Tag Archives: Tutorial

First step to a cleaner and faster Windows – understand the Registry

By Ajith | Published: November 25, 2010
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To keep your windows installation fast and clean, you need to know what the registry is. This article deals with the Windows registry, how registry cleaners work and how you can easily understand the various settings of the registry.

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Registry | 3 Comments

Protecting your childs online prescence

By Ajith | Published: April 1, 2010
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Internet Security and Parental control have been a major concerns for parents around the world. This post is the start of a series of posts dealing with parental control methods that you can use on your computer.

Posted in Internet | Also tagged Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Parental Control, Security | Leave a comment

How to Disable Autoplay/Autorun

By Ajith | Published: February 24, 2009

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.

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Tips, Virus | 4 Comments

Securely wiping off data from a drive

By Ajith | Published: September 15, 2008

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?

Posted in Hardware | Also tagged Answer, Delete, File, Recovery | 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 Admin, File, Permissions | 1 Comment

Points to note while upgrading to an LCD flat panel display

By Ajith | Published: August 19, 2008

An LCD flat panel display is much better for your eyes if you spend a lot of time in front of a computer. If you spend a little more money than a CRT monitor you can get a sleek ,light and less power hungry LCD TFT display. I was recently searching for an LCD monitor [...]

Posted in Buyers guide | Also tagged Tips | Leave a comment

Virus infection by autoplay, how to prevent it

By Ajith | Published: June 30, 2008

One of the main reasons of rapid spreading of viruses is due to the presence of Autoplay in Windows. Autoplay feature was originally introduced to enhance user experience. An easy way for a virus to enters a PC is through exploiting this option. You can see Autoplay in action when a driver CD of you [...]

Posted in Virus | Also tagged Tips, Trick, Virus | 4 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 Admin, Customize | 2 Comments

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. [...]

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Admin, Customize | 3 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 [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Admin, Command Prompt/Shell, Free, Review | 2 Comments