Hot on the heels of such illustrious internal code names such as Yukon, Avalon, Chicago, Cairo, Katmai and Whidbey (along with such lesser known luminaries such as Mönch and Yamazaki), comes the latest code name out of Redmond for Vista (Longhorn)’s replacement due in three years time. Gone are the names from the Whistler-Blackcomb resort (e.g. Freestyle and Harmony) or place names around the hallowed Seattle (e.g. Rainier, Everett and Orcas) or rather abstract names such as Godot (from the play “Waiting for Godot”) and Darwin. Nope, the internal marketing team have gone all out for the next version of the world’s most used O/S.
And just what have this mighty team of highly experienced folk decided to call this next incarnation of the Linux and OS/X beater – surely a name that symbolizes strength or purpose, or perhaps something more natural to represent simplistic strength, or perhaps the name of a city that symbolizes mankind’s innate ability to overcome obstacles?
For all those who answered “Vienna” then sorry – you’re now wrong. Nope, apparently it’s new code name is “7”. Impressive huh?
Interestingly enough I think this answers one or two questions I had about workflow….
http://news.com.com/Next+version+of+Windows+Call+it+7/2100-1016_3-6197943.html
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There are plenty of them around, the famous and infamous alike have them named after them. Luminaries such as Boyle, Hubble, Parkinson and good ole Murphy have all got them. What am I talking about? The ‘laws of life’ that describe various observations or predications.
Well, here’s mine: Amblers law of forum and Usenet messages: “Every message posting that describes your problem to the letter, has no replies.”
Just once I’d like to have a problem, search the Web and Usenet and have a reply that answers my question in one easy answer.
I’d also like to win the lottery as well.
Time to buy some tickets…
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My fault I know, but… I downloaded some software a month ago called Folder Lock to see if it would meet my requirements.
I played around with it for a few days but eventually discarded it and got involved in other work.
Last night I decided to uninstall it. Trouble was it wanted a password before it would remove itself (and, as can be expected, I’ll be dammed if I can remember what that password was). Add to that it watches it’s own installation folder so a manual removal just wasn’t possible. Even worse after three attempts of trying to guess the password and the bloody thing locked up my PC requiring me to log out and back in again.
Well, for posterity’s sake, here’s the solution which I found using the excellent Autoruns from System Internals.
- Remove winntdrv.sys from the System32 folder. This is the puppy that watches the install folder and provides the main security for the application.
- Remove the HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\windrvNT key.
- Reboot.
- The main Folder Lock lock folder will then be released and you’ll be able to access it (assuming you’ve not encrypted stuff within).
- Retrieve your files then remove the Folder Lock program folder.
As a side issue I found that once Folder Lock had locked my PC up, it had also removed my ability to use the Task Manager. If it does that (it’ll be greyed out) then do the following:
- Fire up the group policy editor (gpedit.msc).
- Navigate to User Configuration\Administrative Components\System\Ctrl+Alt+Del Options.
- Set the Remove Task Manager value to Disabled and apply the change.
- Confirm that the Task Manager is now available.
- Set the Remove Task Manager value to Not Configured and apply the change.
- Confirm that the Task Manager is still available.
It looks like when Folder Lock removes the Task Manager it does it in such a way that you’re required to make two changes to the group policy to clean it up.
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I figure over 10 million people can’t be wrong, right? So given that I’ve been a techno-geek for too many (read over 20) years why not go full hog and become a blogger. Seems to me that time was being a blogger was a badge of true geekdom and a symbol that someone had truly embraced the modern world. Then again I seem to remember the same thing about posting on Usenet in the early 1990′s. How time flies…
So, what am I gonna post here? Interesting and illuminating articles that show and major techie geek in full digital flow? Or just whatever comes into my head at the time.
More than likely it’ll be something leaning to the second with possible bursts of the first…
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