I have a laptop that I never turn off. But I have configured the power options of the computer so that it will always go into stand by mode after 15 minutes of inactivity and will hibernate after 30 minutes. If you want to configure these settings, you can do it from Control Panel –>…
Advanced computer users always want to know what is happening in their computers. The information usually about hardware as well as software utilities running in the computer. The information includes but not limited to CPU usage, memory usage, network usage, system uptime, battery time if its a laptop, hard drive information, temperatures of the system…
Check Disk (chkdsk) is a command line utility in Windows which scans for and tries to fix errors in the hard drive. We look at some of the chkdsk alternatives in this article.
Oracle has finally released Java 7 and JDK 7 for developers. This is the first major update after Oracle acquired Sun Micro Systems. And it came after a lot of time but there has been a huge improvement in features and a lot of bugs have been fixed. Here are some of the features of…
If you are an advanced Windows user and want to have everything under your control, Windows provides with helpful tools in order to manage your system. Some of the tools for managing your system include Windows Task Manager, Microsoft Configuration utility, Resource monitor in Windows 7 etc. Although the device manager takes care of the…
Backing up your data is the most important aspect of the digital world because electronics is never reliable and can fail anytime. Same is the case with software. It gets corrupted by the passage of time no matter how carefully we use it. One important aspect of Windows is the device drivers. Windows needs software…
There has been lots of discussion about how to restore Windows to default settings. Microsoft has given an option of System Restore but it is not useful if we want to reset Windows to factory default settings meaning that restore Windows to a state where Windows seems like newly installed Operating System. Until now the…
Windows password recovery tools can be very useful in situations when we forget the administrator password of Windows. Since there is no email address attached to our Windows accounts, there is no other way to recover a password if we forget one. The situation becomes worse if we forget the administrator password as no one…
Setting NTFS file permissions are not a straight forward job in Windows. One has to know a bit about file permissions to configure the NTFS file permissions. To configure NTFS file permissions, one has to go to the file or folder properties and then click on the Security tab which will give the options to…
Being an IT administrator requires a lot of organization work and documentation. Without documentation, it becomes very difficult to manage even a small office network. There are many tools that assist in documenting different aspects of the network. An IT administrator also has to keep a set of portable programs that can be run from…
