Tag Archives: Admin

Microsoft Management Console – make administrative tasks easy

By Ajith | Published: May 31, 2008

This is the start of a series of posts that will guide you through using Microsoft Management Console to manage your system. In this post most of the text has been excerpted from the MMC help file. The MMC allows you to control and manage the many available options from an easy to use interface. [...]

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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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Browser hogging CPU when taking wordpress write post page!

By Ajith | Published: May 13, 2008

Does anybody notice the rising CPU usage of your browser when you are at the create post page (Tiny MCE) of your self hosted WordPress blog? Previously when I was using Firefox the CPU usage rose to 50 percent and FF was running fast like a snail. I thought it was because of problems with [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Blog, Error, Tips, Wordpress | 5 Comments

How to find out all open ports, connections and originating IP addresses

By Ajith | Published: April 3, 2008

netstat is a command available in both Windows and Unix to analyze local ports that are open and all the connections to those ports. The syntax of the command is very simple. In the picture above a verysimple example of seeing the ports and connections is shown. The -ano option tells a – all connections [...]

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Perfomance enhancing – speed up your boot time 1

By Ajith | Published: March 10, 2008

This is the simplest and slowest tip which will actually improve the boot time only by a small amount. 1 . Take Microsoft “System Configuration Utility” by typing “msconfig” in the RUN () dialogs (Start»Run). 2. Select “BOOT.ini” tab from General,SYSTEM.INI,WIN.INI,Services and Startup tabs. There will be a check box NOGUIBOOT enable it. This will [...]

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PC on steroids, Improve your systems perfomance – start of series

By Ajith | Published: March 5, 2008

This is the first among a series of post in which I will tell you many tips on how to make your System perform faster. The post frequency in this Series will be one post ( tip ) per week. So check out my other posts on all other days. Being the first in the [...]

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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.

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Error, File, Registry | 33 Comments

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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CCProxy – control sharing of internet between computers on network

By Ajith | Published: February 25, 2008

CCProxy by YoungzSoft allows to control the internet access over LAN. It is not a free ware, but as usual there is a work around without cracking. Proxy Server CCProxy lets all computers on the LAN access Internet through one single Internet connection. Just need to install Proxy Server CCProxy on the server which can [...]

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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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