Jalaj P. Jha Technical & Miscellaneous Ramblings

31Dec/060




The world is a small place

The world is a small place, and we often meet those who were lost in crowd.

When I was in my Third semester, My cousins came over and said "Are you going to college on Saturday? We are going to fill up the forms for NIIT's BhavishyaJyoti Scholarship exam which is on Sunday" Since attending my college, which was in other city Ujjain 54 KMs away, required travelling more than 100KMs, I needed to skip classes for the day to fill up the form. Thankfully I did!

30Dec/060




Dry Run

While studying at Saugor, we were taught a term "Dry Run" where you debug and check execution of programs on desk instead of the Computer itself. After moving to Indore, I took to program this way, as I had no system to run on it. And this helped me avoiding getting away from Computers.

29Dec/060




Getting Started with Registry

Open the RegEdit Application and you will get to see Five Keys expanded under "My Computer"

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
HKEY_USERS
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG

28Dec/060




The Windows Registry

One of my favourite activities has been tweaking the system configuration files. the INI files in Win3.1 and the Registry in Win95 onwards. What are these? A Magic Wand?? you change a registry entry, and whoop! the windows or an application changes its way of working... No!! It's only a place where windows and other applications record some critical and some informational configuration settings, which they again refer to when they execute. One of the registry tweaking tool claimed that a registry setting which stops Registry Tools from executing, fails to stop the said tool. It was just that the tool itself should have referred to that entry before executing and acted accordingly.