Folder options disabled by Virus / Trojan

Are you not able to access or see your folder options under File Menu>>Tools in Windows Explorer on your Windows XP ? This problem of hidden or disabled folder options occur normally due to malicious virus(w32.rontokbro@mm) activity.

The virus creates an entry in registry to disable “Folder Options” in Windows explorer.

Solution to recover Disabled Folder Option:

In most of the cases, even if the virus is been already removed by your anti-virus program, it doesn’t restore the registry back to the original state. Also anti-virus usually does not delete the registry entry created by the virus.

For restoring the registry settings,follow the steps given below

*Enable your folder options in explorer.

1. Go to Start --> RUN
2. Type regedit and press enter.
3. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER --> Software --> Microsoft --> Windows --> CurrentVersion --> Policies-- > Explorer
4. On the right side of the screen, you can see some registry entry names, out of them, right-click on NoFolderOptions and click Modify option.

.A new small screen pops up, on this screen, sen the value data field as 0 (zero).PressOK.

That’s it but it requires reboot. Trouble Fixed.

How to remove write protected error for the flash drive

How to remove write protected error for the Pen drive or Other USB devices:

Some USB Errors Shown:

• Cannot copy files and folders, drive is write protected
  
• Cannot format the drive, drive is write protected
  
• The disk is write protected
  
• Remove write protection or use another disk
  
• Media is write protected
  

Some times USB drive becomes write protected and deleting/Copying files or Folders on the USB drive is not Possible.

Let’s now see how to remove write protection on your portable devices like pen drives, memory cards, iPod and other USB mass storage devices.


What Actually causes This Problem?

Write Protection on any portable USB Device can be applied by the physical lock provided on the card adjuster or some times provided on the pen drives, so make sure to make your drive not write protected by moving the lock in right direction.

But even after moving the physical lock for write protection the problem can happen due to some virus action. This happens when some virus or script which applies the registry hackto make any drive write protect when connected to the computer, In that case follow the procedure below to remove write protection from your pen drive.

1. Open Start Menu --> Run, type regedit and press Enter, this will open the registryeditor.

2. Navigate to the following path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies

Note: If the registry key StorageDevicePolicies key does not exist, you will need to create it

3. Double click the key WriteProtect in the right pane and set the value to 0 in the Value Data Box and press OK button

4. Exit Registry, restart your computer and then again re-connect your USB pen drive on your computer. That is it, done.

How to Convert/Burn a Chrsitmas PowerPoint Presentation/Slideshow to CD/DVD?

Many a time, there are people on Yahoo Answers asking this question:how to burn/convert a Christmas PowerPoint presentation to CD/DVD? They want the Christmas PPTpresentation,often containing vibrant elements like animation, transition, Chrsitmasmusic or movie clips, to keep complete when burning to a CDor DVD as it was.

The answer to the question depends on where the PowerPoint presentation is going to playback.

1. Suppose the terminal remains a computer.

You would not email a Christmas PowerPoint file because there is noInternet connection on the computer where you are going to deliver it,or because you are afraid of data loss during emailing. Instead, youwould consider a safer way – save all the data in the PowerPoint fileto a CD and move it to another computer where you will deliver it. Inthat case, you can try one of these methods:

a) Take MS PowerPoint “Package for CD” (in Office 2007) or “Pack and Go” (in Office 2003)

The “Package for CD” or “Pack and Go” feature allows you to copyyour presentation, whether including audio or video or hyperlink filesor not, together with a Microsoft Office PPT PowerPoint Viewer to anoptical disk like CD and DVD, a USB flash drive or a network location.The presentation copied to CD or DVD is good for distributing to acomputer that running Microsoft Windows 2000 or later even withoutPowerPoint. However, if you use the Package feature to transfer apresentation to a computer with OS other than that, e.g. an earlierWindows 98 OS, or a different Mac OS, then a compatibility problem mayoccur. To avoid that problem, try to

b) Convert the PowerPoint file to video and connect it to CD

Video is a universal format that accommodates to any computer,whatever an earlier Windows or a Mac. For an extensive access of yourpresentation, you may turn it to CD-video using the professionalconversion program Moyea PPT to Video Converter.

The total conversion is a three-step process: Launch the PowerPointto video program and input the presentation(s) to convert, select theoutput format to “Video-CD Format (*.dat)“, and start the conversion.

A minute or two, you can get a CD-ready video retaining all theoriginal PowerPoint elements, completed with animations, sounds andmovie clips. Then connect the video to a CD so that you can take it toany computer with ease.

2. Suppose the end-device of your presentation is a CD player or a DVD player attached to TV.

A CD/DVD player cannot play a PowerPoint file. If you would like toreuse a favorite music file from a Christmas PowerPoint presentationfor playback on a CD player, you need to extract the audio and recordto a CD. If you want to share an amazing presentation with family orfriends on a big screen TV, you have to convert it to an appreciateformat – DVD. Because even if you copy the presentation to a DVD usingthe mentioned Pack and Go feature, the DVD presentation won’t play on aDVD player, for it is only a data DVD that only applies to a computer.To play the Christmas presentation on a DVD player attached to TV, youshould turn it to a real video DVD that supportable.

To make such a video DVD, you can rely on a screen recorder like Camtasia Studio. Alternatively, take Moyea PPT to DVD Burner,a dedicated PowerPoint to DVD converter with more competitive price andeffective performance. It is a mix of dual use – aids to burn PowerPoint to DVD and to convertPowerPoint to video (including audioextracting). The PowerPoint to DVD and video converter features a 100% preserve of original animations, transitions,sounds and movie clips, a variety of DVD menus for remote control onscreen, a free insertion of watermarks, sound tracks and voicenarrations, and a built-in burning engine to burn a presentation onto aDVD.

Below is a brief how-to of the PPT to DVD burner.

I. Download and install Moyea PPT to DVD Burner on your computer. After installation, run it and import the PowerPoint file to convert.

II. Go to Options, and do one of the following:

• To extract the audio from your presentation or create a video copy of the presentation for playback on a CD player, select the Convert to Video fileoption. Go to Burn, click Start to begin extracting the audio from the presentation.

• To burn the presentation to DVD for playback on a DVD playerattached to TV, set the output to Create Standard DVD or Create HighDefinition DVD as required. In the Menu tab, select a proper DVD menu for later screen display. Go to Music, if you would like to add a sound track for the presentation on DVD. Proceed to Logo to add your own logo for the DVD presentation. Jump to Burn, click Start to burn the presentation to DVD.

III. For the generated audio file, record it to a CD with athird-party CD recorder. For the DVD output, you can get the final workon a disc if you have a DVD writer installed on your PC. Otherwise, usea third-party burning program to burn the DVD image files created to adisc.

Now it is easier for you to share and distribute a PowerPoint presentation via CD/DVD.