This is a particularly interesting method of recovering your Administrator password if you should somehow change it and forget the new one. Since you may be forced to change it regularly by your employer or IT policies – in some cases people do this to keep their system secure at home – it is very [...]
Leave a Comment February 23, 2010
In the Windows 7 Home and Windows 7 Home Premium, the Local Group Policy Editor (LGPE) is not available. However, we can still make adjustments similar to the same changes made with LGPE. The way to do this is by way of an application called regedit.exe. This allows you to directly edit the entries in [...]
Leave a Comment January 6, 2010
Part I introduced you to the idea behind changing your Windows 7 Local Group Policies to make changes to suit your use of Windows, whatever that may be. The Local Group Policy Editor (LGPE) is a powerful tool, but also a potentially dangerous one if not used carefully. Yes, you have read that before; be [...]
Leave a Comment December 23, 2009
It is likely that you have read about many tips and tweaks for Windows 7; at least you have seen some while learning about the new Microsoft operating system (OS). What you may not be aware of is how you can use your Local Group Policy Editor (LGPE) to make some very interesting changes to [...]
Leave a Comment December 18, 2009
A good idea from Windows Vista has been brought into Windows 7 by Microsoft and made better – and actually useful as well. It is (and was) designed to encrypt your hard drive to protect it from thieves, should they get their hands on your precious machine – an important feature for a notebook PC. [...]
Leave a Comment December 7, 2009
With previous versions of Windows, Microsoft commonly updates security with every new version release. They are also well-known for providing constant security patches after an operating system (OS) is available for sale and use. Of course, this is very much necessary in a world where new viruses and other security hazards come along each and [...]
Leave a Comment October 22, 2009
Windows 7 is Internet ready
The internet is no more considered as a choice or a privilege to just a particular group of people. Nowadays, the internet has become a need, a constant inexhaustible source of information and more. It has become a platform for business and a way of life for many people that work [...]
Leave a Comment August 31, 2009
The more, the better
The moment we installed and started using Windows 7, we couldn’t stop admiring the impressive changes and improvements in almost every aspect of the OS. Security, as we mentioned in some of the previous articles, is certainly one of those aspects. It’s worrying, though, how many people, even companies, are trying to [...]
Leave a Comment August 24, 2009
Many might have wondered how does the new Microsoft Windows 7 look like? Well if you have seen a Windows vista before, it pretty much look the same in a nutshell. But don’t get confused, the new Windows 7 is not just a Service Pack for Vista. There is a lot of new features in [...]
Leave a Comment August 21, 2009
What is the most important thing to the average users while doing everyday things on their computers? To be connected to others and to be certain that no matter what they do everything will be secured and protected from numerous malicious codes or people. Protecting the data and the connections has been considered as a [...]
1 Comment August 12, 2009
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