Getting the 'Taskbar has been disabled by Administrator' error?

I was getting this one too. It was due to a virus blocking my access to the task bar. I didn't disable it myself and I am the administrator of my own computer (obvious).

So I found this site that has a neat fix for it. First you have to make a clean sweep of any viruses using a good anti-virus software. Then you have to run the following command in the run function. The one in the start bar menu.

Mind you, I'm using Windows Xp Service Pack 2. Haven't tested it on any other system.

So the command is simple,

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

All you have to do is copy paste that code and run it in the run menu. That fixed it for me.

For further help, visit this page, where I got my help from, http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Taskmanager_error.htm

I'm seriously missing using Joomla

Joomla is such a wonderful little piece of software. In fact, it's not little even. It's huge. I love using it. You just have so much control over your posts and how you can display them. It's a complete content management system.

I'm pushing towards making a new layout for RoadsOut.Com with all the backed up former posts plus the latest on blogger.com and uploading it sometime in march.

Lets see how that goes.

IGN Daily Fix 12-18 Answer: Two new factions in Jade Dynasty

That's pretty easy, the immortal Athans and the humans are the two new factions.

So now you know.

Ask.Com Search Bar is on to you!

I don't care how good or bad Ask.Com search is. But I'm seriously being annoyed by it with being in almost any free software bundle that you'd be getting your hands on. Most people don't even realise it when they're downloading free software that they install ask.com search in their browser/computer with them.

You just have to be careful while installing any software if it's not installing ask search with it into your browser. It's seriously annoying.

These type of cheap tricks don't work on people with enough intelligence to simply 'uncheck' the installation option for ask.com whenever they're installing something!

Improved Alexa Rating for RoadsOut.Com

Woohoo! RoadsOut.Com is showing some promise after the 'great black out' a few months ago when the site was gone for a whole month without any updates.

I'm pretty delighted to see the current trends of improvements on user based visits on the site. If this keeps up I'll be obliged to get a decent host again for the site and upload the proper Joomla Base that I have worked out for it.

I'll be sure to add some new treats on the site if it becomes are reality.

Lets see, time will tell.

IGN Daily fix answer: How far is Pandora from Earth in Avatar?

Pandora, a moon with an Earthlike environment that orbits a gas-giant planet called Polyphemis in the Alpha Centauri-A star system. At 4.4 light years away, Alpha Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor, and when it is discovered that Pandora is rich in a rare-earth mineral called Unobtainium, the race is on to mine the new world's resources.

Again, 4.4 Light Years away from Earth.

Have fun.

Changing domain names really isn't a good idea for SEO

If you have a domain name that you've been running for a year or two and suddenly feel the urge to change the name because it's cooler or for any other reason whatsoever then you should know it's not a good SEO move.

All links urls have a google page rank and alexa rating history. The more people explore and 'hit' those urls / pages is the more it's going to look better on your Page Rank and Alexa rating score. Meaning it's just going well for you since more and more people keep finding your page.

I'd like to talk about an example a website I follow every now and then. It's Ytkpro.com. Recently it's alexa rating has really declined to minimal levels. It should only be going up since they have a decent level of visitors on their forums.

I'll show the recent graph,

They got a new domain for their forums it seems and redirected old domain name, 'forum.ytkpro.com' to ytk.smfnew.com. This has made a huge decline in their normal hits for the real website 'ytkpro.com'. So it's going off the search engine charts as it seems while the other bogus domain name is gaining air.

It's like taking the life out of domain name. 99% of their traffic was linked to ytkpro.com through their forum.

Using two or more domain names isn't a bad idea. Proper way of using them is to redirect new domain names to the old and the parent domain name so that it stays up. Which is the point of SEO.

Have fun. :)

Today is my Birthday

Happy Birthday to me. :)

I love the fact that facebook reminds everybody you know of your birthday a few day earlier so there's no chance they'd forget about it. It's fun to not miss anyone when they wish you for your birthday. :P

What prompts you to watch a movie?

The movie trailer, theme and story. I wouldn't watch a movie just because everyone else likes it and/or is talking about it. I might read a review on that movie and would see for myself if it is worth watching for me.

Because frankly some movie topics are awfully boring and just are not worth looking into.

Having said that, what I might think is boring to me might be interesting for somebody else!

My response to a topic on mylot.com

Are dreams for real?

Dreams are just dreams.

Some people say that all dreams have meanings. Well, I say, even if they have a meaning then what good is that to us? Because we don't know how to interpret a dream and know what it means.

Besides it's not like something happening to us in real. Even if it was, it passes and we get back to the real world as we know it. It's not likethe dream would change what our lives are like at the moment.

If they do, then that's great!

My response to a topic on mylot.com

What would you do if you found money on the street?

I would step on the money first and look around to see if someone is looking. Then I'll pick it up.

That's the most reasonable thing to do. Because the personal who might have lost it would have been long gone. Asking anyone else around just wouldn't be of any use.

Having said that, me and my friend lost our carry bag once in Dubai on a bench. It had our money and passports. We remembered a little while later and went running back to the bench.

There were too men sitting there with the bag looking for the person who lost their bag. We showed them some proof that it in reality was out bag and thanked them.

But that was a bag, not plain old money. So there's a difference.

My response on mylot.com on a similar topic

I hate public transport

I know where you're coming from buddy. The whole waiting thing simply isn't my thing either. I've had to use public transports a lot so I know how it feels like. Sometimes you have to get to a place in a hurry and public transport just isn't the thing you'd need at that point.

It's best to have you own means on transport. But you have to make the best of what you have if there's not personal mode of transport.

At least you the public transport to get to places. What if there was no transport at all. What would you do then?

My response to that topic on mylot.com

Is paid2youtube a scam?

There are certainly some concerns about it from many people. No one has claimed to have gotten paid by the website yet. It's still a pretty new website so you can't really say if it is legit or not.

I suppose the best way to find out is to try for yourself and see if it comes up with the goods.

My response on a topic on mylot.com