IBRAHIM AHMAD WORLD

I’ve got my first million today. My dream to become a millionaire have come true. I have achieved from a few thousand people from Kulim, Kedah have achieved.  It is so easy in fact. I drive to Kulim. Went to a shop near Maybank Kulim. Put a few Ringgit Malaysia seed in a pot, water it and pufff.. a tree with a million on it. NOT.

Dream on, guys. It is not that easy. Wish it to be like that. (Maybe somebody will a create gazillion dollar movie out of this.) . Ha Ha.. Actually I exchanged some money for this million. Ringgit Malaysia RM321.00 to 1 Million rupiah (Indonesia) to be exact. Currently about USD 100  equals to 1 Million rupiah (Latest exchange rates). Don’t expect to buys bungalows with this million. I’m not sure what 1 Million rupiah can buy for one self yet. Actually I’m going to Padang, Indonesia this Friday with your no frill air line – Air Asia. This is my first time to Indonesia. I will be going there from Friday to Monday.

Some one told me 1 million rupiah is not enough actually. But we will see. I will update my travel on next week blog and what 1 million rupiah can buy. After Padang, Tuesday I will be at Pangkor for something like a Management team building. Then I think I will escape to KL for this Chinese New Year to see my younger sister. Sleep there a few days and breath some KL air.

Ever wonder what is inside your PC. Do you do housekeeping for your PC now and then? Do you remember where you saved your movies that you have downloaded and that movie is already shown on TV. Or Photoshop files which already not used for years hidden somewhere. Do you know which folder consume the biggest space in your PC hard drive or external drive? Maybe you are a server admin and you want to know which shared folders are hogging down the servers. Maybe some of the staff put a MP3 collection to the server and these expert guys hide it somewhere hidden in a forest of folders.

I ‘d like to share this tools to all who reads my blog of course. Have been using it for years now. It is called ExplorerXP. A very useful tool. It helps me to organize and do some quick CSI on my servers. What it does, it displays the size of the current folders in the current view. That’s it. I don’t know why windows don’t have this. The best part of it, it is free to be downloaded (size 401K). One quick set up, you are done. Right click any of the folder you will see ExplorerXP in the menu. If it is very useful because sometimes I don’t remember what I have put in those folder I have created. Sometimes you will be surprise, windows temporary files can reach up to more than 5GB! After you view your C Drive using ExplorerXP. It is also an addition to windows default explorer. The freeware can be downloaded from here.

One more thing, I’ve installed in onto Windows XP (all version), Windows  2000, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista (all version). It all works the same. Who ever have a very large multimedia collections will find this stuff very usefull indeed.  Hhhmmm.. strange, Why my MS word folder is so large. Waa la weeh, I’ve accidently dropped my Matrix movie collection in there. Hehehe..

I’ve found this hack to add two useful menus to Windows Vista. Well, ordinarily to copy files, we have to open two windows. Drag a folder from one window to another. Or maybe just one window and mistakenly drop it to the wrong folder. If it is copied then you are in the safe spot, if it is moved, then it will be another story (I will write another title to overcome this problem). Follow the steps very carefully. The end result we will have two new menus which is Copy to Folder menu and Move To Folder menu.

1. This little hack need to use some registry tweaking. Click start and type regedit in the search field. Press . Expand the folder labeled HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. Scroll to find the list to find ALLFilesystemObjects and expand it. Expand shellex. You will see the ContextMenuHandlers folder.
2. Right click ContextMenuHandlers and select New*Key. New Key #1 will appear. Rename the key as follows {C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}. Don’t left out the curly brackets. Now the Copy To Folder… command is created.
3. For the Move To Folder… command, use the same method, right click ContextMenuHandlers, selecting New*Key and rename it to {C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}.

Done. Close the registry and right click on file or folder to see the new two menus. Make sure your curly bracket is complete.  Happy hacking.