Windows Vista comes with a pretty good firewall that can be configured easily. It may happen at times that a program that is installed can no longer download updates or connect to the internet because the Windows firewall no longer recognizes it(say after an update) or blocks it. To overcome this,we can manually add programs …
There are some great themes for Windows Vista but one really cool theme is the Vista to Leopard transformation pack. Download it from here. Installing it is quite straight forward.Once the setup is downloaded,run it. Accept the license agreement and select All the options for the best possible effects of the OS X transformation pack. …
Windows Mail in Vista provides an in-built drag and drop functionality which makes it possible to simply drag text from any open document and drop it in any folder within Windows Mail except the outbox. Let’s take a quick tour on how to do this : 1. Launch Windows Mail (Start > Run > winmail.exe) …
Windows Vista comes with some really neat features and systems diagnostics report is one of them. Periodic monitoring of system helps us in determining it’s bottlenecks and resolving potential problems that it might face. Reliability and Performance Monitor in Windows Vista gives us a neat detailed view of our system – its potential bottlenecks and …
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 …
>”Privilege escalation” -the term in computer security world is often seen as something like a prisoner who has just got a weapon a.k.a “armed and dangerous”. It means getting the important super privileges from a normal user account to root in *nix and admin/system account in Windows world. Command prompt in Windows machines (especially XP) …
>There is the almighty root account in *nix and here in Windows world is the powerful and omnipotent Administrators group.Actually there can be different admin groups like domain admins,enterprise admins(ultimate account in a Microsoft Windows network) and of course the local administrator account on a standalone Windows box. Wouldn’t it be great if there is …