How to Solve Restore Active Desktop Issue????
If you happen to switch off your machine unexpectedly (due to power failure or forced shut down) then you’ll get a white screen with a button to restore. Most of the time using this button you can restore your active desktop, but sometimes it’ll never work and you’ll have to have that white ugly screen all the time.
By doing a edit in registry you can recover your Desk-top. Steps are as follows
- start -> run -> regedit
- Now Registry window will open
- Choose folders as in this order HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\SafeMode\Components
- Open HTML Version
- edit the html version to 0 (Value Data)
- Now refresh your desk-top
Here we go! You’ll no longer have that annoying ugly button “Restore my Active Desktop”
Your System Restore icon is missing from Start Menu?? We’ve got solution
Switch off your lap-top Monitor
Recently I bought a lap-top and I love being with my lap-top. One advantage in Desk top is you can simply switch off your monitor using the monitor power button but in lap top there is no such button available.
I was digging through internet and found this wonderful portable software. You can simply choose a short cut key and switch off your monitor in seconds.
First download the software (24 KB) and saved in a folder. As shown in the picture below, create a short cut in the desk top.
Now right click on the desk-top short cut and choose property
As shown in the picture click on short cut keys text box and choose your short cut key (I choose Ctrl + Alt + M)
That’s it you’re done. When ever you wanna switch the monitor off, you press your short cut key.
With this method you can effectively save power and convenient way to shut your monitor while let the laptop to run.
PS: you can use this software even with your Desk top
Utorrent & Auto shut-down
If you’re new to the world of torrent, it’s going to be a cool tip for you. Auto shut down feature is one of the most promising features. Usually when I leave home to office I leave a torrent to download. Say this download takes 3 hours to complete but it’ll take around 8 hours for me to come home back and switch off the computer, which means I’m wasting 5 hours of electricity for nothing. Read more
Photosynth – Virtual Tour
Have you ever visited Taj Mahal or Pyramids of Egypt or the castles in England? Nope? Haven’t you worried about it? What you gonna do about it?
Don’t worry Microsoft has come up with an idea to solve your problem. You may not be able to afford a trip to Washington DC but you can afford to browse online rite? (Just like me)
So saddle up and visit http://photosynth.net. This site will provide you virtual 3D trip to famous locations in the world. Now I’m browsing through Pyramids , bit excited and wondering how big it is.
To view these virtual locations you need to install a plug-in which enables you to browse them in browsers. You don’t need to install any new standalone applications.
How does it work?
Photosynth is a potent mixture of two independent breakthroughs: the ability to reconstruct the scene or object from a bunch of flat photographs, and the technology to bring that experience to virtually anyone over the Internet.
Using techniques from the field of computer vision, Photosynth examines images for similarities to each other and uses that information to estimate the shape of the subject and the vantage point the photos were taken from. With this information, we recreate the space and use it as a canvas to display and navigate through the photos.
Providing that experience requires viewing a LOT of data though—much more than you generally get at any one time by surfing someone’s photo album on the web. That’s where our Seadragon™ technology comes in: delivering just the pixels you need, exactly when you need them. It allows you to browse through dozens of 5, 10, or 100(!) megapixel photos effortlessly, without fiddling with a bunch of thumbnails and waiting around for everything to load.
Even you can use your images that you took from your digital camera and make such virtual tour. This application will help you to synchronize your images and make a 3D virtual object. Imagine you moved to new home and wanna share it with your friends, isn’t it a wonderful idea????





