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Task Manager not working [Solved]

Sudeep Kumar Rana+ — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:58:55 +0000

If you are a windows and regular internet user then I am sure you must have experienced Task Manager not Working and Folder’s Options not showing problem.

Your system is slow and you are not able to open the task manager to kill certain process who are actually eating the valuable processor and memory resources.

There are many solutions available to this particular issue. Some says that you need to edit registry. Hey!! if you are not a tech guy then don’t do that. That might crash your system of you delete the wrong registry.

So what else be the solution? You are right, lets do it with some free software.

A software name TaskManagerFix will do the needful for you. All the registry stuff will be done by this small software utility.

Download TaskManagerFix and enjoy your Task Manager again.

Task Manager not working [Solved]

Open any Software | Program with windows RUN tool

Sudeep Kumar Rana+ — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:13:09 +0000

Have you ever wondered that how to open any software from windows RUN tool.
I was also thinking the same when i was trying to open gtalk with RUN tool. While working on PC or on my laptop i don’t like to use mouse.
So I gave it a little thought and guess what I came with a solution. Windows path variable settings.

This path settings is available at:
Right click on “My Computer” -> Properties -> Cick on Advance Tab -> Environment Variable.
Under the “System Variables” box there is a variable name “Path” which contains some values.

You guys knows what this means but for those who doesn’t know here is the explanation.
Path variable contains some folder addresses separated with semicolon (;)
These folders contains all the executables files addresses which works with command prompt and RUN.
Some of the examples are “msconfig”, “ping”, “calc”.

I made a folder called “runcuts” (similar to shortcuts ) in C Drive. You can make this folder with any name you like.

Now go to “My Computer” -> Properties -> Cick on Advance Tab -> Environment Variable
and under the system variables box click on “Path” and then click the EDIT button.

Go to the end of the line and put a semicolon if its not there because we are going to input one more path there and write the path of our “runcut” folder. In my case its C:\runcut

Save the settings.

You are almost done !!!!

Done but nothing is working man…….Ya Ya i know. I mean, all the settings are done you just need to place shourcuts of programs or .exe in our newly created runcut folder.

Go to C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\ and copy googletalk.exe

Go to your runcut folder which is in the C Drive (C:\runcut) and paste shortcut of gtalk. Now rename the file with anything. In my case it was gtalk.

Now everything is complete.

Press Window Key+R that will bring the RUN on screen and type gtalk.(Windows key is available on your keyboard with a windows sign. In between Ctrl and Alt buttons on right hand side.)

gtalk at your service just sign in and enjoy. (This is really quick is it not.)

You can paste any program (.exe) short here and rename that with any name you want and run that with RUN.

They will become your personalized shortcuts in windows.

TROUBLE Shooting:
In case this is not working then do little trouble shooting:
1) Make sure the file you are pasting in the runcut folder should not contain .exe extention (the shourtcut name must be gtalk and not gtalkxxyyxxx.exe)

That was all about Open any Software | Program with windows RUN tool

Delete | Remove recycle bin from desktop xp

Sudeep Kumar Rana+ — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:49:41 +0000

To Delete or Remove recycle bin from windows XP desktop you need to make changes into the registry.

Registry is a hierarchical database that stores configuration setting of windows.

To Edit the Registry:

Step 1: Click Start >> Run and write regedit.

Regedit stands for registry editor.

Step 2:In registry editor navigate the following key:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace

And find the following key : {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

First create its backup in case you do something wrong.

To create backup right click on the Key value and click EXPORT. And save that registry at some location with a file name.

Delete the above key and close the registry editor.

Wait for sometime and see how the icon disappears from the desktop.

To get the recycle bin back you need to recreate the key back with the above value or just Import the .reg file we had exported earlier to get the registry back.

Step 1: Click Start >> Run and write regedit.

Step 2: Click on File and select “Import” and select the .reg file that we had just exported.

Wait for some time and your recycle bin will come back.