Highlights of year 2015!!!

Today is the last day of the year 2015 and in few hours we will be in the new year. I thought of listing down highlight of the year but didn't able to think many events as i able to thought last year. Did i wasted one year or i survived one more year. It is difficult to answer this question but still trying to note down few highlight of this year:
1. Omi's School: This year we admitted our daughter to pre-school. We did a lot of searching of school, evaluating the school in various categories but finally gone with DY Patil school. It was a big excitement and fun while selecting school for her.

Correcting WAN miniport devices on windows 8.1

Since I upgraded my system to windows 8.1, I continuously get the problem of VPN not getting connected due to corrupted WAN mini port (Indicated by yellow exclamation mark in Device Manager).  This lead my formatting my system couple of times but finally I able to find the resolution. Please perform the steps below:

1. Open Device Manager.
2. In network adapters section, you will find WAN mini port devices (IP, L2TP, PPTP).
3. You can observe the broken mini port my observing the yellow exclamation mark in front of them. 
4. In case WAN mini-ports are not listed try by selecting the option “See hidden devices” from menu.
5. Got Registry editor and browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SYSTEM -> CurrentControlSet->Control->Class->{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
6. Go through each of the sub keys to find the sub key corresponding to the broken mini-port. This information can be seen in the DriverDesc value.
7. Once you got the key corresponding to broken mini-port, delete the sub key.
8. For reinstalling the WAN mini-port go to Device Manager.
9. Select broken mini-port.
10. Right click the selected broken mini-port and select ‘Update Driver Software’
11. On Next screen select the option of Browse my computer for driver software.
12. On Next screen select the option of ‘Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer’
13. Select the only network adapter listed there and click next.
14. After successfully installing the driver you will observe the yellow exclamation mark is gone in device manager and mini-port is fully recovers.
15. Repeat the steps 9 to 14 for all the broken mini ports,

New Year Resolution

First of all a very happy new year to all of you.

As a new year tradition many of us make some resolution. Some people take it very seriously and review their entire year make a resolution which is nothing but plan for the next year. In combine with organization appraisal process, which happened at nearly same time this is a excellent opportunity for planning the next year.

I must admit i am one of these people. However most of us try to make the resolution which at the end of year can me measure as yes or no. However some people make a mistake to interpret it wrong and make a resolution like take as whole or leave. Please make a point to understand the difference between these two. The former makes ensure there is some improvement or achievement which might not be 100%.

The amount of improvement is generally we refer as target or goal. Achieving or missing this target decide whether resolution is kept or broken. Make sure you should not keep too much ambitious target. Goal should be balanced enough to motivate you to keep you trying to achieve the same.