Uncovered GodMode Window 7

source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-378247.html?tag=nl.e539

Although its name suggests perhaps even grander capabilities, Windows enthusiasts are excited over the discovery of a hidden “GodMode” feature that lets users access all of the operating system’s control panels from within a single folder.

To enter “GodMode,” one need only create a new folder and then rename the folder to the following:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Users are able to have a single place to do everything from changing the look of the mouse pointer to making a new hard-drive partition.

The trick is also said to work in Windows Vista, although some are warning that although it works fine in 32-bit versions of Vista, it can cause 64-bit versions of that operating system to crash.

For more, read “Understanding Windows 7’s ‘GodMode’” from CNET News.

An IDEAI..!!

Today an idea sparked to capture daily professional / personal activities (accomplishment) in an excel file during office hours excluding weekends. And hence the initiative triggered.

But wait is not this an overhead for my mind to keep pestering myself to capture this, capture that….?
Probably i might forget to capture some of them in the subsequent days.
Let me wait n watch how far i might succeed and how this daily entries would help me in someway or other.
May be someday i might drop this very idea having of capturing daily accomplishments being a repetitive monotonous tasks.
i also added this as a task to my outlook to remind me at least once in a day in second hour of office hours so that i keep the excel file open throughout the day and might not miss capturing, vital, general, some unique activities.

I do also intend to highlight amongst the captured information those that were successful, were accomplished as highly technical oriented and complex, or vital changes made to the IT infrastructure services.

WM 6.5

Eversince i procured Glofiish M700 (August 2008) its been going great, with host of features and oodles of performances with default WM 6.0 pro, but offlate strange and un-usual  things happened to my glofiish m700, sometimes it hanged, battery draining quickly, irresponsive but incoming calls were received without any glitch.

So it was high time to get the unit overhauled. I found that the WM v6.5 rom (phone firmware) generic is leaked out on the net and some geeks are cooking it as per their preferred PDA platform and for Glofiish M700 also a rom was being cooked somewhere on this earth (eten-users.eu), i grasped the specific rom and flashed it after backing up my personal data.

Aw..! it was jaw dropping noticeable performance after flashing it and ample memory, i felt my unit was re-born with renewed performance, slight battery standby / talk time recovered and appealing visuals.

thanks ahmed fikry (cooker of M700 rom)

But am looking forward somebody would port Android for this brand and model, also wish that Nokia’s Maemo (linux based OS for their Nokia N900) goes open source and somewhere on this earth an another geek would port the same to glofiish M700.

SAD Demise

This blog is a tribute to Mr. Sampath Kumar (September 18, 1950 – December 30, 2009), professionally known  as Vishnuvardhan an Indian kannada film actor and singer.

Since i left Bangalore i haven’t seen any kannada film but i recall Mr. Vishnuvardhan’s popular and award winning movie “Muthina Haara”, was a great movie and ran to packed houseful in cinema theaters those days.

We miss him dearly..due to his untimely death.
for more information check wikipedia

Google Chrome on Vista 64 Bit

this is in response to the article http://www.ehow.com/how_4776675_chrome-work-windows-vista-bit.html

Its true google chrome does not work on Vista 64 Bit unless, its runtime shortcut is modified/tweaked as per above URL.

it happened with me also….

but..

after..

Windows Vista Service Pack 2 for x64-based Systems (KB948465)

Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is an update to Windows Vista that includes all of the updates that have been delivered since Service Pack 1, as well as support for new types of hardware and emerging hardware standards. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. This update is provided to you and licensed under the Windows Vista License Terms.

More information:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948465

No need to to tweak the google chrome runtime shortcut
its work fine without any glitch..

check my PC version and google running in the background, also no tweaked setting at google shortcut

Hajj 1430 / 2009

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

Yesterday, i.e, Wednesday 18th November 2009, i received mine & my wife’s Tasree (Haj Permit from Saudi Government) to perform Hajj-1430 insha_allah.

The moment i received the permit in my hands, my happiness knew no bounds, i felt ALLAH (swt) heard my prayers and is inviting me to perform Hajj, the fifth pillar of Islam every Muslims who can afford has to accomplish it.

My prayers to ALLAH (swt), that by his grace & mercy bestow an opportunity to all Muslims to perform Hajj once in his/her lifetime. aameen.

Insha_Allah, when i perform my Hajj and comeback i will post my experience and tips if any for future Haji’s.

Jazakallah..

File Extractions

All those setup files built using Inno Setup  can be extracted using InnoUnp

Its a command line interface (CLI) utility, just download it, extract to some folder and run it without any parameter to display self help. No installation required.

Supports Inno Setup versions 2.0.18 through 5.3.5

A very handy utility.. how? ask some sysadmins.

I found it extremely useful while i needed SATA AHCI ICH9M drivers built for one model but needed to install it on another model.

VMware – Invalid Virtual Machine

I received a email from one of my higher authorities to backup one of the ERP servers data, reformat it and keep it ready for re-installation of application.

The server was used for testing purpose, and am well aware of these people’s reaction and baseless pinpoints, oh you didn’t backup this, and that and oh what happened to the file blah blah blah….

How can one (sysadmin’s) defend in such a situation, well here am sharing my experience as well the proactive measures adopted in backing up the system.

It would have been simple, just copy the data (excluding system files) from servers internal drive (all partitions) to external hdd and reformat the server.
But i wanted to adopt a different method of backup, as well the traditional backup.

Hence i backed up the entire physical machine (see the pic at the end for the machine type and model) using VMware Converter (P2V – Physical to Virtual backup) to be imported into VMware Server version 2.0.1 build 156745. The conversion was successful, but when i tried to import the virtual machine i received the following error:

After searching through vmware forum and inspite of adopting the suggestions recommended in fixing the similar error other peers had faced the import failed. Finally i found another suggestion (thanks tech.alexi of petri.co.il) though omgili search.

It was the encoding problem in the .vmx file, i changed it from .encoding = “windows-1252“ to .encoding = “windows-1256“ and lo the machine started without any glitch.

Note: The VMware Server was hosted on Windows 2k3 Server Ent. Edn 32 bit

Physical Host

Vmware Host 

Note: All the critical information revealing the organization data are concealed in the pics due to security measures.