End Not Responding Task Automatically in Windows XP

Apple — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:11:24 +0000

Sometimes an application will “hang” and stop working. In Ubuntu Linux, there’s a feature called. With this feature, the not responding application will quit within clicks. In Windows, to quit a not responding application, you will have to go to the Windows Task Manager (Ctrl + Alt + Del) to “End Task”.

Sometimes, it takes even longer time than expected to end a not responding application, which is really very annoying. Now, you can make the not responding application end itself automatically (in Windows XP) by editting the Windows registry.

This requires you to be extremely careful because you need to edit the Windows registry. Before doing that, make sure you backup your Windows Registry and go to the Registry Editor.

Go to Start > Run and type regedit.

On the left panel, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

Then on the right panel, create or edit the following values:

Set “AutoEndTasks” value to 1. (default value: 0)

Set “HungAppTimeout” value to 1000. (default value: 5000)

Set “WaitToKillAppTimeout” value to 0. (default value: 20000)

If the key does not exist, you will have to create a new DWORD by right clicking any where at the right panel and select:

and enter the above values.

After you have finish editting the registry, exit the Registry Editor. Every now and then when an application is not responding, it will end automatically.

[ via Tech Bold ]

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Removing Sensitive Data

Apple — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:13:16 +0000

You don’t want other people to access sensitive data which you are going to dispose. Do you know that your files still can be retrieved even if they are being deleted? Yes, even if you empty your recycle bin. It can be done by running any undelete utilities.

How is this possible? Every time you delete a file, only the location of the file is being removed from the index, and the content is still somewhere around your hard drives. That is why even when you delete a file, you are still able to retrieve it by using undelete software.

Worry not, as Eraser can make your day…

What is Eraser?

Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.

License: GNU General Public License (Freeware)
Platform: Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista (Eraser version 5.86a), Windows 2003 Server and DOS

Different methods for removal

It has several algorithms to choose from to perform the removal task:

It has many other features that can completely delete your data. Check out a list of feature here. You can always refer to the Help file to learn how to use this program.

My Two Cents

Right click file to erase

The interface may be very simple and not really attractive, but it helps you to remove deleted files from the index. I am not quite sure how the algorithms mentioned above work. The easiest way of using Eraser is right clicking the file/folder that you are going to delete and choose the Eraser option. You can even empty your recycle bin via Eraser too. That will totally remove sensitive files which cannot be retrieved later.

[via Tech Bold]

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