Month: April 2011

Locked out Pt. 2

April 16, 2011

My problem: Before restarting and changing the registry I did make a system restore point. So, there I am staring at my pc monitor looking at windows unable to move my mouse or type on the keyboard. I tried hard shutdowns, plugged in ps2 KB and MS, tried all 6 USB ports and I even opened up my barebones and took out the BIOS battery for 30 seconds to no avail. I could not figure it out. At start up I enter the BIOS by pressing F2 and the KB works in BIOS by not in windows. It seem far fetch for me fixing this problem. I thought of taking it to a repair shop but as you figured out I’m very frugal.
No KB/MS, No Xp repair or recovery disk, No internet and I do not want to do a clean re-install of Xp. That would wipe out all the data on my harddrive. So, I saved up some money for a couple months. Called some techie friends and searched around for the Xp recovery disk. I came up with shit.

Solution: The last week of March I went out to Best Buy and bought a $465 laptop. I know right? I always wanted a laptop. Boo-ya! Brought it home went online and researched all night long (over 8 hours). Then I came along these programs. My laptop running windows 7 was not much help for my desktop running Xp pro. Though I was able copy these programs to disks. I tried using this program 1st -UBCD4WIN- Ultimate Boot CD for Windows. Going into my BIOS and setting the boot sequence to my disk drive instead of harddrive: C. That program did not work for me. Windows started with the same problem no KB/MS response. I tried the 2nd program XXXXXXver13.1 and bingo! I was in my windows w/functioning KB & MS. Went into system restore and restored it back a day before I changed that dam registry. Just to be safe. Now I am BACK!! Dedicated to become an IT professional. This shit is not going to happen to me again. I fixed the cd and dvd drives with this program -xp condev.exe-. Everything is running smooth and I created another blog just for technical support and such. There’s a link on the right of this page. Happy cyberspacing!!

Firefox browsing slow? 3.6 versions and higher try this…

April 16, 2011
Firefox 3.6.6 making browsing slow on your computer? If yes, it may be due to plugin-container.exe, which was added in recent version of Firefox to prevent browser crash. New version of Firefox web browser loads certain plugins in a separate process (plugin-container.exe) to provide you uninterrupted browsing even when certain plugins stops working. But the problem is, plugin-container.exe may use a lot of memory and slow down your computer. You may experience the problem more often while viewing online flash videos. So, want to disable or stop plugin-container.exe in Firefox 3.6.6 or higher. Follow these simple steps:

Steps to stop plugin-container.exe process:

    Open Firefox web browser.
    Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter key.
    A warning will appear. Ignore it and press the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button.
    In the Filter field type dom.ipc. Six preferences will appear for the filter dom.ipc.
    Ignore first and last preferences (dom.ipc.plugins.enabled and dom.ipc.plugins.timeoutSecs). Toggle (double-click) each of the four remaining preferences to change the value from “true” to “false“.
    That’s it. Restart Firefox and your good to go.

Explanation: The crash protection feature in Firefox 3.6 is enabled for certain plugins only. The four preferences that we modified here specifies four different out-of-process plugins. They are the the NPAPI test plugin, Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime (Windows) and Microsoft Silverlight (Windows). These plugins are specified in a separate dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.<filename> preference by default is set to true. We can disable them by changing their value to false. And thus plugin-container.exe will not run. By default the preference dom.ipc.plugins.enabled is already set to “false”. So, no need to touch it. The dom.ipc.plugins.timeoutSecs is also not important here as other values are false.

Passion for Hotness!

April 15, 2011

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms Noun 1. hotness – the presence of heat high temperature, heat temperature – the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity) calefaction, incalescence – the property of being warming fieriness, red heat – the heat or the color of fire torridity – extreme heat warmness, warmth – the quality of having a moderate degree of heat; “an agreeable warmth in the house” white heat – the hotness of something heated until it turns white low temperature, cold, frigidity, frigidness, coldness – the absence of heat; “the coldness made our breath visible”; “come in out of the cold”; “cold is a vasoconstrictor” 2. hotness – a state of sexual arousal horniness, hot pants colloquialism – a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech sexual arousal – the arousal of sexual desires in preparation for sexual behavior 3. hotness – a hot spiciness pepperiness spicery, spiciness, spice – the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored

Locked out of my desktop.

April 14, 2011

My story: I have been locked out of my desktop since the beginning of December 2010. I could not access my windows and did not have the recovery disk. My browser (firefox) has all my bookmarks and passwords. I’m terrible at remembering them and there’s a whole lot of them. Not only that all my photos and important data is stored in that harddrive. I borrowed a friends’ laptop a few times just to check emails and try to find a solution to my problem. To no avail.
My problem: One day in the beginning of Dec. last year. I was going to burn some pictures to a CD for this project I had. My computer wasn’t showing my cd drive. I went to device manager and there was exclamation points next to my cd and dvd drives. Those damn drives were working before. I had and error code 39 stating that windows could not load the drivers on these devices. So, I tried to rollback my drivers and do a system restore nothing seemed to work. I run XP pro sp3 on this desktop and it is just 7 years old. Barebones I built the system myself. Ran anti-virus with winclam, trend-micro and eset. I have advanced systemcare 3 pro and it showed no problems. (comment on here if you want to upgrade from ASC free to ASC pro for free) For a couple months I was tinkering around and did some research on the internet. Without my drives working there was no way to transfer information out of my harddrive. Pulling my hair out I came across some forums talking about restoring cd drives and such so I gave it a try. They were claiming it worked for them. Well, I decided to go into the registry like they instructed and delete all the upper filter and lower filters in the HK local machine. ***Caution Do Not Do It*** I closed my registry and restarted my pc then What the FUCK!! My windows started up fine and everything but my keyboard and mouse weren’t responding. OMG what the hell is going on. I was locked out of my own freaking computer!!