Saturday, May 10, 2008

Make Your Pc Branded with your custom Logo





OEM vendors often dress up the System
Properties screen with a custom logo
and support information, giving prebuilt
PCs an air of professionalism. Well guess
what? You can add the same personal touch to
your own machine in just a few easy steps.
Open up any photo-editing program and
create a 180x114-pixel image. Save the image
as a bitmap and name it oemlogo.bmp, then
place it in C:\Windows\System32. Next, create
a Notepad fi le in the same folder and save it as
oeminfo.ini. OEM resellers use this fi le to enter
customer-support information, but you can
write whatever you wish as long as you use
the following format:
[General]
Manufacturer=Maximum PC
Model=Dream Machine
[Support Information]
line1=For even more great
tips visit
line2=www.maximumpc.com

Delete an Undeletable File


Windows won’t let you delete a file
if it’s currently in use, which is usually
a good thing, but that can spell
bad news when trying to rid your
system of a nasty malware strain.
Luckily, there’s a workaround. Click
the Start menu, select Run, and
type CMD to bring up the Command
Prompt. Now hit CTRL-ALT-DEL to
open the Task Manager. Under the Processes tab, highlight explorer.exe and click End
Process. ALT-Tab your way to the Command Prompt and then navigate to the directory
of the fi le you’re trying to delete using the CD command (cd C:\Program
Files\3DSaver). Next, use the delete command to delete the offending fi le (del
3DSaver.exe). ALT-Tab back to the Task Manager, select New Task under File, and
type explorer.exe to bring back the Windows shell. Alternately, try Unlocker (free,
http://ccollomb.free.fr.unlocker/) and delete stubborn fi les through a svelte GUI.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Saturday, April 5, 2008

How to remove System Restore infections in Windows XP

1. Disable the on-access protection of your antivirus solution.
2. Disable System Restore. If you don't know how to do that, please click here.
3. Enable the viewing of hidden and system files and folders:
- Click the Start button, then go to Settings > Control Panel
- Go to Folder Options
- In the View tab, check the "Show hidden files and folders" option
- Uncheck the "Hide protected operating system files" option
- Click Apply and OK

4. Change permissions to access System Restore files:
- Click the Start button, then choose Run
- Type cmd and click OK to confirm
- In the Command Prompt window that opens next, please type in:


cacls "C:\System Volume Information" /P Administrators:F
- Confirm by pressing the Y key.

You are now able to open the folders used by System Restore and browse through the path C:\System Volume Information.

- Locate the infected files and delete them by selecting them and pressing Shift+Delete on the keyboard.

- Open the Command Prompt window again (first 3 steps above) and type in:


cacls "C:\System Volume Information" /P System:F
- Confirm again with Y to replace the changed permissions.
5. Re-enable the on-access protection of your antivirus solution.
6. Turn System Restore back on.