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Following are the steps for joining a windows computer to a domain.  The steps are given separately for XP and Vista/Windows 7 computers. How to join a Vista  or Windows 7 computer to a domain: Click on the start button(Shortcut for this : Ctrl-Esc) Right click on Computer Select Properties from the context menu Click Change Settings under ‘Computer [...]

Remote desktop connection manager is a utility that provides docking console for remote desktop connections. If you use remote desktop feature to connect to multiple computers then this would be very useful for you.  You can create connection settings for the remote computers and you can just open the TS connection with a single click [...]

If you are not seeing volume icon in the taskbar or system tray then you can restore it by doing the following steps. Windows XP : Open Control Panel(You can open it from Start menu or by running the command control from Run window) Open Sound and Audio devices In the volume tab select the [...]

We can create and synchronize folder pairs from windows command line using Synctoy.You can find syntax below. Creating a folder pair for synchronization from windows command line The command to create a new folder pair is Synctoy -d(left=<left_folder_path>, right=<right_folder_path>, name=<folder_pair_name>, operation={synchronize,echo,contribute}) (The arguments user need to provide are enclosed in braces.) We can also supply [...]

Poderosa is a utility that provides tabbed command windows for ssh/telnet connections. This is similar to Gnome terminal in Linux. This post explains how to configure Poderosa. This application is an alternative for Putty connection manager. The latest version of Poderosa(4.1.0) can be downloaded from the link – //en.poderosa.org/news/2006-11-22.html. Download the exe file and install [...]

This post explains how to use program symbol files to debug applications or kernel drivers on Windows operating system. On Windows platform, the program symbols are stored in a separate file. These files are referred as pdb files and has the extension .pdb. When debugging a program in windbg, we need these symbol files otherwise [...]

Google now has come with a new feature called Call phone, which allows users to make calls to mobiles or landlines all over the world from your Gmail account. Gmail before only had video and voice chat support between two PCs but now you can make a call to the other person’s phone from Gmail. [...]

In Laptops we can see battery icon(also known as power icon) on the taskbar which  indicates the amount of battery charged or the amount of time the laptop can run without external power source. A snapshot of this icon is shown on the left. If you don’t see this battery icon in the task bar [...]

We can change the the width of the taskbar by dragging the taskbar towards the other side of the desktop window. We can do this only if the taskbar is not in locked state. We can check or change the taskbar lock status by right clicking on the taskbar. Just clicking on ‘Lock the taskbar’ [...]