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June 1st, 2008
vundrop virus and computer is unusable
My bad luck with virus continues and I don’t know from where the vundrop worm creeped into my computer, corrupting my networks connections and making the system extremely slow.
Like always the system restore failed to do any good and after many reboots finally avast was able to run in safe mode and detect one instance of win32 vundrop in memory which had handicapped the windows
I don’t think that this vundrop virus is same as vundo trojan as some people have suggested at various websites because according to Mcafee and Symantec the vundo trojan is an old adware program discovered in 2004 which displays random popup ads but in my case the virus had disabled all the networking connections and even the explorer.exe failed to load many times
the imax | 5:14 pm | Uncategorized | No Comments
May 18th, 2008
MSN Skydrive Crap
I was tempted by MSN Skydrive as it promised to offer 5GB of free online storage and sharing for files, It seemed a good deal for backing up important documents and files online but as I signed up for the service I was greeted with the message “Sorry, this service isn’t available yet in your region find out when it will be available in your region, visit the team blog”
Their blog states that plan to include more countries next year.
I wonder why they emailed me with the promotion when they are not even offering it in my country! and when the rapid expansion to their service is also going to take one year
the imax | 4:36 pm | Uncategorized | No Comments
May 17th, 2008
Remove BIOS password from HP desktop
I never noticed that there was a BIOS setup password implanted in my HP desktop pc until I tried to enter BIOS to configure an old hard disk.
To remove the password I tried the old trick of removing the CMOS battery cell but that didn’t help, computer lost it time and date but the BIOS password remained there.
However I was able to remove the password by removing the jumper from small pins present near the CMOS cell.
I am not sure if this is a HP specific thing or do the other manufacturer’s also make use of such jumpers
the imax | 8:26 pm | Uncategorized | Comment (1)
April 14th, 2008
Network connections hanging at Startup
I have noticed that after every 3-4 reboots my network connections hang after the startup and the system completely stops responding if you try to open the connect-to menu in the Windows start menu
Sometimes it takes 3-4 minutes for the Windows to finally load the network connection icons in the task bar. This wait is really annoying, I wonder what’s the reason for the for specifically the LAN connections to hang ?
the imax | 7:35 pm | Uncategorized | No Comments
March 30th, 2008
Data Recovery from Corrupt partition table disk
As I mentioned a few posts ago that I got a new WD 250GB disk, I installed it and everything was working fine until I decided to run Partition Magic , when it started it gave some message that the partition table is corrupt and has been corrected.
And that was the last time that I saw my Windows run , when I reboot I got a bad boot disk message , I decided to do a new installation and the 1st partition of my old 80GB segate disk was appearing as unrecognized partition, so I decided to delete it and with that all the partitions on my segate disk got lost and the whole disk started to appear as unformatted space and I had to do a installation on the 2nd WD Disk
The disk had a lot of very important data and I could not afford to lose all of that.
In windows ‘disk management’ the segate disk was still appearing as a unformatted disk of 80GB and none of its partition was available
While searching for tools that could recover my lost data and partition table I tried many software’s including the ‘partition table doctor’ but all of them failed to give the desired results.
The partition table doctor was extremely slow and took hours to scan the disk and even than it was unable to recover all the data, instead it just kept on recovering the files that I had already deleted myself.
I thought that these disk tools will be able to just rebuild the partition table and recovery as such would not be required but that was not the case.
I had an old disk of Ontrack data recovery available that was about 4 years old , I also gave Ontrack a try and was surprised to see that it was able to recover all of the data from all the partitions ( including FAT and NTFS) and it also worked pretty quickly and completed scanning in minutes, all the time used was that for the copying of data to the healthy disk
I had used Ontrack in past to recover files that I sometimes accidentally deleted but I had no idea that it could also help to recover the whole partitions along with their file structure.
If you have any questions or confusions than do comment and I will try to explain in a better way 
the imax | 10:22 am | Uncategorized | No Comments
March 24th, 2008
Default password for WRT54G
If you have forgot the default password of your linksys WRT54G router than remember that the default password for WRT54G is
user name = not required /give any
password = admin
and the default access IP of WRT54G is 192.168.1.1
the imax | 3:14 am | Uncategorized | No Comments
March 22nd, 2008
Regular Expression to find comments in HTML source code
The below mentioned regex or regular expression can be used to find all the comments lines in HTML source code
\< ![^\>]#\>
If you want to clean up your html from comments than you can use the search and replace feature of variuos text editors that understand regex ( ultraedit recommened) and replace this regex string with an empty one
You can even use this regex in MS Frontpage to remove the commented text
the imax | 6:59 am | Uncategorized | No Comments
March 19th, 2008
Default password for ZTE ZXDSL 831D Modem
I really annoys when there is a problem with the modem settings and you realize that you have forgot the admin password for your DSL Modem.
Along with a Zoom Modem I also have a ZTE ADSL modem, ZXDSL 831D. The default or the factory set password for this modem is
USER = ZXDSL
PASSWORD = ZXDSL
remember it is all in CAPS and you can access the settings page by point your browser to this local address http://192.168.1.1/
the imax | 9:21 pm | Uncategorized | No Comments
March 18th, 2008
Seagate VS Western Digital hard drive
I had a 80GB Seagate SATA 2 drive with 8MB cache, I thought that it would be more than enough when I bought it about 2 years ago , however due to downloading junk stuff from torrents and lots of Linux ISOs my Seagate drive had filled to capacity and I yesterday bought a new Western Digital 250GB SATA drive with 16MB cache . Before buying I had done a lot of research that hard drive from which vendor is better and after going through numerous forums, message boards and articles I came to the conclusion to buy a Western Digital drive instead of Seagate.
Opinions @internet regarding the performance of hard drives of these two companies are almost evenly poised with people giving a slight edge to Western Digital in reliability, Maxtor had really bad reviews.
So If you are looking to buy a new hard disk than I would suggest that you go for a WD hard drive, the prices for the two are almost same.
TIP: Also make sure that you have free SATA power cable in your PSU available otherwise also order the
SATA power cable along with the hard drive
the imax | 9:38 pm | Uncategorized | No Comments
January 30th, 2008
How to delete search history in firefox
Thankfully as compared to Internet Explorer, managing and clearing the private data including the search history and URLs of visited sites is very simplified in Firefox.
Just select Tools > Clear Private Data
There’s also a shortcut (shift+ctrl+delete) for the same purpose , a dialog box will open giving you options for the level of data you want to delete
On a public computer you can safely select all the options and click on “Clear Private Data Now” and all the browsing information from firefox will be deleted.
The is another very neat option in Firefox by which you can set it to automatically delete the private data on the closing of browser, select
Edit > Preferences > Privacy and check the box of “Always clear my private data when I close the browser”, here too by clicking on Settings you can customize the things which are automatically deleted.