Get a quick system checkup using Windows Vista. Windows Vista has no shortage of diagnostic tools. The System Health Report is one of the most useful. It takes input from the Performance and Reliability Monitor and turns it into a well-organized, information-packed report that does a good job of spotlighting potential problems. [...]
Instead of manually scanning your hard drive to see if you need to defrag it, or dropping a bundle of money on a Defragging Program such as DiskKeeper, you can use the builtin Windows features to keep your disks optimized and never have to intervene manually or launch anything. [...]
Microsoft Previews MS Home Server! Home Server is designed for home Windows users who are drowning in large data files, digital media etc and typically unprepared for sudden data loss. Instead of investing in expensive backup equipment, and having to configure them manually, Home Server will do the work for you. [...]
The dd command is one of the original Unix utilities written. Its versatility is legendary as it can strip headers, extract parts of binary files and write into the middle of floppy disks; it is used by the Linux kernel Makefiles to make boot images. It can be used to copy and convert magnetic tape formats, convert between ASCII and EBCDIC, swap bytes, and force to upper and lowercase. It can even recover data from a failed Hard Drive. [...]
Feeling lonely? Nobody emailing you, well now your favourite operating system can make you feel loved too! Windows Vista can send you emails! Events can be configured so that you are sent an email for notification purposes! [...]
These days everyone is concerned with Computer Security and making sure their computers and data aren’t compromised. Once a computer is configured, the user is really the only person who can screw anything up or install programs they shouldn’t. Deep Freeze from Faronics is an inexpensive product that will allow you to restore your system to the original state after every restart! You can literally format the C Drive, restart and you are up and running! You can “unfreeze” your computer make changes and “refreeze” the computer with the updated files. The software works on Windows Vista, XP, 2000, 95/98 and MAC OS X. [...]
The System Restore program created restore points whenever you installed a new hotfix, service pack or even (some) applications, and you could also create restore points manually. Note that System Restore is not intended for backing up personal files, so it cannot help you recover a personal file that has been deleted or damaged. You should regularly back up your personal files and important data using a backup program. [...]
When you double click Administrative Tools from the Control Panel or from the Start Menu it brings up Explorer and the folder is empty. This happens if the shortcuts to various Admin tools have been deleted, either accidentally or when using a third-party disk cleaner program that you may have installed. Follow these steps to restore the administrative tools shortcuts. [...]
It happens sometimes that you can't remember root password. On Linux, recovering root password can be done by booting Linux under a specific mode: single user mode. This tutorial will show how to boot Linux in single user mode when using GRUB and finally how to change root password. [...]
Microsoft has added the new Office Open XML Formats to Microsoft Office Excel, Word and PowerPoint 2007. When you try to open a file created in the new XML Format using the Open dialog box or a drag-and-drop operation in an older version of Office you receive one of the following error messages: [...]
