How do i disable 'Autorun' for USB ?

Now a days, USB (pen) drives are no exception for being hosts to viruses. To prevent them spreading to your local drives or to other removable devices, it is a nice idea to disable autorun feature of Windows.

Here is a quick way to do it . Type gpedit.msc in Run.

Go to - Compurt Configuration\Administrative Templates\System

Now you can see a setting 'Turn Off Autoplay". Take its properties, select 'Enabled' option and press OK.
Hmm, you are done !

There is another way to do the same. Try this if you are a geek. Use Regedit and navigate to the following Key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Look for the key "NoDriveTypeAutoRun". The default value for this key is 95 0 0 0. Change the first byte to 91 and do a restart.

Now you have just built one more wall against those dangerous bugs !!

Smart thinking !

A wealthy man decided to go on a safari in Africa . He took his faithful pet Dachshund dog along for company.

One day, the dachshund starts chasing butterflies and before long the dachshund discovers that he is lost.

Wandering about, he notices a leopard heading rapidly in his direction with the obvious intention of having lunch. The dachshund thinks,"I'm in deep trouble now! Then he noticed some bones on the ground close by and immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat.

Just as the leopard is about to leap, the dachshund exclaims loudly,"Boy, that was one delicious leopard. I wonder if there are any more around here?"

Hearing this, the leopard halts his attack in mid-stride, as a look of terror comes over him, and slinks away into the trees. "Whew," says the leopard. "That was close. That dachshund nearly had me."

Meanwhile, a monkey who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree figures he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the leopard. So, off he goes. But the dachshund saw him heading after the leopard with great speed, and figured that something must be up.

The monkey soon catches up with the leopard, spills the beans and strikes a deal for himself with the leopard. The leopard is furious at being made a fool of and says, "Here monkey, hop on my back and see what's going to happen to that conniving canine."

Now the dachshund sees the leopard coming with the monkey on his back and thinks "What am I going to do now?" But instead of running, the dog sits down with his back to his attackers, pretending he hasn't seen them yet... and just when they get close enough to hear, the dachshund says......................

"Where's that damn monkey? I sent him off half an hour ago to bring me another leopard."

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

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CPU going wild when selecting, renaming AVI files..

CPU usage shoots up when right-clicking, opening or renaming .avi files. This is because windows explorer queries file index and if not found tries to build index info. I googled and came up with the following link, which works fine !

http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=68&pgno=1

Here is the solution -
1. Open up regedit.exe.
2. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler
3. Delete the "Default" value which should be "{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}"