File Archive

Setting the correct aspect ratio for a video
Posted on January 3, 2009 | No Comments
How you can correct the wrong width to height ratio in a vieo using VLC player.
Full Story
Download the free software to shred files
Posted on September 17, 2008 | 2 Comments
There was a small introduction on how files are recovered from magnetic media in the last post. In that post I had said about using repeated overwrites to render a file unrecoverable. Sdelete is a command line utility that can wipe off a file and...
Full Story
Securely wiping off data from a drive
Posted on September 15, 2008 | No Comments
We all know by now that simply deleting a file would allow others to recover the data using necessary software. So why doesn't SHIFT+DEL properly remove the data from your hard disk?
Full Story
What are the hidden files and folders
Posted on September 4, 2008 | 1 Comment
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.
Full Story
Get access to all folders in Windows like Linux
Posted on September 3, 2008 | No Comments
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....
Full Story
View system files (super hidden) in Explorer
Posted on August 26, 2008 | 2 Comments
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...
Full Story