Register for 3G Iphone through Airtel and Vodafone

The much awaited product; Apple iPhone would soon be launched in India. With Airtel and Vodafone already asking for pre-registration for Apple IPhone 3G.



Since India do not have 3G network, so only selective features from 3G iPhone would be available, those which are compatible with current 2G network.

Pre-register iPhone with Vodafone
Pre-register iPhone with Airtel

Check out more about this launch.

Nokia advisory for replacement of BL-5C Battery

Nokia has released advisory that identified in very rare cases Nokia-branded BL-5C battery manufactured by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. Ltd. of Japan between December 2005 and November 2006 could potentially experience over heating initiated by a short circuit while charging, causing the battery to dislodge. Nokia is working closely with relevant local authorities to investigate this situation.

This advisory applies only to the 46 million batteries manufactured by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006. There have been approximately 100 incidents of over heating reported globally. No serious injuries or property damage have been reported.

While the occurrence in the BL-5C batteries produced by Matsushita in the time-period specified is very rare, for consumers wishing to do so, Nokia and Matsushita offer to replace any BL-5C battery subject to this product advisory.

A list of Nokia products that include the BL-5C battery is available here.

This is how you can verify your battery and ask for replacement. Remember this replacement is only for BL-5C model.



Now remove the battery and check the 26-character identification number from the back of the battery. Now enter you 26 digit code here at Nokia battery verification Site and you will be advised if your battery may be replaced.



Consumers with replacable batteries should visit the website www.nokia.com/batteryreplacement or contact their local Nokia call center.

Yahoo home page logo for 4th July

Watch the animated logo of Yahoo today for 4th July.
4th of July is USA Independence Day.
Hover your mouse on the Yahoo logo and see the crackers bust.
Enjoy the animation, and Happy Independence Day.

Following are the snapshots of Images that you will see at
first instance.

Lock folders with password - explained

This is really very good video, explaining how to lock
folders with password.

Really useful if you are using a shared PC or want some of your
sensitive documents to be protected from others.


!!! Access Denied !!! Lock Any Folder - The best bloopers are here

try out...

Change your Computer Name on network

Get ready to think of some high quality appealing name for your
computer so that when you apply that, everybody else on the network
would identify you by that name.

To achieve this travel to following registry key through Registry
editor:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ComputerName\ComputerName

Then selecting the 'ComputerName' Key in left pane of registry editor,
you would find the entry in right pane as 'ComputerName'.



This name is your computers name on network, change this to whatever
that you want. And you are through to it.

Recover the lost product ID for Windows Installation

Ever imagined, that you lost your Windows product ID and later
due to some unexpected reasons your windows installation got
corrupt as a result some files went missing and finally you need
to perform reinstallation.
Then how are you going to install it back again without Product ID.

Usually when we install the Windows its ID is stored in Registry.

To get back this ID, travel to following path;

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\

Then selecting the 'CurrentVersion' key in left pane, find for the
entry 'ProductID' in right pane.
And there it is the ID you wanted.



Alternatively you can also get your product ID by right clicking on
the 'My Computers' icon on Desktop or Start Menu.
And then uder the General tab you would find your product ID at
lower section of dialog box as shown below.



So now keep it safe, may be next time even your computer won't boot,
to recover it.

Change taskbar clock AM & PM text

This is the one of the best registry tweak available.
In this tweak we change the AM and PM that is shown in taskbar
clock to some other name.



To achieve this follow steps given below:

1. Travel to following key in registry editor
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\
2. Now select the 'International' key in left pane and search for
the following two entries in right pane of registry editor.
s1159 - for changing AM
s2359 - for changing PM
3. Once you have found this entries now double click it to change
the text.

Remember it only accepts characters of minimum six letters even
if you try to stuff more, only first six will be displayed.

Enjoy the tweak, please let me know in case you are finding
some problems.

Refine your Google search using keywords

You can make google speed up the search for your queries by
displaying only the most relevant links.
For that you have to learn the google language, which is nothing
more than handful of queries; mentioned below are most frquently used.

you can even combine two or more of above keywords to get the results
more accurate and specific.

Disable all Balloon tips in Windows

I always felt it wary about those balloon tips in Windows task bar for
'low disk space', 'new hardware', etc.

The following small registry tweak can disable these balloon tips:

Go to following registry key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Explorer\Advanced

and then in right pane search for entry 'EnableBalloonTips' and if it is
not present then add the DWORD entry and name it as ' EnableBalloonTips'.

Once this is done then add the value to it as '0' (zero in number).

If you want to enable it again than change the value to '1'.

Remember the key and entry names are Case Sensitive.

Add Google Search in your browser address bar

One can now easily Google search for any term using the browser's
address bar, and the search results will be displayed to you in
the Google's page.

The following small registry tweak can do this for you;

Go to following registry path
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl

sometimes the 'SearchUrl' key might not be present, in that case add
it as sub-key under 'Internet Explorer'.

Now in right pane for above key 'SeacrhUrl', change the default value to

http://www.google.com/search?q=%s

press F5 to refresh registry and then exit.
For this tweak to work you might need to close all the browsers and
open again.

Browse any Website in Text only mode

Last time when I was surfing the net, I found the site that allows
to browse any website in text only mode.
This website is http://mytoday.com

To view any website in text only mode follow the steps detailed
below:
1. Type the following address in your browser address bar

http://mytoday.com/v/

2. Once this is done, now add the protocol of access
like http, https, ftp, etc. as shown below

http://mytoday.com/v/http/

3. After this add the website address that you want to view
in text mode, in following way (as shown for technoglitters)

http://mytoday.com/v/http/technoglitters.blogspot.com

so that finally it looks as shown below in your browsers address bar:



Enjoy text only browsing.

Shortcut to open Registry Editor

Now to open the Registry editor no need of going to Start Menu > Run.
One can create a shortcut on desktop to open the Registry Editor
follow the steps given blow:

1. Open the Notepad and copy the following code snippet:

'Open Registry Editor
'from http://www.technoglitters.blogspot.com
Option Explicit
On Error Resume Next

Dim WSHShell
Set WSHShell=Wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
WSHShell.Run "REGEDIT"

Set WSHShell = Nothing

2. Once this is done now save the file as 'Open_Registry.vbs'
(without quotes) remember to make the file type option in
Save As dialog box to 'All files'
3. Now you can create as many shortcuts for these files as possible.
4. Since this is script file, some Antivirus or antispyware softwares
may report abuse, but override the rules and allow it to run and
enjoy the Registry Editor at click of you mouse.

Start Button Context Menu

Using this tweak, you can run applications from the context menu
of the start button, i.e. by right clicking on the start button.

Open the registry from Start Menu > Run > regedit and follow the path:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Shell Key.

Right click on Shell Key, and create a new sub-key named after the
program you want to associate it with, say, Notepad. Now select this key
and create another sub-key named 'Command' and set its 'Default' entry
value as the path to the executable for example 'C:\windows\notepad.exe'.

Now if you right click on Start Menu you will see new entry for launching
Notepad.

Related Limks:
Add 'Copy To' and 'Move To' in Context Menu

Create 'Copy To' and 'Move To' in context menu

When you right click you get a menu called Context menu.
This tweak shows how you can add two useful entries to it namely
'Copy To' and 'Move To'.
Therefore copying and moving files can be done in two steps.

To add 'Copy To' option, go to Registry and follow the following path;
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
and right click ContextMenuhandlers and create a new key called
'Copy To' (without quotes).
Select the key you created in right pane, modify the value of default
entry to '{C2FBB630-297111d1A18C00C04FD75D13}' (without quotes).
Similarly, navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
and create a sub-key named 'Copy To' and give the same default value
as above.

To add 'Move to' option duplicate the above mentioned steps, but rename
the sub-keys as 'Move To' and the default values as
'{C2FBB631-2971-11d1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}'.

Now when you right click on any file or folder - except on the desktop
you will get two more options for 'Copy To' and 'Move To'.
Thia may require a windows restart or simply press F5 after modifying
to refresh the changes in registry.

Clear Add Remove Programs list

Certain program entries do remain in the Add/Remove programs
list due to some incomplete install/uninstall.
This small registry tweak allows you to remove all the unwanted
entries from Add/Remove programs list, it can also be used to hide
the Installed program from appearing in Add/Remove list.

To do this, go to registry and follow the following path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

Under this key you will find the sub keys for each program installed.
Right Click and delete all the entries you want removed from Add\Remove
programs list.

Clear URL s Cache from Internet Explorer address bar

To view the visited URLs in IE address bar click on drop down
button on end of address bar. To selctively remove URLs from
this list go to Registry and travel to following path:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs
In the right pane you will find the list of URLs ordered with name
url1 url2....url25.
Delete the entries you want to remove and rename the remaining
entries to maintain the order.
example: if you delete two entries url4 and url7 then rename the
remaining entries so that they list as url1 to url23.

Clear Run Command Cache

Commands entered in Run dialog box from start menu are automatically cached to be used later for AutoComplete.

One can selectively remove these entries from cached list of instructions.

Go to registry and follow the following path

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/RunMRU

and in right pane you will find entries for the Most recently used command in Run box.

Delete the unwanted entries or delete all.

Your own Image in Start Menu

1. Go to : C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\Default Pictures
* Dir is hidden

2. Delete the ones you never use

3. Add your own 48x48 .jpg/.png/.gif/.bmp images.

change Program Files folder

Type regedit in Run box.

Navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

Look for the entry -> ProgramFilesDir

Change its value fom "C:\Program Files" to D:\Installation (or something of your wish)

Run program at login

Do you want to run a program every time you login into your computer Here you can do it, using Windows Registry.

1. Enter Notepad

2. Type [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mcft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

“name program”=”\”C:\\Program Files\\Winamp\\winamp.exe\”"

3. Save as using the .reg extension

4. Now double click the saved file and click 'yes' on popup message and allow the information to be added to Windows Registry

Next time when you will login to your PC, Winamp will start automatically.

-To deactivate this you have to delete the information from Windows Registry(go to run from start menu type "regedit"(without quotes) travel to following key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mcft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and find the file winamp that starts automatically and delete it).