June, 2007 Archive
Some things in life should be free. Easy WiFi Radar helps you find and connect to open wireless access points with a single mouseclick. It’s WiFi for Dummies. And we’re giving it away.
If you have ever tried to use Windows XP’s built-in connection manager, you know what a hassle it can be to quickly check your mail or browse the web on the go. You need to browse through a list of access points, find one that you can connect to, manually try to connect to it, confirm the connection and then wait. Even if it says that’s it connected, often it doesn’t open a webpage or you mail will stall. Read More»
Posted in Internet, Software | 7 Comments »
RockXP is a Freeware application that allows you to recover your Windows XP product key or activation code along with keys for other Microsoft products. This is very useful if you need to reinstall a microsoft product. Additionally, you can recover lost usernames and passwords, MSN logins, Internet connection parameters etc. It’s a must have tool for your USB portable storage device. RockXP is under 770kb. Read More»
Posted in Software, Windows XP | 2 Comments »
Windows XP has a hidden sound track which plays as background music during Windows XP installation process, but most people can’t hear this music because they have a soundcard that won’t have drivers preinstalled on XP. Here’s a way to uncover it:
Navigate to C:\Windows\system32\oobe\images, go to Tools > Folder Options > View, Read More»
Posted in Windows XP | 3 Comments »
Does your Windows XP take endless long to Shutdown? This is mainly because whenever you attempt to shutdown Windows XP, it will wait for all running applications to close. If they stop responding, you’ll get the end task warnings and you either manually kill the task or wait for Windows to kill it.
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On Windows Vista when you map a drive under your admin account you will find that your mapped drive is not available after you switch to your full token via a RunAs or Consent dialog. This is by design because there are actually two tokens in play here. What happens is the LSA recognized that you are admin at logon and creates two logons. The first with a “filtered” token or non-admin which is used to render your desktop and the other containing your full token to be available after consent dialogs.
Because there are two separate logons there are separate logon ID’s. When network shares are mapped they are linked to the current logon session for the current process token. Read More»
Posted in Internet, Windows Vista | 2 Comments »
As an administrator you have the power to delete other user accounts. Upon deleting user accounts, you have the option to keep the files or delete the files. If for unfortunate events you accidentally chose deleting files, I suggest the following procedures provided you have administrative privileges. Read More»
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Instead of using the standard Windows Vista Defrag Tool, use the combination of Contig and PowerDefragmenter to make the process ten times faster.
Steps:
1. Download Contig here.
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Posted in Windows Vista | 4 Comments »
One of the main concepts of Windows Vista is to make things more simple, basically take some of the complexity out of Windows.The decision was made to do away with the old menu bar in many of the windows of Windows Vista because they simply looked too busy and offered the user too many, often confusing, choices. Read More»
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Here’s another handy little facility you might not have come across in Windows Vista. If, like me, you get a fair number of Spam messages each day written in Chinese, Japanese, Latvian or even German, and you know they can’t possibly be from anyone that you know, then you can tell Vista’s email program Windows Mail Read More»
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UltraVNC is one of many options for remotely controlling one computer from another across the Internet. Generically, VNC is a cross-platform protocol. For example, you could control a Windows box from Linux. UltraVNC is an implementation of VNC for the PC. The latest version, currently in beta, adds Vista support.
VNC unhelpfully stands for “Virtual Network Computing.” It is a protocol standard for handling remote control. It started life as a Bell Laboratories project, and has become the core of a whole family of open source and commercial products. Read More»
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