Windows 7 Windows Explorer fix

On a computer when right clicked on the desktop one was getting the alert saying that "Windows Explorer stopped working.Trying to find solutions.." etc. I first tried to do "sfc /scannow" on a root command prompt which gave that everything is OK. Then I started investigating the cause of Windows Explorer's crash by navigating through Event Viewer. And I found entries which clued that explorer.exe's crash is due to shell extensions dll file. Then I realised that there is a good shell extensions viewer provided free by Nirsoft at http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html. Thanks to these guys I used the program and found the third party extension which I guess infected by a malicious program. First disabled it and checked that if it causes the crash, then removed the Registry keys of it. Voila now the explorer.exe is working just fine.

 

Pdf Editing with Openoffice.org

Yes thats true and awesome. You can edit pdf files (with some restrictions) on openoffice.org 3.0+. You must install the oracle-pdfimport extension. Nice work!

VirtualBox 4.0 Closed Source Edition On Ubuntu Server 10.10

Ok trying to configure a windows xp guest on this server, I did the directions on the manual at virtualbox.org. I used VBoxHeadless which is great for a server environment. Previously I tried virtual OSE provided by Ubuntu repos whose version is 3.2.8 at the time.But it seemed that OSE doesnt support vrdp although here is a post claiming otherwise http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=13499. Then I decided to install closed source edition from the provider according to this post http://www.howtoforge.com/vboxheadless-running-virtual-machines-with-virtualbox-4.0-on-a-headless-ubuntu-10.10-server.Everything worked fine and I installed the guest host. Then I noticed that there are two mouse pointers and the resolution is not adjustable. Then after some work I reinvented (remembered) that one must need to install guest additions thing too. After installing it now the machine working nice.