In one of my earlier posts,I had shown how to change the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) information about your Windows XP machine. Let us take a look at how to do the same this time in Windows Vista.I will demonstrate by changing the manufacturer name and adding my blog URL in the System information screen …
Windows Vista by default will remember/cache user credentials when it is in a domain based environment.Needless to say,this many counts can be a potential security risk in itself as cached logon or cached credentials allow users to logon and use Windows even when it is not actively connected to domain as a kind of work …
On selecting any file or object in Windows Vista and right clicking it will always show the “Send To” option.If this needs to be disabled,there is a simple registry hack (like most of the stuff we come across in Windows) to accomplish that. This registry hack will involve something called as ContextMenuHandlers where the key …
Blue screen or BSODs in Windows (Blue Screen of Death) errors as they are commonly called are troublesome to get rid of especially when you can’t point to what exactly is causing them. Windows Vista just like XP by default is set to restart once a blue screen error is encountered.To effectively troubleshoot them,you must …
Files by default in Windows end up in Recycle Bin on deleted.Over a period of time,many of those files can clog the bin thereby eating up disk space. When emptying recycle bin of multiple files,this type of dialog box pops up often in Windows Vista. What if we are pretty much sure that we need …
How do you find out the domain name,the user name of currently logged in user and the path where user profile is stored using just a single command? Well,this can be done because of the very helpful set command available from Windows command prompt. In one of my earlier posts,I had described using the set …
Any external USB drive connected in Windows Vista by default is optimized for quick removal and not quick performance. This is because it is assumed that any plugged in external drive will be removed at some point of time and a quick removal from the computer may result in data loss. What if you use …
>Vista has this service turned on by default called “Superfetch”.What this does is keep track of user patterns like which are the most commonly used applications and on startup,load these frequently used applications first for logged in user. Just like all the Windows services,this too can be turned off or on if you want to …
On surfing the web,we often come across email addresses as hyperlinks which on clicking will launch email client with the clicked address as the recipient. Is there any way,we can do the same on demand by making a desktop shortcut of any intended recipient and also copying some one else’s email address in one go …
Having correct time is important,be it in life in general or Windows in particular. In a domain based environment,there is something called as a time skew which means that if system clock on a client Windows machine is not in sync with the time on domain controller by more than 5 minutes,kerberos authentication will fail …