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 …
Task Scheduler in Windows is perhaps one of the most under utilized tools that I have known so far.Knowing it can make using Windows more fun and of course more interesting. Windows Vista and it’s UAC prevents applications from running without admin privileges. Although UAC can be disabled,many times it is not feasible for running …
In my earlier post on security features in Windows Vista,I had described how to turn off User Account Control. What if we want to run applications with normal user rights but only need the command prompt to be launched with elevated administrator rights? There are two ways that I have come across to launch command …
When installing service pack 1 under Windows Vista,a way of uninstalling is also embedded by default should you at any later point of time need to remove the service pack. What if we no longer need to uninstall service pack,the setup files in this case can be safely removed thereby freeing up disk space in …