i also try a new windows 7 beta, had upgraded from vista, its awesome, but its cant detect my 8GB USB Kingston Flashdrive??? anyone could help?

written by Sandip on January 22, 2009

Windows 7 Desktop Gadget

Windows 7 Sidebar has significant change then windows vista. Windows Vista sidebar was completely independent of user account control. However in windows 7 sidebar with gadget and UAC are related means if you turn of or disable UAC in windows 7 then sidebar will not work.

This has been done to prevent users from installing any malicious unsigned desktop gadget in windows 7. Since most of the users prefer to keep User Account control (UAC) disabled, they wont be able to enjoy desktop gadgets and sidebar in windows 7, well here is small work around basically a registry hack to make windows 7 sidebar with gadget to work when UAC is disabled or turned off.

How to Enable Sidebar & Desktop Gadget with Disable/Turned Off UAC in windows 7

1. Click on start and type regedit on search bar

2. Now navigate to follow registry key in left pan of registry editor

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Sidebar\Settings

3. Right Click in right pan of registry editor to Create A New DWORD(32 Bit Value) with name “AllowElevatedProcess” and set value as “1”.

4. Now close registry editor

5. Right click on desktop and add desktop gadgets to confirm Desktop gadget and sidebar working properly

You can download AllowElevatedProcess.reg and double click on AllowElevatedProcess.reg file to add registry entry.

Buat yg mengalami masalah ketika menginstal HJSplit di kompi linuxnya, mungkin bisa ngikutin post ini..

pertama, kita download dulu HJSplit dan library yang dibutuhkan (Kylix library). klo udah di donlot, tinggal di-extract kemudian di-install.

1. extract dulu file library-nya.
   tar xzvf kylixlibs3-borqt-3.0-2.tar.gz
   kemudian, jalankan (sebagai root) file install.sh di dalam directory yang baru dibuat.
   cd kylixlibs3-borqt
sudo ./install.sh
   jika dijumpai suatu message seperti di bawah ini, hiraukan saja.
   [: 12: ==: unexpected operator
2. berikutnya, extract file hjsplitlx.tar.gz, kemudian jalankan file HJSplitLX.
   tar xzvf hjsplitlx.tar.gz
./HJSplitLX
   jika dijumpai error seperti di bawah ini:
   ./HJSplitLX: symbol lookup error: ./HJSplitLX: undefined symbol: initPAnsiStrings
   jalankan command berikut ini:
   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/kylix3
   kemudian jalankan lagi file HJSplitLX.
   anda juga bisa menambahkan baris tersebut pada file /etc/bash.bashrc, sehingga tidak perlu menjalankan perintah export tersebut setiap kali komputer dinyalakan.

i dont know the whole meaning of those configurations, i just found it by google’s search ^_^, anyone knew, pls tell me
5.Click save

happy surfing… )

first, type :

sudo fdisk -l to see the list of partition,

and this is the result in my sistem :

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6ebabc82

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        3885    31205238+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            5604       19457   111282255    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3            3886        5541    13301820   83  Linux
/dev/sda4            5542        5603      498015   82  Linux swap / Solaris

the /dev/sda1 (i store my vista system here), and  /dev/sda2 (where i store all my datas) partitions are not mounted automatically, here i only want to make the /dev/sda2 to be automatically mounted when the system startup.

first, we should make a new directory inside the /media directory, i named the directory  /data-yui :

sudo mkdir /media/data-yui

then open the file /etc/fstab to edit the mounting preferences :

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

then add this line :

/dev/sda2/media/data-yui auto defaults 0 1

Save the file, and reboot.

I was installing mandrake years ago, and the first thing i remember was, i really loved the mandrake LILO menu’s appearance..so i cant wait to ask my guru, his name is Google ^_^, he told me ways to change the hurting-my-eyes-Ubuntu’s Grub menu’s appearance.

So, i choose an image, open it with GIMP.

From Menu, Select Image -> Scale Image, Change the size to 640x480px.

I should change the color’s composition since Grub only allowed maximum 14 colour, go to Image -> Mode -> Indexed

fill 14, for maximum number of colors.

also choose Floyd-Steinberg (reduced color bleeding) for color dithering,and enable dithering of transparency, this makes the pics look softer (imho).

Save the file in the format .xpm.gz

Open terminal, goto directory where you save the file, i save the file in my home directory

cd /home/nurul

then copy the file to directory /boot/grub/splashimages

sudo cp yui.xpm.gz /boot/grub/splashimages

Then Open menu.lst file, type :

sudo gedit /boot/grub.menu.lst

in the menu.lst file, edit the splashimage section, change the image name with the name of image you desire to use as grub menu background, here is mine :

splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splashimages/yui.xpm.gz

i also want to change the grub menu list, this is how my menu settings, (you can change it the way you like) :

I’ve deleted some lists that i dont want it to appear when i see the grub menu by simply delete the line or added # in the beginning of the line.

Save the file.

Reboot.