Wednesday

Windows Mapping Conventions / Windows system shortcuts / Windows Environment Variables / Windows System Folder Shortcuts

hi, Here are the conventions that are used by the Windows operating system. you can either use these conventions to get into the target folder by typin them in the Run dialog box, or in the command prompt or on the adress bar of the Windows Internet explorer or on the address bar of the Windows explorer..




For newbies, you can use these conventions along with the specified target folder.
for instacee here i presume that you have installed the Windows operating system on the local disk C. now to go this particular folder

C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\Professional\RunTime\09\01\Intel32,

you can just replace the first three elements of the path by this.

%CommomProgramfiles%\InstallShield\Professional\RunTime\09\01\Intel32

..

Similarly to work with the iTunes folder located in my music i.e.,to access C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\My Documents\My Music\iTunes, you can simply use

%mymusic%\iTunes ..


You can call these shortcuts or whatever, but they are called Windows mappin conventions or Windows Environment Variables to be more precise.

Mapping are displayed with the following assumptions:

Operating system: Windows Xp English
Profile Name: UserName
Windows directory: C:\WINDOWS


[%APPDATA%] - C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\

[%COMMON_APPDATA%] - C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\

[%COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY%] - C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\

[%COMMON_DOCUMENTS%] - C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\

[%COMMON_FAVORITES%] - C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Favorites\

[%COMMON_PROGRAMS%] - C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\

[%COMMON_STARTMENU%] - C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\

[%COMMON_STARTUP%] - C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\

[%COOKIES%] - C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Cookies\

[%DESKTOPDIRECTORY%] - C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Desktop\

[%FAVORITES%] - C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Favorites\

[%FONTS%] - C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\

[%INTERNET_CACHE%] - C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\

[%LOCAL_APPDATA%] - C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Application Data\

[%MYMUSIC%] - C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\My Documents\My Music\






[%MYPICTURES%] - C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\My Documents\My Pictures\

[%MYVIDEO%] - C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\My Documents\My Videos\

[%NETHOOD%] - C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\NetHood\

[%PERSONAL%] - C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\My Documents\

[%PRINTHOOD%] - C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\PrintHood\

[%PROFILE%] - C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\

[%PROFILE_TEMP%] - C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Temp

[%PROFILEPATH%] - C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\

[%PROGRAM_FILES%] - C:\Program Files\

[%PROGRAM_FILES_COMMON%] - C:\Program Files\Common Files\

[%PROGRAMFILES%] - C:\Program Files\

[%PROGRAMS%] - C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Start Menu\Programs\

[%RECENT%] - C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Recent\

[%RESOURCES%] - C:\WINDOWS\resources\

[%SENDTO%] - C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\SendTo\

[%STARTMENU%] - C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Start Menu\

[%STARTUP%] - C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\

[%SYSTEM%] - C:\WINDOWS\system32\

[%USER_RECYCLING_BIN%] - c:\Recycler\S-*

[%WINDOWS%] - C:\WINDOWS\




Hope that helps, Thank you !!



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Remove that annoyin " Low disk space " pop up in Windows / Remove Low Disk Space Pop UP in Windows XP /Remove the Low disk space warning / error in XP

Source link :: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555622

so folks who have a very low spave space in their hard disk and donot have enough money at that point of time to upgrade your hard disk can take this post to get rid of that annoyin low disk space pop ups in Windows XP.
I've been gettin this message ever since i bought the computer years back. I always burn them to a disc and delete them, but as i was at a downloadin spree i could not find time even to burn them to a DVD, and this message kept poppin up.
Basically i had three partitions Local disk(C,D,E). Now everythin kept sayin Low disk space on Local disk C, very low disk space on Local disk D, Low disk space on Local disk E. now a couple of months before i upgraded my computer i got rid of this message with tweakin the followin registry key. now to remove that,

1---> click Start, select Run.

2---> type in "regedit" on the run dialog box, which would open the registry editor..

3--->you need to navigate to the location "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer" on the left pane by selectin the plus sign on the correspondin entries...

4--->Now select the entry explorer and then right click on the empty part, goto new and then select DWORD value.

5---> rename the Dword value to "NoLowDiscSpaceChecks".

6---> double click on the entry "NoLowDiscSpaceChecks" and set the value to "1".

thats it. log on the computer and log back in. or restart the computer.
magic done, you wont get that annoyin Low disk space pop up again..

Now as we are workin with the current use of the computer, the changes will reflect only in the particular user account that you have logged in . to reflect the changes permanent on every user account, you need to modify the registry key on each user account.
So these kind of filthy elements provided by microsoft to ensure rigidity causes us sometimes to even break the computer. seriosly i broke my computer table a little. but they give up on infections.
To know more, i dinot try the entry in the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System"... may ne someone can try this beforehand by creatin the "NoLowDiskSpaceChecks" and setting it to "1" in the LocalMachine and check whether the change is reflectin all the user accounts or not..

Thank you !!



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remove that annoyin nero scout from MY computer / uninstall the Nero scout from My computer / remove nero scout from my computer /

So similar to the previous post about the low disk space popups, this was another one that had been killin me. i tried every single step to take that off my computer, all in vain and finally there i found that there are numerous resources to fix this. and this post adds one more copy to the existing resources. Initially to remove this nero scout i would go right click on the nero scout on my computer and then select Disable nero scout(or options like that, i dont remember) and this nero scout would not go to hell. Completely out of my mind, i directly went to the registry and deleted al the entries that showed up "nero scout" and "neroscout". restarted the computer. still that goddam bullshit is there. then i tried workin on my nero to burn a data DVD, the application wont startup and it will give a bunch of error messages. of reinstallation fixed it and no way to remove that nero scout. while i was deleting the registry entries i did notice a file "MediaLibraryNSE.dll" pertainin to nero scout and i didnot think of uninstallting the dll that time. then after googlin i found that the uninstallion if the "MediaLibraryNSE.dll" fixes the problem and here am postin it. So thats the end of the story and to remove the nero scoupt outta your computer, follow the steps below..

1---> click Start, select Run.

2---> type "cmd" or "command" (preferably "cmd") on the Run dialog box.

3--->on the command prompt type in (in case of nero 7) "cd %commonprogramfiles%/\Ahead\Lib" without quotes or (in case of nero 8) "cd %CommonProgramFiles%\Nero\Lib"
without quotes.
this is probably migrating to the folder c:\program files\common files\ahead\lib with the most known "%commonprogramfiles" windows convention.
To know more about the normal Windows conventions visit my blog link
....

http://slimshadym23.blogspot.com/2009/01/windows-mapping-conventions-windows.html




4--->now after the command prompt has changed to the above path type in "regsvr32 /u MediaLibraryNSE.dll" , and you should gt a message
"dllUnregister server in MediaLibraryNSE.dll is succeeded".

5--->Now close everythin as the way it is, open up a new "My computer" and you wont get that fuckin Nero SCout nomore.

in step 4, the regsvr32 is a command that is used to register or unregister the Dlls files that are either a part of windows or a part of any third party applications.
for more help or regsvr32, just type "regsvr32" in the command prompt and hit enter.

and in most of the forums you may find this solution,
On the run dialog box just type in "regsvr32 /u %commonprogramfiles%\ahead\lib\MediaLibraryNSE.dll" and hit enter and you should be gettin the same
"dllUnregister server in MediaLibraryNSE.dll is succeeded" and you shouldnot seeNero scout nomore in my computer, however unfortunately this trich doesnot work for me, i donot know it is givin a file not found error.i dont know why..
and hope that solved problems of someone.

Thank You!!.


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Tuesday

Mkv file playback error "Unexpected EOF while reading EMBL container"/"Invalid first byte of EBML ID : OD" and resolution/Mkv files-Hassle free editin

hello, this post is related to the mkv files and the error that the haali media splitter gives you.also the conflict that occurs between the video codec packages.So i've been gettin this error message when i had the video files in a folder and the folder view seleted to thumbnails.or at times you may get this error message no matter what the folder view is. the message you get is actually this "Invalid first byte of EBML ID : OD" or "Unexpected EOF while reading EMBL container". this message is given by the "haali media splitter".
Also your search for the Queries " How do i play MKV files ? " , " I can't play mkv files" , " How can i play Mkv files? ", " Problem with Mkv files", "Mkv files wont play" -- ends here.





Now to summarize when you open the mkv files(some of the mkv files not all of them) or when you open up a folder which contains the mkv files , the Haali media splitter
gives you the error "Unexpected EOF while reading EMBL container" or/and "Invalid first byte of EBML ID : OD" with the panickin windows error bang.


here are the causes.

1---->first you should have installed the k-lite codec pack any version which inturn contains the decoders for mkv files which is done my the haali media splitter originally.to know more about k-lite codec pack and download it google or visit

the foll. links

http://www.codecguide.com/

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_lite_codec_pack.htm

http://www.filehippo.com/download_klite_codec_pack/

and more.Just google them.

2---->the latest version of vlc media player(or vlc media player 8 or above) plays any kind of mkv files. and if you have this klite codec pack installed despite the presence of Vlc and if you attempt to play a particular kinda mkv file(probably the one downloaded from azureus vuze) using the media player classic(that comes with k-lite codec pack) or on any other player except vlc you will get this error message.

3--->you might not have installed the particular codec that is needed for the matroska file or the mkv file.

4--->or you might have installed the codec pack from the website


http://www.cccp-project.net/

which is the combined cummunity codec pack.
and of course the one codec pack which you download from

http://www.cccp-project.net/
or from

http://www.codecguide.com/

should resolve the problem, however unfortunately they dont in case of some mkv files(mostly the ones that are downloaded from the HD flatform of vuze).

and of course you can just get along just with havin the cross platform and the most acclaimed vlc media player for playin these files. but then if you try to edit of slice or cut these files for modifyin the video content then obviously you will be beseiged by theses scenarious which am talkin about. obviously you cannot cut them with any kind of video editing tool. trust me, even the sony movie studio, says nope!!!! to these kind of mkv files.

now to resolve this follow the steps below.








1---> just download the haali media splitter from

the direct link below :

http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/MatroskaSplitter.exe

or from the haali project page :

http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/

or from the matroska offical downloads page :

http://www.matroska.org/downloads/windows.html

clearly all the above websites depend on the first link.but when you go to

http://www.matroska.org/downloads/windows.html

, you wil find a lot of options to get rid of the problems that are created by the mkv files. since that is the homepage for the mkv developers you will find a lot of infomation there.God knows how these developers do it. Will see whether i can be a part of a development family like this.:)
and now after installing this haali media splitter you should ne able to play the mkv files, all the mkv files even the one that is downloaded through vuze can be played with any player that you use to play the video files.i tested playin them on vlc, bsplayer, jetaudio, win media player, media player classic, total video player.
also along with this playback you can use the video (that you had problems with previously) to edit any part of them. and any cutter of editor of the mkv files which didnot work before should work now.

and to cut the mkv video files here is the which i used and which i personally recommend.

download it here ::

http://download.riverpast.com/download/videoslice_setup.exe

homepage ::

http://www.riverpast.com/en/prod/videoslice/

.its upto you to use any video cutter for the mkv files.but it is with this video slice i started off researchin upon the haali media splitter issue and i ended up with a blog like this:)so after installing the haali media splitter everthin regardin the problems with the mkv files includin playback , editing are resolved.so use video slice cutter for editing.

hope that was usefull. In case of broken links google them , or leave a comment, i will get back to you at the earliest.:)
Thankn you !!






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