Projector exe flash file to swf

This is an exellent tool to convert .exe file to .swt. It is exe2swf from northcode.com.

It is very light and doesn’t need any installation. Just run the exe2swf.exe file and choose the exe file you want to convert to swf. In just seconds you’ll get it.

Download it from this page http://www.northcode.com/blog.php/2007/08/02/Extract-SWF-files-from-Flash-Executables

Blue screen and LZ32.dll might be corrupted

The computer could not boot. It always went around with restart automatically.

To see what the error, I push F8 while it started. Then disable the automatic restart.

I found the error is related with a file “lz32.dll”.

My first attempt was “to replace with a new one from Windows CD”:

• Reboot from Windows XP CD
• At the command prompt, type : EXPAND D:\i386\lz32.dl_ C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\LZ32.DLL
• This attempt was failed with error : lz32.dll could not be created

My second attempt was “to replace with a file I took from other computer”

• I go to another computer with the same Windows, it is XP Professional, copy file lz32.dll in a floopy
• Back to the computer with problem: Reboot from Windows XP CD
• Insert the floopy, at the command prompt, type ‘COPY A:\LZ32.DLL  C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\
• It would ask for confirmation to replace the existing file. Type “y” (means, yes)
• Exit from the command prompt, start Windows in safe mode
• This attempt was failed. Windows stuck in the midst of booting. Black screen!

The third attempt was succesful, this is what I did :

• I backup the data,  for safety only. (I did it by taking out the HDD and connected it to other computer and copy all data files)
• Insert the Windows CD in the drive. Boot with CD.
• It would ask if we would “Setup” or “Repair with console” –> I chose “Setup” (by push “Enter”)
• After agree with F8, we would have to choose if we want to repair setup or fresh setup. Choose REPAIR.
• It automatically repair the system files and “reinstall”, but it would not affect your data files.
• I had to re-enter the Product ID and reset some variable such as language and time format.

Some small problems entailed were:

1. Windows Genuine Advantage installing wizard always prompt every start up.
   To solve this, I delete the folder and the contents of C:\Documents and Settings\All users\Aplication data\Windows Genuine Advantage\ (it is a hidden folder, to delete you have to make it visible);
   Then, to clean up, I use the “search” facility of Windows Explorer in the directory C: to find all “WGAsetup.exe” then delete all of them.
2. The computer always does “scan/check disk”  every start up. To solve this, I go to command prompt (in Start –> Accessories) and type chkdsk C: /
   A dialog came out : “chkdsk cannot run because the volume is used by another process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restart? y/n   –> type “y”
   I restart the computer, it ask to run scan/checkdisk, I skip it. After that, when I restart again, the scan/check disk would not come again.

Curious about the “cause”, I run antivirus Symantec End Point and also Super anti Spyware, nothing found but some tracking cookies.

Video playback chopping

This is a PC with 1 GB RAM. It didn’t play well all kind of video, even the short video clip. Whatever the format, avi, wmv, or mpg – the playback was chopping – not continuously/ smoothly played. With whatever media player – Windows Media Player, Cyberlink PowerDVD and even VLC, gave the same result.

It might be from the video card software or the codec or even the RAM. But first of all what I did is update the Windows to Service Pack 3 (it was SP2). My reason, some basic driver might be updated automatically if we update the Windows.

Voila!! After SP3 installed, the video plays well in VLC. In Windows Media Player, it played smoothly but without sound. So, I installed K-lite Codec. I downloaded it from this link. Then everything goes perfectly!!

Embed Youtube and other video in Joomla

The website using Joomla version 1.0.0; it is an old one.

Easy to do it:

1. Download the AllVideo plugin here.  Download the correct version, depend on your Joomla version.
2. Go to your Joomla Control Panel, to the Installer -> Mambots
3. Install New Mambot, browse where you have put the downloaded plugin file. It will go by itself.
4. Go to Mambot Manager
5. Find the AllVideo plugin and click “Publish”. The red cross sign will disappear.
6. Now go to your Content Manager to make a new Content, can be a new Article.
7. If you want to embed a Youtube video. Go to the youtube url and find the ID of the video. The ID is the characters between “=” and “&”. In the example below, the ID is koZeA5zDbFO
8. Type in your content area {youtube}theID{/youtube}
9. Save it then see the result in your webpage. You wouldn’t see the video in the “Preview”.
10. AllVideos plugin supports other video portals and also videos in your own server. You have to adjust the tags. See the tags list in this site.
11. You can also change the target folder of your video by changing the setting of AllVideos plugin. Find the setting in Mambots manager in your Joomla.

Enjoy your joomla!

Can’t upload image in WordPress

Suddenly, I couldn’t upload image in WordPress blogs, neither in the wordress.com nor in wordpress’ blog in our own domain/ web server.

Firefox would crash and closed when I click the icon “add an image”.

IE will give the upload image dialog box, but would not able to upload and give error as if there was a problem with “authority”. It said: ” Unable to create ………….. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

Actually the culprit is “Google Gear”. Go to Firefox Add-on and disable Google Gear, all will be fine.

Be Aware of your Website with “statuncore.com”

This is not the first time of my website being hijacked. They entered my website, change the html files and inserting a javascript to bring to “statuncore.com”. They even changed my password.

To avoid this problem, do this :

• Have a strong password, having not only letters but also numbers and other character – at least 12 character.
• Change the password frequently
• Check your files – use your ftp software to help you.

WGA installation prompt every start up

This is a continuation of my post few days ago, titled “WGA attempts to install every start up”. Some computers don’t have problem anymore with that WGA installation after that action, but I experience one computer insisting to prompt the WGA installation wizard every start up.

There was no more WGA folder in the C:\documents and Settings\All Users\Aplication Data\ ;

The installation prompt comes from an application “wgasetup.exe”; So, I open C: in Windows explorer, then run “Search” for wgasetup.exe.

I found wgasetup.exe in C:\WINDOWS\System32\KB905474; and wgasetup.exe-060A30c0.pf and wgasetup.exe-23138B17.pf in C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch

I went to My computer and C:\WINDOWS\System32 and deleted the folder KB905474; I also deleted those two prefetch files.

That’s all!!

“Install update and shut down”

The choice of “Install update and shut down” come by itself when you click shut down. If you don’t take an attention, then the update would go on without your conciousness. And suddenly the unwanted update, such as WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) tool is already in your computer.

Or, you might find this one while doing shut down:

This is the way to avoid this annoying behaviour:

1. Start -> Run, then type : gpedit.msc
2. A window of “Group Policy” will come out.
3. Go to Administrative Settings -> Windows Component -> Windows Update
4. Select “Windows Update”, then you will find a component named : “Do not display “Install Updates and Shut Down” option in Shut Down Windows dialog box”; double click it, then check the button of “enabled”
5. That’s all.

WGA attempts to install every start up

Seems the update file had been downloaded (unitentionally), so that every time I start up the computer, it tried to install. It hadn’t been yet installed, so I couldn’t find any file of WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) in the folder of Program File.

The installer file is in C:\documents and Settings\All Users\Aplication Data\Windows Genuine Advantage\data

I delete the folder of “Windows Genuine Advantage” and all inside of it. Then the annoying stopped.

Note: The folder is hidden, so you have to make it visible. Go to Windows Explorer -> Tools ->Folder Option ->  Views -> uncheck the box like in the image below:

Update your video driver for Photoshop tumbnail problem

I have used Photoshop CS3 in my computer for long time enough and I never had problem.
I don’t know when and how it started, suddenly the tumbnail of style, gradients, even in the layer panel, are not correct.
If I work on a file, seems the view is not refreshed smoothly.
I put sample of how the tumbnail icons looks like.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled without luck.

I could not remember, what was just changed when it started happened. Until, I got the answer that it is a problem of Open GL and I solved the problem by updating my Video Card Driver. Yes, I newly changed the video card.