If you want to provide shutdown option in Windows logon screen, you can do it by either of the following methods.. Using Registry settings: Open registry editor by executing the command regedit from Run window. Navigate to the node HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionpoliciessystem Modify the data in registry value shutdownWithoutLogon to 1. If this key does not exist … Read more
Microsoft is offering free Anti virus software (called Microsoft security essentials) for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. There is no trial period or any other condition, it’s completely free. You can download it from the below Microsoft portal. The only thing you need to have is genuine Windows OS running on your … Read more
Windows enforces the third party drivers to be digitally signed otherwise it blocks them from being installed on the system. This requirement can be disabled in the following way. Windows XP: Open My computer properties` Click on Hardware tab Click on ‘Driver signing’ button. Select the first option ‘Install the software any way and don’t … Read more
Rsop.msc console shows what are the local/domain group policies enforced for a computer or user. Once I faced a issue when I opened this console. It generated the below error. The message reads as follows. “Failed to connect to winxp-pc due to the error listed below. Ensure that the Windows Management Instrumentation(WMI) service is enabled … Read more
Microsoft provides a free edition of SQL Server for training and education purposes. Free edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 can be downloaded from the below link. //www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=8b3695d9-415e-41f0-a079-25ab0412424b&displaylang=en This edition is called SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Express edition It has downloadable packages for all the architectures – X86, IA64 and AMD64. Additionally SQL Server … Read more
Network monitor 3.4 can be downloaded from the below locations. //www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=983b941d-06cb-4658-b7f6-3088333d062f&displaylang=en The above link has network monitor package for the 3 architectures: x86, x64 and ia64. Network monitor version 3.1 can be downloaded from the below location //www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=15&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=12&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d18b1d59d-f4d8-4213-8d17-2f6dde7d7aac%26DisplayLang%3den
In Windows, you can uninstall programs or software using Add or remove programs wizard. Detailed steps are given below. Launch Add or remove programs wizard. For this execute appwiz.cpl from Run command (or) click on Start -> Control Panel -> Add or remove programs If you want to uninstall some in-built windows feature that is … Read more
Internet explorer, like any other browser, keeps track of the websites you have visited, the cookies these websites have created, passwords you allowed IE to save etc. This history can be deleted in the following ways. From Internet explorer window click on Tools and then Internet Options Now click on the Delete button (see the … Read more
Automatic updates feature in Windows OS checks with the Microsoft updates site and finds out if there are any important updates that need to be installed on the system. These updates include the bi-monthly security updates(GDRs) and service pack updates. Users does not have to bother about keeping track of which updates are installed or … Read more
Microsoft Word keeps track of the list of documents opened by the user. This list is displayed in the File menu. Press Alt-F and you can see the Filemenu along with the list of recently opened documents.If you are sharing the account with others and don’t want the list of the documents to be displayed. … Read more