ANAS autorun creator.

'ANAS autorun Creator' is a freeware tool coded myself to make autorun files easily.
Its a portable application, so that theres no need to install it. The application has two input boxes and one button. One input box is to take the name of the icon from the user, while other one is to take the name of the .exe file.(optional)
Its very easy to use this application.

You just give the input in the input boxes (second one is optional) and hit the create button. Then an 'autorun.inf' file will be created in the same path directory of  ''ANAS autorun Creator".

Just copy and paste this 'autorun.inf' file to the removable storage media with the icon file.

You are done...! Replug the removable storage media, and you can see that the icon is changed.!

You can download ANAS autorun Creator from here.





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Google+ limited Field Trial is ready...

hai guys...
hope, you already heard about Google+. Anyway its limited Field Trial is ready now. At the moment,they are testing with a small number of people, but it won't be long before the Google+ project is ready for everyone. You can leave your email address and they'll make sure that you're the first to know when they are ready to invite more people.
Some interesting features in Google+ are:

Circles

The easiest way to share some things with college buddies, others with your parents and almost nothing with your boss.

Hangouts

Let friends know that you're free for a video hangout, any time, anywhere. Then catch up, watch YouTube or... just hang out.

Sparks

A feed of only the things that you're really into, so when you're free, there's always something waiting to be watched, read or shared.

Then, what to wait...???? Do it now itself here...

Setup Email account in nokia S40.

Its nice if we can configure our mail on our handy device. yes, its possible on nokia S40 too..
Its very easy to do so...

You don’t have to set up a new email account to use Email from your Nokia phone. The service is designed to work with the accounts you already have.

1. Select Mail on your home screen
2. Select Get the latest services
3. Select Your internet connection
4. Read the service terms and privacy policy and select I agree
5. A list of email service providers appears on your home screen. Select the one you want to use, or, if it isn’t there, select Other.
6. Enter your email address and password and select Sign in. The phone will automatically load your email settings.

Now get it on your hand...!




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My first 64bit application's GUI is ready...

Hai friends...
Last week i was planning to create an application to automate keystrokes and mouse clicks. I think, this application will be helpful to all the windows users. The development is still on progress. I am damn sure that, this program will help users to automate scrap and SMS sending etc. Its a tiny standalone portable application. As you see in the picture, its easy to use. You can see some numbers in that application (eg: 120, 140 etc), they are mouse positions. That's sample GUI is ready and the back-end will be ready within this month itself. Its source code will be posted in ma blog after its release. Hope, i can do it well.








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What is safe mode?

What is safe mode?
Safe mode is a troubleshooting option for Windows that starts your computer in a limited state.
Only the basic files and drivers necessary to run Windows are started.
The words Safe Mode appear in the corners of your monitor to identify which Windows mode you're using.
If an existing problem doesn't reappear when you start in safe mode,
you can eliminate the default settings and basic device drivers as possible causes.
If you don't know the cause of the problem,
you can use the process of elimination to help you find the problem.
Try starting all of the programs you commonly use, including the programs in your Startup folder,
one by one to see if a program might be the cause of the problem.
If your computer automatically starts in safe mode without prompting,
 a problem with your computer might be preventing Windows from starting normally.
If you think the cause of the problem might be a recently installed program or device,
try using Recovery in Control Panel.

Why should I create themes?

The market for mobile content is expanding rapidly as consumers seek more personalisation options for their mobile devices. Themes enable users to publicly declare their passions: The possibilities — such as displaying a beautiful image or showing support for a favourite sports team — are bounded only by the imagination.

For businesses, themes offer opportunities for promotion and building brand awareness. A theme can be used to create a fully branded user experience, in which corporate identity permeates all aspects of a consumer's mobile phone use.

It's easy to start creating themes. Theme creation requires very little new learning — a person who already creates digital content probably has the right skills to create impressive graphics and audio for themes. Best of all, both versions of the Carbide.ui tool, which are used to create theme packages, are available free of charge.

Nokia S40...

The Series 40 platform is the world's most widely used mobile device platform. Series 40 devices range from mass-market devices that provide many mobile consumers with their first experience of the internet to devices for specific market segments, such as music or fashion.

For developers, the promise made by the Series 40 platform is that of reach. Whether working with Java™ technology, Adobe Flash Lite, web technology, or mobile media content, the Series 40 platform offers a mass-market opportunity across the globe. And as the Series 40 platform evolves, increasing support for multiple runtimes is bridging the divide between mobile and desktop product development.

For Java developers, there is MIDP and CLDC technology, with an array of JSRs that provide additional location, communication, messaging, media, and graphics capabilities.

Media developers can deliver web, messaging, and Adobe Flash Lite content, as well as streaming video and audio, using the latest industry standards. The user interface of Series 40 devices can also be personalised with themes, animated screen savers, and wallpaper.

All this is supported by OMA DRM to protect developers' intellectual property.

The Series 40 is a fast-evolving mobile platform with industry-leading global sales. It creates unprecedented opportunities for developers to add value and reap rewards.

Java™ technology provides developers with a robust cross-platform development tool capable of addressing the most demanding enterprise and consumer application requirements.

The Series 40 platform provides developers with an wide array of additional APIs, these APIs enable developers to create applications that offer rich functionality with an engaging user experience. For example, APIs are available to access location information, secure data traffic, and manipulate media on many Series 40 devices. Details of the Java APIs in the various editions and feature packs of the Series 40 platform are found in the wiki article Java ME API support on Nokia devices.

The Java implementation on the Series 40 platform shares many common features with the implementation on Symbian. This allows developers to easily extend the reach of their applications to the entire platform range.

Adobe Flash Lite enables developers to deliver rich multimedia applications and content to Series 40 devices.

With support for Flash Lite 3, developers can create rich stand-alone applications and content, as well as animated screen savers and animated 'organic' wallpaper. Using fscommand2, Flash Lite content can access and control various phone parameters. Flash Lite applications can also initiate various actions, such as starting a phone call, allowing applications to take advantage of Series 40 devices' mobile connectivity.

Carbide.ui Series 40 Theme Edition is a tool for creating visual themes for devices built on the Series 40 platform. Using Carbide.ui, designers can create comprehensive themes that consumers will find visually rich and engaging.

Carbide.ui enables developers to link in their chosen Adobe Flash-, vector-, bitmap-, and audio-editing software so that theme content can be edited easily. The Referenced Colors tool improves colour manipulation by linking any colour used in a theme to a centrally defined colour. When a referenced colour is changed, all linked colours change as well. Working with complex themes is supported with workflow tools and a library function. Once a theme is complete, settings for packaging and OMA DRM protection are required once, after which packaging, protection, and transfer of the theme to a device is a single step.
Series 40 is a software platform and application user interface (UI) software on Nokia's broad range of mid tier mobile devices. It is the world's most widely used mobile device platform and found in hundreds of millions of devices
It provides communication applications such as telephone, messaging, email client with POP3 and IMAP4 capabilities and Web browser; media applications such as camera, video recorder, music/video player and FM radio; and phonebook and other personal information management (PIM) applications such as calendar and tasks.
The integrated web browser can access most web content through the service provider's XHTML/HTML gateway. The latest version of Series 40, called Series 40 6th Edition, introduced a new browser based on the WebKit open source components WebCore and JavaScriptCore. The new browser delivers support for HTML 4.01, CSS2, JavaScript 1.5, and Ajax.
Support for SyncML synchronization with external services of the address book, calendar and notes is present. However with many S40 phones, these synchronization settings must be sent via an OTA text message.
Series 40 is an embedded software platform that is open for software development via standard or de-facto content and application development technologies. It supports Java MIDlets, i.e. Java MIDP and CLDC technology, which provide location, communication, messaging, media, and graphics capabilities.[3] S40 also supports Flash Lite applications.
Series 40 uses a simpler operating system than the higher end S60 (which is based on the multi-tasking Symbian OS). Because S40 devices do not support true multi-tasking and do not have a native code API for third parties, its user interface may appear to be more responsive and faster than other Nokia platforms
The first Series 40 devices (introduced in 2002) had only 128x128 pixel large displays. Over the years, the S40 UI has evolved from a low resolution, black-and-white UI to a high resolution color UI with an enhanced graphical look. The third generation of Series 40 that became available in 2005 introduced support for devices with resolutions as high as QVGA (240x320).[6] It is possible to customize the look-and-feel of the UI via comprehensive themes
Some of the Nokia Series 40 devices are:
    * Nokia-1680 Classic-5th edition
    * Nokia-2220 Slide-5th edition FP1
    * Nokia-2320 Classic-5th edition
    * Nokia-2323 Classic-5th edition FP1
    * Nokia-2330 Classic-5th edition FP1
    * Nokia-2355-1st edition
    * Nokia-2600 classic-5th edition
    * Nokia-2610-2nd edition
    * Nokia-2626-2nd edition
    * Nokia-2630-5th edition
    * Nokia-2650
    * Nokia-2660-5th edition
    * Nokia-2680 slide-5th edition FP1
    * Nokia-2690-5th edition FP1
    * Nokia-2700 Classic-5th edition FP1
    * Nokia-2720 Fold-5th edition FP1
    * Nokia-2730 Classic-5th edition FP1
    * Nokia-2760-5th edition
    * Nokia-2855-2nd edition
    * Nokia-2865-3rd edition
    * Nokia-2865i-3rd edition
    * Nokia-3100
    * Nokia-3105
    * Nokia-3108
    * Nokia-3109 Classic-3rd edition FP2
    * Nokia-3110 Classic-3rd edition FP2
    * Nokia-3110 evolve-3rd edition
    * Nokia-3120
    * Nokia-3120 classic-5th edition FP1
    * Nokia-3125
    * Nokia-3152
    * Nokia-3155
    * Nokia-3155i
    * Nokia-3200
    * Nokia-3205
    * Nokia-3220
    * Nokia-3280 Classic-5th edition
    * Nokia-3300
    * Nokia-3300 Americas
    * Nokia-3500 Classic-3rd edition
    * Nokia-3510i
    * Nokia-3530
    * Nokia-3555-5th edition
    * Nokia-3585i
    * Nokia-3586
    * Nokia-3586i
    * Nokia-3587
    * Nokia-3587i
    * Nokia-3595
    * Nokia-3600 slide-5th edition
    * Nokia-3610 fold-5th edition
    * Nokia-3710 Fold-6th edition
    * Nokia-3720 Classic-6th edition
    * Nokia-5000-5th edition
    * Nokia-5070-2nd edition
    * Nokia-5100
    * Nokia-5130 Xpress Music-5th edition
    * Nokia-5140
    * Nokia-5140i-2nd edition
    * Nokia-5200-3rd edition
    * Nokia-5220 Xpress Music-5th edition
    * Nokia-5300 Xpress Music-3rd edition
    * Nokia-5310 Xpress Music-5th edition
    * Nokia-5330-6th edition
    * Nokia-5610 Xpress Music-5th edition
    * Nokia-6010
    * Nokia-6012
    * Nokia-6015
    * Nokia-6015i
    * Nokia-6020
    * Nokia-6030-2nd edition
    * Nokia-6060
    * Nokia-6070-2nd edition
    * Nokia-6080-2nd edition
    * Nokia-6085-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6086-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6100
    * Nokia-6101-2nd edition
    * Nokia-6102-2nd edition
    * Nokia-6102i-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6103-2nd edition
    * Nokia-6108
    * Nokia-6111-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6125-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6126-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6131 NFC-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6131-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6133-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6136-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6151-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6152
    * Nokia-6155
    * Nokia-6155i
    * Nokia-6165-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6170
    * Nokia-6200
    * Nokia-6208 Classic-5th edition
    * Nokia-6212 Classic-5th edition
    * Nokia-6216 Classic-5th edition
    * Nokia-6220
    * Nokia-6225
    * Nokia-6230-2nd edition
    * Nokia-6230i
    * Nokia-6233-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6234-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6235
    * Nokia-6235i
    * Nokia-6255
    * Nokia-6260 slide-6th edition
    * Nokia-6263-5th edition
    * Nokia-6265-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6265i-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6267-5th edition
    * Nokia-6270-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6275-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6275i-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6280-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6282-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6288-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6300-3rd edition
    * Nokia-6300i-5th edition
    * Nokia-6301-5th edition
    * Nokia-6303 Classic-6th edition
    * Nokia-6500 Classic-5th edition
    * Nokia-6500 Slide-5th edition
    * Nokia-6555-5th edition
    * Nokia-6585
    * Nokia-6600 fold-5th edition
    * Nokia-6600 slide-5th edition
    * Nokia-6600i Slide-5th edition
    * Nokia-6610
    * Nokia-6610i
    * Nokia-6650
    * Nokia-6651
    * Nokia-6700 Classic-6th edition
    * Nokia-6750 Mural-6th edition
    * Nokia-6800
    * Nokia-6800
    * Nokia-6810
    * Nokia-6820
    * Nokia-6822
    * Nokia-7020-6th edition
    * Nokia-7070 prism-5th edition
    * Nokia-7100 supernova-5th edition
    * Nokia-7200
    * Nokia-7210
    * Nokia-7210 supernova-5th edition
    * Nokia-7230
    * Nokia-7250
    * Nokia-7250i
    * Nokia-7260
    * Nokia-7270
    * Nokia-7310 supernova-5th edition
    * Nokia-7360-2nd edition
    * Nokia-7370-3rd edition
    * Nokia-7373-3rd edition
    * Nokia-7390-3rd edition
    * Nokia-7500 Prism-5th edition
    * Nokia-7510 supernova-6th edition
    * Nokia-7600
    * Nokia-7610 supernova-5th edition
    * Nokia-7900 Prism-5th edition
    * Nokia-8600 Luna-3rd edition
    * Nokia-8800
    * Nokia-8800 Arte-5th edition
    * Nokia-8800 Crabon arte-5th edition
    * Nokia-8800 Glod arte-5th edition
    * Nokia-8800 Sirocco-3rd edition
    * Nokia-8801-2nd edition
    * Nokia-8910i
    * Nokia-X3-6th edition

Carbide.ui Theme Edition 3.4

Carbide.ui Theme Edition enables the S60 and Series 40 UIs to be customized with full WYSIWYG layout and without the need for layout definition, coding, or specialized mobile-design experience.

Carbide.ui has been designed with the creative professional in mind. It enables the S60 and Series40 UIs (user interface) to be customized with full WYSIWYG layout and without the need for layout definition, coding, or specialized mobile-design experience. In addition, Carbide.ui can be integrated with a wide range of creative graphic and audio packages, enabling designers to work with their favorite tools.

Carbide.ui Theme Edition enables creation of S60 Audio themes. Audio themes are supported on some of the S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1 and later devices, such as the Nokia 5700 XpressMusic phone.

Once a theme has been created, Carbide.ui can be used to package the theme into an installation file and prepare it for Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) digital rights management (DRM) protection, if required, after which it will be ready for deployment to devices.

Supported Platforms:

Series40 3rd Edition;
Series40 5th Edition;
Series40 5th Edition, Feature Pack 1;
S60 2nd Edition;
S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 1;
S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 2;
S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 3;
S60 3rd Edition;
S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1;
S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2;
S60 5th Edition.

Here are some key features of "Carbide.ui Theme Edition":

· Creation of graphical and Audio theme packages.
· Use of ready-made and customized components.
· Editing of existing themes (packaged S60 themes cannot be edited; the source files are required).
· Importing of existing themes.
· Viewing of all colors or only common colors in the Layers view for multiple selections of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) images, with the Colorize feature.
· User-controllable automatic selection of a component in the Component view to match an item selected in the Editor view, through the Synchronization with Selection in Editor option.
· Support for Series40 themes.
· Support for S60 Audio themes.
· New look and feel of the Resource view.
· Copying of file-system folders to apply customization to all elements in a theme at once, using Menu Edit > Paste element(s). Element IDs are resolved based on file name.
· Colors that can be referenced and multiple colors that can be changed in one step.
· Referenced Colors view that supports drag-and-drop features for colorizing theme and SVG elements.
· SVG-thumbnail support in the File dialog box.
· Ability to switch the phone display simulation in the Editor among all supported resolutions and orientations.
· A plug-in feature that allows phone-specific layouts and new customizable components to be plugged into Carbide.ui.
· Support for additional S60 theme elements, including: Nine-piece-bitmap-graphics support for call handling, Calculator buttons, Idle volume control.
· Improved performance.

Requirements:

· Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3; Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Service Pack 3; or any version of Microsoft Windows Vista.
· 512 MB of RAM (1 GB of RAM is recommended).
· 512 MB of RAM.
· 430 MB of free disk space.
· 1.5-GHz processor (a 2.8-GHz processor is recommended).
· A display supporting 16-bit color (24-bit color support recommended) at 1280 x 1024 pixels.
· A sound card is recommended.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Microsoft Windows Vista support.
· Series 40 theme templates.
· Series 40 Skins resource.
· Series 40 Font Colors.
· Additional components for S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2 themes.
· S60 5th Edition example themes.

Lets go through the mobile OS....

Symbian is an operating system (OS) designed for mobile devices and smartphones,
with associated libraries, user interface, frameworks and reference implementations of common tools,
originally developed by Symbian Ltd.

In 2008, the former Symbian Software Limited was acquired by Nokia and a new independent non-profit organisation called
the Symbian Foundation was established.
Symbian OS and its associated user interfaces S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) were contributed by their owners to the foundation with
 the objective of creating the Symbian platform as a royalty-free,
open source software. The platform has been designated as the successor to Symbian OS,
following the official launch of the Symbian Foundation in April 2009.
The Symbian platform was officially made available as open source code in February 2010.[3]


Symbian features pre-emptive multitasking and memory protection, like other operating systems (especially those created for use on desktop computers).
EPOC's approach to multitasking was inspired by VMS and is based on asynchronous server-based events.

Symbian OS was created with three systems design principles in mind:

    * the integrity and security of user data is paramount,
    * user time must not be wasted, and
    * all resources are scarce.

To best follow these principles, Symbian uses a microkernel, has a request-and-callback approach to services,
and maintains separation between user interface and engine.
The OS is optimised for low-power battery-based devices and for ROM-based systems (e.g. features like XIP and re-entrancy in shared libraries).
 Applications, and the OS itself, follow an object-oriented design: Model-view-controller (MVC).

Later OS iterations diluted this approach in response to market demands,
notably with the introduction of a real-time kernel and a platform security model in versions 8 and 9.

There is a strong emphasis on conserving resources which is exemplified by Symbian-specific programming idioms such as descriptors and a cleanup stack.
There are similar techniques for conserving disk space (though the disks on Symbian devices are usually flash memory).
Furthermore, all Symbian programming is event-based, and the CPU is switched into a low power mode when applications are not directly dealing with an event.
This is achieved through a programming idiom called active objects. Similarly the Symbian approach to threads and processes is driven by reducing overheads.

The Symbian kernel (EKA2) supports sufficiently-fast real-time response to build a single-core phone around it—that is,
a phone in which a single processor core executes both the user applications and the signalling stack[5].
This is a feature which is not available in Linux[citation needed]. This has allowed Symbian EKA2 phones to become smaller, cheaper and more power efficient than their predecessors[citation needed].

Lets know whats Autorun...

Autorun

Autorun is a technology used to automatically start programs or enhanced content (such as video content on a music CD)
when you insert a CD or another media type into your computer. This is different from AutoPlay,
but the result is often the same: when inserted, the CD starts automatically by using a particular program.
Autorun is incorporated into the media types that use it, and you can't modify it.

When you try to play a CD or another media type that uses autorun,
AutoPlay asks you to choose an action to perform (for example, to play the autorun content or to skip it).

Beep codes

Beeps are emitted from the computer during boot process when some problem is encountered and
can be used vto trouble shoot a dead computer.
They indicate problems such as bad memmory, bad keyboard or bad mother motherboard.
Usually if you hear beeps, there is something really wrong and
you should immediatly turn off the computer and perform some troubleshooting.



POSt beeping Error general codes:



Bad mother board:
1 long & 1 short beep



Disk drive related problem/ Video card problem:
1 shor beep only



Bad video card:
1 long & 2 short beeps



Bad power supply:
1)continues beeps
2)non-stop short beeps



Bad memory:
3 short beeps

XPS Viewer

What is the XPS Viewer?




An XPS document is any file that is saved in the XML Paper Specification, or .xps, file format.
You can create XPS documents (.xps files) by using any program that you can print from in Windows;
however, you can only view XPS documents by using an XPS Viewer, such as the one included in this version of Windows.

When you click an XPS document, it opens automatically in the XPS Viewer.
There are several options for viewing and managing XPS documents in the XPS Viewer, including:

Saving a copy of an XPS document to your computer

Searching the document for a word or phrase

Zooming in or out to make text and pictures easier to read

Digitally signing the XPS document

Determining who can access the document and for how long by applying document permissions

Safe mode

What is safe mode?
Safe mode is a troubleshooting option for Windows that starts your computer in a limited state.
Only the basic files and drivers necessary to run Windows are started.
The words Safe Mode appear in the corners of your monitor to identify which Windows mode you're using.
If an existing problem doesn't reappear when you start in safe mode,
you can eliminate the default settings and basic device drivers as possible causes.
If you don't know the cause of the problem,
you can use the process of elimination to help you find the problem.
Try starting all of the programs you commonly use, including the programs in your Startup folder,
one by one to see if a program might be the cause of the problem.
If your computer automatically starts in safe mode without prompting,
 a problem with your computer might be preventing Windows from starting normally.
If you think the cause of the problem might be a recently installed program or device,
try using Recovery in Control Panel.

system repair disc

Create a system repair disc

System recovery options can help you repair Windows if a serious error occurs. To use system recovery options,
you'll need a Windows installation disc or access to the recovery options provided by your computer manufacturer.
If you don't have either of those choices, you can create a system repair disc to access system recovery options.

To create a system repair disc
Click to open Backup and Restore.

In the left pane, click Create a system repair disc, and then follow the steps.
If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

Note
If you're prompted to insert a Windows installation disc,
it means that the files needed to create the system repair disc can't be found on your computer.
Insert a Windows 7 installation disc.

system image

What is a system image?



A system image is an exact copy of a drive. By default, a system image includes the drives required for Windows to run.
It also includes Windows and your system settings,
programs, and files.
You can use a system image to restore the contents of your computer if your hard drive or computer ever stops working.
When you restore your computer from a system image, it's a complete restoration;
you can't choose individual items to restore, and all of your current programs,
system settings, and files are replaced with the contents of the system image.

Although this type of backup includes your personal files,
we recommend that you back up your files regularly using Windows Backup so that you can restore individual files and
folders as needed. When you set up Windows Backup, you can let Windows choose what to back up,
which will include a system image,
or you can select the items that you want to back up and whether you want to include a system image.
For more information about setting up Windows Backup, see Back up your files.

If your computer contains several drives or partitions,
you can create a system image that includes all of them by following the steps in Back up your programs,
system settings, and files.

Signs of Infection

Signs of Infection



There are a number of signs that a computer is infected.
The following events are good indicators that a computer is infected with a virus:
Unexpected messages or images appear on your screen or you hear unusual sounds;
The CD/DVD-ROM tray opens and closes unexpectedly;
The computer arbitrarily launches a program without your assistance;
Warnings pop up on the screen about a program attempting to access the Internet, even though you initiated no such action;


There are also several typical traits of a virus infection through email:
Friends or acquaintances tell you about messages from you that you never sent;
Your inbox houses a large number of messages without return addresses or headers.
It must be noted that these signs can arise from causes other than viruses.

For example, in the case of email,
infected messages can be sent with your return address but not from your computer.
There are also indirect indications that your computer is infected:
 Your computer freezes or crashes frequently; Your computer loads programs slowly;
You cannot boot up the operating system; Files and folders disappear or their contents are distorted;
The hard drive is frequently accessed (the light blinks);
The web browser (e.g., Microsoft Internet Explorer) freezes or behaves unexpectedly
(for example, you cannot close the program window).



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driver

What is a driver?

A driver is software that allows your computer to communicate with hardware or devices.
Without drivers, the hardware you connect to your computer—for example, a video card or a printer—won't work properly.

In most cases,
drivers come with Windows or you can find them by going to Windows Update in Control Panel and checking for updates.
If Windows doesn't have the driver you need, you can usually find it on a disc that came with the hardware or
device you want to use, or on the manufacturer's website.

boot disk

What is a boot disk (startup disk) and why would I need one?

A boot disk (sometimes called a startup disk) was a type of removable media,
such as a floppy disk, CD, or DVD, that contained Windows startup files that your computer could use to start Windows,
 if the Windows system files on the hard disk became damaged or unusable.

In this version of Windows, you can create a system repair disc that contains the System Recovery Options menu.
This menu, also located both on your computer's hard disk and on the Windows installation disc,
contains special recovery tools that can help get Windows running again.

Recognizing dangerous file types

Dangerous file types

Dangerous file types are those that have the potential to contain viruses or spyware that might damage your
information or the programs on your computer.
The types of files that are considered dangerous are usually program files
(.exe), macros, or .com files. The vast majority of files with these extensions do not contain viruses.

However, when you download or receive these types of files in e-mail, you should not open them unless you
trust the source or you were expecting the file.

The following are the most common file name extensions used by e-mail viruses and other malicious software.
When you receive files with these extensions, save them to a folder on your computer and
scan them immediately with up-to-date antivirus software before opening them.

Most common file name extensions
The following table describes file name extensions that might indicate that a file is dangerous.

Extension
 Type of file

.exe
 Program

.com
 MS-DOS program

.pif
 Shortcut to MS-DOS program

.bat
 Batch file

.scr
 Screen saver file


Notes
Some viruses use files with two extensions to make dangerous files look like safe files.
For example, Document.txt.exe or Photos.jpg.exe. The extension farthest to the right is the one
that Windows will try to open. It is extremely rare that a legitimate file would have two extensions,
so avoid downloading or opening this type of file.

There are files that are safer to download than program or macro files, such as text (.txt), or image
(.jpg, .gif, .png) files. However, you should still be wary of unknown sources,
as some of these files have been known to have specially crafted formats that can exploit vulnerabilities
in computer systems.

Some full forms....

A2DP: Advanced Audio Distribution Profile

VDP: Video Distribution Profile

SPP: Serial Port Profile

DUN: Dial Up Networking

FTP: File Transfer Protocol

JPEG: Joint Picture Experts Group

GIF: Graphic Interchange Format

WAR: Web Application archive

RAR: Resource Adapter archive

3GP: 3rd Generation Participation

AVI: Audio Video Interleave

WMA: Windows Media Audio

MPEG: Moving Pictures Experts Group

AMR: Adaptive Media Rate

AAC: Advanced Audio Coding

GPRS: General Packet Radio Service

WAP: Wireless Application Protocol

EDGE: Enhanced Data rates for Gsm Evolution

IMEI: International Mobile Equipment Identity

USB: Universal Serial Bus

HSCD: High Speed Cellular Data

HLR: Home Location Register

PUK: Personal Unlocking Key

tmp: temporary file

PIN: Personal Identification Number

PNG: Portable Network Graphics

Bmp: bitmap

cfg: configuration

swf: small web format

TF: Trans Flash

VGA: Video Graphics Array

QVGA: Quarter VGA

SD: Secure Device

MMC: Multi Media Card

FM: Frequency Modulation

IPTV: Internet Protocol TV

MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

SVGT 1.1 SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) Tiny version 1.1

XML eXtensible Markup Language

MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface

aa: audiable audiobooks