Adobe Photoshop/Indesign CS 5: Error 16 : Additional Unlicensed Language Packs...

When you try to start Adobe Creative Suite programs, if you are prompted with a message box that says "Please Uninstall and Reinstall the Product. Error : 16" and "Additional unlicensed language packs found in the application folder. Please restart the application.", follow the below steps to fix the problem.

1. Choose Start > Computer > Organize > Folder And Search Options, and then click the View tab.

2. In the Advanced Settings section, deselect the Use Sharing Wizard (Recommended) option and click OK.

3. Navigate to \Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\.

4. Right-click the Adobe PCD folder and choose Properties.

5. In the Attributes section, deselect Read-Only, click Apply, and then click OK.

6. In the Security tab, make sure that Administrators and System are listed and permissions for security are set to Full Control. If not, do the following: 1. Click Edit. 2. If the User Account Control (UAC) elevation prompt appears, then follow the instructions to accept it. 3. Make the necessary changes.

7. Click Advanced.

8. In the Owner tab, click Edit and accept the UAC elevation prompt if it appears.

9. In the Change Owners Section, click Administrators.

10. Select the Replace Owner On Subcontainers and Objects option and then click Apply.

11. In the Permissions tab, click Edit and accept the UAC elevation prompt if it appears.

12. Select Replace Permission Entries On All Child Objects With Entries Shown Here That Apply To Child Objects.

13. Click OK and Yes until you have closed the FLEXnet Properties dialog box.

14. Launch your Adobe application.

That's it! Leave a comment if this helped :)

System hanging while booting - "Loading Boot Sector......... Booting........."

Here's something that drove me mad for a few hours.

I have a 500 GB HDD, and I was trying to clone the primary partition to another with the help of a bootable CD. Well I couldnt, because the boot process kept hanging after reaching the line "loading boot sector......... booting......."

When I searched online forums, I found out that people run into this problem sometimes while booting 911 CD, Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD), BartPE, etc.

There are two reasons why this happens. Well, maybe a lot more, but two that I am aware of! The first one (which I got from forums) is that something is wrong with the way you burned your boot CD. You can check this by trying to boot another system with the same CD. I tried. Mine worked on the second system. I couldnt find any help elsewhere, so I just sat there and kept thinking lol. And I found out that my problem was that I had connected a couple of USB drives to the system. Yep. I dunno why that should be a problem, but if you get stuck while trying to boot at the line "loading boot sector..... booting.....", check if you have connected any removable drives to your system. If you have, unplug them and reboot. It should work fine.

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6600 Menu key not working

This problem bugged me for a long time. The trouble is that sometimes, the Menu key doesnt work, requiring me to restart the mobile. Like, when I had this long SMS typed and the phone went into Lock mode. When I unlocked, Menu key aint working and I couldnt send the message. And I got really pissed off.

If you are unlucky enough to have this prob too, dont worry. You are lucky that you found this page. :)

Enough babbling. On with the solution.

Step 1. Press the Power button at the top once to open the options menu.
Step 2. Select 'Lock Phone' option.
Step 3. Unlock with your lock code. (Default is 12345)
Step 4. Press the 'Menu' key.
Step 5. Smile :)

That was really simple, huh?

How to copy orkut profile pics

If you try rightclicking and saving the profile pic in orkut, you would get a 'b.gif' file. And to your surprise, it would be blank. Try saving the page and then search in the '_files' folder and still the profile pic wouldnt be there!

So two ways to get the pic.

1 - Take a screenshot!
2 - If you are using firefox, go to Tools>Page Info. Click Media tab.
Click the item in the list that starts with 'http://img1.orkut.com/images/medium/'.
Click 'Save as..', give a name and there U go!

K this isnt much of a 'How to' guide. Ofcourse taking a screenshot and clipping away the area around the pic is the easiest method. But it didnt hurt to learn about how to use 'Page Info' to download stuff that you normally cant, right? U can use it to download flash files and youtube videos too. Check out my post here for more info. :)

K you never know how you get screwed in your life, so here we go.
Disclaimer:
This information was provided for educational purpose. I'm not liable for anything you do with this info.

n1deiect \ amvo\ avpo Virus - Removal Tip

This virus spreads mostly through removable drives. If you are unlucky to have your AV software disabled for performance boost and then if you double click the infected drive, you're going to have a bad week!

Unless you know how to kill it, that is. And I hope the following method would help you do just that. Please note that this nuisance comes in variants and the filename of the infection might be different for you. Please refer here to find out more about it.

Most probably, you noticed you are affected after you found out that you can no longer view hidden files, and when you double click your drives, the contents are shown in a new window.

Find out the filename of the virus by opening the autorun.inf files that it created in the root of all drives in notepad. Examples are n1deiect.com, amvo.exe, awda2.exe, etc. Now U can remove the virus by two methods - DOS way or my way :)

Fire up the task manager and end wscript.exe, explorer.exe. Also close any processes with suspicious names. Now open avafind, search for autorun.inf and awda2.exe (or whatever the filename you found in the autorun.inf file). Delete all the instances. Wait for a minute and search again. If the files are back, it means you didnt do it right. Try finding out the correct infected process in the tast manager and close it. (Use google)

The rest is simple. Search for amvo.exe and amvo0.dll (these reside in windows system folder) and delete them. If you cant delete them, use Unlocker tool to remove them.

Click Start>Run. Type 'msconfig' and press enter. Click the 'startup' tab and uncheck the entry 'amvo'.

Restart the computer. That's it.

Note : If U still cant view hidden files, use RRT tool to remove the restrictions.

I hope this would help you kill the sucker.

Update: Heard that the latest Kaspersky AV can clean this infection. I didnt confirm this.

Ubuntu Live/Install CD With Vmware - Display Server Problem

Here's a small tip for those having problems booting Ubuntu with VMware. Try booting Ubuntu in Safe Graphics Mode. If you're getting an error message saying that the display server has been shut down 6 times and that it will try again after 2 minutes, stop the virtual machine. Then open the settings for the virtual machine and select the Display option from the list. Then click 'Specify monitor settings' on the right and specify 'Number of monitors' as 1 and the 'Maximum resolution of any one monitor' to '1024 x 768'. Click 'Ok' and now try booting again.

If your problem is solved, please leave your comments.