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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In Outlook 2007, we can setup signature as follows. Launch Outlook and click on Tools menu and select Options Select Mail Format tab. Click on Signatures button(shown in the above snapshot). It opens a windows with the title “Signatures and Stationery”. Now click New and enter a name for the signature. And then add the [...]
In Windows XP, we can change the location of My documents folder location by editing the value in the Target field in My documents properties. If this target box is greyed out, then it means that the administrator of the machine/domain has enforced a group policy removing user level control of my documents location. In [...]
Leakdiag tool can be downloaded from below Microsoft ftp site. ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/PSS/Tools/Developer%20Support%20Tools/LeakDiag/
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