TO CHANGE THE DESKTOP ICON BACKGROUND TRANSPARENT

After the hour of work finally got the solution
it really worked for me

open the registry editor
start run cmd
regedit
HKCUsoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionexploreradvancedlist view shadowvalue 1 tranparancyvalue 0 desktop background


HKCU\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\POLICIES\

CREATE NEW DWORD
key value
NOACTIVE DESKTOP
AND SET ITS VALUE TO 1
SET FORCE AVTIVE DESKTOP KEY TO numeric 0

LOGOFF AND LOGIN EVERYTHING IS CLEARED

Windows XP Trouble shooting

If you folder options are not working

try this out it works ....

if you cannot able to view the hidden icons in you machine

try this out

start
run
regedit
HKCU\software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\explorer\Advanced
on the right pane see the Dword value and change the value from 0 to 1
thats it
close all the open items now you can view all the hidden files and folders

Removing the trojan Autorun.ini and IISvbs.dll

STEPS TO REMOVE THE TROJAN IISDLL.DLL.VBS

Important: These entire things should be done in the safe mode which is much
recommended

LOCATE THE DRIVES OF YOUR COMPUTER
This Trojan is a kind of vb script which run on the windows scripting shell
It’s a kind of vbscript which actually resides at the boot sector of the windows

First of all remove any flash drives or any removable disk which is connected using
USB of your computer.

Step1:
Go to the cmd window START -> RUN -> CMD

Step2:
Go to the command prompt
Type cd c:
Where c: is the system drive of your OS
C:\documents and settings\user1>Cd \
C:\Attrib –s –h –r autorun.ini
Step 3:
Now this autorun.inf file will be displayed in the c:\ directory itself

Respectively use the same command to remove the same files which is present in the
other drives
If E, F ,G is the respective drives of your computer use the same command which is
described above to remove the file instead of c: replace the drive letter of the respective
Letter

Now after deleting this
Step 4:
Go run -> type regedit -> browse to this location HKLM -> software -> Microsoft ->
windows -> current version -> run search for the registry key iisdll.dll.vbs key and delete
it

Step 5:

Now
Go the windows directories using cmd

Then type
C:\windows> attrib –s –h –r iisdll.dll.vbs
And now browse the file using your explorer and delete it
That’s it reboot your machine once

Posted by
Narayanan CJ
System administrator

how to enable the "mailto" link

Symptoms

When you click on a mailto: URL in Internet Explorer, multiple instances of Internet Explorer opens (more than 60 windows) with the error Action Cancelled and the mail client is not invoked. You may also see the following error:Could not perform this operation because the default mail client is not properly installed

Cause

The problem happens due to one of these reasons:

1. Mailto handler is not correctly set.
2. Missing URL Protocol registry value.
3. Incorrect registry permissions for the mailto key

Resolution

Set the default E-mail client

Instructions for Windows XP:

• Click Start, Run and type control inetcpl.cpl
• Select the Programs tab
• From the E-mail dropdown list, choose another mail client and click Apply
• Redo the procedure and set your preferred email client again

Instructions for Windows Vista:

• Click Start, select Default Programs
• Click Set program access and computer defaults
• Click Custom, and select your mail client (for example, Windows Mail)
• Click OK

Then, follow these steps:

• Click Set your default programs
• Select your mail client from the list
• Click Set this program as default
• Click OK

If the above does not help, follow these steps:

Re-create the missing string value

• Click Start, Run and type Regedit.exe
• Navigate to the following branch:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\mailto

• From the Edit menu, select New, and then click String Value.
• Type URL Protocol as the name of the new String Value
• Exit the Registry Editor