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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, February 28, 2008 9:20 am

Microsoft has just released a new update (kb940510) on the Windows update to tackle some of the widely used hacking method to activate Windows Vista.

Unfortunately due to time constrain, I am unable to test on the behaviour of this update. But do note that this update is listed on the Windows update and is not stealth installation. It is also said that this update will not disable any Vista features except giving you a good WGA nagging.

Might test this update when I have the time.

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By hayami.wai, February 18, 2008 10:46 am

1. Download this file.
2. Extract winxp_fix_tasksbar.vbs to any location and execute it.

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By hayami.wai,

1. Right click on the Quick Launch toolbar (move the mouse cursor to any part of the Quick Launch toolbar other than the icons).
2. Select Open Folder (This will open the folder containing all the shortcuts in the toolbar. The path typically will be C:\Documents and Settings\<_user>\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch.).
3. Create a *.txt file in the folder.
4. Open the newly created *.txt file and type in
   [Shell]
   Command=2
   IconFile=explorer.exe,3
   [Taskbar]
   Command=ToggleDesktop
5. Save and rename the *.txt file to Show Desktop.scf

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By hayami.wai, January 16, 2008 4:42 pm

The DHCP server is not distributing any IP addresses despite the client able to ping the DHCP server while using static IP. The event log on the DHCP server also has an entry which says “The DHCP service is not servicing any clients because none of the active network interfaces have statically configured IP addresses, or there are no active interfaces”

This may be caused by the DHCP server not having a static IP itself. Assign a static IP to the network adapter. If this has already been done, follow the steps in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298490

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By hayami.wai, January 2, 2008 4:35 pm

1. Close all open programs.
2. Click on Start > Shut down.
3. In the Shut down window, select Shut down in the dropdown list.
4. Hold down Ctrl + Shift + Alt and click Cancel.

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By hayami.wai, December 9, 2007 9:28 pm

You can download here.

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By hayami.wai, November 22, 2007 12:30 am

For those who had used Window 95/98/XP and like to customize how your OS looks like, you would have known that it is possible to change the boot screen to some image that you liked instead of the default logo. Like wise, it is possible with Vista. Although I don’t have any idea why you will want to go thru the trouble to get it done.

To change Vista’s boot screen, follow the steps below.
Warning, changing of system files might potentially corrupt your system. Do it at your own risk.

1. Login to your Vista using an account with Administrative rights.
2. Download and install Vista Boot Logo Generator (Yahoo for it. Yes, no Google here. I like going against the norm XD).
3. Launch Vista Boot Logo Generator. Prior to that, you will need to prepare 2 images (800×600 & 1024×768) in 24bit *.bmp format.
4. Inside Vista Boot Logo Generator, select the images you had prepared by clicking on the Browse for image… button.
5. Click on File then Save Boot Screen File As and use the default file name.
6. Next, fire up Windows Explorer and navigate your way to C:\Windows\System32\en-US.
7. Right click on the file winload.exe.mui and select Properties.
8. Click on Security tab then click on Advanced button.
9. Click on Owner tab than click on Edit button.
10. Under Change owner to: box, select Administrators group account and click OK.
11. On the Advanced Security Settings for winload.exe.mui window, click OK.
12. On the winload.exe.mui Properties page, select Security tab and click on Edit.
13. Inside Group or user names: box, select Administrators and check Allow for Full control in the Permission box below.
14. Click on OK for all.
15. Next, backup the original winload.exe.mui to another location. Then replace the original with the winload.exe.mui that you had generated using Vista Boot Logo Generator.
16. Last, click on Start then Run.
17. Type msconfig then click OK.
18. Click on Boot tab, select No GUI boot then click OK.
19. Restart you computer.