What you can’t see,you can’t troubleshoot that.The device manager suits this logic perfectly. Basically,all the devices present in Windows XP are listed in device manager,right? The answer is no.Along with the devices that are present,we can encounter two more types of devices : hidden and ghosts. Hidden devices are mostly the really old and legacy …
Some computer games are very addictive,time flies and you keep on playing.Command and Conquers:Generals and it’s expansion pack Zero Hour is one of them for me. Recently,I tried to play one more older games of the Command and Conquer Red Alert series : Yuri’s Revenge.Running it on Vista from the Command and Conquer first decade …
Recently I had put in some new music albums in my ipod and along with that also appeared the artwork (the images that are displayed in background while accessing ipod menu). There is no suitable option from within the ipod to remove them,however itunes will be helpful in removing the unwanted album artwork. 1.Connect the …
This is a non operating system/non technical related post after quite a few months. We live in a world of tightly integrated electronic communication.What we see as emails on our computers,we see them on our blackberries and other cellular devices. One very useful feature of Google calendar is it’s integration with your cell phone. Let’s …
In a domain based environment,Windows clients get their settings from a domain controller.These settings or policies are called group policy objects or GPOs. Whenever a new or modified GPO is applied to a client yet the client can’t seem to reflect those changes,gpupdate/force from command prompt is commonly used to refresh all GPOs on the …
Security in Windows family has always been a debatable topic.With the advent of long released SP2,there came the red shield like icon – Windows security center. Windows security center acts like a guard who checks your XP box for following three settings : 1.Firewall status 2.Antivirus software status 3.Windows updates status What if we have …
Quick – how do you tell how many connections does your box have over say port 445(SMB)or whether that port is really closed? Or for any other port like 80? The quickest way I have seen is simply using netstat from command prompt although applying a filter for ports that we want to find out.[Of …
Registry editing can be like swimming in shark infested waters.If you don’t know what you are doing by changing registry settings it is always a good idea not to do that in the first place. Ever seen a standard disclaimer of backing up registry before making any changes to it? Let’s see how to backup …
> In large deployments of Windows,customizing is needed as the boxes are centrally managed and monitored. One common customization is to add support information to XP that basically lists the contact information of folks whom you need to get in touch with for any system related query. Let’s add that in XP.Here is how : …
Using remote desktop to access some systems on a regular basis (like say logging onto a domain controller or a file/application server daily) can be a chore if you type in the system name,user name,password,domain everytime you want to access it. Why not save the RDP connection to each of the frequently accessed boxes so …