upside down screen display - ctrl Alt up arrow shortcut in XP

Deepak was sitting on my lap, when I was checking my emails. He was watching songs in parallel.

He started to press keys in keyboard and my screen display got turned up upside down. Mouse cursor would also turn down and movement was the opposite.

It took some time for me to get mouse control in reverse direction and find cause for it.

ctrl alt up arrow shortcut with XP has done the job. I had used the UP arrow when he had pressed ctrl and alt simultaneously.

Pressing the ctrl alt up arrow again got the screen back to its position.


--Dhanesh Amma

Atbroker.exe application error

I use remote desktop to connect to a PC with Windows 7 . Got the Atbroker.exe application error followed by black screen. Could not view the desktop despite closing and reopening the session. Same error throw-ed out.


On surfing net, got a solution which works most of time.


Press "CTRL-ALT-END" (the equivalent of “CTRL-ALT-DEL” for remote sessions) followed by ESC / starting Task Manager from the options listed. - It worked for me.


When it doesn’t work, log in with another user and kill the session with the issue or reboot the pc.


--Dhanesh Amma

How to hide Facebook profile from search engines

You all may be knowing that you can easily find any person on Facebook right from Google or any other search engines. The basic information like your name, profile picture, gender and networks are visible to everyone. Just search your name in Google and you will see your facebook’s profile in the results page.

But just in case you don’t want your Facebook profile to be shown in search engines, you can easily do this from your Facebook - "Privacy Settings page".

Follow the following steps to remove your Facebook profile from Search Engine cache

1. Login to your Facebook Profile and click the Account tab on the top right corner of the page and select the Privacy Settings option. A new page will open up.

2. In this page, find "Apps and Websites" which will be in the bottom left corner of the page, and click on "Edit your settings" link next to it.

3. On the next page you will see "Public Search" at the bottom of the page, click on "Edit settings" button at the right of "Public Search".

4. Uncheck the "Enable Public Search" option.

Now your Facebook profile will be completely removed from search engine results page. For some search engines, it may take a few days/weeks to get your Facebook profile out of their cache.


--Dhanesh Amma