Delete Files in C:\Windows\Installer

I was shocked when found out free space in my C drive is only 94MB left. At first I thought it was because of a virus attack so I did run virus scan on my computer but got negative result. So I run disk space analyzer and here is the result.

treesize-installer

As you can see, 7GB space has been occupied by Installer folder in my C drive. But is it safe to remove all those files from my system?

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Packing Away from Celcom Broadband

I have been using Celcom broadband for more than one year and six months already. Although Celcom broadband sometimes give me some headache, but I still can struggle and survive until now.

Since Celcom enforcing their Fair Usage Policy on Excessive Usage (page 8 of 10) a few months ago (I think early of this year), it becomes a problem to me. Celcom only provides 5GB data usage monthly. If you exceeded the usage limit, your internet speed will be cut down and it will become slower and slower. At the end, you can only open Yahoo! page in your dream and not with Celcom broadband.

I have make many problem reports to Celcom since the first time I use their broadband service. Every time I make a report, they will solve the problem quickly. They took about one to two days to fix the issue. That is the only reason why I stay with Celcom Broadband.

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Files Hidden by Virus. How to Unhide Them?

The Problem

My girlfriend was panicked when she found out her Final Year Project files were missing from her thumb drive. She thought the files were already gone by a virus attack or were accidentally deleted by her friends.

After I did some analysis, I found out the files are still there but a virus had modified the file properties to ‘Hidden’ and hide all files in the thumb drive.

Although she tried to “Show Hidden Files” but the virus does not allow her to view them. Luckily, she has a very intelligent and clever boyfriend who guides her on how to overcome this problem.

The Solution

1. Insert the thumb drive to an empty USB slot. Take note the drive letter. For an example, F:.

2. Press Windows + R, and type “cmd“. Ok.

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Top 3 Free PDF Converters

While I was still studying at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, I always use PDF converter to convert my Final Year Project weekly reports to PDF. There are many free PDF converters available on the Internet. You can get either offline PDF converter or online PDF converter.

My favourite free PDF converter is PrimoPDF. It is an offline PDF converter where by you need to install it on your system and print the document to PDF by choosing the primoPDF printer.

But here, I list down top 3 free PDF converters that give you a very good quality PDF printing without advertisements or “you are using trial PDF converter” text.

PrimoPDF

PrimoPDF

  • Completely free PDF creator – Create PDF files from 300+ file types.
  • Make 100% industry-standard PDF from any files that print.
  • Create PDF files optimized for print, screen, ebook, or prepress.

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Check DSLR Shutter Count with Opanda IExif

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Do you know, DSLRs have their own life time? It is based on how many counts of the shutter releases. When you exceeded the shutter count limit, it is time to change your DSLR with a new one or replace with a new shutter.

Almost current DSLR models put the shutter count information inside the pictures. The information is located in the pictures metadata and can only be viewed by using special software like Opanda IExif .

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My new hobby is Photography

I already said in my previous post that I just bought a Nikon D90 a few weeks back. When having a DSLR, I really like to go outside and shoot something to brush up my skills in photography.

But it does not mean that I will leave my blogging world. I will still blogging but not active and frequent like before. I will only blog if the issues or news are very interesting which caught my attention.

Last weekend, I went to Putrajaya together with my family. Actually I want to take the night sceenery of Putrajaya but because we arrived early, so here are the results.

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EAVista Directory – Submit your link for FREE

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Have you submitted your link to Need Backlinks Web Directory? Do you want to get more backlinks?

Now there is a 3 days promotion for my newly created web directory, EAVista Directory. The submission fee for regular link is $0.00USD (FREE) and for featured link is $2.95USD. All links are permanent and will not be removed from the directory.

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Do you have a Flickr account?

Camera: Nikon D90
Exposure: 0.04 sec (1/25)
Aperture: f/5.3
Focal Length: 75 mm

I have bought my first DSLR a week ago and right now, I really like to go outside to ‘shoot’ things with the camera. I choose Nikon because it receives many good responses from reviewers and also DSLR photographers.

I use Flickr as my online photo gallery. You can view my uploaded photos at my Flickr account, CypherDigicam. If you have a Flickr account, please add me as your contact so I can view your photos too. So far, I have about 180 pictures in my Flickr account.

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Barack Obama Worm Attacks

What will do if U.S. President Barack Obama’s face, pop up on your desktop every Monday morning? That is not a joke. It is the Obama worm.

The Obama worm was first spotted last Monday after it infected PCs at a preparatory school in Metairie, Luisiana and was first reported by Walling Data, a value-added reseller in Claremont, North Carolina. Because the damage is not big and only infected a few systems, the antivirus companies does not considered it as a serious threat.

It spreads via USB drive and install itself automatically when you insert the USB drive to the system. It is like the Brontok viruses where it using the Windows autorun feature to spread the attack. Luckily, Obama worm does not steal your credit card number or turn your PC into a remote-controlled zombie system. It is designed to float a small picture of Obama at the bottom right corner of your desktop all day every Monday.

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An XSLT stylesheet does not have an XML mimetype

Today, I found out that my sitemap.xml file got problem. It showed me this error message when I tried to view it.

Error loading stylesheet: An XSLT stylesheet does not have an XML mimetype

http://www.cypherhackz.net/wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/sitemap.xsl

I think the problem come from the recently Google Sitemap Generator plugin upgrade.

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