Category: Windows 8


[Solved] Network Location Cannot Be Reached – When Trying to Join Domain

Filed under: VMWARE, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP — 28 Comments
May 23, 2013

There can be cases, where when you try to join your client computer to a Domain, it gets authenticated with the Domain Access rights, but Throws error saying “Network Location Cannot Be Reached ”

Microsoft KB says: Enable the TCP/IP Netbios Helper Service  in Services.msc.  But if that service is already up and running, then that KB is invalid.

 

Follow this procedure to isolate the issue straight away. See the below screenshots for precise referencing.

Enable all the protocols for the Network Adapter you are trying to establish the Connection to the Domain.  enable all the Protocols like Link layer topology and others as seen in the 2nd screenshot.

 

chaladi-lan adapter Network Location Cannot be Reached - solution

 

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[Solved] How to Recover Original Photos from SLM & SLT Gallery Lock/Smart Lock files

Filed under: Android, File Recovery, Gallery Lock, General Information, How To, Samsung Galaxy SII, Solved Issues, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP — 237 Comments
January 19, 2013

[UPDATED POST with New Software Links]

Quick way around for recovery:

1. Copy “media” folder that contains all the folder, which contains all the .slm and .slt files, in “gallery_lock” folder in your sd card.
2. open application in your phone.
3. go to settings.
4. select “recovering locked media”.
5. select “detail recovery”.
6. tap on “recovery”.
7. you’ll find all the files recovered in “locked/safe photos”.

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Note: This also Applies to corrupted Photos and any Image File extensions. You can easily recover Corrupted, Damaged Photos with this Method.

Credit: Thanks to Rahul Mahawar for sending across the SLM and SLT files to work on them.

SLM Files

I was asked by many of my Blog Visitors about the SLM file recovery methods. I am very much sorry that I took so much long time to respond with the solution, just because I was bit busy and out of station, to be able to see comments and work on this much demanding Post.

First off, SLM stands for Media File, SLT stands for Thumb nail. So, Thumb nail can be recovered easily with the File extension change technique, however the original Photo; SLM cannot be recovered with the simple File extension changes. So, follow this awesome method to recover all your SLM files to revert back to Original Photos.

[UPDATE – 17-09-2015] Better alternative to PIXRECOVERY Software. Use Stellar Phoenix JPEG Recovery Software to recover multiple SLM Images at once. Test it using below Torrent link. Ensure you buy software once happy with the test results.

Stellar Phoenix Torrent Link

Alternatively you can use old PIXRECOVERY method if interested.

Download PIXRECOVERY SOFTWARE from torrent sites: Full version is available there at KAT.PH Click the left hand Link to visit torrent site . Please Note, I am not encouraging you to use Pirated software, Just navigating you to Use the software before you buy it, for confidence on Software you purchase it prior. If happy with purchase prior testing, you can navigate to this website and Buy it or download a Demo version as well: http://www.officerecovery.com/pixrecovery/

Once downloaded DEMO, or Installed FULL version of PIX RECOVERY. OPEN the PIX recovery and Click on Recover Menu. See below images:

In Either Stellar software or Pixrecovery software recovery methods, you’ll have to rename the SLM File to .JPEG to get image loaded into software. Please Change the View options from Windows Explorer settings in case you have difficulty renaming the file extension – shown below:

Folder Options - Show File Extensions

Folder Options - Full

—-> Must Do – Change the SLM file extensions to JPG   <—- and then open it up in PIX recovery software and it will process automatically the images with individual folders created for IMAGES recovered. The safest way and fastest way recovering corrupted or encoded Images.

Note: SLT is not required to recover SLM files, You can copy and paste all the SLM files to computer and change the SLM file extensions to JPG and start recovering process then on…

PixRecovery_Success_1

Open Pix Recovery Files 1

Change the SLM files to JPG extension and play accordingly, as seen in above images. only JPG, TIF, GIF extensions are supported with 1.0 version of PIX recovery software.

Congratulations on recovering your most valuable images with this technique.

Still facing issues. contact me.

Thanks

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Windows 8 Shortcuts

Filed under: General Information, guest O.S, How To, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, WIndows 8 Shortcuts — Leave a comment
November 12, 2012

Hello All, Windows 8 has made it’s mark into market and I see some are comfortable using Metro UI and Some not; maybe they are Apple Fans after all 🙂

So, I’ve decided to contribute little myself to this new Microsoft Product.

So, When First Logged On The Windows Key Doesn’t work for you. You have to Press Either “Win+M” or Desktop From Metro Interface,
So you can stat using Windows Key to switch between Opened Windows And Metro UI.

So Try this Keys… “Windows+M”

“Windows+C” for Right Hand Side Options Menu  Aka Charms bar

“Windows+I” for Settings

“Windows+D” for Desktop

“Windows+F” for Searching Files and Programs

“Windows+H” Share Currently Selected File With list of Programs

“Windows+K” Second screen Option

“Windows+P” Projecting Screen

“Windows+Y” Ease of Access Conter

“Windows+R” Start the Run

“Windows+E” Open Explorer. Open Computer Window in DesktopUI

“Windows+Q” Shows list of All Applications installed on your PC – Search utility

Try above shortcuts to save your time and get comfortable using New Windows 8, which was a Shift in Microsoft’s Tradition. Welcome such New Features and Improvements.

Thanks, Chaladi

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[Solved] How To Disable Annoying AutoPlay for USBs, CDs and Portable Hard Disks

Filed under: General Information, How To, Solved Issues, Uncategorized, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP — 3 Comments
October 3, 2012

 

You Can Always Disable AutoPlay for a USB or CDs or Portable Hard Disks Manually, by Holding Down the Shift Key and Inserting the Media. But some find it useless, tired, irritated or wanted to Get rid of AutoPlay Completely for the Sake of Simplicity, Avoiding Autoplay Popup Windows or To Avoid Auto-executing the Scripts those were in Media.

 

To Apply this Permanent Solution, getting rid of AutoPlay, Simply Deselect the AutoPlay Feature from Control Panel; Follow this Navigation in your Windows to achieve this settings visible from Below Screenshot

Goto “Start Menu-> Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound-> AutoPlay” and there you can Deselect the use AutoPlay for All Media and Devices, or You can Manually input settings for Individual Media types to act accordingly by the Media Type. Suppose for CDs to AutoPlay, but USBs to not, You can tell the Same here in settings.

 

Thanks! chaladi

 

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[Solved] How to Fix Laptop Sleep Problems on Windows Vista, 7, 8

Filed under: General Information, How To, Solved Issues, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP — Leave a comment

Hey Guys, When you are trying to Sleep On Bed, But Your Laptop or PC is not Ready to Sleep When idle, Then there are Couple of Options we should try to Let it Accept to sleep As usual. First off, You should try the Procedures Mentioned in Microsoft KB (Knowledge Base) to Put Windows 7 Into Sleep Mode again, and If you have done them and Still not successive, then Try the below Simple Tweak to Let your Laptop/PC Sleep As Usual.

Regular Steps at Microsoft KB Recommends these: If not Done, Click This Link

If tried above all, and still not successed Follow this Simple Step, in Hope of Success

All You have to do is, set Computer to Require Password on Wake, and voilà! Sleep Policy is working Hopefully, which worked for me.

See the below Screenshots:

Thanks!

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How to Enable “Send to Bluetooth Device” Option in Send To Options in Windows 7 and 8

Filed under: General Information, How To, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP, workstation settings — 8 Comments
September 29, 2012

With this post, you can enable an option to allow sending to bluetooth devices from right clicking a file. A simple tweak to allow sending files to Bluetooth devices directly from file; by right clicking the file without accessing the Bluetooth Sharing option and then back again Clicking on send to button. With this tweak the time can be saved and little comfortable sending files quickly.

To have this work for you, follow these steps in order:

1- Go to Start Menu and Search for Bluetooth File Transfer

2- Right click the Bluetooth File Transfer and Click Properties

3- Click On Go to File Location from the Properties Dialog Box opened

4- Create a Shortcut or Sendto Desktop Button to the File That was being highlighted when Open File Location is accessed

5- Now Type “shell:sendto” in Start Menu Search box and Open that Folder

6- Now copy the File that was sent to Desktop or shortcut created for it and Paste it in Sendto Folder. You can also Access the Same Folder from this location C:\Users\sreekanth’s\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo

In the above File Path, sreekanth’s should be replaced with your computer user name

And Viola! now you can Have the Bluetooth Option enabled in your Right click Menu. You can Rename the File for your Comfort too..

Thanks

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Formatting Unrecognized IPod Nano or IPod Family Models

Filed under: Apple, Backup and Restore, Formatting iPOD, General Information, How To, Installation Issues, ipad, iphone, ipod, iPOD Nano, ipod nano, Mounting Issues, Multi Mounting, Uncategorized, Unrecognized in iTunes, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP — 1 Comment
September 18, 2012

Update: This Method Actually Formats the whole capacity and Will require you to restore your IPOD to factory settings. This is for erasing the Games and some stupid content in IPOD, and freeing up Space for mush desired Music and Videos or required

Hey Guys! Now it’s time to wordpress a situation about Ipod Nano being unrecognized in iTunes or/and Windows Explorer, where nothing ahead we can proceed to make use of IPod. For this process to be able to succeed, we need to see the Device partially recognised, means device is Visible in greyed out or hidden like Volume mounted in Windows Explorer, but when tried to access the disk, it says, Please insert a disk, something like that message. this is to format the Whole iPOD and bring out new fresh IPOD. But if you wish to make use of data in the iPOD, just uninstall the drivers for IPOD in Device Manager and Re-install or scan for new hardware changes being installed itunes and connected to internet for better drivers install.

So, how exactly to solve this problem; here it follows. Once you are confident that the volume is recognised, but cannot access the disk either itunes way or volume way in Windows, you have to go to Command Prompt in Windows by pressing Windows+R key together to start a run dialog box and press CMD in there. or type cmd in Start search box and hit enter. Once you are there at the elevated command prompt type the following commands to check whether your iPOD is recognised as a volume disk or not “cd: F:” Pleas note that, here F is the Disk that Ipod has been granted to mount on Windows. It varies as per your system. To make sure what is your Disk name, check the Windows before connecting IpOD and later , to see the newly mounted Disk. Once confirmed that its the only Disk of IPOD, proceed with the given Disk LEtter

if it says the volume is there but not recognised or corrupted, then with the confident that F or the Given Disk letter, Proceed to format the volume disk with the following commands

“format F:”

Once the command is successfully passed onto IPOD Disk, the Formatting option will start formatting the drive with the New EXFAT file system, that will format the drive and will help you recover the iPOD disk back to working in itunes and Windows being recognised.

Hope this help some frustrated Patrons.

Thank you. any further info or queries, happy to help through comments made here.

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Windows 8 Release Preview Sneak Peek

Filed under: General Information, guest O.S, HOSTNAME, How To, Windows, Windows 8 — 1 Comment
August 1, 2012

 

This Post is Just about Windows 8 Release Preview Edition Sneak Peek. Insider Views and Menus, typical installation screen changes, Accounts activities, Locking and logging off screens, gadget bars and Start menu of new Windows 8 Edition.

Look at the Video and have a great Sneak Peek of Windows 8 Release Preview Edition

 

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