Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Though there are several ways to save your friend's MSN Messenger (Windows Live Messenger), Messenger Plus! Live does the job in the easiest way.
This is the MSN Messenger Display Picture (DP) we wish to save:
Now select and Right Click on the contact, click on "Messenger Plus! Features", and then click on "Contact Information..."
This will bring up the "Contact Information" window. Click on the "Save this image..."
Now choose the location where you want to save the pic and Save it.
By default it saves the pic as .png. However if you wish to save as .jpg, select "All Files (*.*)" from Save ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Sometimes we cant reach a site or server even though it is up due to networking issues. Traceroute is a tool that lets you diagnostic this type of issues.
Including a traceroute report from your pc to the site/server when you open a helpdesk ticket will help the technical support technicians to pin point the problem and resolve it quickly.
This is how you can perform traceroute from windows:
Step 1:
Click on Start > Run.
Step 2:
In the Run window type cmd and click OK.
Step 3:
In te command prompt type tracert domain.com and hit ENTER.
Replace domain.com with your target site or host.
This will give ...
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
If you are running a dedicated server or vps without control panel or a control panel which doesnt provide an interface to change time zones (like HSPComplete VPS), you can easily change your timezone from ssh command prompt.
First browse to /usr/share/zoneinfo to find your city.
You can use SFTP to easily browse your server files.
Here we find time zone for Dhaka to be located at /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Dhaka
Now you need to SSH into your server and link /etc/localtime to your desired time zone file.
To set the server timezone to Dhaka we use the command:
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Dhaka /etc/localtime
We can check if it got properly ...
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Friday, April 20th, 2007
Dawgs Domain has created a tool which will retrive your lost Windows Live Messenger password. A great tool if you have forgotten your password and dont wanna go through or cannot retrive it though the microsoft .net passport password recovery process. Many times we do signup using fake address, zip, birth date.... And some ppl are just too lazy to go through the process.
The author claims it has been legitimately made for people that forget their password and not to used to hack your friends msn password. ;)
To recover your Windows Live Messenger password you need to download this small ...
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
Are you getting the error code 80048820 when trying to sign-in to your msn messenger or windows live messenger?
The error msg goes like:
We were unable to sign you into Windows Live Messenger at this time.
Please try again later.
Error code: 80048820
Extended error code: 80048439
Here is how to solve it.
Step 1:
Go to Start > Run
Step 2:
Type the followining in the Run dialogue box:
regsvr32 softpub.dll Wintrust.dll Initpki.dll Rsaenh.dll Mssip32.dll Cryptdlg.dll
And click OK.
Step 3:
Again type the followining in the Run dialogue box:
regsvr32 Dssenh.dll Gpkcsp.dll Slbcsp.dll Sccbase.dll
And click OK.
You should now be able to sign-in to your msn messemger or windows live messenger.
Regsrv32 is a ...
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Getting error code 81000306 while trying to sign-in on MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger?
Here is how the error report looks like:
To solve the error follow the following steps:
1. Go to Start > Run
2. Type the following:
regsvr32 Softpub.dll Mssip32.dll Initpki.dll
3. Click on the OK button.
You should now be able to sign-in to your msn messemger or windows live messenger.
Regsrv32 is a command-line tool registers .dll files as command components in the registry. More information on the Regsrv32 command can be found here.
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Thursday, December 7th, 2006
Microsoft has released the final version of Windows Defender, the Free AntiSpyware from Microsoft.
Windows Defender is free but requires a WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) Validation check.
This tutorial will guide you how to install Windows Defender Final bypassing WGA validation check. (beacuse at times WGA check fails even if your windows is licenced)
Here is how you can install Windows Defender Final bypassing WGA validation:
Step 1:
Download Windows Defender Final directly from the Microsoft site:
Download Windows Defender Final 32-bit
Download Windows Defender Final 64-bit
Step 2:
Download Orca (a .msi package editor) from here:
Download Orca
Install It.
Step 3:
Open the downloaded WindowsDefender.msi file with Orca.
Step 4:
In the Orca’s ...
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Friday, October 20th, 2006
Microsoft has finally released the Internet Explorer 7 Final (IE7 Final). If you own a licenced copy of windows, you can download and install ie7 directly visiting microsoft ie7 website here.
But if your copy is not original you will have to bypass the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA). Here is how to crack Internet Explorer 7 Final (IE7 Final) and install IE7 without validation:
Step 1:
Download Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Final.
Get if from FileHippo.
Step 2:
Uninstall any previous version of Internet Explorer 7.
Go to Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs
Scroll down to Windows Internet Explorer 7, click it, and then ...
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Sunday, October 8th, 2006
This tutorial will guide you to run an Apache web server with PHP and MySQL right from your USB flash drive (pen drive, thumb drive). No installation. Just plug and run!
Pretty handy thing to show or discuss a dynamic web project with a client or teacher.
To get started first we need to download XAMPP Lite from ApacheFriends.org
You can get the package here:
Download XAMPP Lite
Download and extract the .zip archive.
Inside you will find a folder xampplite
Now plug-in your USB Flash Drive and copy this folder there.
Congrats!! You now have a web server on your flash drive.
Now its time to ...
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Monday, September 25th, 2006
cPanel Proxy is a small PHP script which allows users to access cPanel, WHM and Web Mail on port 80 by acting like a proxy. Its very helpful for people who are behind firewall.
This tutorial guides you on ow to make a server-wide installation of cPanel Proxy so all accounts created on your server gets access to cPanel Proxy (can access cpanel on port 80)
Installing
Connect to your server via SSH and login to your normal user account (for cPanel, this account needs to be a member of the wheel group), then 'su -' to root. At the prompt, type the ...
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