Recover / Unlock Forgotten Vista Admin Password

If you have misplaced a Microsoft CD Key, it can be got back easily by utilizing the free tools which can go deep into your registry files. But if your Windows Vista Password is lost, or you are not able to unlock admin access to your Vista system, then you may be little worried. But relax, even this can be solved through some essential help lines and tools [free tools, naturally.] the only thing you have to so s to be assured to follow the instructions carefully. Also note that some of the tools may not restore your Windows Vista Password, but they will definitely help you set up a different password on your system.

Usually, to reset the admin login password on Vista, Microsoft has its particular set of PStools and they are specially used for this. Downloaded and extracted the PStools will help you reset Windows Vista Password or in some cases, you may need to change the admin password as a whole. This is very helpful for all the local systems and remote multiple systems.

Often, you may need to have an official tool that can unlock, recover Vistas password for you.

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Improve Hibernate / Shut Down Time In Windows XP Tablet

Windows XP takes a long time to shut down, and then to start up – and hence, many users use the Hibernate option so that they do not have to wait 3-4 minutes for their computer to start up. Those of you (with tablet PCs) who like using the Hibernate option might have faced the problem where your tablet PC takes an unnaturally long time (say somewhere around 10-15 minutes) to go into hibernation. This can be extremely frustrating at times as this beats the entire point of using the Hibernate option.

Although there is no straight-up solution to this problem, a few suggestions are put forth in this article. First off, the slow hibernation problem may due to the fact that you have less amount of physical memory (around 1GB, or less). This, combined with the fact that you might have several processes running in the background (or in the foreground too), might cause the slow hibernation problem.

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Windows 7, Vista, USB File Copy / Transfer Speed Slow

When transferring files from one medium to another within the computer or outside it, sometimes due to bugs the process becomes painfully slow. This could be from one folder to another or from the computer to an external hard drive.

These slow transfers leave the user in a fix as how to get things done quickly, this becomes all the more important when the user is in a hurry. The bar that displays “calculated left time” only makes the process slower then helping the entire process. This is enviable regardless of which method one uses, whether he drags and drops it, or he cut –copy –pastes it or he uses “send to”. However there are eleven solutions to fix this problem.

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Recover Adobe PDF Documents Password

PDF cracker is an utility tool that removes all the security constrictions and rules on a PDF document. It can easily encrypt all the password protected PDF files without any hassles. This is one of the most vital tools used for sharing private and sensitive data only with the intended online users. This is best used by legitimate owner or the recipient who forgets the password to gain access through the file. Thus, in such times of urgency, this is the best tool to crack the password of any PDF document.

PDF cracker has been specially designed to serve the legitimate purpose. The internet today is loaded with countless PDF recovery or password cracking tools. There are numerous PDF recovery tools, which are designed for unlocking PDF documents. However, among them PDF cracker is the most feasible tools. This is the best binary version of free PDF crack utility tool compatible with Linux.

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Auto Login Windows Vista/7 Without Login Prompt and Password

Both Windows Vista and Windows 7 have the option for multiple user accounts, and it shows you a user welcome screen after resuming session or a fresh bootup. But this login prompt might be annoying if you are the only one using that computer. So if you want to auto login into windows vista/7 without a welcome screen and password prompt, just do these steps.

How To Auto Login Windows Vista/7 without Welcome screen and login prompt

1)Click Start

2)Type netplwiz and press enter.

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How to Flush DNS in Windows, Mac and Linux

When do you want flush DNS (Domain Name System)?

You visit one of the most frequently viewed websites in your list and find it’s not loading up, it could be very frustrating at times.

The site can be down for more than one reason, the most common one being, the remote server being down. To ensure if the server is up, ping the server directly, and the response tells you the status.

Let’s assume that the servers working fine, but still the site does not load up in your browser! DNS failure can be the cause. And this us a common case if server is relocated and/or the site is moved on to a new server, as DNS propagation normally takes anywhere from 24 – 72 hrs to propagate and work fine.

This scenario is also true when you set up new domain on a server.

If the site fails to show up even after 72 hrs, you may have to clear your DNS cache to ensure the request is not going to the old ips of the site you are trying to load.

Clearing DNS cache will ensure your PC does not have old records of bad DNS entries. If the bad entries are not flushed then you need to wait up to 24 hours for it to be dropped from the cache automatically, which is a scheduled activity in some computers.

The following list gives you the set of commands to flush DNS on different platforms:

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Free Download Microsoft Office 2010 With Activation Key

Microsoft Office 2010 download links have been released to the public today. This public beta version of MS Office 2010 (v. 14.0.4536.1000) is now available for free download on Microsoft’s Official website.

Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 beta version also includes MS Publisher and Infopath 2010 along with Word, Excel, Outlook and Power point applications.

New Features Of Microsoft Office 2010

• Outlook Social connector which includes the option to add friends to your social network direct from Outlook. 
• Built in screen capture for MS Powerpoint. 
• Upload or Save directly to Windows Live Sky Drive or SharePoint 2010. 
• Improved user navigation and Icons. 
• One click PDF saver. 
• Embed online videos into presentation.
  

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Disable Smart Window Arrangement in Windows 7

Windows 7 uses its own intelligence to arrange your windows. For an example, when you drag a window to the top of the screen it automatically maximizes. But if your wanna master Windows 7 at your behest, you need to disable this arrangement. Let's see how to go about it 1. In the Start Search type regedit to edit the registry 2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop 3. Set WindowArrangementActive value to 0, and reboot Now your windows will behave as in the earlier versions.

Get a Power Efficiency Report in Windows 7

This one's especially for the laptop users gasping for their battery life. Well, WIndows 7 is equipped to provide you comprehensive information about the power consumption. You can use this feature to increase your laptop's battery life as well as performance. Here's how to get to it 1. Type cmd in the Start search to open the command prompt 2. When it opens right-click it and choose Run as administrator 3. Type in powercfg -energy in the command line and hit Enter Windows 7 will scan your system suggesting ways to improve power efficiency. To find the results you must follow the path. Typically its in the System32 folder.

Increase Torrent Download Speed By Half Open Patch

Increase your torrent download speed by allowing more more concurrent half-open connections. By default Windows limits the number of half open connections to 10. This limit is entered by company Microsoft trying to make slower virus spreading from infect computer and cut down opportunities of participation of a computer in DOS attacks.

This limit imposed by windows on the half open connections could be removed by patching the TCPIP.sys file. Patching the TCPIP could sometimes cause problems with certain routers like frequent auto restarting. So use this patch only as a final resort.

How to Half Open Patch TCPIP.sys - Windows VISTA / Windows XP / Windows 7

This half open patch will allow you to start more concurrent half open connections and hence increase torrent download speed.This Patch works for both 32 and 64 bit versions of windows.

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Download Correct Drivers for Unknown Devices

Most of the computer hardware's comes along with their respective device drivers in a disc. If your driver CD gets lost or corrupted, then you can always download the necessary drivers from the manufacturer's website or restore the drivers from the backup if you have created earlier.

But if you do not have a backup and is unsure about the manufacture of the device or your device model, then you will not be able to search the device driver online and windows will be showing errors like “Unkown device Found” or “Device not identified” in your system tray. Here is an excellent trick to find out the correct drivers for the unknown devices in your device manager.

How to Download Drivers for Unknown Devices

1) Find the Vendor and Device ID of the unknown device. To do this,

Open Device Manager

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Hidden Uninstall Options in Add/Remove programs

1) Browse to C:\Windows\inf\ and make a backup copy of sysoc.inf. 2) Then open the original file C:\Windows\inf\sysoc.inf in notepad. 3) Go to "Edit" and select "Replace". 4) In "Find what:" type, hide and in "Replace with:" type, then select "Replace All", save and close the file. 5) Go to the "Control Panel", "Add/Remove Programs", select "Add/Remove Windows Components". 6) You will now see many more Windows components to uninstall. 7) Do not remove anything with no label or that you do not recognize or fully understand what it does. Doing so can break certain functionality in Windows. Warning:- Proceed at your own risk!!!

Acceleration Fix For Mouse in Windows XP

Permanent Acceleration Fix

It seems that even without pointer precision disabled, the mouse under XP is still influenced by an acceleration curve. This is especially noticeable in games. To completely remove mouse acceleration from XP, you will need to go into the registry and adjust the SmoothmouseXYCurve values. Here is how its done.
1. Click Start button
2. Select Run
3. Type 'regedit' in the open textbox
4. Open the tree 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER', select control panel, then select mouse
5. Right clicking, modify the SmoothMouseXCurve and SmoothMouseYCurve hexidecimal values to the following:

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Hide Your Computer From Windows Network

So, if you want to hide your computer from others users or administrators on a network for any reason just follow the easy steps given below.

This method is best used when you are an administrator who doesn't want other people to know you are on the network Or maybe you are a certain someone like me who doesn't want the administrator to know you are on the network.

First method to hide from windows network Using Command line (very easy)

Open command prompt (start->Run, type CMD if your using windows XP/2K/Vista)

Enter the following command:

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Change the default theme for newly install XP

Step 1
>>Insert XP CD into your CD ROM and copy all its data to your hard disk in a folder name TAMAGXP

Step 2 (Creating .theme file)
>>First download the theme you want for your WINDOWS XP default theme and install it.

>>After you are done right click on the desktop and select properties.

>>Click the Save As button, and save your theme and name it tamag.theme.

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Find Lost Space On Your Hard Disk

Space Sniffer is a freeware for Windows XP and Windows Vista that gives you an idea of how folders and files are structured on your disks, in this way you can easily find lost space in your hard drives. Some quick features * Fast and easy to use * Supports drag and drop * Intuitive structure layout, multiple views for different media * Zoomable elements, navigate like a web browser * The Windows folders and file popup menu is accessible by right mouse click * It’s possible to restrict the view content by typing simple yet powerful filtering criteria * Different views of the same media can show differently filtered elements * Customizable in geometry, colors, behaviors * You can navigate even during the scan * Smart cached scanning engine, multiple views, single scan * You can refine a zoomed area by a secondary scan process, even with main scan active * Reacts to file system events, keeps always in synch, warns you by blinking elements * Can scan NTFS Alternate Data Streams * It doesn’t clutter your registry, only a plain XML configuration file * It’s portable, no installation required, just put the executable somewhere and let’s go Download Instructions Click here to download SpaceSniffer from the official website.

Stop Autoplay In USB Flash Drives By Pressing One Keyboard Button

Today I want to share a little tip that will stop autoplay in USB Flash drives. Not only flash drives, it also stops autoplay for CD and DVD also. While inserting CD, DVD or any flash drive, simply press and hold the Shift key, this will disable the autoplay dialog box. Holding down the Shift key will also block the applications that starts automatically. Note : Works fine in Windows XP and Windows Vista

Defragment Hard Drives Using Command Prompt

Today I am sharing the easiest method with you to defragment your hard drive. Though you can perform this task with third party applications also, but why don’t do it a simple way. Here is a simple method to defragment your drives using Command Prompt : 1. Click on Start and then select Run, type CMD in it and hit enter. 2. Suppose you want to defrag your C drive, then in the command box, write defrag C: -f -v and hit enter. The defragmentation will start. Similarly, you can perform this task on diffrent drives by changing the name i.e defrag C: -f -v defrag D: -f -v defrag E: -f -v

Forcefully Eject USB Flash Drives In Windows

While ejecting USB flash drives from PC, sometimes an error comes saying The device “Generic Volume” cannot be stopped right now, Try stopping the device again later. Here is a free utility called EjectUSB that forcefully stops all the running programs and helps in ejecting pen drives safely. It is designed to be a simple utility to close all programs running from a specified drive or folder and then attempt ejection if a drive was specified. Download Instructions: Click here to download this software from the official website.

Assign a Permanent Letter to a USB Drive

If you have multiple pen drives you might have noticed that every time you put in your drive it will be assigned a different drive letter.

This can be frustrating when trying to run backups or opening files from software as recent drive letter is changed. Even if you have created playlist of the songs which are in your pen drive it won’t work if the drive letter is changed.

Here are the steps you will have to follow to assign a permanent drive letter:-

1. Go to Start > Run

2. Type mmc in the box and hit enter.

3. Select File > New

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