Task Manager is not showing up

Last Updated on Monday, 16 August 2010 05:10 Written by DarkBlak Friday, 28 May 2010 07:20

Problem:

Task Manager is not showing up. If you manually run taskmgr.exe you will get the following error:

“The specified path does not exist check path and try again”

Solution:

1. Open up the registry
2. Navigate to: HKLM->Software->Microsoft->Windows NT->CurrentVersion->Image File Execution Options->taskmgr.exe
3. Delete taskmgr.exe

Task Manager Problem

No need to restart the machine.

Missing XP style Start menu option in the Taskbar properties

Last Updated on Monday, 16 August 2010 05:17 Written by DarkBlak Monday, 24 May 2010 12:45

Missing XP style Start menu option in the Taskbar properties

When you open the Task bar properties and switch to Start menu tab, the “Start menu” check box may not be available and you’re forced to use the Classic Start menu. This is due to a policy setting, especially if your system is joined in a domain. Contact the network admin to change this setting. For those computers that is not joined in a domain, try the following steps.

Using the Registry Editor
1.    Open Registry Editor and navigate to:

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

In the right-pane, set NoSimpleStartMenu to 0  [dword:00000000]

Note: If you didn’t find NoSimpleStartMenu, just create a new DWORD value name it NoSimpleStartMenu and set its value to 0.

2.    Restart explorer.exe

Using the Group Policy Editor – Windows XP Professional
1.    Click Start, Run and type GPEDIT.MSC
2.    Double-click User Configuration | Administrative Templates
3.    Click Start menu and Taskbar
4.    Double-click Force classic Start Menu and set it to Not Configured

Vista Windows Update Error: “The page failed to load”

Last Updated on Monday, 16 August 2010 05:19 Written by DarkBlak Wednesday, 12 May 2010 04:10

Problem: When you start Windows Update in Vista you’ll get a white blank page with an error message saying that “The page failed to load” (See Screenshot).

Solution:

1. Open MyColors (A Stardock Product)
2. On the left pane select “Windows Vista Aero” to temporarily disable MyColors Theme functionality.
3. Do Windows Update again

Rise of the Jejemons!

Last Updated on Monday, 16 August 2010 05:20 Written by DarkBlak Saturday, 1 May 2010 01:51

Jejemons are so popular today. It is now sort of a subculture. So how does this phenomenon start?

According to Wiki:

The origins of short-handed typing was through the short messaging service, in which each text message is limited to 160 characters. As a result, an “SMS language” developed in which words were shortened in order to fit the 160-character limit.

In the internet, the Jejemon phenomenon started in “early April.” On April 14, 2010 at Pinoy Tumblr, a post about vice presidential candidate Jejomar Binay indicating that he was the Jejemon’s preferred vice presidential candidate, complete with a fake poster with him called as “Jejemon Binay.” Later the use of word “Jejemon” to refer such people made rounds in various Filipino internet message boards.

Such short-handed language is not limited to Filipinos: Thais use “5555″ to denote “hahahaha,” since the number 5 in Thai language translate to “ha.”
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jejemon

The Jejemons are said to be the new “jologs”, a term used for Filipinos of the lower income class.

Accoring to Administrators and members of Gotta Kill ‘Em All (A facebook based group), Jejemon seem to agree that the term “jejemon” was first coined a month ago, but the behavior attributed to jejemon was around for much longer.

I agree to them, Jejemons have been around since people learn to text. Jejenese (Jejemon’s language) has originated on text speak. People shorten their text message due to limited space alloted, thus text-speak was born. And as time goes by people use text-speak differently (should I say more irritating) eventually it became Jejenese.

The way Jejemon’s writing their message is irritating, most of the time my head aches when I’m reading their text message. What more irritating is they found a new ground to invade. They’re now on Facebook, Multiply, Friendster, Tumblr and every social networking site you can imagine. They can also be found on different IMs’ like YM, MSN, etc, etc…

Here are some example how Jejemon speaks:

On AIM or YM:

miSzMaldiTahh111: EoW pFuOh!

You: Huh?

miszMaldiTahh111: i LLyK tO knOw moR3 bOut u, PwfoH. crE 2 t3ll mE yur N@me? jejejejeje!

You: You are a jejemon! Don’t talk to me, you uneducated retard!

miszMaldiTahh111: T_T

Source: Urban Dictionary

Are you one them? Jejejeje!