We can view dependencies between services in the following way. Open services.msc and double click on the service for which you want to view the dependencies Select Dependencies tab As you can see in the above snapshot, it shows the list of the services that are dependent on the current one and also the list … Read more
Windows XP Home edition does not support file encryption. Hence we can’t encrypt files on a machine running Home edition. And when you click on file properties you can see that “Encrypt contents to secure data” is greyed out.
Windows provides EFS (Encrypted File System) feature on Windows XP, Windows 2003, Vista and Windows 7 Operating systems. This feature allows users to encrypt their files so that even if anyone gets access to the file he/she will not be able to see the contents. When this feature is enforced on a file, the file … Read more
On Windows XP if you are not seeing ‘My Documets‘ link in start menu, it can be added to the same in the following way. Right click on Start button Select Properties Click Customize button Select Advanced tab. Now you will see a window like below. Scroll down through the list of Start menu items. … Read more
CSCCMD tool is supported only on Windows XP. It is not available for Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. If you want to do any CSC related operation programatically you can use WMI APIs. For more information on this visit the below link. //technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749449%28WS.10%29.aspx#BKMK_Scriptable
In Windows 7, Offline Files can be disabled as per the below steps. Open Control Panel from Start button. Open Sync center (If you don’t see sync center select ‘Small Icons’ in the View by options in the right upper part of Control Panel window.) Now click on ‘Manage offline files’ . This will open … Read more
You get this error “You do not have permission to update windows” when you try to install updates from a non-administrator account. Logoff and login as an administrator and then try to install the updates.
Since more than 2 years I have been using Windows XP Home on my personal laptop without any antivirus software installed and I have never had any virus problems. But few days back My machine was infected with win32.brontok virus and IE and Mozilla browsers started crashing immediately after launching them. It used to popup … Read more
Not all editions of Windows OS support Encrypting File System(EFS). In the unsupported editions if you go to properties and advanced you see that the check button “Encrypt contents to secure data” option is not configurable and is greyed out. Below listed are the Windows editions which does not support native windows EFS feature. Windows … Read more
Using Mspaint application we can shrink an image. The pictures we get when we transfer from camera to computer will typically be in multiples of MBs in size. Reducing the image size is recommended if we need to email them or upload them to some website. This will save network traffic at both the ends … Read more