Playing with registry using Python

The inbuilt library in python provides us many useful ways to access the windows registry and make changes to them. I just learnt some stuffs regarding it and thought I can share them with you all Following explains how you can perform some basic operations in registry:

• The first thing we need to do is to import the library using the following command:

        import _winreg as reg

• Next step will be to open the key to which you need to make the changes.

key = reg.OpenKey(reg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,”SOFTWARE\x\y\z”,0,reg.KEY_ALL_ACCESS)

• Now to get the values use the following command:

reg.EnumValue(key, index)

• Now to create a string value or modify a exsisting one:

reg.SetValueEx(key,’name’),0,1,value)

That's all for now. Hope this post helped you  

MBR Recovery

I recently tried to install Ubuntu in my external hard disk using my laptop. The installation was successful but the gurb (a boot manager) got installed in my laptop hard disk’s MBR. So I was not able to boot my laptop without external hard disk .
Then I found something called super grub disk. If you ever have problem with MBR just download it  and write it to a cd. Boot from the CD and follow the instructions. Using it you can fix MBR or configure it. Hope this will be useful

NetBeans IDE

I just checked the NetBeans IDE for python. Its really cool. This one supports syntax highlighting, auto-complete, and also checks for syntax errors for most languages. Its convenient than most other IDE’s that will be specific for a particular language. The most exciting thing is that it is a open source software . Check out the links below for the latest release of NetBeans:

Download NetBeans

Download NetBeans for python

The Perfect Antivirus

NOD32 is an effective anti-virus that removes most type of viruses. I tried most other anti-virus (Avast, Norton,…) But this one was the best of them. But make sure that u keep it’s virus database up to date… ESET recently released the new version of it (Link to download it is at the end of this post). Updating the database is also very easy. It’ll be automatically updated when u connect to internet. It takes a bit long (For dial-up users like me ) for the first update. But if updated once the other updates will complete in a minute or two.

The recent version of NOD32 is available at the downloads tab of my blog… Check it out