How to install Roboform add-on in browsers

Roboform is an automated application to fill web based forms and it can be easily installed as an add-on to browsers to manage and fill forms efficiently. To install it,go to this add-on link for Internet Explorer. The same link can be reached by selecting Tools > Manage Add-ons > Find more add-ons in Internet …

How to use Putty to connect via SSH

In earlier posts,I had shown how Windows Vista can be setup as a SSH server. Now,let’s see how we connect using ssh to this configured server. For this,any ssh client will do,Putty is highly recommended and it is free. Get the entire pack of Putty for Windows which supports most of the connection types from …

Using task manager in Vista for managing services

Windows Vista task manager is greatly improved.It comes with useful additional features of managing services and also of file tracking based on the services running.This proves helpful if we want to manage services directly and see their application/system files from task manager instead of going to (Start > Run > services.msc) routine. Launch task manager …

How to use junk email options in Windows Mail

We all dislike junk emails or unsolicited emails that offer free stuff. Windows Mail has some useful features that allow control over junk emails that we receive. Have you ever found that sometimes emails sent by friends/acquaintances end up in junk email folder in Windows Mail? This can be easily prevented especially if the email …

How to use Windows Mobility Center

Laptop users have some common tasks because of their mobility. Connecting laptop to a monitor,switching wireless radio on or off,charging the laptop are some of the most common of them. Everytime these tasks need to be done,laptop users need to go to Control Panel and change settings which can be cumbersome after a while. Is …

How to configure Windows Vista as ssh server – part 2

>Part II : Configuring ssh as a service on Vista In the previous part,we installed Cygwin with openssh package on Vista machine. Let us now get into the more fun part – configuring the service. To configure openssh,launch Cygwin with administrator privileges (Right Click on icon and select “Run as administrator“). The command prompt of Cygwin …

How to configure Windows Vista as ssh server – part 1

Setting up any system as a server requires two things : 1.Installing the particular service on system 2.Configuring the service post installation so that the system acts as server. SSH (secure shell)is a remote login protocol that encrypts data between communicating machines.It is originally used in Unix machines but we can use the same on …

Changing the search provider in internet explorer 7

Internet explorer 7 comes with Microsoft live search as it’s default search engine.Needless to say,like many other features in Windows,this can be customized too. Let us say that we want to set default search engine to Lycos.Making this customization is very straightforward courtesy Microsoft. Here is how : 1.From IE7 search engine box,select the Find …

How to make a batch file to test internet connection

Internet connectivity often fails,this can be highly disruptive when in middle of a critical task like say doing an online transaction. Is there any way we can keep a track of our internet connection being stable especially before say performing an online transaction like online booking of an order? There definitely is a way to …