Vista Tips 101 #1

1. Administrator Account in Vista

There are differences in Vista between accounts with "computer administrator" privileges and the Administrator account...... Accounts with "computer administrator" privileges are ones added to the Administrators local group..... The Administrator account, also a member of the local Administrators group, is a separate account that has higher privileges than other users in the local Administrators group. This is very different from previous versions of Windows.

1. To login with the true Administrator account, the account first has to be enabled. By default, the Administrator account is disabled.

2. You can enable the Administrator account with one line from an elevated command line :
net user administrator somecomplexp@ssword /active:yes

3. One More Step: Note: I have not noticed this to be true, but I am passing it on in case:
I have also read that there is one more important thing that needs to be done in Vista to enable the Administrator account. Not only do you have to enable the Administrator account, you also have to disable all other accounts with computer administrator privileges - before the Administrator account can be used as the "Superuser" Administrator. This is unusual, but not surprising considering Microsoft's phobia about security. After you enable the Administrator account, just right click each account in the local Administrators group and disable them. Then reboot the PC and login as Administrator.


2. Add an elevated command line

1. Click Start and type command in the search box... it will then display a number of item.... right-click the shortcut to Command Prompt and click Pin to Start Menu

2. Right-click the shortcut to Command Prompt in the start menu list and click Properties.

3. Click the Advance button and select Run as Administrator . Click Ok to save your settings.


3. Turning off UAC (User Account Control)

1. You can also turn off UAC in Control Panel, User Accounts. Click the link there that reads Change security settings, then, Turn User Account Control Off.

OR

2.Press the Windows + R keys to bring up the RUN window.... type msconfig and then press ENTER... open the Tools pane and then scroll down to Disable UAC and click once on that line. Click the Launch button.


4. Personalizing Your Own Shortcut Keys


The quick launch bar has been there since ages, but it is a little more useful in Vista...

1. Drag a program or a file into the quick launch toolbar.
2. Press the Windows key button on the keyboard plus the number 1 to launch or switch to the first item on the Quick Launch bar.
3. Press Windows key + 2 for the second, and so on.
4. For shortcut number 10, use Windows key + 0.


5. Resize Partitions with Vista Disk Management

Previously, in Windows XP, it was not possible to resize the partition without any data lost... the most common way was to delete the partition and then shrink it or expand it.. Now in Windows Vista it is now possible to resize partitions without any data loss in the new Disk Management console.


1. Click on the Start Button and right click on Computer and select Manage.
2. Expand the Storage section and select Disk Management.
3. Then just right click on any partition and select either Expand or Shrink to change the size of the partition.

This will allow you to safely resize your partitions without any data loss.

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Back at Home

Yes...

Exams are finally over... i sat for 3 freaking hours doing my last paper today... engineering drawing... its not to say hard... but i din have time to finish it up.... i onli did 2 and 3 quarters out of 3 questions...

damn it... never mind... ITS MY SEMESTER BREAK NOW!!!!!! NEXT SEMESTER I WILL FINALLY BE A SENIOR IN COLLEGE...

HP Pavilion HDX

This laptop is ranked as the top 5 DirectX 10 gaming notebook... for those who dont noe wat is directX... Here it is...

Microsoft DirectX (Direct eXtension) is a collection of application programming interface for handling task related to multimedia, especially game programing and vedio, on Microsoft platform. It is a direct competitor of the OpenGL standard. The latest version of DirectX is DirectX 10 which is onli available in Windows Vista.

The following are the full specifications of the laptop... take a deep breath first before reading it... it might just shock u...


Intel Core 2 Duo T7700 2.4Ghz, <-- Super Duper Fast
667Mhz FSB, 4MB L2 Cache
4GB DDR II RAM <-- Too Much of RAM for me but its good..
400GB Hard Disk Drive
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT, 256MB GRAM <-- High Quality Graphics
DVD Super Multi Drive
20.1" TFT LCD <-- Wide screen... But its a little too big to carry
WiFi, Bluetooth,
1.3 M pixel web camera, Finger print sensor
Windows Vista Ultimate <-- Vista Ultimate... U gotta be Kidding...
7 kg (with battery) <-- Too Heavy....





OK... That was a hell of a spec for me... its like a dream machine... it has a very powerful processor... T7700 is rarely seen in the market or even in the outside market... i've seen T7200 and T7400... About the RAM... Windows Vista is said to have best performance with 2GB of RAM (thats wat im using) ... But 4GB of RAM... that is crazy... But it will allow users to get the maximum performance out of their games.... 400 GB HDD??? the first thing that comes to my mind when i see this big hard disk capacity is storing A LOT of movie files...


ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT is a high performance graphic card that will be able to support high-end games.... for more info on this graphic card and its comparison to other graphic card, it can be found here... the screen size is rather big... 20.1"... i cant imagine my self carrying it around... it will be like carrying a samsung LCD monitor around... and its weight.... 7kg... u gotta be kidding me... its like carrying 3 normal weight laptop (2.4kg).... i mean a laptop has to be mobile.. this makes it sound like a desktop...


Prem's conclusion: This laptop has a great performance and gamers will crave for it... but i feel its not the ideal choice for me judging on the screen size and the weight... i dun think i will like the idea of carrying around... there is no price given for this laptop when i read bout it and this laptop has not been released in Malaysia yet...

Away!

Sorry... for not updating.... im reading harry potter and the deadly hollows now... i have another 200 pages to go.... so till then there will be no blog post... sorry.....

Exams Out...

haha... a huge relief today... exams are finally over... well not quite actually.... still have one more paper on the 27th... i hate that paper... Engineering Drawing... well not cuz its hard or something... but its really time consuming... time is basically the enemy in this subject....

ok.. its time to party now... anywayz... im back in KL already and i brought my desktop back with me...

Language Translation Humour... #1

This was the game my group played during ice-breakers for the blogger's buff.... the game is simple... find any word when directly translated from English to Malay or vice-versa will sound funny or stupid.....

1) Terima Kasih -> Receive love

in Malay... "terima kasih" means thank you... but when directly translated it means receive love... to come to think of it... terima kasih shud be something said during valentines day and not on daily basis... can u imagine someone saying "terima kasih" atas meminjami buku anda itu. in English it iwll be "receive love" for lending me ur book...

2) Hardware -> Pemancu Keras

Computer hardware in Malay will be pemancu keras... wat bout software then??? Pemancu Lembut????

3) Teh-tarik -> Pulling tea

ah... Teh-tarik... the ultimate mamak shop menu... "teh-tarik" is a special style of serving tea in the mamak shop... so when u want to order u will say something like this... "Abang, kasi satu teh-tarik"... in english... "Could i have a pulling-tea please?" ...

4) Nasi lemak -> fatty rice

this must be the most ironical mean ever.... or even women's worst nightmare... Nasi lemak in malay means "fatty rice"... Nasi lemak is actually a Malaysian delicacy which consist of rice and anchovies chilli paste... i mean nowadays.. everyone is into this dieting scheme and everyone wants to look thin... will u actually consider buying "nasi lemak" if u noe it is full of fat???

5) Sweet Heart -> jantung manis

sweet heart means jantung manis in Malay... sweet heart is something u will call ur girl fren or couple or wat so ever.... imagine this situation.... u have not seen ur girl fren in a while and u miss her badly... so u give her a call... "sweet heart... i miss u so much......." in malay how do u think it will sound??? "jantung manis.... aku rindukan kau bergila-gila babi"

ok... thats it for now... ill post the rest next week.... keep an eye for the next translation... if u have any good ones please let me noe...

Blogger's Buff review

Blogger's Buff was a huge success yesterday. i really enjoyed it... well so did the others.... for the fee of just RM5 it was really worth it... well there was a lot of food... i mean the fod was jus free flow and u can meet kennysia and timothy (nuffnang creater) and a few other speakers....

wat i din like is i had to wake up at 7am in the morning... i dunno y im complaining cuz i jus slept in the car all the way to the hall and since my sis was the organizer so we had to be there early... i jus carried on sleeping in the car until 9am.. wat i din noe was my sis actually drove the car to the LRT station to pick up one of the speakers and she parked the car in Pasar Seni (Central Market). i was sleeping at the back of the car when the policeman came looking into the car and asked my sister y is there a guy sleeping in the car... my sis had to apologize to the policeman on my behalf of my actions...

as normal... my sis said i was the star of the event cuz i jus went around talking and making frens with everyone... i jus couldnt stand the speaker who was talking bout oil palm.... the rest was ok... timothy spoke well... kennysia came out of surprise...

best of all was the ice-breakers... first was the continuing the story based on the play card... the story went hare-wire when they play cards kept changing.... they next activity was our group had to come out with english words when directly translated to Malay will sound funny or vice-versa.... so i went in front later on and did a stand up comedian act... it was the best... everyone laughed...

i will post the language translation up tomorrow... thats all i can say bout the buff... ill add pictures to it tomorrow....

*Update*

For those of u who really wants to noe wat happened in the blogger's buff... well it was basically bout a few ppl giving talks on how blogging can be beneficial to you and how it can cause trouble to you..... i dun really remember much... cuz i spent a lot of time talking... timothy jus talked bout wat is nuffnang and how does it differ from google adsense..... the info i got from kennysia is that is u wanna make fun of anything jus make sure its humerus... yvonne foong came and gave a talk bout how she started blogging and how blogging help her to raise funds for her medical treatment.... another speaker spoke bout the legalism thingy... bout how much u can copy right from another source and other cyber laws.. there was actually a lot of things that i din noe before i went for the workshop... and now i do...

Exams

Damn it... i hate exam period... have to study like a cow... havent been sleeping properly... sitting in my autocad class and using the net now... onli 8 students are here... 9 now... and all of them r just surfing he net...

Bloggers Buff 2007

As many of you are already quite well aware off, I'm actively involved in organizing a bloggers workshop next month or rather next week in KL.

Bloggers Buff 2007 was mooted to be a stepping stone to get Malaysian bloggers from various genres together in a day to open up their minds towards different aspects of blogging and to comment on issues that affect bloggers in the country.


Basically we're trying to cover a few blog related issues and opportunities in a day.. They'll be a talk on Why Blog and the current scenario of blogging in the country.

The next part would be on the potential of blogs as new age marketing tools, whereby participants would be enlightened on the possibility of using blogs as a medium to advertise your business and products and find loyal customers from the blogging world. Even layman bloggers can make good cash from their blogs and all this would be covered in our sessions.

On top of all that, they'll be some fun group activities where one can mingle around with other bloggers and directly or indirectly increase the number of contacts. Besides that, we'll be covering the issue about self censorship and responsible blogging since Malaysian bloggers certainly have that issue with bloggers being sued and the government proposing for bloggers to be registered.

Quite a wholesome package, don't you think???

The event is on the 8th of July from 9 am to about 5 pm. Open to all Malaysian bloggers and about 60 places available. Registration is through pre-registration in the website and a meagre free of RM 5 will be charged that can be paid on the day of the event. Lunch and tea breaks are served.

This dude Saravanan was nice enough to make a thumbnail link for us..Thanks a million.Please help us spread the news by using the code in his website at your sidebar.

See you guys there...Cheers

UNNIC BBQ Party

Yesterday was another blast in my college... the United Nation's Of Nilai Internatinal College Club (UNNIC) organized a BBQ party.... the objective was to gather all the students in the college in a better approach... the president of the Club told me that he wanted ppl to come in their traditional costume... but he said that would be rather difficult cuz it will effect the crowds turn-out....

Anyway... its an all u can eat BBQ party (more like all u can eat provided there is enuff food)... The food was ok... They were Burmist, indian and local delicacies.... well i did take as much as i could eat... here is a shot of my food... Sis... if u r reading this... i think ur photography disease has spread to me...



The rojak i took... was totally out... horrible.... Anyway... back to the party... i dunno if i want to say if it was really great for me... well im not such of a great dancer... so the dance floor was really not my call... jus did a few moves and then i left... yes u can say im boring... but was not really into the mood... the sound system was not so good... if there was more bass.... i guess i would have dance... the bass was rather low... so u dun get the kick to dance.... and as for the lighting... they kept flashing the white lights... it really made me dizzy... i saw scared i might jus collapse...

i Din stay long...bout 11.30 i came back... need to study for my finals

Trip To Port Dickson

2 weekends ago was a blast for me... i went to melacca for one of my relatives wedding dinner... the dinner sucked and the performances during the dinner sucked... but that was not exactly the agenda of going to melacca... the real motive was to go to Port Dickson (PD) to chill out....

i havent been to PD since i was a kid... the impression i had bout PD beach was a dirty beach with a yellow sea where ppl shit in it... so.. we reached PD in the afternoon... we stayed in the Menteri Besar of Melacca's apartment which is used for some training purposes..... well... the place was fully furnished with air-con system...

we spent the afternoon by doin some story telling with my cusins... we jus love to share gossips bout college, life and everything else.... mom felt pitiful for us and bought us moo ice-cream... check out the picture on the bed... me and my cousin fighting....




We reached on Saturday, so practically we din do much that day... cuz that night was the wedding dinner.... Sunday approached and we started the day by going for a go-cart race... this was my first time at it... we paid for 8 laps and as i was a beginner compared to my cousins, it took me bout 3 laps before i got the hang of doing the quick and sharp turnings... at start, i had the feeling that if i do the quick corners my cart would over-turn... but then i realized that i could do the turning without even hitting the brakes.... no wonder i couldnt catch up... darn... there's always the first time...



Carrying on.. we went to the eagle ranch... jus shot a couple of paint balls there... trying to hit as many bottles down as possible...i onli shot one bottle down... well my accuracy was not bad... 20 % i should say so... after all we onli got 5 bullets each...



moving on was the archery event... i shall not say much... as this time out of 5 arrows... non hit the board.... **embarrassed**...


thats bout my trip... after that we went to the beach and went on the banana boat ride


conclusion: it was a great weekend

HP DeskJet F380 - A never!

A few weeks ago, i had to print a 15 page assignment for my general computing.... i had a kind fren, Sandeep, who willing borrowed me his printer... " HP Deskjet F380 - All-in-1 Printer"....

it offers the capability to print, scan and copy... not to forget that it is a good photo printer... earlier this year when i was working in a computer retail shop, i used to sell this model of the printer.... At that time, i had to promote that quality and features this printer carries but i never actually used it then....

Now when i had to use it.... it was a hell of an experience.... can u imagine it took me 2 hours to print 10 black and white pages.... 2 HOURS!!! this printer is well known of its paper-jam capability.... when u click print from microsoft words or any application, the printer will feed in the paper and the "-E-" sign will appear on the printer's display panel and a message box will pop out saying "paper jam"....

the solution of the paper jam issue???

1) Switch of the printer and on it back.

if that doesnt solve the problem --> proceed to Step 2

2) Go to printer and fax in control panel and delete the printing task.
3) Go to microsoft words or any application and try to print ur document again..

if that doesnt solve the problem --> repeat Step 2 then Step 1 and then Step 3

if that still doesnt solve the problem --> proceed to Step 4

4) Go to Control Panel > System > Device manager. Uninstall the printer and reinstall it again...

Then do Step 2 then Step 1 and then Step 3.

If that also doesnt solve ur problem --> proceed to Step 5

5) Restart your pc. Then repeat the process from Step 1 to 4 in any order that u think might get ur work to be printed out....


i noe the steps are confusing and complicated... thats y i spent more than 2 hours....

Conclusion : Do not buy this printer... A fren of mine told me that HP printers often have this paper jam issue... So, also do consider Canon, Epson or any other brand if u need to buy a printer...

You're a Froud

College life... hmmm... all i can say its getting better day after day...

so far the best part of my college life was on last wednesday... INTI Nilai was having their street party... so me and my fren decide to go for it... since it was INTI college, so we expected it to be damn cun... went i reach there, the stage was no where to be found bout all i could see around me was stalls selling various types of food from garlic bread to sushi.... it really looks like a pasar malam... after walking in bout 200-300 meters pass the stalls then onli i could see the the stage...

i went there at bout 8 pm so there was nothing happening on the stage.... there was jus laud music coming from the back of it... the show was onli to start at 9... so i jus loitered around in the meanwhile.... met my fren luanne....

at 9, there came the 2 mc's on stage.... an indian guy and a chinese "ah beng"..... were not really interested with wat they had to say cuz they were so boring... so at bout 9.30 i was already making my way out from that place... and the best part is when i was going out, a lot of ppl from my college were trying to enter but the stupid thing is non INTI college students cant go in.... they were checking Student ID..

So i came back to college bout 11 after having dinner... still having a lot of work to do... this girl Ms. A ( May intake student - freshie) sms's me saying that she is bored... i jus ignored the messaged and continued to do my work... suddenly i felt a presents.... i felt either my phone was gonna ring or im bout to get a sms... i heard some footsteps and when i turned to look out my door i see a girl i noe, Komana, walking pass my room... so i quickly went out of my room and followed that girl and she was soon joined by Ms. A and Ms. E (Ms. A's room-mate)...

i asked them wats the matter and they said Komana wanted to see who is the 3rd semester student... they were referring to me.... although im in my first sem. but i tell everyone that im in the third sem. so that i dun look like a total freshie... anyway... back to the story... They ask me to follow them to the canteen cuz Ms. E wants to eat a burger.... so i locked my room and followed them to the canteen.. on the way back they said they will send me back to my room jus so that i dun get raped on the way.... for me it was hell no.... they will follow me to my room and then they will continue to disturb me... so i quickly went into the other block and went straight into my frens room.... they were still happily sitting in front of my block waiting for me.... so i decided to take the back route to my room.... i still saw them waiting for me... so i hid in another frens room in my block and asked my fren to tell them that im waiting for them in my room... so they came to my room to find out my door is locked and im not there...

when i came back to my room.... i saw this on my door..


the part from "thx....." is written by me after seeing this notice on my door... and they put another one under my door.... check out the spelling... they cant even spell the word "fraud"....

they thought they could do this to me and go undetectable.... they wanted it to be a secretive work... but more than 20 ppl found out bout this... hehe...

and now even more ppl are going to know... hehe..

**This happened bout 2 or 3 weeks back... i did post it up then but the ppl who were involved read this and got angry with me... so i deleted the post..

Freaky Monday

I dunno y, but mondays always seems to be freaky and interesting for me...

this i gotta say was the most hilarious things i saw since i entered college... jus as i was walking back to my room after lunch today... i was a bunch of tents put up in the car park area.... a bunch of skool kids were camping during the skool holidays...wat amaze me is, which idiot actually camps at the college parking lot... i mean we have a big football field and a lake... y cant there jus camp in the feild or something...

well... i saw them doing a lot of activities such as playing with water a stuff.... no hots girls there... so that kinda upset me.... it just brings back memories of skool days where we had all the time in the world to lepak... here i still have time here... but i use my time to study...

i din have a camera today... so i will upload the pictures of their campsite tomorrow..