Makalös vändning gav Skoghall brons – vf.se
0–4 och bara en kvart kvar att spela i matchen om tredje pris.Skoghalls F13- tjejer var uträknade.Men stod till slut med bronsmedaljerna runt sina halsar.– Fantastiskt, betygsätter tränaren Magnus Forsberg.
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What online games to keep fit? Probably not. But despite the denial, the truth of the matter, a game of relaxation of the body and help to mind is in its.
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Fix “This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action” in …
Few days ago there was a newly signed up user in forum requesting for help. Initially his computer had some error messages that pops up during Windows startup and he tried using some third party software to fix it. However it ended up making his computer unable to run any exe programs at all including the icons on desktop. He was very sure that he only changed the ProgramFilesDir value from C: to D: in registry. From what I know, this only changes the default location of Program Files where software are installed but no matter what, we all tried to help him undo the changes he made. I showed him how to run registry editor but he wasn’t able to as he kept on getting the error message “ This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action “.
After spending a few hours trying to help and without any success, then I started thinking maybe this problem is caused by another factor which I’ve encountered before in Windows XP. Somehow a virus managed to corrupt the .exe association in registry causing the user unable to run any programs. I used TeamViewer to remotely connect to his computer and tried running this command “ assoc.exe=exefile ” in command prompt which should fix the problem but don’t know why this command has been denied. I checked his user account and he is an administrator. I then tried to use DougKnox ’s EXE registry fix but that failed too because I wasn’t able to import the .reg file since it requires regedit.exe. I also converted the .reg file into .exe file which can imported into registry without using regedit and that too didn’t work.
After 2 days, I am glad that I finally managed to fix the problem.
It turns out to be a corrupted .exe association and the reason those steps I taken didn’t work is because the Windows Vista registry location for exe association is different from XP. Obviously using the XP fix cannot work on Vista!
When you have a corrupted exe association, you definitely cannot use any registry editor to fix it because it is impossible to run it in the first place. So here are a few methods you can try:
1. Run command prompt and type assoc.exe=exefile (If you get access denied error, try step 2)
2. Download this .reg file and run it. Make sure you right click and select Save As. (If you cannot import the .reg file because Windows cannot find the registry editor, then try step 3)
3. Open command prompt and type the following command REG IMPORT vista-7-fixexe.reg . Make sure you’ve already CD to the directory where the .reg file is. (If you have problems getting this to work, try step 4)
4. Download the EXE compiled version of the registry file above and run it. Although it doesn’t make sense to run this exe file since most of the exe files are blocked, but this is the one that fixed the user’s computer. (If this couldn’t fix it, try step 5)
5. Microsoft Fix It has an automated way to fixing the exe association problem. Simply download this MicrosoftFixit50194.msi file and run it.
If done correctly, it should fix the problem instantly and no reboot is required. Now I will always remember that whatever works in XP doesn’t necessarily works on Vista and 7.
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Avira AntiVir Personal Edition Update Hang and Timeout Problem
There has been quite a lot of complaints about Avira recent updating problem that hangs and counts time elapsed endlessly. Check Avira forums and you will see how many people are complaining over it. Honestly I do not use Avira even though I say that Avira is the best free antivirus because I have commercial license for Kaspersky and Norton. If compared between a paid and a free software, I prefer to use paid because I am eligible for prompt support. So I installed Avira on my test computer and researched for a few days on what’s happening to Avira’s update servers. I wasn ‘ t very sure at first but now I am confident to share with you on my findings and also the temporary fix until Avira fix the problem at their side.
One of the main difference between the personal and premium edition is the premium edition gets to update the latest virus definition using Avira’s Fast Premium update server. This is true because the Avira AntiVir personal edition gets the latest virus definition from personal.avira-updates.com and the premium gets it from premium.avira-updates.com. There are only 4 premium servers and as for the personal update servers, there are 24 of them. I am able to download the virus definition at full speed from any of the 4 premium servers but as for the 24 servers that are used for personal edition, I get timeout most of the time on 20 servers and only 4 ipv6 servers are working.
I get to compile a list of Avira update servers by multi pinging Avira’s personal update server personal.avira-update.com. Do take note that the IP address could change if Avira decides to do that.
Personal
80.190.143.227
80.190.143.228
80.190.143.229
80.190.143.230
80.190.143.231
80.190.143.232
80.190.143.233
80.190.143.234
80.190.143.235
80.190.143.236
80.190.143.237
80.190.143.239
62.146.66.178
62.146.66.179
62.146.66.181
62.146.66.182
62.146.66.183
62.146.66.184
62.146.66.189
62.146.66.190
2a01:138:a001:201::21 (works most of the time)
2a01:138:a001:201::22 (works most of the time)
2a01:138:a001:201::23 (works most of the time)
2a01:138:a001:201::24 (works most of the time)
Premium
62.146.87.171
62.146.87.172
80.190.154.74
80.190.154.73
As you can see from the multi ping test, Avira randomly assigns an update server for you to download the updated definition. From what I’ve noticed, most of the time Avira will try to assign one of the 4 of the ipv6 update servers to personal users. Only sometimes you will directly get the ipv4 update server. I believe the reason they are doing this is because all of the 20 ipv4 servers are overloaded. I’ve used DownTester to try to download a 5MB definition file from all 20 servers with a setting of 50 retries if failed and guess what, NONE of the servers allowed me to successfully complete downloading the 5MB file.
It’s really a bad decision to use the ipv6 servers because by default Windows XP don’t have ipv6 installed and configured. Installing IPv6 in XP is easy but you still won’t be able to connect to the ipv6 servers as it doesn’t work right out of the box. Pardon me, I have no experience with configuring ipv6 nor could I get XP to connect the Avira ipv6 update servers. When Avira on XP tries to connect to the ipv6 servers, it hangs for a very long time until it times out and redirects you to one of the 20 ipv4 servers, and again, those are problematic slow servers. So, basically Avira users on Windows XP is pretty much screwed until Avira gets more servers or fix it. If you are using Windows Vista and 7, you shouldn’t have any problems because the operating system already supports ipv6.
If you are using Windows Vista or Seven and wants to manually select which Avira update server to use, then you can use your Windows HOSTS file to map personal.avira-update.com and personal.avira-update.net to any of the IP address. Unfortunately we CANNOT redirect and use the premium servers because the definition files being used are slightly different. When Avira couldn’t find the files that they are looking for, it will automatically redirect you back to any of the free servers.
Here is how to modify your Windows HOSTS file so that the Avira AntiVir Personal Edition can download the updates from working servers.
1. Simultaneously press Win+R on your keyboard and you should see a Run box.
2. Type this in the box system32driversetc and click OK.
3. Open the hosts file with a text editor such as Notepad.
4. Copy the 2 lines below and paste it to the last line at the hosts file. Save the file.
2a01:138:a001:201::21 personal.avira-update.com
2a01:138:a001:201::21 personal.avira-update.net
It should look like the screenshot below.
One of the user from Avira forum suggested that Windows XP users can add this 2 lines to hosts file. I’ve tested it and ended up waiting for more than 20 minutes to download the updates but still stuck with the message “Files are being downloaded” with no progress at all.
::1 personal.avira-update.com
::1 personal.avira-update.net
5. Save the hosts file either by going to File > Save or just simultaneously press Ctrl+S . Now try to update Avira and it should work now.
Just for your knowledge, the HOSTS file can only map host names to IP addresses. If you haven’t noticed, all four ipv6 address are nearly the same except for the last character which is 21, 22, 23 and 24. You can try any of the four servers by changing the hosts file to find which Avira personal update server works best for you. Remember, the IPv6 servers can only work in Vista and 7. It doesn’t work on XP unless you’ve managed to install and configure IPv6 properly. I wonder if this is one of the Avira’s dirty tactic to make everyone pay and upgrade to Premium edition? They better fix it fast or else many people will start switching to Avast! or Microsoft Security Essentials.
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Access Free 25GB Windows Live SkyDrive Storage from My Computer
Windows Live SkyDrive (initially Windows Live Folders) is part of Microsoft’s Windows Live range of online services. SkyDrive is a file storage and sharing service that allows users to upload files to the computing cloud, then access them from a web browser. It uses Windows Live ID to control access to the user’s files, allowing them to keep the files private, share with contacts, or make the files public. Publicly-shared files do not require a Windows Live ID to access. So as long as you have a Hotmail or MSN email account, you have a SkyDrive. The service currently offers 25 GB of free personal storage, with individual files limited to 50 MB.
Recently I discovered SkyDrive Explorer, a very useful extension that allows you to access SkyDrive files from My Computer. The concept is exactly the same as GMail Drive Extension which turns your Google email into a virtual file system. SkyDrive would be a better option compared to Gmail because Gmail is an email service and not meant to be a file storage. It can be a little risky if one day Google decides to delete files that are uploaded using GMail Drive Extension or suspend your Google account.
SkyDrive Explorer is a free, easy-to-use, but very powerful extension for Windows Explorer. With SkyDrive Explorer you can make any every-day operations with your documents from Microsoft Live SkyDrive service using Windows Explorer, as if they were on your computer. Moreover you don’t need to install and configure any additional programs or ActiveX components. SkyDrive Explorer will organize the interaction with the online storage itself. With the current beta version of SkyDrive Explorer v1.1 you can enjoy the following functionality:
View the structure and contents of folders in SkyDrive
View files information (type, size, creation date in GMT format)
Create new root folders and subfolders
Copy files into the storage
Delete files and folders
Copy files from the storage to the computer
Copy folders and subfolders from the storage to the computer saving their structure
Use Drag & Drop for files operations
Rename files and folders
Create links to SkyDrive folders
After installing SkyDrive Explorer which is only 1.17MB in size, you will see an additional icon in My Computer called SkyDrive Explorer. Double clicking on that icon will prompt you to enter your Windows Live ID. The login form looks very much like Windows Live Messenger 2009.
After a successful login, you’ll be presented with a few folders like you normally see on your computer. My internet connection upload speed is 384Kbps (48KBps) and I was able to upload at 46KBps.
You do not have to worry about people snooping on your connection because it is protected with HTTPS protocol. SkyDrive Explorer is free and works both in 32- and 64-bit version Windows starting from XP to 7.
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Easily Turn Windows 7 Computer Into WiFi Hotspot to Share Wireless Internet Connection
Most of the recent laptops and netbooks already comes with wireless capability allowing you to connect to wifi hotspots. Previously I’ve written a few guides ( XP , Vista , Hotspot ) on how to share the wireless Internet connection without a wireless router. Let’s say you have a direct connection to the Internet via network cable and the computer has a wireless adapter. Since your computer is connected via cable, the wireless adapter will not be in use and it is possible to make the wireless adapter to share the Internet connection that you are getting from the cabled connection. This saves you from spending money in buying a wireless router.
However, the steps are quite long are involves a lot of steps. Moreover there are also many different network configurations and the steps that I’ve written might not work for you. Good news is I found a free software called Connectify which is able to “EASILY” turn your Windows 7 computer into a wireless router with only one click. Trust me, sharing an internet connection using your wireless adapter cannot get any easier than this!
1. Fill up this form to obtain the Connectify download link. The page mentioned that the link will be sent to the e-mail address but
2. Download and install Connectify. (The installer ConnectifyInstaller.exe is only 1.41MB in size)
3. Select the Internet connection you wish to share (My internet connection is coming from Local Area Connection and Connectify automatically selected it)4. Choose a name for your new wireless network (You can leave it as Connectify)
5. Choose a wireless passphrase (You will to enter a wireless password that contains at least 8 characters)
6. Press the Internet Sharing button to turn on your wireless network
Now, from your other devices, you can see your wireless network. Choose to join it, and enter the wireless passphrase to connect.Your wireless hotspot created with Connectify is encrypted with WPA2-Personal (AES) encryption by default and you cannot turn it off. Your security is as strong as the Passphrase that you select.
Although this guide ended up with 6 steps, but in short you only need to download and install Connectify, set the passphrase and click a button. I think I can do that all in less than 5 minutes. Connectify is a real WiFi Access Point running on your computer and it’s not an ad-hoc mode. Any device that can connect to a regular access point, can connect to a Connectify Hotspot, with no special setup or software required. Do note that Connectify is still in beta and some old wifi adapter cannot work. I’ve tried setting up connectify with D-Link DWA-110 and it couldn’t work. But when tested on a built-in Intel wireless adapter, it works perfectly.
Connectify is free and runs only on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 r2, both in either 32 or 64 bits. It is not made for XP or Vista. Most ISP doesn’t allow you to resell your internet connection. However if you are sharing the cost with your neighbor, then I believe it should be fine.Technorati Tags: connectify , wireless , share , internet , hotspot
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Monitor Internet Bandwidth Usage with iTraffic Monitor
Some of you might be using an Internet plan from your ISP which has limited bandwidth. As far as I know, ALL of the wireless broadband in Malaysia allows unlimited usage BUT there is a fair usage threshold where once you go over the limit, your connection speed will be throttled to a very slow dial-up speed. I have a Celcom wireless broadband subscription and they offer two types of plan which is 384Kbps or 3.6Mbps. Both package allows you to download stuff at maximum speed but once you reached 5GB limit PER month, then you’re screwed with a really slow speed. Honestly it doesn’t make any sense to subscribe a 3.6Mbps download speed when you can only use 5GB of the bandwidth per month. The worst part is even the uploading bandwidth is counted to the usage.
At least they now tell us in advanced that there is a fair usage policy because last time they never expose this information publicly and you can only find it in their really long list of terms and conditions page which no one really reads. When you find out that there is a fair usage policy and file a complaint, they blame you for not reading the terms before signing up. For those that are subscribed to an Internet connection package which has limited bandwidth usage, it is important that you keep track of your bandwidth usage. Here’s a free internet traffic monitoring software that works.
iTraffic Monitor is a network monitor and reporting tool. It provides real time graph of network traffic. Detailed stats provide daily/weekly/monthly/yearly stats. Stop watch, Session stats.
Monitor and review your Internet or network bandwidth usage with ease
How fast your internet connection? We can graph it for your review
How much data do you transfer? We show you a real-time graph or numerical display, as well as daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly reports
Requires minimal desktop space and system resources
This is how iTraffic report looks like. It’s easy to read and nothing too fancy or complicated.
iTraffic Monitor is relatively new as this is their first version released on 4/22/2009. A few small bugs here and there such as copying the report to clipboard generates an access violation error but it’s no big deal and hopefully they’ll fix it in their next release. What I like about iTraffic Monitor is it can filter out local network traffic or traffic between specific IP addresses. This is very important for people connected to the internet via a local area network (LAN). Very few network monitors can do this and the ones that do usually is a shareware that cost money.
This software is free and takes less than 2MB memory while monitoring your bandwidth usage. Claims to work on all Windows.
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SMBv2 Nuke Crashes Windows Vista, 7 and Server 2008 with BlueScreen of Death
About 15 years ago during Windows 95 era, there were a lot of “winnukes” which can cause Windows to blue screen. Microsoft did release patches to fix those bugs but during that time Internet was still very new and not many people know that there are updates to fix those problems. There was no Windows Update to scan what your system needed to update. Then came Windows 98 and most of the winnukes were patched. However I still remembered that a team called X-Coders has came up with IGMP nukes which can also crashes Windows 98.
Finally XP came and it is considered to be one of the most stable Windows that Microsoft ever released! As stable as it is, hackers still able to find flaw in their system. That time there was another nuker called SMBDie which crashes Windows XP computers by sending a specially crafted SMB request.
It definitely worked because I was pretty much “abusing” it with my childish teenager mindset. I didn’t crash just anyone but only to a particular guy who was downloading a lot with Limewire and hogging the Internet connection until none of the housemates can use the Internet. If I am not wrong, that bug was patched in SP1.
Just when we thought the latest Windows Vista and 7 is safe, Laurent Gaffié discovered an exploit that can cause a remote computer to get a bluescreen of death and released a proof of concept on 9th September. I only got to know about it few days ago because on the day the exploit was released, I was busy packing my bags and getting ready for my honeymoon.
I found 2 compiled version of the exploit and this is how it looks like. This one has an interface for you to enter the victim’s IP address and clicking the OK button will send a specially crafted packet to the remote computer.
The second one is command line application. Just enter the IP address after the program to launch the attack.
I’ve tried to attack my own computer running Windows Vista SP1 and the computer shows a blue screen and auto rebooted. When Windows is booted up, I got a notification window that says “Window has recovered from an unexpected shutdown” with the problem event name “BlueScreen”.
The good news is Windows Firewall is able to block this attack. Thank God that all Windows Firewall is turned on by default or else a lot of people will get nuked by another wave of SMBDie. Looks like Windows Firewall is not so useless after all… Windows XP and 2000 are NOT affected as they don’t have the SMB2.0 driver. You can also update your Windows to be patched from this exploit. If you take a look at this video , Immunity Inc has made a working exploit of SMBv2 that can run commands on the remote system!
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Uninstall Programs Packaged with Windows Installer in Safe Mode
Whenever you install a software in Windows, most of the time it will come with an uninstaller that allows you to safely remove the program from your computer. This is because software nowadays are very complex and requires registering of OCX or DLL files, registry changes, dropping of files in appropriate places and etc. There are many types of installers and one of the popular one is Windows Installer and Kaspersky uses it to pack their software for users to install and uninstall.
If you’ve installed a software and suddenly Windows has stopped working, the logical way is to boot Windows in Safe Mode and then try to uninstall. 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. Unfortunately by default you can’t uninstall a software that is packaged with Windows Installer in Safe Mode. If you try to uninstall, you will get the error “ The Windows Installer service is not accessible in Safe Mode. Please try again when your computer is not in Safe Mode or you acn use System Restore to return your machine to a previous good state. ”
There is a Windows Installer (msiserver) service in Services and if you attempt to manually start it in Safe Mode, you should get an error that says “ Windows could not start the Windows Installer service on Local Computer. Error 1084: This service cannot be started in Safe Mode. ”
To start the Windows Installer service in Safe Mode so that you can uninstall programs, all you need to do is add a new MSIServer registry key. Simply follow the step-by-step instructions below:
1. Hit Win+R, type regedit and click OK.
2. Navigate to the following location in registry editor:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSafeBootMinimal
3. Right click at Minimal and select New > Key and name it as MSIServer
4. The (Default) data for MSIServer should show (value not set). Double click on (Default) and type Service in the value data. Close the Registry Editor.
5. Again hit Win+R, type services.msc and click OK.
6. Look for Windows Installer on the list, double click on it and click Start.
You can now uninstall programs that is packed using Windows Installer in Safe Mode. Alternatively, you can also do all the steps above by typing two command lines below in command prompt or at the Run window.
REG ADD “HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSafeBootMinimalMSIServer” /VE /T REG_SZ /F /D “Service”
net start msiserver
As you can see the first command line is pretty long which I don’t think many people are willing to memorize it. Remember, editing the Windows registry is a risky business and you can end up with more problems rather than fixing it if you do it wrongly. Hence, I’d personally prefer to learn how to do it the long way.
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Rotating Photos or Pictures in Windows Photo Viewer Causes Quality Loss
After coming back from our honeymoon, me and my wife has been going through the photos that we took numerous times. We just miss all the beautiful scenery and building architecture. At first my wife would just go through herself and then I’d join her when I am done checking the forums. I noticed that all the photos were properly rotated even though I’ve taken many photos with the camera in vertical position. She told me that whenever she rotates the photo and then go to the next photo, she will see a small “Saving” message. Then the next time she opens the image, it will stay at the same rotated position.
I immediately stopped her from continue doing that because I remembered when I was using Windows XP, when I rotate and go to the next photo, I get a warning message that says “Because of the dimensions of this picture, rotating it might permanently reduce its quality. Rotating a picture automatically saves it using the original name. To save a backup copy first, see ‘Copy an image’ in Help. Do you want to proceed?”.
I wasn’t really sure at first so I did a test to see if rotating pictures with the built-in photo viewer in Windows will cause any quality loss.
I used a photo that is originally 1MB in size. After rotating 90degrees and closing the image, the file size became 957KB. I tried rotating it back to the original position and file size changes to 969KB. To verify if there are any difference, I used ImageMagick’s compare tool and indeed there were quality loss.
After doing more research on JPEG format, I found out that JPEG file format supports compression, which reduces image size while keeping the image acceptable to the human eye. Unfortunately, to compress images well, the algorithm intentionally loses information. What is saved is NOT the same image as what is in memory; the color of a particular pixel or area of an image will generally will NOT be exactly the same color that was saved. This is particularly true near the edges of objects within the image. Normally this lossy nature of JPEG is not very noticeable. However it can become noticeable when you either load and save a JPEG image multiple times or use a very low quality with a diagram showing sharp color changes.
Now, STOP using Windows XP’s Picture and Fax Viewer, Windows Vista’s Photo Gallery Viewer or Windows 7’s Photo Viewer to rotate your precious digital photos! Once the quality is loss, you can NEVER get it back.
For rotating a JPEG picture without quality loss, you can use any of the programs in this list . There are a total of 81 softwares for you to choose from. One of my personal favorite is called JPEG Lossless Rotator . It is constantly being updated and also free for private non-commercial or educational use, including non-profit organization.
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