Running android on windows

Android 2.2 Froyo released in Google I/O Conference in San Francisco last week. Android Phone users can download the latest version on their phone but if you are not having Android phone then you can try this platform on your computer. Android development site is having the downloadable version of Android 2.2 Froyo SDK. You can download that file and follow the below mentioned steps to run this latest mobile OS from Google on your computer.
How to Run Android 2.2 Froyo on Windows/Mac/Linux
Minimum Requirement to Run Android 2.2
Java Platform(JDK)
Powerful RAM at least 1GB
Min. 2GB Free Space of HD
Android Running on Computer

Follow below steps to get Android 2.2 platform on Computer
1. Download Android SDK
2. Extract the zipped folder and navigate to “Tools” folder inside the extracted folder
3. Open the script named “Android” from the “Tools” folder
4. If you are already having JDK installed on your computer, then you will see a new admin windows. If now having JDK on your computer, then go ahead and install that from here. After installation of JDK, go ahead and click “Android” script
5. Android script will start he SDK manager. Go ahead and navigate to “Available Packages” menu in the left sidebar options
6. There you will see only one link listed. Check that link and then it will start getting package information from repository. If you are getting a message that “Fetch failed because of https” then go to the Settings” option in left panel and check the box which says “Force to use http for https” and then Come back to “Available Packages” and click on that single item available in the list. That will fetch lot many packages from the repository
7. Now go ahead and check four items shown in the picture below. These items are nothing but the Android 2.2 Froyo OS files. After checking the files, go ahead and click on “Install Checked” at bottom of the window

8. Installation of files will take some time. After successful installation, go to “Virtual Devices” option in left panel and click on “New” in that window. Now you are going to add one device in SDK manager. Go ahead and fill up the new form with the same data as mentioned in the picture below, after that click on “Create AVD”.

9. Remember, Adding device may take some time and even may left your system hanged for few minutes. But you will have to have patience in that interval and don’t restart your computer. Once the device will be added in hat list as “A valid Android Virtual device”, you can click on the “Start” button after selecting the newly added device to start the Android Platform on your computer
10. Done! Now you can use the Android platform on your computer to feel the OS from Google. To use Android applications, you will have to get “Eclipse” on your system as well.
You can install Android 2.1 or older versions as well by selecting the packages for that in the step 7 of the steps mentioned above.

pen drive files become system files

Symptoms of the Problem:
You had all your data files in the pen drive but when now you connect it to the computer, you find that all the data have been missing from the drive but weird thing about is that when you right click on the drive to see the space utilization, you find that the drive is still showing the space used.
Cause of the problem:
The problem is because all the data that was present inside the pen drive now have the system file attributes that is the files have become system files by the virus. This is the reason why they are not visible even with the option “Show Hidden files and folders”.
Solution to the problem:
To remove the problem this is what you need to do.
1. Go to Folder Options -> View tab
2. Make sure that your Show Hidden files and folders option is enabled.
3. Uncheck the option that reads “Hide protected operating system files (recommended)”
Now when you see your pen drive, you will find that your data is present there but in hidden form. There are 2 ways to unhide the data, either right click and uncheck the Hidden box or type in the following command in the command prompt
attrib filename –h –r –s
where filename is the complete location of the file.

enable command prompt missing registry edit

Another way to bring back the run box window?
Warning: playing with the registry can cause your computer to fail.
1. Open the registry editor (see below to see how)
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
Explorer
3. Make the word explorer blue
4. If there is an entry on the left side that says Norun then click on it once to make it blue
5. Right click on it and choose delete or change the value (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
6. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
Explorer and do the same thing
7. Restart your computer

enable command prompt missing

Another way to bring back the run box window?
Warning: playing with the registry can cause your computer to fail.
1. Open the registry editor (see below to see how)
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
Explorer
3. Make the word explorer blue
4. If there is an entry on the left side that says Norun then click on it once to make it blue
5. Right click on it and choose delete or change the value (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)
6. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
Explorer and do the same thing
7. Restart your computer
note : from the same window you can make folder options value in to 0 to enable it

how to enable task manager

Problem: It is due to some kind of virus/ trojan activity which normally disables the task manager.Now due to this problem when ever the user press alt+ctrl+del to launch windows task manager it gives an error saying “Task Manager is being disabled by your administrator”.


Solution:

To Enable the Disabled Task Manager on your system

1. Press window key+r to show run prompt

2. Follow the following steps

Enter gpedit.msc in the run prompt and click OK
In the Group Policy settings window
Select User Configuration
Select Administrative Templates
Select System
Select Ctrl+Alt+Delete options
Select Remove Task Manager
Double-click the Remove Task Manager option’.
Set the property of this item as disabled.
Updated on 12th FEB 2008

For Those who use Windows XP Home Edition can use the registry to enable Task Manager

1. open start >> run and type regedit


2. Navigate to the following path:

Hive:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
3. You will find a registry key with name DisableTaskMgr of type: REG_DWORD
4. Double click the key with and set the Value to 0

5. Exit the registry and restart to see the effect.

removing khatra virus

This virus has some symptoms when ever you try to open browser and search remove khatra.exe the browser will automatically close, you can’t not delete khatra.exe or gHost.exe or Xplorer.exe which are created by the same virus as these processes will keep running.

Let’s discuss the removal procedure to delete khatra.exe or gHost.exe or Xplorer.exe virus


Fix:

Follow the procedure below

1. Open Task Manager but if task manager is blocked then unblock task manager and click the process tab, found these process named regsvr.exe(if found there), gHost.exe, khatra.exe and Xplorer.exe, right click on all these process and select end process tree

2. Open Start Menu >> Run, type cmd and click Ok button


3. Now download and install everything search tool

4. Run Everything and type the virus exe names one by one ( khatra.exe, gHost.exe, Xplorer.exe ) and delete all the copies found on your computer anywhere.

5. Now Open start menu >> run, type regedit or if registry editing is blocked then unblock registry editing

6. Press ctrl+f and find the registry keys with names khatra,gHost,Xplorer and delete the values you find with these names.