IBRAHIM AHMAD WORLD

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.

This is for Malaysian. The myth is true. PayPal fund can be transferred to Al-Rajhi savings account. This is good news for Malaysia who got their money stuck in PayPal and had opt to buy things from Ebay just to finish off the money. Guys and gals, now you can changed it to RM. Better yet, now we can confidently do business using PayPal international.
From my last experience, money can go in easily into PayPal account. Mostly from credit cards. To cash it out, it is next to none.
Well, enough talk. Follow these steps to achieve the objective.

1. Apply for a Al-Rajhi savings account.  They will not give a saving book but they will give a Al-Rajhi VISA debit card. Do not need to ask the people at the counter about can PayPal fund can  be transffered to Al-Rajhi account. They will say their system at the moment cannot cater for that. If they do not know,  just say it ‘ I don’t know’, sheesh.
2. Ok, then you go in into your PayPal account. Make sure your PayPal account is verified.  In order to do that, you have to verify the PayPal account with a valid credit card. Any credit card will do. Which you use it to purchase items from the internet. Be warned, do not verify your PayPal account with Al-Rajhi Debit card. It cannot be done and automatically Al-Rajhi will deduct RM1 due to the transaction.
3. After your PayPal account verified then you add the Al-Rajhi debit card as the second card. Well that’s it. Any money in your PayPal account can be easily transferred to your Al-Rajhi debit card.  Money will appear after one week of transaction. In RM of course.
4. Oh.. I forgot one more thing. PayPal will charge you USD5 per transaction to transfer fund to Al-Rajhi. Al-Rajhi debit card if used at other ATM, they will charge you RM3 per card usage. Al-Rajhi also limits USD500 per transaction on the ATM machine. I think this info will help.

Tonight sleep early. Planning for business using PayPal.