Friday, July 17, 2015

Pedestrian Safety- New innovative KickStarter Project

How many times have you been driving at night and then suddenly see someone crossing the road or running by the roadside or may be walking their dog ? Sometimes you see a pedestrian really close to your car when you turn. Many a times we all have faced this situation and by the time the person reaches our view (Due to cars headlight limitations) its really late or one has very short reflexive time to brake.
Life is valuable and it can not be given back once gone. Not just life but scientists have not yet been able to grow human body parts independently in a lab, life and limb both are invaluable. One such product is innovative and looks to do exactly that, save or atleast help save life and limb.

We all know that accidents can and will happen, that was you take preventive measures, Emergency lights, indicator lights, airbags in the car are all there to help us when the accident does happen, but what do we have to help pedestrians, people who are either taking a walk at night, walking their dog, may be walking home after a late day at work. The situation is going to change now after one kickstarter project wants to change this with a nifty and easy solution.

Find more details about the project by visiting the following link: There is a nice informative video which also shows the operation of the product on the same page and the product can be ordered from there.

PEDESTRIAN LIGHT- KICKSTARTER PROJECT

Sunday, May 17, 2015

No Name Folder on Windows 8,8.1 and 7 Desktop, can not be deleted, keeps coming back after refreshing desktop.

I am writing about this problem as I searched through for a solution and I could not find a proper solution. Here I am writing a non confusing solution.

What Does not Work ?
First thing you will notice is right clicking only gives you three options Cut, delete and Create Shortcut, so there is not much that can be established with that. Every time the folder is deleted it will come back once you refresh the desktop or press F5. There are many things that do not work which include using various registry cleaner software like Ccleaner.

Reason for the problem
The reason is the installation or un-installation of Office products (2013, 2016 etc).

Solution / What works and what to do ?

Make sure to back up your registry and create a restore point before you start.

Open your File Explorer / my computer and then navigate to desktop folder here.
You will see the No Name folders here, just click on the folder and in the details you can see the folder name.
  1. For me and for many others one of the names was  {0875DCB6-C686-4243-9432-ADCCF0B9F2D7} and the other folder name was {138508BC-1E03-49EA-9C8F-EA9E1D05D65D}
  2. Now press Windows and R button and type regedit and press enter.
  3. Now search for 0875DCB6-C686-4243-9432-ADCCF0B9F2D7. Find each and every key and values that are returned with the exact same value and delete those. Repeat the process by searching for 138508BC-1E03-49EA-9C8F-EA9E1D05D65D and deleting the entries.
  4. Refresh the Desktop. the folders would be gone.
This worked for me and hopefully would work for everyone.

NOTE -
Repeating myself - Make sure to back up your registry and create a restore point before you start.
Playing with registry is dangerous so I am not liable for anything that goes wrong because of your actions.