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Well i use TuneUp Utilities 2009 for various tweaking options. But i was unable to find the option of Removing Shortcut Arrow in Windows 7 though i did it in Windows Vista comfortably. May be i just forgot the option where it was located. Anyways i looked here and there and found a solution.

First i used this method, and it worked sort of. Shortcut arrow was indeed gone but in place of that a big black box had starting appearing. Now the search for the solution began. I came across three solutions, first two didnt work for me but third one did.

• Disk Cleanup. Told me to scan my root drive with this and then uncheck everything except Thumbnails and then click ok.
• Changing the color quality. Changing my display settings from 32-bit to 16-bit and then reboot. After rebooting, change the settings back to 16 – bit. It did work but changing and restarting was a hassle for me.
• Then i used this. It worked flawlessly!

The third solution is also the solution of the big black box thats is present in place of your desktop icons.

First of all, typing “msconfig” in the run box is not the way of disabling services. One must always use “services.msc” to disable service.

After executing “services.msc” in run dialog box, a window will open showing all the services that are present in your system. Now one should not play around with them unless and until you have clearcut idea of what you are doing. To have some help about the services, use BlackViper’s guide. Even though its for Vista, i used it for Windows 7 too!

Anyways, service can be set in 4 modes:

• Automatic: Services in this mode will start everytime you start your pc
• Automatic (delayed): These services also start everytime you start your PC though with a certain delay. eg: Windows Update
• Manual: These services start only when the user wants to or uses an application that causes the service to start.
• Disabled

Now to change the mode of service, double click on the particular service and choose the appropriate mode. You can also start or stop the service from that dialog box. Disabling the service won’t stop it in ur present session, you either have to manually stop it or reboot. Keep in mind, one service may or may not be dependant upon other services.

Scroll to Google Updater Service, double click on it and disable the service. Also stop the service. This is not the entire solution. After sometime the service will start again automatically even though one has disabled it. To rectify this, Open Control Panel, click on Administrative Tools and then Task Scheduler. Search for google and whenever you encounter that schedule, disable or delete it.

This should stop it!

A desi version of Google Earth by Indian Space Research Organization. I wont say its good or its bad but its a good initiative. For using Bhuvan, u must have registered on the site and logged in to use it.

At ur end u must have Directx 9. .Net Framework 2.0 is sort of optional. For using Bhuvan, u have to download a plugin. Now there are two choices for the plugin. First is for those who have both .Net Framework and Directx 9 on their system. The size of this plugin is nearly 11 MB in size. Second choice is for those who have only Directx 9 on their system.

After u have downloaded and installed the plugin, u must be logged on their site. After u open Bhuavn from ur PC, Internet Explorer will open taking u to the Bhuvan page where u can use it like Google Earth. yes, this piece of Software works only on IE 6 or greater. This makes me uncomfortable for i have always hated IE from the heart. If that software opened an UI based on IE, i would have been comfortable, for i wouldn’t have known that it was IE based.

Anyways its slow, takes longer than GE to show images, don’t know much about resolution coz it was too slow for me, i couldn’t wait that long. Server is most of the time overloaded.  First time i visited that site, i had to refresh the page 7 to 8 times to gain access.

Bhuvan is still in BETA stage and it still has a very loooong time to even be a potential threat to GE. Most important things that it must overcome are is its dependence only on IE and the BW issued which makes it extremely slow. Lets hope it gets better with time.

I have used all these AV. Out of these Norton 2005 was my first Antivirus, Kaspersky my 2nd, Nod32 3rd and Avira 4th.

Norton 2005 well it came pre-installed with my PC and i was a n00b at that time and i didnt knew any other AV other than Norton, so i had to use it. After this i switched over to Kaspersky.

Of these, i used Kaspersky for the longest time (3years, i think). It worked flawlessly, but recently it started losing files in quarantine and missed some malicious files. I ran an online scan and they were bad code, also i got bored of Kaspersky, so it had to go. Nopw i switched over to Norton 360.

Its detection capabilities were flawless, but no human interaction caused me losing a lot of good files which were false positives. Also there was no way of recovering them. Its UI sucked so i dropped it. Now i switched over to Avira.

Avira, it was probably the best AV i had used. UI was good, scanner was flawless, scan times though a bit longer and a little resource hogger, but it did its job beautifully. The best thing was its Game Mode. The only problem i had was it was somehow hogging my bandwidth. I don't know how but it was. Its own monitor showed me using my full bandwidth although my download speed was 75% of what i used to get. Even DU meter showed me i was using my full BW. Now i started analyzing the reason and Avira was the culprit, so it had to go too!

Then i started using Nod32 and i m happy with it, unless and until someone tells me how to stop Avira from hogging  my BW. Firewall is good, detection capability is good, light on resource, scanner is quick.

Waise i m still open to suggestions for Antivirus. Don't suggest Avast or AVG.

Windows 7 has leaked and i installed it too. Windows 7 Ultimate (leaked). After installing bootscreen went missing. PC booted fine, less than 15 secs, but there was no bootscreen. and then the search for the answer began.

Got a Piratebay link suggesting to rename the grldr to grldr.old and grldr.bak to grldr or something like that. But in my system there were not two grldr files but only one, so search went on. Then after much searching and chatting, someone suggested to run this command, normally, if not working, then open Command Prompt with administrative privileges.

bcdboot %WinDir% /l en-US

U will have your animated Windows 7 Bootscreen back. This might also work for those of u who are reporting that their Windows Vista bootscreen is showing instead of Windows 7.

 

I have proof, Delhi Metro uses Microsoft Windows at least for the display boards! :D

Michael Jackson, King of Pop is dead. He died of a cardiac arrest. No matter what he was blamed for, he made great music and thats what matters, rest all is gibberish, since he was proven NOT guilty!

http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/25/michael-jackson-dies-death-dead-cardiac-arrest/

http://www.michaeljackson.com/

The site shows nothing but is all red with MJ in the centre!