REcovering from a sTarTup crisis: NTLDR missing during system bootup

Posted: Jan 7, 2011 by i-rocker in
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I guess It happened to almost every PC user at least once, booting the PC and seeing the dreaded words: "ntldr missing". This means that the system BIOS can't find the MBR where all the boot sequence information are stored. The following link can help someone out, if faced with such a problem. Go Ahead, Help Yourself!!
http://tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm

Auto Shutdown using Commands

Posted: May 25, 2010 by i-rocker in
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At times of exigency, we often find ourselves helpless, and are forced to be on our own. Well when it comes to computing in windows platform, i can say not having the right software at the right time is the same as being on one's own. That's why we are often prompted to use/exploit the Run commands available in windows. As an example we often want our system to shutdown after a specific time period, mostly when we play music or download files via internet. Well some software ( IDM, Media player Classic ) endues the facility of shutdown timer, many do not. The trick is a simple command can enable us make our system shutdown, logoff, restart or hibernate (if enabled) after a fixed time specified by us. First go to Start>Run. Then simply type Shutdown.exe -s -t 600. Here 600 is the time period in seconds, and -s stands for shutdown. The parameter -s can be replaced by -l to log off, by -r to restart or by -h to hibernate. Some important Run commands are enumerated below.
dxdiag - Opens DirectX Diagnostic Tool 
msconfig - Opens System configuration Utility
regedit - Opens Registry Editor
gpedit.msc - Opens Group Policy Editor
msmsgs - MSN Messenger
winchat - Microsoft Chat

Pa$$ing the CCNA exam ain't muCH of a trouble!!

Posted: Feb 28, 2010 by i-rocker in
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Taking Pro Cert. Exams might sound a little too 'savvy, but if u're planning to take CCNA exam 640-802 and pass it, this could be even easier than pulling off a single semester final exam successfully. I took the Cisco academy course on CCNA almost a couple of years back, and in January this year when I planned to take the Cert. exam seriously, it almost gave me a little shiver. Nonetheless the reason why i chose to sit for the exam was that earlier I had activated my voucher (discount) for CCNA exam. I didn't want to be under the constant mental pressure of not utilizing the voucher and loosing it somehow. But as most cert. exams do, CCNA also have reliable dumps ( Selected Q&A's that guarantee pass) such as Pass4sure and Testinside, I found out that that I all I had to do was to cram the contents of dumps for about a week. Additionally the basic concepts of IP, VLAN, ACL, NAT needed a thorough review, 'cause otherwise i had had to literally memorize all the Q&A's, which is rather a matter of indignity for a gonna be CCNA. Practically It took me almost a couple of weeks to go through most of the prep materials before I sat for the exam. I was a little frightened before the exam as I had felt a little under prepared to sit for an exam of such standard. My xam fright proved to be real to some extent as the exam eventually took me an hour and a half of struggle to finish. I guess one more week of study could have paved the way for me to take the xam smoothly and confidently. Anyway with a score of 916 out of 1000, I was satisfied. To any potential CCNA candidate my suggestion is, start the prep one month before u plan to take the xam, and relaX! it won't need u to be a super assiduous geek to be a CCNA. Try out the following links. They might come in handy. U might try googling info about this xam as well.

http://www.4shared.com/file/219074151/95d12878/CCNA640-802_v26__293q_.html (the dumps that i studied)
http://www.9tut.com/             ( Latest updates on CCNA exam questions)