Tag Archives: Admin

Running a command, applying changes and other Windows Techniques

By Ajith | Published: January 30, 2011
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1 of 1 in series Handy Windows Administration Techniques

Some cool and handy techniques to open programs and run commands using your keyboard. How to apply system settings without restarting ? Different admin techniques.

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Command Prompt/Shell, Tool | Leave a comment

Free parental control software for Windows, MAC and iPhone

By Ajith | Published: January 29, 2011
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2 of 2 in series Parental Control

A good parental control software can take half the worries off of a parent. If is it free and easy to use, then you are luck=y to have it. This is a no nonsense piece of software from Blue Coat which can be used on Windows, Mac OSX or iOS.

Posted in Internet | Also tagged Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Mobile, Opera, website | Leave a comment

How to shutdown, restart, logoff using command prompt?

By Ajith | Published: September 21, 2010

There are many useful command prompt tools in windows. shutdown for example, will allow you to automate shutdowns restarts and log offs via command prompt or the RUN dialog box. It is really easy to use and have many options.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Command Prompt/Shell, Tips | 16 Comments

How to disable access to Drives using Disk Management

By Ajith | Published: September 30, 2009
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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.

Posted in Featured, Windows | Also tagged disk, Tool | 1 Comment

Free Disk tools to analyse Disk usage graphically

By Ajith | Published: February 18, 2009

A graphical Disk Usage analysis tool could do wonders when you are doing some spring cleaning on your system. The DUA first seen in GNome has a neat and cool interface. A free version of this for Windows as well as KDE is available at Sourceforge.

Posted in Software | Also tagged disk, Free, Linux, Review, Tool, Windows | Leave a comment

Add free online contact form to your web site

By Ajith | Published: November 1, 2008

If you want to add a contact-me form on your web site or blog, there is a free service on the net. It is easy to use and has got a CAPTCHA to secure you from spam.

Posted in Internet | Also tagged Blog, Free, Tips | Leave a comment

What are the hidden files and folders

By Ajith | Published: September 4, 2008

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.

Posted in Windows | Also tagged File, Permissions, Tutorial | 1 Comment

Get access to all folders in Windows like Linux

By Ajith | Published: September 3, 2008

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. Thats because the folder contains important System Restore Point informations. [...]

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Customize, File, Security, Windows | Leave a comment

View system files (super hidden) in Explorer

By Ajith | Published: August 26, 2008

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 Day with a fresh Computer. He did a good job [...]

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Customize, File, Registry | 2 Comments

How to view all drives, Disk Management under Windows

By Ajith | Published: June 24, 2008

The Disk Management object under Microsoft Management console can be used to Change Drive letter association, find unrecognized partitions or Mount a logical drive into a folder as in Linux. If you want to prevent access to a drive, read 2nd tip in “Points to note” given after this post or read how to Prevent [...]

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Customize, Tutorial | 2 Comments