General Files - A Simple File Sharing Search Engine

Nowadays, people have chosen the Internet to share their files, data with each other. The ways to make online sharing’s are file uploading sites and email. Almost all people know to share files by email. The main drawback of the email file sharing is, the file size limit. Most of the email providers limit the file size to 20MB. So, if you are going to share your life’s favorite moments with your loved one, then this limit stops you doing it.

Moving forward, the General-Files.com is the best choice to share the data with others and also search the files in the database download into the PC without any problem. General-files is one of the best place that helps you to download free movies. It also offers Simple File Sharing Search Engine with file size limit from 200MB to 4GB users can store a lot of files like mp3, games and videos in their account. They are also providing high quality maintenance to users removing unused files and invalid files in their database.

By using these, you can upload almost all the things from your hard drive to the cloud storage. You can also divide your file into parts of certain sizes and then upload them. Sites Like Rapidshare, HotFile, FileServer are the most popular sites for uploading files. But, these sites do not provide search feature, so if you just forgot the file download URL, then just forgot the file ! How horrible it is. In this case, the third-party sites come in the picture. General-Files is a site which lets you search all these file uploading site files and to download them. By using this site, you can search millions of uploads made by the users every day.

 Coming in-depth, the site lets you download free movies, free games, free mp3 downloads, free software directory etc. With the search capability for almost all the file uploading sites, such as Rapidshare, Hotfile, FileServe, MegaUpload, it can become a big source of the files for you. You can search documents, music, software's, games by using this site. Filters provided by this site lets you shorten your search results by the maximum relevancy. You can search files by its size, from 100MB to <100MB. The great feature of this site is, it lets you see the files by the popularity, allowing you to see what people are downloading nowadays. Last added file widget shows you the most recent uploaded files, so you always get the fresh content uploaded by the users. To get started with this site, just head over to General-Files.com and let the search begin !

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Toshiba Satellite A135 - S4527 - No Sound, Media Player won't play media files, Photoshop won't load up

Date Fixed : 04.16.10

Owner : Ms. Sheila

Unit : Toshiba Satellite A135 - S4527 Laptop

Operating System : Win Vista and Win XP (Win Vista was Corrupted)

Technician : Drokz

URL : http://clhidohsr.blogspot.com

PROBLEM :

Toshiba Satellite A135 - S4527 with Win XP Operating system have problems with playing media files like to play music or play videos. It also made Photoshop CS to be corrupted and unusable. There was no sign of virus attack.

CLIENT REQUESTS :

File Backup (PDF, Word, Excel, Presentation, Pictures, Mp3, etc..)

Web Cam should be installed and run

Limewire and Photoshop should work

INTERVENING FACTORS :

Toshiba Satellite A135 - S4527 is lost

WebCam driver cd also lost

OBSERVATIONS :

Photoshop doesn't work

Media Players won't play any media file

Web Cam doesn't work

Can't establish a connection to the internet

TROUBLESHOOTING PROCEDURE :

- Since the laptop doesn't have any support cd (it was lost), we need to have a backup of the currently installed driver. This can be achieved by using softwares capable of extracting currently installed drivers in your computer. In my case, I used Hiren's boot cd and then DoubleDriver. It can easily be downloaded and also free.

- The requested files were then had backup and saved it in a 300-GB External Drive.

- It is now time to troubleshoot what makes all things go wrong. I then asked Ms. Sheila what was the last action she or a user has done to her laptop. She said that an XP Service Pack 3 was installed and everything went unusually wrong. There is a proper procedure in installing the Service Pack 3 Update at the Microsoft Support Site

- I uninstalled the Service Pack 3 from the Control Panel but the changes of the update seems to be already "permanent"

- Now the update might have possibly caused the changes, she said the installation was stopped and restarted. And upon restart, there was another instance of Win XP on the boot selection screen. 1 for Vista and Two for Win XP. The installation should be rolled back through System Restore. Here is the procedure for System Restore:

a. Go to "Start" Button then to "Run"

b. In your "Run" box type "restore" (without the quotations)

c. Click on the "rstrui" icon and run the System Restore

d. Choose a restoration point and the system will automatically restart to restore to the given restoration point.

- In our case System Restoration didn't work out. So we need another program to have the system files fixed. So I used ERD Commander to do the job.

- After using the ERD Commander, results were just the same. The changes made by the update could not be rolled back. So I decided to re-install the XP SP 2 Operating System.

- The XP installation was done and files were saved to the local drive. Also, the drivers were updated from the driver backup made earlier using Hiren's Bootable CD.

- The Web Cam was also installed and it functions well after the Operating System Re-Installation. Installed Photoshop and also working well. The failed Service Pack 3 installation must have caused the problems.

REPORT :

Failed Service Pack 3 Update of XP if not installed properly causes undesirable results like making other programs not run and or makes it not run because of its strict security.

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Download Files Using Torrents

What is a Torrent?

Downloading music, video, data and software has never been easy using torrents. Torrent has been in awhile and is a popular choice of downloading files than direct download. In direct download, a file is retrieved or downloaded continuously. It should be the perfect choice for download but what makes some turn down from it is because if there is an internet connection interruption or connection problem, you have to repeat the process of downloading. It wastes time through repeating unsuccessful downloads.

However in using t0rrents, downloading can be stopped or paused then resumed. This solves the problem with interrupted connection to the server with direct download. T0rrent downloads packet after packet and later assemble the broken files into its usable form. The availability of the torrent files greatly relies on the number of leechers and seeders. Leechers are computers that are part of the torrent network that retrieves the files packet after packet. The seeders however are the computers that has the full or had amassed a larger packet and shares the collected packets to the computer of the torrent network called leechers. That means if the leechers outnumber the seeders, the downloading of the packets will become terribly slow. It is best to download a file with a large number of seeders than leechers. One thing to note, t0rrent users are encouraged to seed any file available in their computers.


Do You Have a T0rrent Client?

A torrent client is a program you install on your computer to let you download your t0rrent file. There are a lot of torrent clients out there but I prefer to use utorrent because it is light and also has the portable version. Here I will be giving you a small list of some of the t0rrent clients in popularity order.

Utorrent
BitTornado
BitComet
BitTorrent
Shareaza
Frostwire

Best Torrent Search Engines?

T0rrent search engines are websites that has a pool of t0rrent files readily available from the local servers and from the computers included in the torrent network. Torrent search engines are not the same. Some share files privately and you need to have an invitation in order to be part of their community, this reduces the risk of having broken, virus infected and useless torrent sites. Also, torrent community members of that private torrent search engine are encouraged to seed.

Some torrent search engines doesn't require membership to be able to have access to their torrent database. So here is the small list of my favorite torrent search engines.

ThePirateBay
TorrentFunk
IsoHunt
Demonoid
Torrents.to
FlixFlux
KickAssTorrents
ShareReactor
BTJunkie
MiniNova
Fenopy


How to Download from a Torrent Search Engines

1. Get a t0rrent client. A list was given above and just choose any of those. Once you have downloaded a torrent client, install it and follow the instructions given.

2. Having your t0rrent client already installed, go to your favorite t0rrent search engine and find the file you want.

3. Download the torrent file (it has a .t0rrent file extension)and open it. The torrent client should automatically open and download your file.

4. Wait until the download completes. Completion depends on the number of seeds and leechers. Be sure to choose the torrent files with more seeders than leechers.

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How I Manually Recovered the Virus Infected Digicam Files

Just this morning, one of my students approached and asked me if can I help to get her Digicam pictures from its memory card back. Without hesitation I asked her back rightaway what has happened and when did it happen. She told me that she has used it earlier and was still able to see the pictures but when her digicam's memory card was plugged in to the other pc, everything that was in the memory card where replaced by folder links. All the files in the memory card where replaced by files with .lnk file extensions indicating that they are link shortcuts. Obviously, the digicam's memory card is virus infected. My student then asked me if can there still be a chance to get her pictures back and I just answered "We'll try".

So I plugged in her memory stick to my computer while pressing the "Shift" key. Pressing the shift key avoids autoruns. Upon checking the contents of her memory card (do not click on the memory card's icon in "My Computer", Use the folder tree at least)I noticed that there where six lnk files with zero bytes of file size. But I checked properties of the memory card , it shows more than 400 MB of used file size out of the total of 2 GB capacity. This is odd, so I checked on for the folder options if there are hidden files but I found none. The other option to check if files are given with attributes is by using the NT Command Prompt.


To Use the NT Command Prompt

1. Press "Win+R" then type in "cmd"

2. Once your are in the command prompt, go to the root directory of your memory card and in my case it's on dive e:. So typed in "e:"

3. It should now display E:\> and type "attrib/s". You should see some files with attributes like "r","a","s","h". If you see such attributes, remove them by typing in "attrib/s -r -a -s -h".

4. Once the attributes are removed, type "dir" to see all files. As I executed this, I found seacao.exe and jauaco.exe. These files are not familiar and just as I suspected. I found out by searching on google that these are worms. So I deleted them by typing in "del seacao.exe,juauco.exe".

5. As I deleted those files, the lnk files still remained and still not pictures found. So I decided to to check each lnk file to be treated as a directory.

6. So I typed in "cd documents.lnk" where "document.lnk" is the name of one of the lnk files. To my surprise, I was able to enter "documents.lnk" directory. So I then checked for possible files by typing in "dir". Then I saw a lot of files with .jpg and .mov file extensions, at last I found them! And so I copied the files by typing in "copy *.* d:" where d: is the directory where I'll be placing the recovered image files so I can format the memory card.

I was then able to format the memory stick and transferred the recovered image files from drive d: back to the newly formatted memory card successfully and returned it its owner. If you feel this method is way too technical for you, you might want to consider using a good software to automatically recover your corrupted digital camera files.

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How to Hide Files or Folders in Windows

How to Superhide your file?

Its important to understand the logic before hiding the file

you may have notice that windows (system) contents are hidden like autoexec n all, what they do is just add an Attribute to the file called Superhide, and then it wont be visible to the user unless the attributes are changed, the Superhide Attribute is just like another attributes like Read only, Write, Hidden, Achieve file e.t.c.

Now since the superhide is used to hide the information of microsoft windows they have not made this option available in simple GUI,

How to do it?

you need to open command prompt for this, now decide the folder or file you want to hide, copy the path, Here we take Example of say c:\New folder

here's the command

attrib +a +h +r +s

for our example

attrib +a +h +r +s "c:\New folder"

Since there is space in New folder we have to use "double quotes"

And there you go your file is not visible to anyone now. . . .

How to unhide it?

jst change + into -

Example:-

attrib -a -h -r -s "c:\New folder"



Similarly you can do this for any folder, this trick is just for Microsoft windows

Enjoy!

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