Windows Vista comes with some really neat features and systems diagnostics report is one of them. Periodic monitoring of system helps us in determining it’s bottlenecks and resolving potential problems that it might face. Reliability and Performance Monitor in Windows Vista gives us a neat detailed view of our system – its potential bottlenecks and …
In one of my earlier posts,I had described the way to backup registry through the system state data backup. Let us take a look on how to go about if we only need to backup registry and nothing else. 1.Open registry editor (Start>Run>regedt32). 2.We will export the current registry settings and save it as a …
User Account Control is a new security feature in Windows Vista to prevent execution of unauthorized applications. If tired of annoying popups that seem to come when you try to run any application in Vista,it means UAC is in charge of your access. I will show two ways to disable UAC in Windows Vista -the …
Windows Vista comes with in-built antispyware and antimalware application – Windows Defender (the gray coloured wall icon). Defender proves to be much useful than just tracking down spyware and malware present in a Vista box. Let’s take a look at what more it can do apart from just running in background checking for malware and …
Some of the best things in life are free. CCleaner is one of them. As Windows users,we find our machines getting slower and unresponsive even if there are antivirus apps which are updated and firewall secured. One very basic reason for this is temporary files which over a period of time grow and make the …
In Windows Active Directory environment,domain users can either be enabled or disabled. A disabled user can’t access any network resources because he/she can’t login or get authenticated by domain controller in first place. A script that comes in handy for regular auditing of users can be used to cut down time for such housekeeping tasks. …
In my previous post,I described tweaking up My Network Places to make it run faster. This was a GUI tool to view other networked computers,is there any way to do the same from command prompt? Of course there is and is very cool.The in-built net utility has many versatile uses and checking out shared resources …
While using My Network Places in Windows XP for browsing other machines on network,it is quite common to see a delay when the list of all neighbouring machines is displayed alongwith the shared stuff they have over network. Basically,the first thing XP does is see the scheduled tasks on remote machines before listing out the …
Upgrading Windows Vista online from the existing disc is now possible because of Windows Anytime Upgrade feature that comes bundled with Vista. To check it out : 1.Go to Control Panel>System and Maintenance>Welcome Center. 2.To upgrade to another version of Windows Vista, select Control Panel >System and Maintenance >System, and click Upgrade Windows Vista 3.Of …
Installing or uninstalling applications,making changes to system settings – these are all linked to the all important registry values in Windows family of operating systems and Vista is no exception. However,one thing that Vista can do is protect itself from unwanted registry changes which might break the operating system. The concept of User Account Control …