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  • How to disable access to Drives using Disk Management

    How to disable access to Drives using Disk Management

    You have learned to disable access to drives using registry. But this technique had some limitations. Here is a better method so that no program, or your friends will be able to even know such a drive exists. You still can easily access the drive as and when needed.

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  • How to Disable Autoplay/Autorun

    How to Disable Autoplay/Autorun

    How to Disable running of programs automatically when you insert a CD or USB drive. This can actually prevent many viruses from entering your system. Use this along with the address bar pull down menu while accessing a pen drive.

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  • What are the hidden files and  folders

    What are the hidden files and folders

    There are many system files hidden from our view in Windows. These are some of them. System Volume Information, MSOCache, Recycler, NTDETECT.com, pagefile.sys, hiberfil.sys, ntldr, AUTOEXEC.COM etc. The uses of these files are explained.

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  • Get access to all folders in Windows like Linux

    Get access to all folders in Windows like Linux

    On the last article we have discussed about seeing all the files that are part of Windows. Now lets see whether we can directly access these folders. As it turns out Windows by default will not grant you permission to the folder System Volume Information....

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  • View system files (super hidden) in Explorer

    View system files (super hidden) in Explorer

    This is the first among a series of posts on administering Windows . It starts with how to see the files and folders that were hidden by Windows for some reason. The series is actually inspired from the one done by Samanathon on Starting your...

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  • Change the default Drive Icons in Windows XP

    Change the default Drive Icons in Windows XP

    You can change the default drive icons available in My Computer under Windows XP through the registry. Although it is done via registry the task is pretty simple and straight forward. (You can also use the Autorun method – please read that article if you...

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