Microsoft has hidden a few applications from the add/remove Windows Components Wizard that can be found within the Add or Remove Programs area. You may want to remove programs such as games and other components that are sometimes hidden from you. If you’re in a corporate environment you may want to remove the default games from your employees computers. Here are the steps for removing games if they are currently hidden in the add/remove Windows Components Wizard. After going through these steps you can unhide any of the other components you may want to remove from your system.
Does Accessories and Utilities currently show in the add/remove Windows Components Wizard.? If yes then click on details and see if games appears. If it does then you can uncheck to remove it and then click OK.
Otherwise Modify the following file – c:\winnt\inf\sysoc.inf
Now Accessories and Utilities should show in the Windows Components Wizard.
You can now select details and remove games!
You should not be able to run the following game files now:
C:\WINNT\System32\freecell.exe
C:\WINNT\System32\sol.exe
C:\WINNT\System32\winmine.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Pinball\PINBALL.EXE
Note: there maybe copies of these files located in the following directory:
C:\WINNT\system32\dllcache
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Some of you may be struggling as I did when trying to display tags on your current postings within the latest 2.x versions of WordPress. Rather then using an external plugin such as Ultimate Tag Warrior (it was awesome). WordPress now has it’s own tagging system built in.
You must place the following code within your WordPress pages were you want your tags to display, such as: index.php, single.php, etc.
You may have to experiment a little, to find the exact location you want to place this code.
This command gives you the default comma separated format that looks like this:
Tags: tag1, tag2, tag3, tag4
For other formats of displaying your tags, check out the following WordPress help page at: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_tags
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Recently, I was getting a false positive virus detection from Symantec Antivirus on one of my blogs. I had just upgraded this particular blog to WordPress version 2.x The file in question was wp-stats[1].htm located in my temporary internet files. The file was never found and therefore could not be removed. It was driving me crazy!
First I called my web hosting service and asked them to scan my blog for viruses. I was told they don’t do that. So I downloaded my current blog files and scanned all the files locally and did not find any viruses. Just as I suspected, this might be a false positive virus detection.
I searched the entire internet for any information on this issue and didn’t find anything directly related to my specific problem. So I decided to completely remove my blog and install a fresh new downloaded copy of WordPress version 2.x and, after all that, I still found I was getting the same Downloader virus detection caused by the wp-stats[1].htm file.
Now I was completely frustrated to no end. For some crazy lucky reason I decided to go through all my blog option settings and when I deleted the Blog address (URL): found under Options then the General tab within WordPress administration and then saved my updated settings. WordPress automatically populates the blog address field back in upon saving. This fixed the false positive Downloader virus detection that was occurring anytime somebody visited my blog and was using Symantec Antivirus and maybe any other antivirus software.
My guess is that I must have mistyped the blog address url entry at some point and that was causing the problem.
CORRECTION: The issue returned shortly after I posted this blog entry. So I went back through my blog piece by piece and located an entry in one of my blog postings that looks like what is posted at this link:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/151888
It is a traffic statistics script that was inserted into one of my blog postings.
I removed this entry from my post and the downloader virus detection issue went away.
If this information helps anyone else experiencing this issue please leave a comment on our blog to let us know. Thank you!
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The problem usually occurs when MS Photo Editor gets uninstalled after upgrading MS Office.
The Symptom: When you open a folder that is configured to show a thumbnail view of .jpg files, you see an outline of the thumbnail and a small program icon rather then the image that should be displayed.
Note: before doing the following steps, make sure you make a backup copy of the registry.
To resolve this issue, use Regedit to re-associate the .jpg file extension in the registry:
1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then click OK.
2. Locate and click the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpg registry key.
3. Right-click the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpg registry key, point to New, and then click Key. Name the new key ShellEx.
4. Right-click the ShellEx registry key that you created, point to New, and then click Key. Name the new key {BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}.
5. Click the {BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1} registry key that you created, right-click the Default value in the right pane, click Modify, and then type the following value data in the Value data box: {7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}
Reboot…That’s it…
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