[Troubleshooting] Folder in pendrive changed into shortcut

Have you encountered a situation in which all the folders in your pendrive suddenly changed into shortcuts? Upon double clicking them it links you to another folder path instead? At this point you might be thinking, oh no, all my university assignments is stored inside!!! And I didn't have any backup!!

If so, do not panic yet as following the steps below will solve it. The reason is because some kind of script or virus has changes the folder attribute into hidden.

1. Go to Command Prompt (Win + Run -> Type cmd)

2. Type the following command to remove the hidden attribute
cd H:\ attrib -H -S "foldername" /D /S

* Assume that H:\ is your removable disk drive.
* To list which hidden folders are inside your drive. Type: dir /A:h
* Replace foldername with the folder name listed.
* Repeat this command until all the folders are cleared of hidden attribute.

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[Solution] Broken Camera Icon on Windows Live Messenger

Do you experienced a situation whereby you only see a broken camera icon next to your display picture whenever you tried to initiate a Video Call session with others? Or others can see you but you can't see your ownself in your webcam? Apparently it is a bug in Windows Live Messenger but not in MSN Messenger v8.1 or previous version of it.

If that is the problem, there's a viable workaround for it.

Link : http://messengergeek.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E3785B1281BBDA1!3016.entry

Link (Discussion, another method to use if the previous one failed) : http://www.ariam.co.il/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=82&PN=1

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Taskbar Manager with no Tabs or Menu

Have your taskbar manager appeared to not having any tab and menu and you think some virus had corrupted your taskbar manager registry? Well, simply relax as you might have accidentally double click on an empty field just beside the tab and force it to become 'minimize mode'. Simply double click any field within the border and it will be restored.

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[SOLVED] How to restore Grub bootloader after installing XP/Vista

Here's a quick guide from what I've done:

Things you'll need:
1) Ubuntu LIVE CD

Steps:
1) Boot the Ubuntu LIVE CD by restarting your computer (enter your BIOS menu and change your #1 boot priority as Cd/Dvd).
2) Insert the Ubuntu LIVE CD.
3) Choose a language and select the first option.
4) Go to terminal and type sudo -i (this command is to change the current account as root. From now on you don't need to type sudo for every command you want to use)
5) Type grub
6) Find where is your boot folder (which stored your GRUB) by typing find /boot/grub/stage1. Remember the location (it should be something like (hd0,2). I'll be using(hd0,2) as example for the steps below.
7) Type root (hd0,2)
8) Type setup (hd0)
9) Exit grub by typing quit.
10) Reboot your computer by typing reboot.
11) Eject the Ubuntu LIVE CD and the menu should be restored (only if it worked last time before the windows bootloader overwrite it)

Note:
* The first partition will always enumerated with 0. In the example (hd0, 2). The number 0 means it is the first physical hard disk and the number 2 represents the partition where GRUB is installed.

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