How to turn-off AutoPlay feature on Windows

You never know whether or not there is any virus in the flash drive that you borrowed from your friends or in any Cds or DVDs you put in your CD or DVD-ROM. To make sure that our PC is protected from that possibilities we will need an anti-virus program or application. But in this post right now, i’m not going to write about any anti-virus program. What i’m intent to write is about one important thing that’ll affect the safety of our Windows system even the one with anti-virus program installed.

You all should already know about Auto Play feature in your Windows OS, right? Then this would make it easier for me, because i don’t have to write a long paragraph about what Auto Play feature is. I’ll just jump to the point then, because of that feature keep running, everytime you plug your flash drive or close your CD or DVD-ROM windows will always detect and this auto play feature will automatically read any folders and files inside the device ( flash drive and Cds ot DVDs ) and ask you what task would you like to perform to that device. When that happens, if there are any virus in it then your system will be in trouble if you’re not prepared with a powerfull anti-virus program.

Now i will just tell you how to turn that feature off, here is the 3 easy steps:

1. Open the Run Dialog Box, and type gpedit.msc

2. In the Group Policy window, go to directory Administrative Templates | System , then find Turn off Autoplay, double-click on it and then enable it.

3. Put a CD or DVD to check whether the feature is still running or not.

So, that’s it. I hope it’ll be helpful

The next mouse technology from Logitech, MX Air™ Rechargeable Cordless Air Mouse

As far as we know, a computer’s mouse is developing from ball-type with PS-2 connection, then to optical-type with USB connection. It becomes easier and simpler to use. Now, the next one has come. MX Air™ Rechargeable Cordless Air Mouse allow us to control pointer movement with our motion-hand pointing method, the trick is, it use a set of acceleration censor device to translate the mouse movement in the air, just like playing with a stick pointing to the PC monitor. Let me put it this way, we can use this mouse as easy as using a remote control, there are also “Play”, “Stop”, and other buttons besides the “left”, “scroll”, and “right” buttons as what we always see in most mouse.Till now, what i’ve heard about this device is that for beginners, they’ll definitely need a little practice, because it is very sensitive of movement. But as long as we try to adapt, we will soon able to control our PC from the comfort of our sofa. And if you failed to adapt and you give-up to try any longer, you can easily use it as simple as usual mouse, because this device is designed for on-air and on-desk use. What makes it more interesting is, that it can detect hand movement combination that has been configured before, for example in Windows Media Player, to step to the next track, all we need to do is while we hold the mouse, swing our hand (in circle) to the right (clockwise).

- info from : logitech.com

Irikon™ flash memory, protect your files with your eye !!

Did you feel caution and afraid every time you have to leave your flashdisk alone? Or did you still afraid that your hacker friend will look at your files even though you have protected it with a password? And that feeling never leave you alone when lots of possibilities can happen, such as they break through your winrar password, they decrypt what you have encrypt, or they can even brought back the files you have deleted from your flashdisk, i should warn you those possibilities could happen.

But, thanks to Irikon™ flash memory, now we can relax, because it allow us to protect our files inside the flash memory with our own iris ( a part of human eye ). It all started in the country Korea, they come up with the idea of Iris-Scan feature. Where the Irikon™ flash memory were paired with a integrated camera that will be use as the device to scan the owner’s eye. With this technology, only the real owner can access the files.

Irikon™ flash memory is the world’s first flash memory implementing iris authentication and ensures that the confidential data in the flash memory is secured by the iris authentication process. No one other than the pre-registered user can access the data within the flash memory without taking the iris authentication process. Users do not need to recall passwords but simply gaze into the iris camera on the flash memory to activate.

What i know about the device is that it can save up to 20 eye, means 20 different users/owners. The eye data will be encrypted in 256-bit depth. As what the producer company, Rehoboth Tech said, the false acceptance rate is about 1:1,200,000. The device is available in 1, 2, or 4 gb capacity, and compatible with USB version 1.1 or above. Dunno about the price yet.

Hide your control panel from start menu to protect your settings

How do you feel when you left your friend alone with your PC ? Did you worried about what they’re doing with your PC ?
It’s fine if they just use it to finish their homework, like just using Excel, Word, etc. But what if we don’t realize that what they really do is changing our windows settings ?
It is obvious that they can easily access our control panel from start menu, for just about 2 clicks they can get to ControlPanel window.

To avoid that, let me give you 3 simple and easy steps to make your Control Panel disappear from Start menu, but before that i need to warn you about editing your regedit, before you click here and there, you better backed your reg file, you can save the regedit by using the ‘export’ from the regedit menu, or you can use the system restore that is provided by windows by accessing Startmenu / AllPrograms / Accessories / SystemTools / SystemRestore, after you have the back-up reg file, or the system restored you are save to edit your registry :

1. Open the ‘Run dialog box’ from your Start menu, you can do it by clicking the Start button and then click on the ‘Run…’ menu, or you can also do it by click and hold the windows logo on the keyboard and then press ‘R’ ( +R ), in the Run dialog box type ‘regedit’ then click ‘Ok’.

2. In the Registry Editor window, from the folder tree, go to ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Policies | Explorer’, make sure you click on the folder ‘explorer’, then in the explorer window on the right of the folder tree just right-click on the area and choose New DWORD Value in the name of ‘NoControlPanel’, you have to type it carefully exactly like mine, check the capital letter, after the DWORD is added, double-click on it and a little window will appear, now change the value data from zero(0) to one(1) and then click ‘Ok’, you can close the Regedit window.

3. Now that you’re done, you wanna check whether your Control Panel are still on the Start menu or not, but if you do that right after you close your Regedit window i’m very sure that your Control Panel still staring at you from the Start menu. You wanna know why? i’ll tell you, it’s because the explorer needs to be restarted first.

There are three ways to restart your explorer, first is the easiest but take the longest time, just restart your PC, second is same as easy but takes less time, log off your PC and then log in again.
The last way need a little concentration, but it is the fastest, here is the steps:
- Open Windows Task Manager, go to Processes tab and find explorer.exe, after you’ve found it right-click on it and then choose End Proccess, but don’t close your Task manager quite yet.
- Now your taskbar will disappear and all you need to do next is to bring it back, and you can do it by going to the Applications tab in the Task Manager find New Task under it then click it, a small box will appear, type ‘explorer’ and click ‘Ok’, that’s it your taskbar will come back.

The last thing i should tell you is how to make the Control Panel access back to Startmenu, it is very easy indeed, all you need to do is go back to regedit, in step 2 above, i told you to change the value data of ‘NoControlPanel’ from zero(0) to one(1), this is the explanation: one(1) means disappear, and zero(0) will obviously means that it will not disappear, very easy right?

I really hope this information can be useful for you or anyone else.

Update your XP MSConfig

I know most of XP users don’t even care about their MSConfig or maybe they don’t even use it at all. But, information will never hurt, right? Now let me just give you the link and a little description about the update :

It will change your MSConfig setting window from this :

to this:

With the ‘Tools’ tab we can easily access all the thirteen Windows XP tools that available in our harddisk, like Registry editor, programs, command prompt, etc.

Now that you know what the update is for, just decide whether you need it or not, the links are just below:

first, you can download from the original source : microsoft.com if you are sure that you can pass the Windows XP validation, cause it requires that before you download the update.

But if you want an instant download, i also have the link : 9down.com

Microsoft surface, tech will never stop !!

Say no more, just watch the video above and you’ll know what i mean by “tech will never stop”. If i had US$ 10,000 right now, i’ll be sitting in front of that Microsoft surface table thing, touching and pointing my fingers to it like crazy. That thing, by the name of God is the everything i could think a computer should be, at least today before they could create the next generation of a computer.

Speaking of the next, just for “blah blah” how do you think it would be? will it be in a shape of nothing, maybe. Or i don’t really know, what i know is they’ll do their job as long as they have the vision. Tech is now developing really quick and fast, i don’t think researchers even sleep enough, you know? they keep thinking forward on how the future will be.

- info from microsoft.com/surface

Windows XP Service Pack 3 is leaking . . .

This third service pack for Windows XP were originally scheduled to be released in 2006, but then is got postponed to 2007, and again it got postponed the second time, and now it is currently planned for the first half of 2008, i think it was all because of Windows Vista and stuffs that this SP3 is pushed to background by Microsoft, it was old news for them. But still not only this service pack is alive and kicking now on the web, but Microsoft also managed to leak details about what the refresh will contain.

Windows XP SP3, despite its collection of delays, will make it to the market, and Microsoft plans in integrate changes to Internet Explorer and to Windows Media Player into the refresh. “Microsoft has agreed to make changes to Windows XP, two Middleware Products, and Windows Live Messenger. The Windows Live Messenger changes have been delivered in the Windows Live Messenger 8.5 beta and will be included in the public release. Changes for Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player will be made available to users in August 2007 and Microsoft is discussing with the TC the delivery mechanism for those changes. The Windows XP changes will be incorporated into Service Pack 3 for Windows XP,” revealed the U.S. Justice department in its filing.

- info from news.softpedia.com