Techie Bubble

There are two ways to easily unlock a locked file in Windows. A locked file is when you try to delete a file or unplug a USB device, but a warning message appears. Most of the messages that appears are like these:

• Access denied.
• Cannot delete file: Access is denied
• There has been a sharing violation.
• The source or destination file may be in use.
• The file is in use by another program or user.
• Cannot delete file: It is being used by another person or program.
• Cannot delete Folder: It is being used by another person or program.
• The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
• Close any programs that might be using the file and try again.
• Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.

The two ways in which you can kill a process both involve using a small and nifty software, but don’t worry both of them are free.

The first one is using the popular Unlocker program. Just download and install, and that’s it. Now to use it just right click on the file that you can’t delete because it is locked or even a USB drive that you can’t unplug, then choose Unlocker. That’s it, just kill or shut down the process that is keeping the file/folder locked.

The second one is called the File & Folder Unlocker. After downloading the file, just double-click it to run the program. No installation is needed, and it can run on a flash drive. This program lists all the running processes on your computer so you can kill or eliminate the program that is stopping you from modifying or deleting a file or folder.

Just head over to their websites to view sample screen shots of the program.

Here is a quick tip for searching images that you need a specific size to. It is best when looking for wallpapers, or standard wallpapes size images.

First go to Google image search, then user the operator imagesize:

example…

and the output…

(click image for larger view)

This question has been asked to me a lot of times. Sometimes though, myself included, accumulate a lot of accounts at Yahoo! from their email service to their chat messenger, including their various services.

Back then I was having trouble deleting and closing my Yahoo account from Yahoo! So I copied the link to their account deletion page so that I have easy access to it.

So to delete or close your Yahoo account, just visit this URL:
https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user

Before logging in (and to prevent phishing), verify and make sure the link is right. It should be pointing to yahoo.com and uses secure protocol (https://)

For more info regarding deletion of your Yahoo account, just visit their help page.

When you connect your Adobe (Macromedia) Dreamweaver through FTP to your site, it is very convenient when editing and updating your live site.

One time at the office, my officemate encountered a tiny bit of problem, more like a hassle, when he download style.css from his live site to the Dreamweaver application. The program, adds additional lines on each of the code. So every time he download and update the file, Dreamweaver adds another white space line. This is problematic every time he updates the file, which made the file up to 12,000+ lines of code.

Here is how we removed the extra lines that appeared.

1. While the document is open in Dreamweaver, press CTRL+F to load the Find & Replace dialog box. Do the search on the source code view.
2. Check the box “Use regular expression” and uncheck any other boxes.
3. Find: [\r\n]{2,}
4. Replace: \n
5. The hit “replace all”

That’s it!

However, take note that this method will remove any existing white space on your code.

Another thing. When you download the file again, Dreamweaver will add another white space on your code. Messing it up again. This is because of encoding and server type.

This usually happens if you are using Dreamweaver CS3 and your are downloading a file from a Unix/Linux server to a Windows based local PC. To fix this…

1. Inside Dreamweaver, click Edit on the menu.
2. Then Preferences.
3. Then Code Format.
4. Then on the “Line Break Type” select “LF (unix)”
5. Click Ok. Done!

Last week when I was trying to install WAMP Server on my office computer to do some PHP coding, I found out that when I access localhost (http://127.0.0.1/) this error appears.

error ‘8002801c’

Error accessing the OLE registry.

/iisHelp/common/500-100.asp, line17

I searched around the net for possible solutions…

(1) On Internet Explorer it works fine but in Firefox the error appears.
(2) Windows is not installed correctly, and some files are corrupted.
(3) IIS and .NET Framework incompatibilities.

and some others. But the best solution I used was disable IIS completely, since I’m not using it anyway. But if you are using it (like for .asp) then don’t do this.

Remember that I’ve used this method for WAMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) to work on my PC.

Solution after the gap.
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