Let’s face it,viruses and malware are a pain in the neck not only because they disrupt productivity but also the clean up involved after them. As elementary as this sounds,here are the 5 simplest ways to keep Windows healthy and happy : 1.Apply updates religiously : Microsoft releases security updates and the same are detected …
It can happen at times that you may forget the management ip address of home wireless network router and wonder how to gain access to the console page of the router to make required changes. I know I certainly did today and hence this post. This also shows why to keep a detailed record of …
Gmail for mobile phones has a pretty low consumption of resources and is extremely light. In case you need to get it for your mobile phones here it is or directly enter the following link. Once installed on the phone,there exists the settings to add multiple Gmail accounts and switch inboxes all under the same app. …
In the earlier post on Powershell,I had shown how to simultaneously open all the files of similar extension type within a given folder. This naturally leads us to the extension – if we can open all the files at same time,is there any way we can write to those files too all in one go? …
Windows 7 by default doesn’t come with telnet server and client services as enabled. We need to enable them manually and that’s a good thing from security perspective. Here is how to enable Telnet in Windows 7. It is pretty much the same as enabling in Vista,please refer to my earlier post for Vista. 1.Go to …
By default,the Start Menu in Windows 7 doesn’t have the Run option from where you can execute command line tasks or open applications. Here is how to enable it : Right click on Start Menu button (the round Windows button) and select Properties. Go to Start Menu tab and hit Customize. Scroll down and check …
Windows 7 comes bundled with the cool PowerShell. It is better than the regular command prompt and provides greater degree of control and automation for system admins. Most of the work done in Powershell is through cmdlets (small built-in commands which access required objects and modify them). Here I will show you how to open …
Control Panel contains most of the stuff that is needed for customizing Windows and it can become a bit time consuming to every time hit Start menu and launch it in Windows 7. To put the Control Panel icon directly on desktop : 1. Go to Start > Control Panel and right click it. 2. …
How many times do we type http://somesitename.com or .org or .net and hit enter in the browser? Here are a few browser independent shortcut keys that can save time and avoid the every time typing of http:// and .com/.net/.org. Open the browser window and simply type the website name and simply press any of the …