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By hayami.wai, January 27, 2009 6:12 pm

The release candidate for IE8 is out. You can download from the Internet Explorer 8 homepage.

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By hayami.wai, January 23, 2009 9:36 am

Some dude has managed to get hold of an early beta of the Windows Mobile 6.5, installed on a rather old Windows Mobile device. I have no idea if the video was shot delibrately in a not so viewable manner or he just have a very jerky hands. Nonetheless, some new features can be seen inaction (if you look real hard) and Internet Explorer Mobile 8 has finally been revealed.

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By hayami.wai, January 20, 2009 9:05 am

The result of a viral infection, causes the Open With dialog to appear when you attempt to open a drive in My Computer, instead of the usual Windows Explorer.

There are various fixes (that may or may not work) and some workarounds until you can fix the problems.

Workaround 1
Click on Start then Run. Type in the drive letter (e.g. C:) and hit Ok.

Workaround 2
Right click on the drive in My Computer and select Explore.

Fix 1

1. Click on Start, then Run.
2. Type regedit and click Ok.
3. Click on Edit on the toolbar and select Find.
4. Type mountpoints2 in the search box and click on Find Next.
5. Expand mountpoints2 folder and delete drive letter or the network path with the Open With problem.
6. Close regedit.

Fix 2

1. Download FixDrive and save it anywhere you want.
2. Extract FixDrive.exe and execute it (or you can run it directly from the xip file).
3. Select the drive letter with the problem and click Fix.

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By hayami.wai, January 20, 2009 8:37 am

Drop in prices is always welcomed by all consumers, especially during the period of recession. According to xbitlabs,

Intel’s Core 2 Quad central processing unit model Q9650 (3.0GHz, 12MB L2 cache, 1333MHz processor system bus) has lost 40% of its price in business quantities and is now available for $316. Other quad-core models from Intel, such as Q9550, Q9400, Q8300 and Q8200 has lost 16% – 20% of pricing. The Core 2 Quad Q8200 chip, Intel’s most affordable processor with four processing engines is available for $163. In addition to quad-core desktop chips, Intel also made several quad-core Xeon chips for uni-processor servers more affordable.

Prices for the Quad-Cores has gotten so affordable, making people wondering when the Extreme series and the newly launched i7 processors will start climbing down the price ladder.

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By hayami.wai, October 31, 2008 11:12 pm

It was only 2 years since Vista got RTM, now I am getting my hands dirty with Windows 7 already. While build 6803 may not be anywhere near the actual product, it has already shown us some of the (huge) changes that has been made after Vista.

Installation of Windows 7 is almost identical to Vista. First you select the language, agree to the UCLA, select the disk to install Windows 7 and the installation begins.

No detailed walkthrough will be mentioned. I will be posting screenshots follow by screenshots and maybe more screenshots.

Windows 7 startup screen

Creation of first user

Gadgets, where the sidebar is history. I actually liked the sidebar alot.

Windows 7 Ultimate

The start menu. There isn’t much changes as compared to Vista. However, the latest build inside Microsoft lab actually looks slightly different.

New look for Windows Explorer

PowerShell ver2 come by default!

And it comes with a simple GUI editor as well, known as the Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment.

Paint after a makeover? Ribbons has been added. When was the last time Paint got a major change anyway?

Calc on steriods. There are 4 modes, Standard, Scientific, Programmer and Statistic.

Windows Media Player is now 12

That’s all for now.

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By hayami.wai, October 6, 2008 12:29 pm

Most likely due to VBScript.dll not being registered. To fix it, simply

1. Go to Start, Run.
2. Type regsvr32 VBScript.dll.
3. Click on OK.

When you see DllRegisterServer in VBScript Succeeded, you are done.

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By hayami.wai, September 8, 2008 11:51 pm

When you open the user account applet, you get a blank screen like the following

To resolve the problem, do the following

1. Click on Start, Run.
2. Type regsvr32 jscript.dll and click Ok.

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By hayami.wai, August 2, 2008 9:07 pm

When you try to double click on drives inside Windows Explorer, nothing happens. However if you try opening them by right clicking on them and select Explore, or by using the Run command, they open with no problem. This is probably that your computer had been infected by some virus which creates an autorun.inf file in the root directory of each drive. There are various solutions to this problem.

Deleting the autorun.inf file in each drive

1. Click on the Start button then select Run.
2. Type in cmd and click Ok.
3. In the command prompt window, type cd/ then Enter.
4. Type c: then Enter.
5. Type attrib -r -h -s autorun.inf then Enter.
6. Type del autorun.inf then Enter.
7. Repeat step 4-6 and substitute c: with other hdd drive letter that you have.
8. Restart your computer and try opening the hdd drives in Windows Explorer.

Deleting MountPoints2 registry key. This requires administrators privilege.

1. Click on the Start button then select Run.
2. Type in regedit and click Ok.
3. In the regedit windows, click on Edit on the toolbar and select Find.
4. Type in MountPoints2 and click on Find Next.
5. Delete any MountPoints2 entry you find.
6. Repeat step 4-5 until all MountPoints2 are deleted.
7. Restart your computer and try opening the hdd drives in Windows Explorer.

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By hayami.wai, May 10, 2008 12:36 pm

When you try to boot your Vista PC up and ended with the error which says “BOOTMGR is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart. blah blah”. and so, being an obidient person, you proceed to hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, only to find that you are back to the same screen. So common sense tells you that when something is missing, unlikely that it will come back from no where. The next thing you do is to pop in the Vista DVD and proceed formatting your PC, totally skipping the diagnostic tools that Microsoft had given you to make your life somewhat easier.

Microsoft had actually included a tool in the Vista DVD to fix BOOTMGR file problem, and its quite a handy tool to save your trouble of reformatting your PC.

1. Boot up your PC using the Vista DVD.
2. At the language selection screen, click Next.
3. On the next screen, click on Repair your computer.
4. In the System Recovery Option screen, select the Windows installation and click Next.
5. In the Choose a recovery tool screen, select Startup Repair.
6. The recovery tool will the proceed to find the problem and fix it. When the recovery process is completed, remove Vista DVD and reboot your computer.

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By hayami.wai, March 17, 2008 12:16 pm

SCSI disk are usually faster than IDE disk. This too applies to virtual hard disk. But if you ever got into a situation where you have deployed your VHD as IDE disk, you can still convert them into SCSI disk without having to rebuild the VHD.

1. Launch Virtual Server Administration Website.
2. On the side panel, under Virtual Machines, choose Configure and select the VM that you want to configure.
3. Click on SCSI adapters in the configuration page.
4. Click on Add SCSI Adapter, SCSI adapter ID: 7 and click OK.
5. Leave the VHD as IDE disk and start the VM.
6. Once inside the VM, go to Device Manager, look under Storage controllers (Windows Vista) or SCSI and RAID controllers (Windows XP). You should see the following
   • Adaptec AIC-7870 PCI SCSI Adapter or
     • If you have Adaptec AIC-7870 PCI SCSI Adapter, you will need to install a new driver. The Adaptec driver will do, but it is a slow SCSI driver. To update the driver
       1. Right click on the adapter and select Update Driver…
       2. Choose Install from a list or specific location and Have Disk.
       3. Browse to %Programfiles%\Virtual Machine Additions and click OK.
       4. The driver will then be installed. Make sure that Microsoft Virtual Machine PCI SCSI Controller is listed in device manager now.
   • Microsoft Virtual Machine PCI SCSI Controller
7. Shutdown the VM.
8. Move the IDE VHD boot disk to a SCSI interface.
9. Start the VM.