How to remove antivirus 2009 Manually?

Note: Antivirus 2009 is a threat not an antivirus software. It always shows that your computer is in threat and to scan online etc  etc. No other antivirus programs can remove it except through the manual method.

Antivirus 2009 manual removal:

Delete registry values:(How to  do it here)

HKEY_CURRENT_ USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Run\153589436429 5587050450837002 5739
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Antivirus
HKEY_CURRENT_ USER\Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentV ersion\Run\"Antivirus" = "%ProgramFiles% \Antivirus 2009\Antvrs. exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_ USER\Software\ Antivirus

Unregister DLLs:(How to do it here)
shlwapi.dll wininet.dll

Delete files:( How to do it here)
av2009.exe av2009install. exe av2009install_ 0011.exe av2009[1].exe Antivirus2009. exe ieupdates.exe scui.cpl %program_files% \\antivirus 2009\\av2009. exe %startmenu%\ \antivirus 2009\\antivirus 2009.lnk %startmenu%\ \antivirus 2009\\uninstall antivirus 2009.lnk winsrc.dll %desktopdirectory% \\antivirus 2009.lnk winsrc.dll ieupdates.exe av2009install_ 0011.exe av2009install. exe %program_files% \\antivirus 2009\\av2009. exe

Delete directories:
C:\Program Files\Antivirus 2009

How to display text message warning before windows Logon?

You can insert legal warnings or any interesting messages for others just before logonto windows based computer. This is very useful if you want to give a message to new users about the uses of computer. You can create this banner message using the windows registry editor but make sure before modifying your system Registry about its backup because Registry contains all information how your system runs. This backup will help you to restore Registry in case any problem occurs after modifying.

To edit the computer registry, first you should log onto your computer with administrative rights.

Click Start button then type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next.

Here locate the location to:

HKeyLocalMachine\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon

Here in right side panel, double click on the key LegalNoticeCaption and give it a value you want to see in the menu bar. For example “Welcome Screen for All Users”.

Now again in right side panel, double click on the key called LegalNoticeText and change the value you want to see in the dialog box. For example “You may not succeed later when trying to logon without a password.”

Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

Maintaining your Windows PC

Some tips to maintain your windows PC.

Organize files and folders (to be done on Windows installation)

Files keep accumulating in a computer and it is a good idea to organize them in proper folders that are easy to access and bring information to your fingertips.

Windows XP usually stores most of your files inside the My Documents folder, which is located on the C drive. You should first relocate this folder to another drive such as D, so that your data remains intact even when you reinstall Windows. 

To do this, create a folder such as MyDocs in the D drive, right-click on My Documents, click on Properties, enter D:\MyDocs in the Target box and click OK. You will be asked whether you wish to move all the files to the new location, click Yes. 

You should then create folders such as Work, Shopping, Home, etc in My Documents to store files regarding these topics. Once you create this structure, move the relevant files to this new folder structure. Windows already has a good way of organizing files - there is My Pictures to store images, My Music to store music etc, but you can create additional folders inside these to categorize your pictures, music, so it becomes very easy to locate them. 

If you want to search faster, you can install Windows Desktop Search fromhttp://www.microsof t.com/windows/ products/ winfamily/ desktopsearch/ choose/windowsde sktopsearch. mspx. This tool indexes your files for faster retrieval. You can also use Google Desktop Search or Copernicus.

You should also relocate your default Outlook mail and address book store folder to the D drive (assuming that you use Outlook as your email client). Open the registry editor and go to the appropriate key according to the version of Outlook. If you're using Outlook 2003, locate registry key [HKEY_CURRENT_ USER\Software\ Microsoft\ Office\11. 0\Outlook] . If you're using Outlook XP, locate registry key [HKEY_CURRENT_ USER\Software\ Microsoft\ Office\10. 0\Outlook] . If you're using Outlook 2000, locate registry key [HKEY_CURRENT_ USER\Software\ Microsoft\ Office\9. 0\Outlook] . Create an expandable string value REG_EXPAND_SZ called "ForcePSTPath", and set it equal to the full path of the required personal folder directory such as D:\MyMail (you need to create this destination beforehand). Exit the registry and log out of Windows for the changes to take effect.

Delete or compress unnecessary files (may be done once a month)

You can do this using the Disk Cleanup tool. To launch it, click Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup. Use this tool to cleanup each of your drives. Some temporary files are still left in the temporary folders. You can manually delete them by opening the folders %temp% and C:\Windows\Temp.

You can also delete temporary internet files as follows. In Internet Explorer, go to the "Tools" menu and down to "Internet Options". Under the "Temporary Internet files" section, click the "Delete Files" button. Check the box in front of "Delete all offline content" and click OK. If you use Opera, click Tools > Preferences, go to Advanced tab, click on History and click Empty now.

To minimize the space occupied by mails, follow these steps. In Outlook, click on Tool > Options > Mail Setup. Click on Data Files button, select Archive Folders from the list, click Settings, and click Compact Now. This will compress this particular folder. Do the same for all items in this list.

Defragment Your Computer (to be done once every month)

Files scatter all over the hard drive and therefore, accessing them becomes slower. This tends to increase over time as more and more programs are installed. The Disk Defragmenter bundled with Windows organizes files on your hard drive and helps it run better and faster. If you have a highly fragmented drive, this will make a huge difference in the performance of your PC.. Click Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter. Select each of the drive and click Defragment.

Use BootVis to speed up your booting

One of the main causes of slow booting of XP is due to the method of loading drivers. Windows versions prior to XP, loaded drivers sequentially, while since XP, it has been done concurrently, causing a slowdown. This information is written in the file C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch \Layout.ini. While creating this file, XP does a partial defragmentation of the files listed in Layout.ini to make them available in one contiguous area of the hard drive, allowing to load them faster. 

Various factors adversely affect this defragmentation process, such as a fragmented hard drive, improper defragmentation of the above files by the normal Defragmenter, etc, and therefore it is necessary to do this defragmentation manually using a utility from Microsoft known as BootVis, which is available at http://www.microsof t.com/whdc/hwdev/platform/ performance/ fastboot/ BootVis.mspx. Extract this ZIP file to a folder after downloading. Run the BootVis.exe from this folder

The first step in tweaking or troubleshooting your boot process is to run a boot trace. Click File > New > Next Boot + Drivers Trace. The Trace Repetitions window will prompt you for the number of repetitions (reboots and traces) to run. Let us go with the defaults and click OK. 

BootVis will now provide you with a 10-second countdown before it reboots the system and performs the trace, therefore giving you time to cancel the reboot and close any running applications you might wish to save and close. If you want to reboot instantly, click Reboot Now or click Cancel to cancel the reboot

After XP reboots, BootVis restarts automatically and provides individual graphs for the system activity areas such as Boot Activity, CPU usage, Disk I/O, Disk utilization, etc. Armed with the indication of how well the boot process is going, it is now the time to optimize the system. Click Trace > Optimize System. 

Again BootVis will present you with a 10-second countdown before rebooting. When the system reboots, the BootVis window will appear indicating that BootVis is using information gained from the previous boot and the current boot to optimize the system

When the next window appears, BootVis actually starts placing the files specified in the Layout.ini file in the area of contiguous disk space created during the defragmentation process run prior to using BootVis. If you want, you can run another Boot trace to find how much your system gained because of this optimization.

Backup your files (to be done once a week/month depending on your requirements)

Backing up your data is a good practice, especially because you then have a spare copy of your important files, should your hard drive fail one fine day. Thankfully Windows XP comes with a free backup utility, which comes handy when you need to backup your data. Click on Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Backup. If it has not been installed, you can get it here http://www.microsof t.com/windowsxp/using/setup/ maintain/ backupsw. mspx.

The Backup or Restore Wizard appears. Click Next. Click Next on the Backup or Restore page. Click All information on this computer on the What to Back Up page, and then click Next. Click Choose a place to save your backup, and select your external hard disk drive on the Backup Type, Destination, and Name page and click Next. Click Finish on the Completing the Backup or Restore Wizard page. 

Windows Backup saves a copy of your files to your external hard disk drive. When your XP fails to start, you will be able to restore your files to the state they were in when you completed the backup. However, any new files you have created and any changes you have made to existing files since the backup occurred will not be saved unless you backup your files again. It is recommended that you backup your files every week.

Remove unnecessary programs

Every program installed on your computer takes up space, and some programs slow your computer down regardless of whether you use them or not. So if you have installed a program that you do not intend to use again, it is better to uninstall it. You can do this either using the Add/Remove Programs applet in the Control Panel or using the Uninstall icon in the program's folder in the Start Menu

Configure Power Management to save on electricity bills and prolong the life of your PC

Windows XP comes with excellent power management facilities that give you great control over the amount of time that your computer components should wait to enter a low power consumption mode. This can be done using the Power Options applet in the Control Panel, where you can choose from among various in-built power schemes. 

If you wish, you can specify your own power profile by choosing the amount of idle time, your monitor and hard drive should wait before turning off. You can also specify the amount of idle time to wait, before your computer can enter the Standby mode.

If you can spare disk space equal to the amount of installed RAM, on your host drive, you can enable the Hibernate feature in the Hibernate tab, go to the Advanced tab and select Hibernate option from the drop-down list below "When I press the power button on my computer", in the Power buttons section. Now when you press the power button, your computer will enter the Hibernate state (which is faster than normal shutdown), and you can turn off the mains power. 

When you restart your computer, it will be restored to the exact state at which you hibernated (and this is much faster than a normal XP startup). The advantage of this feature is that if you were working on a certain program, you can hibernate, even mid-way through it and when you power on the computer, you can continue from where you left off.

In addition to the above, you must install critical Windows Updates regularly to fix bugs as well as to update drivers and certain programs. You can use the Automatic Updates feature to do this. Make sure that this is turned On in the Control Panel. A good antivirus, firewall and anti-spyware is also a must along with regular updates (at least once a week or using the auto-update feature), as these will keep your computer safe while you are online. In addition to this, you should schedule these to run a thorough scan at least once a month just to be sure.

Formatting a computer

Dear Readers,
According to a poll 98% of the computers in the world are affected with viruses. If it affects us, we normally format the pc. Right???. Ok. Many of the people say that repeated formatting of the pc may cause the destruction of the system. This belief is absolutely wrong. Wrong in the sense its a foolishness.

What is formatting??
It is the deletion of all the files in a hard drive or a partition. Everyday we delete files from our computer and that does not cause destruction and how can this cause destruction. So my dear friends, dont believe in such sayings. Formatting never causes destruction. Its just a replacement of files.

If cancer is affected in a part of the body we cut it off to prevent the spreading of cancer to other parts. Same thing here too.

Lock a folder in D drive

Suppose you want to lock the folder PERSONAL in D drive.
Thus, it's path shall be D:/PERSONAL
1. Open the notepad. Type : Ren PERSONAL PERSONAL.{21EC2020- 3AEA-1069- A2DD-08002B30309 D}. Now save this text file as LOCK.bat in the same drive.
2. Now, again open the notepad. Type.Ren PERSONAL.{21EC2020- 3AEA-1069- A2DD-08002B30309 D} PERSONALSave this text file as OPEN.bat in the same drive..

Now, when you double click on LOCK.bat, your folder "PERSONAL" will become the control panel and nobody can view the contents of this folder.Now, to see your folder, just double click on OPEN.bat.

Note: This can be done in any drive for any folder.

Google Ride Finder

Google Ride Finder- Coming Soon (now at google labs)

Find a taxi, limousine or shuttle using real time position of vehicles. Really useful right??? But the problem which arises is that this option is limited to America. For example if you are in U.A.E, you cannot use this option. Why cant they start a worldwide ride finder. But Google Shines like a bright star in the sky. Loads of future programmes and achievements. All the best to google.

Google Friend Connect Is Coming Soon

We know that Google is about to launch Friend Connect to public but here’s another strong hint that the service may go live very soon.

The support site of Friend Connect is now up and running with detailed information on how site owners can integrate the OpenSocial gadgets of Friend Connect in their sites.

With Google Friend Connect, visitors to your site or blog can:
> Sign in with their Google, Yahoo, AIM or OpenID account.
> Interact with other visitors by making friends, sharing media, posting comments, playing games, and more.
> Invite friends from other social networks and contact lists to join your site or blog.

MyBlogLog users can easily relate to Google Friend Connect. You add a widget to your blog and visitors can join your site via their Google, Yahoo, AIM or OpenID account.
Once they join, their picture will show up in the Friend Connect badge. They can also explore profiles of other members or even grow their social network from your site itself by adding other site members as their friends. I think it is a useful service.

To sign up for preview release and more news visit: http://www.google.com/friendconnect/previewsignup

My dream projects

Here is my dream:

Blog4Info - Done
Blog4Travel - Pending (work started)
Blog4Music - Pending
Blog4Movies - Pending
Blog4Celebreties -Pending

These projects will be launched soon.

BLoG4Info Admin

How to create a RSS Feed for your blog.

Hi Friends,
Today through this post I am gonna teach you how to create RSS Feeds for your site without using any softwares and knowing any programming languages.

The best feed generating site I think is Feedburner. Register an a/c with feedburner and simply enter your blog or site URL to automatically create a feed. Its very easy and consumes less than 10 minutes. Then using the widget provided by feedburner itself offer e-mail subscribing facility to the readers.

Feedburner URL: http://www.feedburner.com/

For more information feel free to contact me: cybermammu@gmail.com

Hope to see u soon back here.

A request to Google

Dear Google,
I have a request. The adsense service from you is only usable by 18+. But nowadays children are brilliant than the elder ones. I am also a 14 year old blogger. I cannot register adsense. My uncle said he will help me. But another poicy of you is that only one a/c per Payee. So that way was also shut in front of me. What we the kids should do. What way is available for us.

Admin
www.blog4info.blogspot.com

NOTE: A COPY OF THIS POST HAS BEEN MAILED TO GOOGLE.

Useful Google Talk Bots That You Must Add as Friends

Content Courtesy:
labnol.blogspot.com

You can do lot of interesting stuff with Google Talk like get alert notifications, save bookmarks to delicious, manage web calendars, set reminders, write blogs, and so much more.
Such features can be easily integrated into Google Talk through ‘bots’ which, in simple English, are like virtual friends who are online 24×7 and will always respond with a smile to your questions or requests.
Here are the eleven most useful ‘bots’ that transform Google Talk into a more useful program:
1. imfeeds@gmail.com - Add this IM Feeds bot as your Google Talk buddy and you’ll be able to read any blog or website that syndicates content via RSS feeds.
To subscribe to a website in GTalk, simply send a new IM message that says "sub labnol.org" where labnol.org is the site address that you want to read inside Google Talk.
2. friendfeed@bot.im - This secret bot lets you post to FriendFeed from Google Talk. You may submit either hyperlinks or text messages.
3. imified@imified.com - This imified bot turns Google Talk into a real powerhouse.
You can post bookmarks to delicious, send messages to Twitter, submit blog entries to WordPress, Tumblr or Blogger, manage events in Google Calendar, shorten long URLs, run whois and so on.
4. inezhabot@gmail.com - Like IM Feeds, iNezha bot helps you read feeds inside Google Talk but this is slightly more versatile. For instance, you can simply say "digg" and it will show a list of all feeds that match that search term so you don’t have to type (or copy-paste) feed addresses.
5. Translation - This is a free service from Google that helps you translate words from a foreign language into your native language. Just add the relevant bot (e.g. hi2en@bot.talk.google.com for Hindi to English or en2hi@bot.talk.google.com for English to Hindi) as your buddy, send him a message and it will get translated instantly.
6. Use Google Talk with Twitter - Invite twitter@twitter.com to become your friend in Google Talk and verify your account. Now whenever you IM this new friend, the message will automatically publish on your twitter account.
7. Set Task Reminders - If you need to remember something important, Google Talk can send you reminders for that event.
Just add timer to your Twitter friend’s list and then add twitter@twitter.com to your buddy list in Gtalk. Now if you want to get a reminder after 50 minutes, send a direct message to twitter like "d timer 50 pick kids from school" and a reminder will automatically pop up in your Google Talk after 50 minutes.
8. Transliteration - If you want to chat in your mother tongue (like Hindi or Tamil) but feel more comfortable using the English keyboard, Google Transliteration bot will come in handy.
For instance, add en2hi.translit@bot.talk.google.com to you friend’s list in GTalk and all messages you type in English will get transliterated in the language of your choice. Available only for a few Indian languages.
9. Xpenser - With xpenser, you can record travel expenses via email, SMS or even Google talk. Add xpenserbot@gmail.com as your buddy and send a message like "lunch 33.2 with Bill Gates" and that will be added as an expense to your online spreadsheet that can be accessed from anywhere.
10. Ping.fm - Like Imified, ping.fm is one of the most useful Google bots out there especially if you are a social networking or micro-blogging addict.
Add pingdotfm@gmail.com to Gtalk and you can communicate with twitter, jaiku, wordpress, identi.ca, facebook, myspace, bebo, friendfeed, linkedin, tumblr, plaxo, friendster, delicious and more.
11. Meshly - Add meshly@gmail.com as your friend and you’ll be able to post web link to your Meshly account via Google Talk. You can also add tags, categories and description to your hyperlink via Gtalk itself.

The Google Knol- A unit of knowledge

The Google Knol- A unit of knowledge

Google is really brilliant and also it shines. A new service from google, the Google Knol! A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic. Its a bit relating 2 a blog still its different and useful for our life. Anybody can share their knowledge in the form of an article. Hows it???? Brilliant, Yeah???? And Knol also supports debates.

To visit the Knol:
http://knol.google.com/k/

BLoG4InFo Toolbar Released

Hi Friend,
I am back here again with a good news. BLoG4InFo Team's 4th Project a community toolbar has been released today. User friendly toolbar. The "BLoG4InFo toolbar".

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Chief Editor