Disable Java Quick Starter (JQS)


This article applies to: Windows 2000 (SP4+), Windows XP (SP1 SP2)
Browser(s): Internet Explorer 6.x, Internet Explorer 7.x, Mozilla 1.4+, Firefox
JRE version(s): 6.0


Java Quick Starter (JQS) improves initial startup time for most Java applets and applications. This feature was added to Java in release Java SE 6 update 10 (6u10) and will be available in all future releases.

JQS is enabled by default in Windows XP and Windows 2000 operating systems and is not necessary on Windows Vista as Vista offers its own pre-loading mechanisms. A process called jqs.exe will run in the background in order to allow quick statup. jqs.exe will be loaded after a Windows restart. Instructions on how to disable the JQS and the jqs.exe process are below.

The startup performance improvement is achieved by periodically pre-fetching some of the most heavily used Java files into memory (occupying no more than 20Mb of RAM). Later, when Java is launched, much less disk I/O is required which makes startup much snappier and noticeably faster.

Note: JQS service will perform runtime checks and stop running when a laptop is running on batteries. JQS service will resume when the power cord is plugged in, as performance benefit of JQS is largely dependent on overall system configuration.

Steps to disable Java Quick Starter:

Click Start.
Click Control Panel.
Double click on Java Control Panel.
Click Advance tab in Java Control Panel.
Scroll to Miscellaneous entry and Expand.
Uncheck the check box for Java Quick Starter.
Click Apply, close the Java Control Panel and restart the system.

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The Problem

Some users noticed that when they opened Windows Explorer, the shell folders, such as the Documents or Pictures folders, displayed a standard folder icon rather than the special/default Vista folder icons.

The Fix

This behavior can occur when the desktop.ini file in the shell folder is missing or incorrect, or it has no attributes set. The default contents of the desktop.ini file for various shell folders in Windows Vista are given below. In each shell folder that's missing the special icon, create a file named desktop.ini and paste the content corresponding to the shell folder.Then right-click the file desktop.ini and choose Properties. Place a checkmark near Hiddenattribute, and click OK. Logoff and login again for the changes to take effect.

Enjoy!

Below are the Desktop.ini contents for some of the shell folders in Windows Vista

Documents

[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21770
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-112
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll
IconIndex=-235

Pictures

[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21779
InfoTip=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-12688
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-113
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll
IconIndex=-236
[LocalizedFileNames]
Sample Pictures.lnk=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21805

Music

[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21790
InfoTip=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-12689
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-108
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll
IconIndex=-237
[LocalizedFileNames]
Sample Music.lnk=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21806

Videos

[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21791
InfoTip=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-12690
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-189
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll
IconIndex=-238
[LocalizedFileNames]
Sample Videos.lnk=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21807

Searches

[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-9031
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-18
[LocalizedFileNames]
Indexed Locations.search-ms=@shell32.dll,-32811
Everywhere.search-ms=@shell32.dll,-32814
Shared By Me.search-ms=@shell32.dll,-32802
Recent Music.search-ms=@shell32.dll,-32803
Recent Documents.search-ms=@shell32.dll,-32804
Recent Pictures and Videos.search-ms=@shell32.dll,-32806
Recent E-mail.search-ms=@shell32.dll,-32807
Recently Changed.search-ms=@shell32.dll,-32813

Downloads

[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21798
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-184

Favorites

[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21796
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-115
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll
IconIndex=-173

Contacts

[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%CommonProgramFiles%\system\wab32res.dll,-10100
InfoTip=@%CommonProgramFiles%\system\wab32res.dll,-10200
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-181

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Some users have noted that every time they open Visio, the template help bar always appears on the right side of the screen.

How do we turn template help bar off permanently to avoid extra keystrokes and the wait while this screen re-sizes?

Here's how...

The control for the template help bar it well hidden. Go to menu:

Tools -> Options > General tab

and at the bottom of the General Tabclick on

Service Options

Once the Service Options window opens you can turn off the template help bar as well as other online options.

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Internet Explorer shuts down by itself

Recently a user’s XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) machine started experiencing unexpected behavior. The user shuts his machine down every night and restarts it in the morning. Last night, as usual, he shut his machine down and went home. When he returned to his office the next morning and re-started his machine, all appeared fine until he opened / started Internet Explorer Version 7 (IE or IE7) . It opened to the web sites he added and uses as his default websites and then abruptly shut down. He tried again, and got the same results. This went on for a few minutes with the same results. He rebooted a few times and tried to run IE after each reboot but it exhibited the same behavior; he would open IE up, and it would abruptly shut down.

He called me. I tried IE and found the same behavior. I then opened the Internet Explorer instance without tools also known as Internet Explorer (no Ad-ons) that can usually be found under one of the main menus on XP. This instance opened up and did not shut down immediately, but depending upon which web site I sent it to, it would still shut down abruptly for no apparent reason after it had loaded certain web sites. Hum...we could navigate to some web sites and IE worked as expected but when we went to other websites, IE loaded the web site and abruptly shut down.

I checked the event logs; no reported errors.

Next, I looked at what was installed on his machine and decided to uninstall Java. This was a safe bet as it could be easily installed again, and with Java running in a windows environment, sometimes it acts up and does not always report errors to the event log. So the absence of errors in the event log and the fact that IE worked on some sites and not others pointed to Java as a possible culprit

I uninstalled Java, restarted the machine and IE worked again as expected. No more abrupt shut downs, but some web sites did not function as expected which was to be expected, because Java has become an integral part of many if not most web sites and Java was no longer installed on the machine.

When one of the sites prompted us to install Java, I said yes. Java was re-installed and even after a re-boot, IE worked fine, so at this point, it appears that Java was the culprit responsible for shutting IE down abruptly and unexpectedly.

Some other things to try if this doesn’t work for you...

You could try to run the IE repair option under Tools - Repair Browser.

Or, you could see if one of the pop up blockers on your machine is causing the shut down. Some pop up blockers will block windows that are behind the browser and this can be hard to diagnose unless you shut the pop up blocker off.

August 2008

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John Mitchell has another excellent article about migrating DotNetNuke Blog Entries to Ventrian News Articles here:

http://www.mitchelsellers.com/Blogs/tabid/54/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/48/Default.aspx

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Here is the link to the uninstall Zonealarm Forum page:

http://forums.zonelabs.com/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=inst&message.id=74826

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Here are some useful Dlink DNS-323 / DSN 323 resources:

Forums and other information:

http://forum.dsmg600.info/f3-DNS-323-General-Discussion.html

http://wiki.dns323.info/

Here is the list of drives recommended/tested by Dlink:

http://support.dlink.com/supportfaq/DisplayTemplate.aspx?TemplateId=1443933

Also, if any of your desktops have been upgraded to XP SP3, they may need a patch to work with the 323.
Here is link to find the latest updated software and firmware for your D Link drive:

http://www.dlink.com/products/winXPsp3/

and

http://support.dlink.com/downloads/

select: DNS (or your drive model)

Select: 323 (or your drive model)

Go...

Enjoy!

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This script will only find those servers (and instances) that are broadcasting their existence, and requires execute permissions on XP_CMDShell.:

CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.ListLocalServers 
AS 
BEGIN 
    SET NOCOUNT ON 
 
    CREATE TABLE #servers(sname VARCHAR(255)) 
 
    INSERT #servers EXEC master..XP_CMDShell 'OSQL -L' 
    -- play with ISQL -L too, results differ slightly 
 
    DELETE #servers WHERE sname='Servers:' 
 
    SELECT LTRIM(sname) FROM #servers WHERE sname != 'NULL' 
 
    DROP TABLE #servers 
END

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So from ASP, you could do this:

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This code is not mine, and comes from another posting:

To enumerate all network-visible SQL servers using SQL-DMO objects, create a new standard EXE project and add a reference to sqldmo.rll. This file
can be found in \Binn\Resources\1033\sqldmo.rll under the SqlServer70 directory. Now add this code and declaration in your form's code:


Private Function GetAllSqlServerCollection(colSqlServers As Collection)
As
Boolean
    Dim intIndex As Integer
    Dim oApplication As SQLDMO.Application
    Dim oNameList As SQLDMO.NameList


    Set oApplication = New Application
    With oApplication
        Set oNameList = .ListAvailableSQLServers
        With oNameList
            For intIndex = 1 To .Count
                colSqlServers.Add (oNameList.Item(intIndex))
            Next
        End With
    End With
    Set oApplication = Nothing
    GetAllSqlServerCollection = True
End Function


This code will return a list of SQL servers and can be put inside a combo box's drop-down event to always get a refreshed list of SQL servers on your form.

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May 21, 2008 - London. While rootkits for computer operating systems, like Windows, are well known, they haven't been a serious concern for the Cisco IOS.

At the EUSecWest Confernce in London May 21 and 22, 2008, Sebastian Muniz offered a presentation called "Killing the myth of Cisco IOS rootkits: DIK (Da Ios rootKit)" where he claimed that the public rootkit implementations for Cisco IOS have not been seen and system administrators tend to think that this is not possible or that even being possible, a generic method could not be created and that a skilled attacker is needed to target them. He presented the DIK (Da Ios rootKit), a real multi-architecture rootkit to show that real threats exist and that advanced IOS forensics are probably not enought to detect them. Sebastion noted that no public IOS rootkit implementation has been publicly presented before and the techniques employed are generic, and could be easiy used to implement other closed-source OS rootkits.

An interview with Sebastion Muniz: http://eusecwest.com/sebastian-muniz-da-ios-rootkit.html

For more information see the EUSecWest site here: http://eusecwest.com/speakers.html#Cisco

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Here's a list of useful MSC files on a Windows Server 2003 machine. Some of the tools might not be available until you have installed the corresponding service. 

appsrv.msc - Application Server
azman.msc - Authorization Manager
certmgr.msc - Certificates snap-in
certsrv.msc - Certificate Services
certtmpl.msc - Certificate Templates
ciadv.msc - Indexing Service
compmgmt.msc - Computer Management
dcpol.msc - Domain Controller Security Policy
devmgmt.msc - Device Manager
dfrg.msc - Disk Defragmenter
dfsgui.msc - Distributed File System
dhcpmgmt.msc - DHCP Manager
diskmgmt.msc - Disk Management
dnsmgmt.msc - DNS Manager
domain.msc - Active Directory Domains & Trusts
dompol.msc - Domain Security Policy
dsa.msc - Active Directory Users & Computers
dssite.msc - Active Directory Sites & Services
eventvwr.msc - Event Viewer
fxsadmin.msc - Fax Service Manager
filesvr.msc - File Server Management
fsmgmt.msc - Shared Folders
gpedit.msc - Group Policy Editor
ias.msc - Internet Authentication Service
iis.msc - Internet Information Services
lusrmgr.msc - Local Users & Groups
ntmsmgr.msc - Removable Storage Manager
ntmsoprq.msc - Removable Storage Operator Requests
perfmon.msc - Performance Monitor
rrasmgmt.msc - Routing and Remote Access
rsop.msc - Resultant Set of Policy
secpol.msc - Local Security Policy
services.msc - Services Configuration
tapimgmt.msc - Telephony
tscc.msc - Terminal Services
tsmmc.msc - Remote Desktop
wmimgmt.msc - Windows Management Instrumentation 

Note: Not all of these files are in the Windows\system32 folder. This means that they will not be accessible from Start->Run unless you include the path.

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Two great free utilities: EasyBCD Dual Boot utility for all operating systems and CHMOD-Win 3.0 for Windows from NeoSmart Technologies.

Main page:

http://neosmart.net/gallery/v/neosmart/

EasyBCD Dual Boot utility download:

http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

CHMOD – Win 3.0 download:

http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=4

Here is the Wikipedia Guide on Dual Boot and Dual Boot Utilities:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_boot


CHMOD Examples:

chmod +r file – read is added for all

chmod -x file – execute permission is removed for all

chmod u=rw,go= file – read and write is set for the owner, all permissions are cleared for the group and others

chmod +rw file – change the permissions of the file file to read and write for all.

chmod -R u+w,go-w docs/ – change the permissions of the directory docs and all its contents to add write access for the user, and deny write access for everybody else.

chmod 0 file – removes all privileges for all

chmod 666 file – sets read and write access for the owner, the group, and all others.

chmod 0755 file – equivalent to u=rwx (4+2+1),go=rx (4+1 & 4+1). The 0 specifies no special modes.

chmod 4755 file – the 4 specifies set user ID.

find path/ -type d -exec chmod a-x {} \; – sets a-x for all directories in tree starting from path/ (use '-type f' to match files only).

find path/ -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \; allows directory browsing ls for example if you've reset permissions for Samba write access.

chmod -R u+rwX,g-rwx,o-rwx <directory> – set a directory tree to rwx for owner directories, rw for owner files, --- for group and all.

chmod -R a-x+X <directory> – remove the execute permission to all files in a directory tree, while allowing for directory browsing.

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For those Ibanez Thermion appreciators out there, you can scroll to the bottom of the "Hints and Tips" page and download the Thermion TN120 Schematics in PDF for the Ibanez Thermion TN120 from the Documents section at the bottom of that page. 

I find that the Ibanez Thermions are totally under rated, so if you get a chance to try one out or buy one, do it! These Thermions will do everything from Fender like clean to singing leads to thumping metal. Enjoy.

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One user accesses their Earthlink Total Access mail via a Comcast high speed connection. After they acquised to an Earthlink Total Access update notice that updated their Earthlink Total Access software to the latest version of Earthlink Total Access and the Earthlink mail box, the computer started to misbehave. When ever they opened Earthlink Total access or when ever they opened up Internet Explorer version 7.x, a pop up install box would appear, and then re-appear several more times, that prompted them to install / reinstall the Earthlink Accelerator.

After selecting “Cancel” to cancel this install window over and over and over, a non descriptive error was displayed that was similar to this:

Error 1709 – "No valid source could be found for product Earthlink Accelerator. The windows installer cannot continue".  

A Google search provided little information on this error.

This installer appears to be looking for the Accelerator.msi file.

After some experimentation, I discovered that this this annoying behavior could best be removed by installing and utilizing the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility that can be explained and downloaded here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

One you download and install the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility, run it, and look for the Earthlink Accelerator. When you find it, highlight it, and select "Remove".

Close the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility.

Reboot.

Hopefully, this will solve your problem with the poorly crafted  Earthlink Total Access software as it has for others.

Bill

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