Enable or disable Windows Task Manager

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Task manager is a powerful Windows tool for managing system services, processes, monitoring system activity and starting or closing applications. It is basically extended version of run box and it comes very handy to operate within Windows system. That’s way many system administrators prefer to disable task manager on public computers to restrict access to [...]

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Get Windows 7 features in Vista and XP

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We all love shortcuts, be it in traveling or our mobile or our computer and and Windows 7 brings a bunch of new ones to the party. For example, you can press Windows-Space to make all your open windows transparent or Windows-Home to minimize all windows except the one you’re using. Well Satish, that sounds [...]

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Hike your vista performance rating

The Windows Experience Rating is sort of like a system performance gauging system that you only find in Vista . While many complain that it’s flawed and unfair at times, there’s a way to fool Vista. Basically, we change the performance figures in the XML that holds the scores for each of the subsystems. To [...]

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Modifying the Internet and Media Player Key On a multimedia Keyboards

If you dont like the shortcuts on your multimedia keyboard jsut because they launch the default programs given by windows then here is a way to change them. Internet key Open the Registry Editor and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AppKey\7 Right-click in the right column and create a new String called ShellExecute Set the value as the [...]

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Play RAR files without extracting uisng Dziobas player

Play Downloaded RAR Video Files WITHOUT Extracting Dziobas Rar Player Portable lets you play AVI, MPGE, RMVB, OGG, MP3, RAR, MKV, MKA and some not popular formats even if you don’t have the proper codecs installed. Other than that, it also supports subtitles and automatic downloading subtitles from opensubtitles.org using hash. The name already tells [...]

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Brand windows with your name and add your own photo

Add ur own photo in My Computer properties

open notepad dump the following lines into it and save it with the name OEMINFO.INI in the c:\windows\system32 directory: ——————————————————————- [General] Manufacturer=Your Name Here Model=Your Model Here [Support Information] Line1=Your Name Here Line2=Your Address Here Line3=Your Email Address Here ——————————————————————— 1. Save the file as OEMINFO.INI in the c:\windows\system32. 2. Then make a right click [...]

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Why should your users use least privilege on their corporate computers?

If a business allows it’s users to install whatever software they choose and/or make configuration changes then they run the increased risk of the security of the machine being compromised. I recommend wherever possible businesses should refrain from giving end users administrative rights over the machines they use thereby preventing users from installing software (that [...]

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