Kamikaze

Like most of you I have a few applications running on my computer startup (utorrent and such…). Mind you you shouldn’t have too many applications running on startup tho. There are times (if i had a penny for everytime….) that I startup my computer and then forget to login (something just comes up..) and return (sumtimes after a couple of hours) to find <--insert your fav movie/series here--> still hasn’t finished just because I forgot to login. Sounds familiar eh.

So let me show you how to setup your computer to Auto-Login (this will work for almost all versions of Windows):

1. First you need to start Advanced User Accounts Control Panel
In Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003
1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. Type control userpasswords2 (control userpasswords in Win 2000) in the Open box, and then click OK.
In Windows Vista/Server 2008/Windows 7
1. Click Start, (Or Window Key + R in Windows 7)
2. Type control userpasswords2 or netplwiz in the Start Search or Run box, and then press ENTER.
2. In the User Accounts (Users and Passwords in Win2000) dialog box, on the Users tab, click to clear the Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer check box, and then click OK.
3. In the Automatically Log On dialog box, type the user name and password to be used for automatic logon in the User name and Password boxes respectively, type the password again in the Confirm Password box, and then click OK.
4. Click OK to close the User Accounts (Users and Passwords in Win 2000) dialog box.

So now that you have your PC Login you in automatically at Startup. Lets make things a little secure by having it Lock the Computer Automatically After Login:

1. Go to Start, or Press Windows Key+R to bring up the Run box
2. Type Regedit and click enter to open Windows Registry Editor
3. Go to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
4. Right click, and make a New->String Value
5. Call it “AutoLock” (or whatever you want)
6. Double Click on the Newly Created String Value (Right click, and Modify works as well)
7. Enter the value: rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation
8. Click OK, Close Regedit and you’re done (Restart the PC to check if you want)

Now if you don’t want to mess around in the registry there is another way to do this by creating a a new shortcut in Programs->Startup and giving “%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation” as the location (without the ” ” quotes and making sure there are no trailing spaces at the begining and end).

Hope this helps.

Orb is a nifty program that lets you stream your video, photos, music and even live TV from your computer to your laptop or mobile. And now it’s available for the iPhone and iPod touch. And it’s easy as 1,2,3….

1. Install the orb client to your PC.
2. Login at Mycast.
3. Enjoy anywhere Share with anyone….

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NTFS is great we all know, but there is still need for FAT formatted drives (ie: in embedded media players, cross platform compatibility). But since windows 2k/XP Microsoft introduced an limitation on FAT32 filesystem. As they say here.

You cannot format a volume larger than 32 gigabytes (GB) in size using the FAT32 file system during the Windows XP installation process. Windows XP can mount and support FAT32 volumes larger than 32 GB (subject to the other limits), but you cannot create a FAT32 volume larger than 32 GB by using the Format tool during Setup. If you need to format a volume that is larger than 32 GB, use the NTFS file system to format it. Another option is to start from a Microsoft Windows 98 or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) Startup disk and use the Format tool included on the disk.

So the only way to format a drive larger then 32GB in FAT32 is to use third party tools like Partition Magic, Paragon Partition Manager, but these are not free, an often pretty large downloads. An freeware alternative to manage partitions would be the well knows linux app GParted, which also comes as a livecd.

But even better option is fat32format, a small DOS app that will let you format any drive in FAT32.

Usage is pretty straightforward: (continue reading…)

As you may (or not) already know, Bill Gates the founder and Chairman of Microsoft is going to leave his day-to-day job at Microsoft and move to a lil more part time role from July 2008. There has been talks about this going for more the 2 years and now he’s finally decided on a date.

Above is a funny parody video of what Bill imagines his last day at work would be like. As seen during his keynote address at CES 2008.

This post is obsolete. You should check out the new updated post: Bypass Windows TCP/IP Limit

As you may have noticed Microsoft still limits your half-open (incomplete/syn packets) connection attempts per second that the system can make. Microsoft has done this since Windows XP Service Pack 2 to keep your computer from being used by dangerous programs such as worms that scan the internet to infect more systems and to keep your computer from being a host of a Bot that connects to IRC that accepts commands to launch Distributed Denial Of Service Attacks (DDoS) against other people and companies they do not like.

Unfortunately for us and companies, this limit effects our internet by limiting the capability of P2P (Peer 2 Peer) applications like µTorrent, BitTorrent, BitComet, Azureus, BitSpirit, eMule (eDonkey network), BearShare, Direct Connect, DC++, ApexDC++, or even P2PTV such as PPLive, PPStream, Sopcast, TVAnts, Peer to Peer, Web server, FTP, and many other applications we love to use but cannot take full advantage of. Basically, you will make uTorrent faster as well as all these other apps you need.

When the limit is hit, You will recieve a Notice in Event Viewer Saying:

EventID 4226: TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts.

This means Vista Has maxed out our connect attempts.

[NEW] vistatcpipuacpatch21 EventID4226Fix for Windows Vista v2.1 for SP1 (build 18000) (32/64bit)

Installation Instructions:

Extract the archive to a directory on your computer.
Windows Vista SP1 32 bit: InstallPatch32.bat
Windows Vista SP1 64 bit: InstallPatch64.bat
Uninstallation: UndoPatch.bat

Please Note! Due to Vista SP1 restriction of using signed drivers only:
Vista SP1 (32/64) requires all drivers to be digitally signed. to bypass this limitation, we use a tool called ReadyDriver Plus v1.1. after install it will bypass the blue-screen and will boot Vista normally.

For those of you who wants to do it manually:
To use this driver you must press F8 at every Windows boot load. Then, in the boot menu, choose the option to disable driver signature. Vista will now boot successfuly.

Credit Goes to [ mydigitallife] | [ Yaronmaor]