Just a quick heads up. Vulnerabilities in all versions of Microsoft Windows related to MHTML, similar to server-side XSS vulnerabilities detected. Make sure to keep Windows updated, more info about this can be found at : MS-KB 2501696 Vulnerability in MHTML Have a safe and secure Windows.
Using link shortening services like http://bit.ly can help in transforming boring long web links into something short and sweet.Advantages of doing this are many, a primary advantage being able to post these shortened links in text limited services like Twitter. Now Google has released it’s own link shortening service for the end user.Bloggers may be …
It may happen at times that Windows crashes or there is a power failure which causes disk drives to lose data (doesn’t happen frequently fortunately). There is a quick way to check whether a select drive or a set of drives are ok after a crash or an abnormal Windows restart. This is done through …
It can be time consuming as well as frustrating to search for a suitable codec when trying to play any multimedia file in Windows especially if the codec is not a very popular one. Here is a free and very detailed codec pack which you can download and use for free. Shark007’s codec pack supports …
In case you have made a batch file in Windows 7,you might have noticed that it doesn’t really work as it should right off the bat. Here is what I am saying : Suppose a simple batch file that pings a website continuously is made (ping.bat) in this case : (If you want to learn …
Wildcards can be pretty helpful when doing some basic tasks either from the Windows GUI or the beloved command prompt. Let’s take a look at the frequently used wildcard * for doing some simple but effective stuff. For understanding purposes,I have created a folder called textfiles in C: with the following files : apples.txt,oranges.txt,bananas.txt,applejuice.txt,orangejuice.txt.bananajuice.txt Let’s …
>Ever wondered how to create files without using a single click of mouse? Chances are if you have been familiar with command prompt,you may know this. Example : Let’s make a simple text file named hello.txt,save it and list it contents – all of this without using a mouse. Here is how : 1.Launch command …
You might have often experienced that the built in file manager provided by the web hosts can be slow as well as bit complex to navigate. Filezilla is a free and extremely simple ftp application which can upload/download files to and fro local and remote host as well as edit files-all of this very quickly …
>Before Vista it was possible to share the root drive with a $ sign like C$,D$ and so on but the advanced sharing in Vista and later versions doesn’t really require that. In order to directly share a root drive (a root drive is the drive referenced directly without any specific folder or file in …
Here is a simple way by which the entire detailed system information can be viewed with just a click. To do this,we just need to make a desktop shortcut pointing to system info. Here is how : 1.Right click on desktop and select New > Shortcut. 2.In the path for shortcut,type : C:WindowsSystem32msinfo32.exe 3.Click Next and …