July 13, 2011

How to Disable Autorun in Pen Drive

The USB Flash drive Autorun function is a great bless for many users. But still there are people who find this feature annoying or useless as it might not be comfortable for them. So if you want to disable the Autorun in pen drive, then here are the instructions to do it easily in Windows.
Disable Autorun in Pen Drive in Windows XP, Vista or 7

1. Type in ” gpedit.msc ” in Run to open Group Policy Editor.


2. Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System.
3. In the right side, double click on ” Turn off Autoplay “.
4. Check the enabled option and change the ” Turn off Autoplay on ” option to ” All drives “.
5. Apply the changes to disable autorun of pen drive.
That’s it! The Autorun feature will be now disabled.

July 12, 2011

Mail Tracking

Here is something everyone should read. If you don't, you're hurting yourself and your email buddies.  
Please read right to the bottom.
By now, 
            I  suspect everyone is familiar with www.snopes.com  and/or  www.truthorfiction.com for determining  whether information received via email is just that: true/false  or fact/fiction. Both are  excellent sites. 
Advice from Snopes.com  - Very  important!


1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says  forward this to '10' of your friends, sign this petition or you'll get bad luck, good luck, you'll see something funny on your screen after you send it, whatever,  it almost always has an E-Mail tracker program attached  that tracks the cookies and E-Mails of those folks you forward  to!
The host sender  is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of 'active' E-Mail  addresses to use in SPAM E-Mails, or sell to other spammers.  Even when you get emails that tells you to send the email on  if you're not ashamed of God/Jesus .... that's  E-mail tracking! They're playing on our conscience!  These people don't care how they get your email addresses - just as long as they get them. Also, emails that talk about a missing child or a child with an incurable disease  'how would you feel if that was  your child' .......E-mail Tracking!!!
Ignore them! Don't participate! 


2) Almost all E-Mails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are  similar to that 'mass letter' years ago that asked people to send  business cards to the little kid in  Florida who wanted to break  the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All that was to get names  and 'cookie' tracking information for telemarketers and spammers - to validate active E-Mail accounts for  their own profitable purposes.
You can do  your friends and family members a GREAT favor by sending this  information to them; you will be providing a service to your  friends, and will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam  E-Mails in the future! 
If you have been  sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of E-Mail, now you know why you get so much SPAM! 
Do yourself a  favor and STOP adding your name(s ) to those types of listings  regardless how inviting they might sound, or make you feel guilty if you don't. It's all about getting email addresses  - nothing more! One email doing the rounds, for the third time, is whales being killed on a beach in Denmark . Email address of every one who forwarded that are now with the spammers!
You may think you are  supporting a GREAT cause - YOU ARE NOT! Instead, you will be  getting tons of junk mail later and very possibly a virus  attached!  Plus, you are helping the spammers get rich.
Also: E-Mail petitions are  NOT acceptable to the White House, Congress, UNESCO, UNICEF  or any such organizations. To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and full address of the  person signing the petition, so this is a waste of time and  you're just helping the Email  trackers. 
AND MOST IMPORTANT: don't forget... 
* Delete other people’s e-mail addresses on the e-mails you send out. 
 * When forwarding/sending - send as BCC:   

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