Apply A Folder View To All Folders In Vista

Have you ever noticed that when you change the view for a folder, that specific view is not applied to any other folders that you open? For example, if you open a folder and switch to the Small Icons view, then open a subfolder, the same view is not applied.

If you prefer a specific view, You can have it applied to all of your folders. This means when you switch views, it will be applied regardless of which folder you open. You can accomplish this through the Folder Options dialog box.

1. Open Windows Explorer
2. From the Tool menu, click Folder Options. If the Tools menu is not visible, press the Alt key.
3. Select the View tab.
4. At the top of the dialog box, click Apply to all folders.
5. Click OK.

How To: Change Windows XP Admin PW

Here’s a quick and easy way to change your administrator password on Windows XP.

1. Place your Windows XP CD in your cd-rom and start your computer (it’s assumed here that your XP CD is bootable – as it should be - and that you have your bios set to boot from CD)
2. Keep your eye on the screen messages for booting to your CD Typically, it will be “Press any key to boot from CD”
Hack Windows XP Admin Password
3. Once you get in, the first screen will indicate that Setup is inspecting your system and loading files.
4. When you get to the Welcome to Setup screen, press ENTER to Setup Windows now
5. The Licensing Agreement comes next - Press F8 to accept it.
6. The next screen is the Setup screen which gives you the option to do a Repair.
It should read something like “If one of the following Windows XP installations is damaged, Setup can try to repair it”
Use the up and down arrow keys to select your XP installation (if you only have one, it should already be selected) and press R to begin the Repair process.
7. Let the Repair run. Setup will now check your disks and then start copying files which can take several minutes.
8. Shortly after the Copying Files stage, you will be required to reboot. (this will happen automatically – you will see a progress bar stating “Your computer will reboot in 15 seconds”
9. During the reboot, do not make the mistake of “pressing any key” to boot from the CD again! Setup will resume automatically with the standard billboard screens and you will notice Installing Windows is highlighted.
10. Keep your eye on the lower left hand side of the screen and when you see the Installing Devices progress bar, press SHIFT + F10. This is the security hole! A command console will now open up giving you the potential for wide access to your system.
11. At the prompt, type NUSRMGR.CPL or compmgmt.msc and press Enter. Voila! You have just gained graphical access to your User Accounts in the Control Panel.
12. Now simply pick the account you need to change and remove or change your password as you prefer. If you want to log on without having to enter your new password, you can type control userpasswords2 at the prompt and choose to log on without being asked for password. After you’ve made your changes close the windows, exit the command box and continue on with the Repair (have your Product key handy).
13. Once the Repair is done, you will be able to log on with your new password (or without a password if you chose not to use one or if you chose not to be asked for a password). Your programs and personalized settings should remain intact.

Task Kill w/ Batch file

In Windows XP there is a way to automate this using a relatively unknown command called “taskkill”.

Here’s an example of how to use it:

taskkill /im keyclone.exe /f

I chose to use an Adobe Acrobat file in my example but it could be the name of any process that’s currently running.

/im is the image name, which is basically just telling taskkill that you’re about to kill a process by name and what follows is the name of that process.

/f tell is to force the program closed. Don’t ask about it, don’t think about it, close it.

Special thanks to: Danstechnstuff.com

Export From RoboForm to KeePass

RoboForm is a fantastic program, but the fact that it doesn’t run on Linux is a major problem for me. KeePass seems like the best alternative, but it does not currently support a direct import from RoboForm. I have almost 140 passwords, many of which consist of 10-30 random characters. Typing these in manually would be a major headache, so here’s the best hack that I found.

• Download the trial version of PassCrypt
• Import your RoboForm data to PassCrypt
• Export your newly imported data from PassCrypt to a CSV file. You don’t need the headings.
• Download a CSV file editor - I recommend CSVed
• Once you’ve installed CSVed - go to Tools, Options, Double Quotes. Click the box next to “Save CSV File With Double Quotes”. If you don’t select this, your import will fail. KeePass requires that the data is between double quotes. If you try to use Excel it will strip the quotes from the file and the import will fail. Believe me on this one - I’m saving you a lot of time and trouble.
• Open the CSV file you exported from PassCrypt in CSVed to modify the file.
• Put your columns in the following order: “Account”,”Login Name”,”Password”,”Web Site”,”Comments”. You don’t need these column headings in your CSV file - you just need the columns in this order.
• If you have any ampersands (&) in you passwords - do a find and replace in CSVed to replace all instances of & with &. It appears as if PassCrypt did this during the export to CSV.
  • Update 8/6/2007: At some point the WordPress WYSIWYG mangled my post in regards to HTML special characters. The bullet point above may have problems with the display of ampersands. The idea is that during the process of moving passwords from one program to another, the ampersands in your passwords may be replaced by the html character code. This will obviously cause your passwords to not work. Thanks to skibum mark for the heads-up.
• You may notice that many of your usernames or passwords are missing from the exported file. This is because RoboForm captures these values from websites that use different terms to identify them. One may be “username” while one may be “logonid”. You’ll have to manually enter these missing values in CSVed or wait until the file is imported into KeePass.

I told you it was a hack. Someone needs to write a plugin to import passwords directly from RoboForm into KeePass. Until then - use the steps above. If there is enough interest I’ll put together a better tutorial with screenshots.

Found atchriskoester.net

Iphone - Cant stay logged in to Gmail chat?!

Found a great fix for this for Iphone 3G users. Worked for me :)

Using WinSCP, nav to the following folder and make the change.

ssh and paste this : chmod 4755 /Applications/MobileSafari.app/MobileSafari

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Wedding

A wedding is the ceremony in which two people are united in marriage. Well here are a couple of great examples...

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