Category Archives: Windows

Process Explorer NT – the real task manager

By Ajith | Published: May 28, 2008

Process Explorer NT is the replacement for the default Task Manager in Windows from Microsoft (links are given at bottom of page). It is also available from Sysinternals which is now a part of Microsoft. Among the many tools they offer a post have been made about TCP Viewer earlier. Process Explorer is just every [...]

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How to prevent access to select drives using Registry

By Ajith | Published: May 1, 2008

How do you prevent others from accessing data from some drives!? Using the Windows registry you can not only prevent them from accessing your data, but also throw and error message right on their face while they try to do it.

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Speeding up your boot process – Windows

By Ajith | Published: March 17, 2008

Microsoft Configuration wizard is one tool you can use to improve your systems boot time. This tip utilizes the msconfig utility. 1. Go to Start»Run(WIN+R) and type “msconfig” , the Microsoft System Configuration Utility will pop up. 2. Select the “STARTUP” tab. This will show you a list of programs that will automatically start when [...]

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Find all recently used Wallpapers from your Registry

By Ajith | Published: March 4, 2008

Windows saves the list of wallpapers ever used on the system in a registry Key. HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion ExplorerWallpaperMRU All those Registry Binary values here are the address to the images you used as wallpapers. The last part in this binary makes no sense to me but I think this i information about the dimensions and style [...]

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Prevent copying of files to USB drive

By Ajith | Published: March 4, 2008

A simple and easy trick to prevent others from copying files from your PC to a USB device like a USB pen drive.

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Add a target to your Send ‘To Shell’ Menu

By Ajith | Published: February 29, 2008

This post will show you how to add a new Item to your sendto menu of your shell right click options. It is really simple and can be very handy to use. All the targets of sendto menu are located in the C:Documents and settingsUSERNAMESendto folder. Or just type shell:sendto in your Start»Run box. Create [...]

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Clear the most recently run commands in Run Box from Registry

By Ajith | Published: February 22, 2008

Windows has got the habit of saving almost anything you got your hands on, like recent run list, , recent files etc.. Although some of these may be useful most of them are not. The recent RUN list, mentioned above, is saved in the . (The recent Run list is useful but this is an [...]

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Speed up your Internet by using OpenDNS

By Ajith | Published: February 19, 2008

You can set your default DNS servers to be the Open DNS and thus . You can do this as follows : 1.Go to Control Panel»Network Connections 2.Right Click and goto Properties the connection you use for Internet. 3.Goto Networking tab and select Properties for Internet Protcol(TCP/IP) In most cases you will be having “Obtain [...]

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Prevent system slowdown due to large Host file

By Ajith | Published: February 17, 2008

A large host file can slow down your system significantly as said in the . This is mainly notable in W2000/XP. Windows 98 and ME are not affected. The problem can be solved by editing the Services Editor. * Goto Start»Run type services.msc * In the services editor scroll to “DNS Client”, Right-click and select: [...]

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Host Files – local DNS lookup

By Ajith | Published: February 17, 2008

This is a basic introduction to the host file, how they work, how to block web sites or computers on LAN using a host file etc.. Host file is a text file that the operating system uses to store the IP address of computers having a physical name (or site address). It is located at [...]

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