Posted by Mumyls on July 12th, 2009 at 10:40 am
If a disk or volume fails, naturally you want to repair it as soon as possible to avoid losing data. The Disk Management snap-in makes it easy to locate problems quickly. In the Status column of the list view, you can view the status of a disk or volume. The status also appears in the graphical view of each disk or volume.
Diagnosing Problems
To diagnose disk and/or volume problems, perform the following steps:
1. Open Add Hardware in the Control Panel. Click Next. Windows XP tries to detect...
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Posted by Mumyls on June 16th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Windows Mobility Center provides a single location for managing mobile PC settings. You can access Mobility Center only if you are working with a laptop or a Tablet PC.
Getting Started with Windows Mobility Center
Mobility Center includes a series of control tiles that provide quick access to the most commonly used mobile PC settings. On a laptop or Tablet PC, you can access Mobility Center by right-clicking the Power icon in the taskbar’s notification area and then selecting Mobility Cent...
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Posted by Mumyls on June 15th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Before you can use the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), you must initialize the TPM for first use and turn on the TPM. Once the TPM is enabled, you can manage the TPM configuration. The sections that follow discuss:
Initializing the TPM for first use.
Turning off and clearing the TPM.
Changing the TPM owner password.Caution
While understanding how TPMs are managed is important for getting a complete understanding of using the Trusted Platform Module Services architecture, managing TPMs isn’...
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Posted by Mumyls on June 14th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Many of the security features in Microsoft Windows Vista are designed to protect your computer from attack by individuals accessing the computer over the network or from the Internet. When the attacker is in your home or office, however, most of these remote access security features fall short in protecting your data. If someone can boot your computer to another operating system, that person could change your computer’s configuration or make other unapproved modifications. He or she coul...
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Posted by Mumyls on June 6th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
You can use Windows Vista in workgroup configurations and domain configurations. Workgroups are loose associations of computers in which each computer is managed separately. Domains are collections of computers that you can manage collectively by means of domain controllers, which are servers running Windows that manage access to the network, to the directory database, and to shared resources. Typically, home users will use Windows Vista in workgroup configurations and businesses will use Window...
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Posted by Mumyls on June 5th, 2009 at 7:19 am
You'll find dozens ways to tweak your XP from Registry, but to give you a sense of the breadth of the kinds of hacks you can accomplish using the Registry, I've included a wide-ranging sample of Registry hacks here as well.
Automatically Close Programs at Shutdown
When you shut down Windows, if you have any programs running you'll get a message box warning you that a program is still running. Then you have to close the program and tell XP again to shut down. It's a fairly pointless warning b...
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Posted by Mumyls on May 10th, 2009 at 10:20 am
BitLocker Drive Encryption is designed to protect computers from attackers who have physical access to a computer. Without BitLocker Drive Encryption, an attacker could start the computer with a boot disk and then reset the administrator password to gain full control of the computer. Or the attacker could access the computer’s hard disk directly by using a different operating system to bypass file permissions. BitLocker Drive Encryption prevents this by entering recovery mode at startup ...
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Posted by Mumyls on May 6th, 2009 at 11:21 am
If you haven't spent much time in the Registry, you can easily be cowed by it. At first glance, it's a maze of apparently incomprehensible settings. In fact, though, there's a method to the madness. The Registry is a hierarchical database of information that defines exactly how your system works, including virtually every part of XP and its applications. Editing the Registry database is often the best way to hack XP. In fact, you can make many changes to the operating system in no other way.
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