Cyber Drop

In my 24 years of life, I have been very studious more than enjoying life. May be because, "enjoying life" meant something only studies to me. I paid more attention to my studies a lot more than watching out the charming guys around me. I don't know if I should call it right or wrong... My friends say, in one or the other way I really feel I had missed something :D Well not really! :)

I might not be lucky enough to have had time to spend on loving someone during my school or college days. I really was too busy in targeting my centurions, competing with my class mates in not letting them score first ^_^, spending enormous amount of time in library, participating in oratorical, singing, essay witting competitions where I have bagged a hand full of prices. I was happy with the life I had lived in the past 24 years. At the same time, I should be feeling so lucky to have the world's best parents ever! They brought me up like a princess. I owe them big time for that :)

As you all know I am a native Indian and as per Indian tradition, it is the parent's duty or responsibility to find the perfect soul-mate for their children. (Let's not talk about the exceptions here - the "love marriages". Cupid hates me for some reason I guess haha). My parents are so orthodox that they consider the horoscope match and parents' approval from both sides are mandatory for a man and a woman to kick off with their married life. It has been 3 months since they started to find a match for me it seems. I was not even told about it, damn! :)

Yesterday all of a sudden, they brought our home a guy and introduced him to me. We spoke (with my relatives around, of course :)) for almost 30 minutes and I quite seem to like that guy. He is charming, witty, funny and what not! When he left our home, I really felt, could he not have stayed for even more minutes? He is really cute when he smiles... I see a baby-ish look on his face. He said he do like me and my family as well which got me smiling :)

Yesterday I even came up with a pet name for him. His real name is Maniyan. If things go well, I am planning to call him as "Ian" as his name's ending rhyms well with Ian. Ian is one of my most favorite names. It is of scottish origin. In the United Kingdom, Ian was the 19th most common male name. Wiki says Ian means "God is Gracious" well so is he hahaha Guess I am mad! Okay, I better behave now! :)

I kinda seem to fancy this guy but the thing is his parents should also agree for this relation. I never prayed GOD regarding my affairs/love relationships because I never had one before. I can not call this a love or relationship either. It would be utter non-sense if I do :) It is just that this guy seems so nice and suits very well with my character. I just pray his parents should agree too. If they don't, I will not be sad or worried or cry over my pillow with sleepless nights. I got a lot of better things to feel worried for like on-time delivery with really less time (blame the PM for their poor effort estimating skills) which causes slogging and weekend works, JLPT Level 3 Examination, MBA exams, blah blah :( Actually, I really hate that "work on weekends" part which I used to do in Wipro. In Logica, it is all smooth so not much of pain :)

By the way, pray for me guys that his parents should agree. :)

PS: This might sound completely stupid for some people but I just can not escape the tradition & customs :)

Are you bored of the same old Windows Logon Message? Well, you can customize it with your own persobalized messages like, "Enter this WINDOW - Viruses are awaiting you!" LOL No offense!

1. Click Start, Click Run, Type regedit, and then Click OK.
2. In the Registry Editor, scroll down to through the tree: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
3. Right-click LegalNoticeCaption, click Modify, type My Windows XP Machine, and then click OK.
4. Right-click LegalNoticeText, click Modify, and then type your message.
5. Close the editor and your new message will appear at every log on.

This tip applies to computers that are part of a domain. In case of the stand-alone or peer-to-peer networks (P2P), the custom screen appears just before the Welcome screen.

Note: You may need to have an administrator account on your computer to make changes to the registry. Incorrectly editing the registry may severely damage your system. At the very least, you should back up any valued data on the computer before making changes to the registry.

As the title describes, this tutorial is to shutdown the system automatically after n number of seconds.

1. Right Click on your desktop and choose "New->Shortcut".
2. In the box that says "Type the location of the shortcut", type in "shutdown -s -t 3600" with out the quotation marks and click next.
3. Note: 3600 are the amount of seconds before your computer shuts down. So, 60secs*60mins=3600secs.
4. Make up a name for the shortcut something like Turn Off Timer and you're done

If you want to change the icon, do Right Click on the shortcut which you just created. Choose the last most option Properties->Change Icon-> Browse.

PS: To make an abort key to stop the shutdown timer just create another shortcut and make the "location of the shortcut" to "shutdown -a" without the quotes.

Before I build up any hype let me clear you one thing - With this trick, you can ONLY watch movies in MS Paint but can't do any other operations like Pause/Stop/Rewind, etc. To be more specific, you can just watch it while its playing behind in Windows Media Player Classic or Winamp or VLC or any other movie player you use.

The steps are so simple:

1. Open your favourite movie player and play the move (I played the .avi, format in Media Player Classic) (.mpg also works)(VLC Player will also do)
2. Hit "PrintScreen" key on your keyboard. Let the movie play in the player. Do NOT stop it.
3. Open MsPaint. (Start->Run_>Type mspaint)
4. Select "Edit > Paste" Or Hit "CTRL+V"
5. Now you will see the movie is being played in Paint!

To add more fun, while you’re in MS Paint, save the screenshot as a BMP file, right click on that file and set that file as Desktop. Now the movie will be playing on your desktop.

As long as I have tried, it doesn't play DivX ,and Flash movies. Experiment it with other formats too. No one, including myself will never want to watch movies this way but it's cool to know that printscreen captures the videos as well :)

If you have the XP Installation CD, you can find out the Serial key then. Follow the below steps to know how:

1. Insert your XP Installation CD in the CD-ROM. If it auto runs, exit it.
2. Open up My Computer and Right click on your ROM drive with your XP Installation CD still in it.
3. Press CTRL+F or Click on the Search button to open up the Search Option
4. Search for the file named unattend.
5. When this unattend file is found, the path shown will be as if the file is on your system drive and not on your cd drive. Don't bother it!
6. Now the final step is to open that file and look for the serial key in it. You will find it written in this file only as product key.

It did work for me. Try it for yourself :)