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Windows Seven Tips & Tricks: Enable Classic Taskbar

I always liked the classic taskbar. It's why I got to get it back with Windows Seven. Here's I'm telling you how to do it.

First, reduce the taskbar size following previous post.

Now right the click taskbar. Click properties. There is an option called "Taskbar buttons" on the middle of the dialog box.

Select the option "Combile when taskbar is full". "Click ok. You'll get your classic taskbar back. Screenshots attached below:

Image 01: Default Taskbar of Windows Seven [Click Image to Enlarge]

Image 02: Classic Taskbar of Windows Seven [Click Image to Enlarge]

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Why micrsoft.com doesn’t reply to ping

[sa@localhost ]$ ping www.microsoft.com Pinging lb1.www.ms.akadns.net [65.55.21.250] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 65.55.21.250: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

Do you know why Micrsoft.com doesn’t replies to ping?

ping is a powerful small command line tool. Seeing the output of ping command a security analyst or hacker can grab important information about the target hosts. Target hosts can be web servers or a pc on local area network. Information includes Operating System & Version, availability of host etc.

Windows Seven: "Windows could not start the Windows Event Log Service on Local Computer" and winsock

Today I sat on my PC like other days. It took long time to boot into The Windows Seven Desktop. When it booted it showed an error notification.

"Failed to connect to a windows service - Windows could not connect to the System Event Notification service. This problem prevents limited users from logging on to the system. As an administrator user, you can review the System Event Log for details about why the service didn't respond."

So I tried to enable system event log service myself from services.msc. It reported another error!

Windows could not start the Windows Event Log Service on Local Computer

Error 1747: the authentication service is unknown.

Also I got an error when trying to activate network interface.
Unable to Initialize Windows Sockets Interface


I tried manythings. Like I was thinking if Kaspersky Internet Security has got the control. So uninstall it. Tried to enable, disable couple of services. Nothing solved it.

Finally the trick of resetting socket interface really worked. To reset the socket interface I opened a command prompt by clicking run as administrator. Then applied the following command.

C:> netsh winsock reset

Then I restarted the PC. Everything got fixed. It saved the day.

How to Activate Windows Seven / Vista Administrator Account

First, open Command Prompt. Go to Start Menu> All Programs> Accessories

Right click Command Prompt and click 'Run as administrator'.

Now type in the prompt:

C:> net user administrator /active:yes

And set a password for the account

C:> net user administrator YourPassword

Use your password instead of the keyword 'YourPassword'. It was damn easy. Isn't it?

To deactivate use no instead of yes

C:> net user administrator /active:no

How to Remove Conflickr/ DownAdUp Worm

If you are running a Windows Operating System with a safe browser like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox and you're thinking that you are very safe from worms/viruses then I'd ve to say you're in fool's paradise. If you are connected using a LAN to your ISP then there's high chance to be affected with worms whose creators really cared about vulnerabilities in Windows TCP/IP network.

If you cannot access antivirus websites and microsoft.com site but others then you are already affected with Conflickr Worm. Kido.h and kido.ir worms will be copied in your USB pen drive(though the worm allows safele remove hardware) and they'll be detected by antivirus on other PCs which are not affected. If you are not affected and you are using Windows urgently install these update not to be affected:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0D5F9B6E-9265-44B9-A376-2067B73D6A03&displaylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2996b9b6-03ff-4636-861a-46b3eac7a305&displaylang=en

Conflickr worm is brilliantly dangerous because before I didn’t know a worm that’d exploit into PC using local area network implementing a weakness (TCP/IP Buffer Overflow) of Windows Operating System.

If you are affected with this worm install Malicious Software Removal Tool to remove conflickr worm. That’s the tool actually works as people tested.
Download Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830) from here:
From microsoft.com
Or from mediafire.com

More info on this tool here:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.aspx

Also there is a tool from Symantec that you can try out in case:
http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/global/removal_tool/threat_writeups/D.exe

After restarting ping to kaspersky.com Symantec.com etc. If they work you are one step behind from being safe. Now update your antivirus database definitions and run a full harddisk scan.

If you are interested about this worm you’ll get great deal of information about this here:
Microsoft Tips and Tricks along with info to prevent this worm
About The Malicious Software Remover Tool
Manual Removal Instructions and more info from Microsoft [Download this page from mediafire]

Windows Seven Tips & Tricks: how to Reduce Taskbar Size

Annoyed with too big taskbar of Windows Seven? You just cannot resize it dragging with the mouse. There is an easy way to reduce its size.

Right click on an empty space of the taskbar. Click properties. On taskbar properties tick the check box "Use small icons" as shown in the image below:

Click ok. You'll see the size of taskbar has been automatically resized.

Migration to Windows Seven, KIS and DST

Migrating to Windows 7 is pretty easy. You can either replace previous Windows with Windows Seven or Multi-boot Windows Seven with previous Operating Systems. If your primary partition isn’t big enough [less than 12GB] then install new OS in other partition. Another solution is expanding the primary partition. You can try good partition manager software like symantec partition magic, acronis disk director suite etc. Be careful about keeping backup of your data and partition table. Anyway, I’ll describe it in detail in another day.

1
If you want to replace the previous Operating System then make backup of your important data from C: drive (if it is Windows). For example, if you were using Yahoo Messenger then you can copy your archive from the following directory: C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles\Your User Name\Archive\
Put your correct yahoo username in the location. Same way you can copy your unfinished downloads of Internet Download Manager to resume them back.
Backup other files and folder if you have kept them in C: drive.

2
Install Windows Seven in the drive you decided to install. If you want to replace the previous Windows it will be C drive.

After installation check out if you are using a final release or beta version.
Open registry editor (in run dialog box type regedit).
Now navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
Check out the follow string values for final release:
CurrentBuildNumber : 7600 [Build number]
CurrentVersion : 6.1 [Windows Version]
BuildLabEx : 7600.16385.x86fre.win7_rtm.090713-1255

Click to enlarge the image.

Or type this in command prompt:

c:\> reg query "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" /v BuildLabEx

If it matches then you got the right hit!

3
Who knows! May be next software you are going to install may be an infection of parasitic viruses after installing which will instantly create millions of replicas and boom!!
Cool down. There is way. The first thing you should do is installing an antivirus software.

If you were using a previous release of Kaspersky Internet Security or other Antivirus softwre and found that it isn't working under Windows Seven don't be overwhelmed.

Get Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 [KIS 9.0.0.736 is current up-to-date version] and install. This version has implemented Windows Seven security features and its performance isn't bad. One thing to remember if you are gamer. You need to run Windows Experience Index for rating before installing KIS. After installing KIS you won’t be able to run WEI successfully. I think kaspersky will soon release a patch or fix it in next release.

Download latest Kaspersky from here and install.
Note that, softwares like Kaspersky Internet Security are damn useless if they are not updated. So before proceeding to do anything next update the antivirus.

You can also update the antivirus manually if you have slower internet connection or no connection at all. Instructions here. Remember one command to download the updates and then update from the downloaded files.

If you are not in Bangladesh skip Step 4.


4
Fix your day computer timezone for light saving(DST) time coz your PC is showing one hour less than original. To fix it install patch from here.

Now select timezone Dhaka as shown in image.

5
Now install applications/softwares one after one scanning by KIS as you need. Have fun with secured system.

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