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 …
There are multiple ways to do a single thing and Firefox is no exception. Most of us have more than one tab opened while using Firefox which is one benefit it provides for tabbed browsing. What if we want to open a new tab without a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-T) or not even navigating to File>New …
A standalone Windows XP professional box can be a vulnerable target for compromise because it is not regulated by group policies and it is basically controlled by a local administrator account. Let’s say if more than one user uses a single XP professional box atdifferent times and we want to make sure that folks can …
This one is an old but useful hack for making the Start menu appear as quickly as you click on it in Windows XP. By default,a delay value of 400 is associated with the registry key of MenuShowDelay(HKEY_CURRENT_USER Control Panel Desktop MenuShowDelay). To change this default value: 1.Open registry editor (Start>Run>regedt32) (Backup the registry first …