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Password recovery tools are used to recover lost user and administrator passwords used to log on to Windows.
Password recovery tools are often called “password cracking” tools because they are sometimes used to “crack” unknown passwords by hackers. Legally cracking your own password is certainly a legitimate and often necessary practice!
Many Windows password recovery tools cost hundreds of dollars. Luckily there are a few completely free password recovery tools available that will help you recover forgotten Windows passwords fast!
Check out my list of the best free Windows password recovery tools available: Read More»
Posted in Software, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 5 Comments »
Have a fear you will forget your password, or the adminstrator password. Well, back it up. I’d personally not worry about it all, but it’s a feature.
Backup up login password:
open Control Panel
User Accounts and Family Safety
User Accounts
Create a password reset disk
Follow wizard
Insert USB stick
Type current password
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February 24, 2007 by
Jason Vista will automatically defragment your drive for you. However, many people like to defragment right before they install a new program or move large amounts of data. Here is how to defrag on demand.
1. Click Start Orb
2. Click Control Panel
3. Select Control Panel Home
4. Select System and Maintenance
5. Select Defragment your hard drive under Administrative Tools
6. You may need to confirm the UAC
7. Click the Defragment Now button
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February 20, 2007 by
Jason I’m sure you are well aware now of the advantages and disadvantages of UAC. It is great for non-admin users because it protects their computer from themselves. For advanced users, it can be a much different story causing many annoying authorization pop-ups. This is most common when you are doing a lot of activities that require admin rights such as installing applications and configuring Windows Vista after a fresh install. There is one practical solution to this issue that will help you with the UAC pop-ups if they annoy you and still benefit from the security of UAC.
This can be achieved by adjusting the local security policy to essentially disable UAC for administrators while leaving it enabled for low rights users. When you are using your PC for normal day-to-day use, log in with your low rights account. If you need to install a bunch of applications and make major system configuration changes then log in with your admin account. With fast user switching in Windows Vista you can easily switch between your accounts with little effort. Read More»
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February 11, 2007 by
Jason
Vista allows you to set the priority by which programs receive CPU cycles. This explains the manual way of telling vista which programs should receive the most and the least priority.
For day to day use, this is not very important. However, if you frequently have large, demanding programs running, it can be helpful to direct vista when to focus CPU cycles toward or away from the program.
For example, usually if you are rendering video, the rest of your system will be very slow as the rendering program is taking priority. However, you can push the priority of the rendering program lower which will speed up other programs trying to run during this time. Read More»
Posted in Hardware, Windows Vista | 2 Comments »
February 09, 2007 by
Jason You can configure any program shortcut so that Windows prompts you for login credentials every time you double-click that shortcut. This is an ideal solution for the Computer Management option in the Administrative Tools folder, for instance.
To specify this option
1. Right-click the shortcut icon and choose Properties.
2. On the Shortcut tab, click the Advanced button and select the Run With Different Credentials check box.
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January 31, 2007 by
Jason Windows Vista Beta 2 is a landmark. While it’s too early for us to say with confidence that you can use it all day for your normal tasks, Beta 2 is solid enough for us to report on this important question: How well will your games run on this new OS?
To find out if Vista’s got game, we set up the 32-bit version of Vista Beta 2 on a high-end gaming test rig using a 2.8-GHz AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 chip, an nVidia nForce 590 SLI chipset, 2 gigabytes of memÂÂory, an ATI Radeon X1900 XTX graphics card, a Creative sound card, and a 160GB Seagate hard drive. ATI released new drivers on the Web to coincide with Beta 2, and nVidia did the same with platform drivers, so we used the latest and greatest.
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