astonishing. Now it doesn’t have anything new with add-ons or plugins, I would still say firefox is the best at that.

But Google does best what I want most from my browser – its FAST!

And I don’t just mean its slightly quicker than others, they seem to pale in comparison to chrome.

It has a nice speed-dial type page when opening a new page, like safari or opera, where it shows the most viewed pages and recently closed.

But there are 2 main touches that I really like, one of which makes me think it should be the default browser on computers in libraries etc.

That feature is called incognito mode, this basically opens a new window, where the only difference is that it doesn’t save the history of the pages, and also doesn’t save any cookies. Plus I also like the fact that if a tab crashes in either of these modes you don’t have to close the whole browser down, but instead chrome has its own task manager that shows the memory each tab is taking up etc. But its mostly helpful because you can end the process i.e the tab.

Plus if you want more, there’s a hyperlink at the bottom called ‘more stats for nerds’. This simply opens a new tab with the address about:memory. This shows all the memory being used and in detail by all the tabs and plugins.  Plus if you have more than one browser opened at once, it tells you how much memory each is taking up, so that you can clearly compare them.

The only problem I would have with chrome is that if you have a lot of tabs open when starting it up for the first time, it can take a while, but still only as long as firefox, otherwise it starts up a lot faster than any browser I’ve used before.

I think if you have a netbook like mine, the nc10 or something else, chrome is ideal if it has windows on it.

If your computer is slow at startup, the reason for that may be because there are too many programs that start up while the operating system is loading. Most of the times when you download programs from the Internet, they are set up to load automatically when the computer is started. This normally results in slowing down the startup process of the computer, especially in Windows based systems.

Sometimes, you might also have spyware, viruses or trojan horses that install themselves into the startup folders whilst you’re browsing the net. It is always safe to keep track of which programs and processes are running at all times, and to terminate those that are not required. By doing this, you’ll also be saving some system resources, which otherwise would be held up by unidentifiable and/or unwanted programs.

To end running processes and programs, you can hit Ctrl+Alt+Del. This launches the Task Manager. From the Processes tab, you can terminate the programs you’re not using. However, this does not eliminate the unwanted programs from the startup list completely because when you restart the computer, there they are again, silently running in the background and wasting your RAM.

The best ways to clean up the list of startup programs is as follows: First navigate to this folder: Start/Programs/Startup and remove the shortcuts to the programs that you’d rather not have launched at startup. Secondly, visit the MSCONFIG utility and change the startup options from there.

You do this by clicking on Start > Run, then typing in ‘msconfig’ and hitting the Enter key. This brings up a dialog box. Click on the ‘Startup’ tab and uncheck all the programs that you don’t wish to launch when the computer is started. You’ll notice many programs that run in the background but are not really required.

Finally, the last thing you can do is change program options or settings from the program itself, for instance MSN messenger, Yahoo Messenger and Skype all have a tools/options or options/preferences menu from where you can choose not to have the program started when Windows is started.

This is a very useful tip and you’ll notice that your computer’s booting process also becomes faster since these unwanted programs no longer occupy the memory resources unnecessarily. Do leave comments on any other ways you can clean out your system and make it more efficient.

-      Millie

Today’s question: Why the * can’t I (get myself to) focus on writing ((longer) stories)? A pointless sense of urgency holds me back. Why?

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This sense of urgency is the problem. It’s misdirected. Instead of creativity am focused on staying shallowly up to date in too many fields.

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Need to find a way to steer my energy, to redirect my efforts. What’s the point of following 100s of sci/lit/design blogs? Yet I can’t stop.

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On a (semi-)similar note…

King Nothing

Wish I may
Wish I might
Have this I wish tonight
Are you satisfied?

Dig for gold
Dig for fame
You dig to make your name
Are you pacified?

All the wants you waste
All the things you’ve chased

And it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger
But there’s no one around

Just want one thing
Just to play the king
But the castle crumbled
And you’ve left with just a name

Where’s your crown?
King nothing***

Hard and cold
Bought and sold
A heart as hard as gold
Are you satisfied

Wish I might
Wish I may
You wish your life away
Are you pacified

All the wants you waste
All the things you’ve chased

I wish I may
I wish I might
Have this wish I wish tonight

I want that star
i want it now
I want it all and i don’t care how

Careful what you wish
Careful what you say
Careful what you wish
You may regret it

Careful what you wish
You just might get it

Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger
But there’s no one around

Nothin’
No, you’re just nothin’
Where’s your crown, King Nothing?
No, you’re just nothin’
Absolutely nothin’