How to start any program automatically at start-up in Windows 7?

Do you ever wanted that some of your daily-use programs should run automatically, whenever you boot into windows?

If yes? Then this post will help you to make start your favorite programs, files launch whenever you log-in to windows.

For Windows 7

1. Goto start menu.
2. All Programs.
3. Search for Startup folder.
4. Right click open (or Open for all users if you want to run this file for all the users of your PC).
5. Just copy the file (either ".exe" or any file) you want to run, whenever you log-in to the windows.

Note: If your program file is having a dependencies files then the above method won't work since you only copied the .exe file, and if you try to copy all the files to this Startup then, all files will open and this will also not work.

So what to do now?

It's easy: Just create a shortcut of the .exe file on the desktop by:

1. Right click on the .exe file
2. Send to ->Desktop (create shortcut)

and now copy this file in the Startup folder.

That's all.

For Windows 7 & 8 both:

1. Press Winkey + r.
2. Type shell:startup (for specific user you logged on) OR
3. Type shell:common startup (for all users).
4. Just copy the file (either ".exe" or any file) you want to run every time you log-in to the windows.

Note: If your program file is having a dependencies files like .dll files, then the above method won't work since you only copied the .exe file, and if you try to copy all the files to this Startup then, all files will open and this will also not work.

So what to do now?

It's easy: Just create a shortcut of the .exe file on the desktop by:

1. Right click on the .exe file
2. Send to ->Desktop (create shortcut)

and now copy this file in the Startup folder.

Please spare time and comment.

Suggestions and complaints are heartily welcomed.

Microsoft Surface vs Apple iPad

Microsoft announced its first home-grown tablet called surface on June 18, 2012. The surface was designed as a platform to showcase its upcoming Windows 8 OS, which is a huge step forward for Microsoft as it's the first time it will be embracing the ARM platform as well. There will be two distinct versions of Windows this time - Windows RT for ARM-powered devices will be launched some time in October followed by Windows 8,  an upgrade to Windows 7 that will work on existing Intel and AMD-based systems. Today I'll be comparing the Surface to the Apple iPad, since that's going to be it's biggest competitor.

Display

Apple still reigns supreme here with the Retina Display on the new iPad. The surface has a 10.6-inch ClearType display with a HD-ready resolution and though Microsoft doesn't specify the resolution, it's not Full-HD. So, the iPad wins here.

The Surface does have a slightly larger display and it conforms to the 16:9 aspect ratio; so, watching movies should be better on it than on the iPad.

Processor

Microsoft has once again not specified which SoC will sit in the Surface, but we do know Nvidia is making it, so everything points to Tegra 3.

This packs in a quad-core CPU and 12-core graphics chip which does make it a lot more powerful on paper compared to the new iPad. However, it's yet to seen if Microsoft can actually exploit this to the fullest.

Connectivity

This is one area where the Surface wins hands-down. The tablet is about the same thickness as the iPad and yet packs in a full-sized USB port, microSD card slot and HD video-out. The iPad does support these features as well (except memory expansion), but you need to buy adapters for it and they aren't exactly cheap. Microsoft also has an upper hand when it comes to it Touch Cover and unlike Apple's Smart Cover that simply protects the screen. Touch Cover has as an embedded keyboard in it, so the tablet transforms into a notebook make it more comfortable to type on.

App Support

Apple has an edge here for the time being as it will be a while before the Windows Store is populated with all the popular apps. This shouldn't take long though as apps ported over to the Metro UI will work across Windows RT and Windows 8, giving developers an incentive to port their  apps quicker.

What is csrss.exe? An essential Malware

For the last some days I was unable to connect to the internet, and was unable to find the cause for that, DSL disconnected was shown on the Admin control Panel page. I was cursing the MTNL (my Internet Service Provider), and was thinking to register a complain about this. But I was shock to know, who the culprit was?

My internet security program was showing a warning of 'ICMP Flooded' and just after that my internet connection went off. Since it was mid-night and cold, I've switched off my fan and my Notebook was on just idle mode, and I heard my Laptop's fan was too crying out too loud. I saw the CPU usage meter gadget, it was showing the 100% usage on both the cores.

I opened the Task Manager, I was shock to see that 352 processes were running, among which only 76 processes were running in the processes tab, I clicked on the button, show processes from all users, and there's I found the culprit, it was csrss.exe. I found that there are number of the csrss.exe application running. Now from Microsoft website I found that it was an essential Client Server Runtime Process.

But the reason I was shocked is that there are more than 275 copies of the csrss.exe, so I googled it and found that it is a malware and essential both.. Confused? Let me explain it...

I suspected, there may be duplicate csrss.exe but all were ran by SYSTEM, so to confirm that, I used my old technique of identifying viruses.

Under the memory(Private working set) column the first two csrss.exe were using 1,296 and 1,284 K memory respectively, while rest of them were just using 108,104,112 or 100 K, that's it, these are the culprits.

To ensure that these are the real unwanted processes I right clicked on them and selected 'End process tree' and got usual warning which comes for non essential processes, further by clicking an error was prompted "Unable to terminate process- Access is denied", clearly a virus.

But when I tried to do the same on the Original essential process, I got the message window stating    "Ending this Process will immediately shut Down the system and you will loose all data. Are you sure to continue?"

So, now the question arises how it was affecting my internet connection?
The answer is simple, by DOS(Denial-of-Service) Attack. Also termed as Ping of death Attack.
a number of simultaneous connection requests are sent to the target that it cannot handle and fianlly crashes. It was very popular at the time of windows 98. Thus after investigating Event Log of my Internet security software I found ICMP Flooding reports from last three days which comes under DOS attacks.

Any suggestions/improvements/complaints are heartily welcomed...