Windows XP How To's
Understanding Security for Wireless Networks
On a conventional wired network, physical security is a given: If someone plugs a computer into your hub, you’ll know about it immediately, and you can trace the physical wire back to the intruders computer. On wireless networks, however, anyone who comes into range of your wireless access point can tap into your network and intercept signals from it.
How Remote Assistance Works
The two parties in a Remote Assistance session are called the novice and the expert. (On some screens and in some documentation, the expert is referred to as the helper.)
Remote Assistance vs Remote Desktop Connection
Remote Assistance in Windows Vista uses some of the same underlying technology as Remote Desktop Connection, a program that allows you to connect to your computer from a remote location and use it as if you were sitting right it front of it.
30-October-08 | Windows VistaWindows XP
Turn off Start menu Highlight after new a program is installed
After you install a program, Windows announces additions to the Start menu by highlighting the changes on the menu itself.
Why does Disk Defragmenter utility not fully defragment a drive?
A volume must have at least 15 percent free space before Disk Defragmenter can completely defragment the volume. If you have less free space available, the operation will run, but only partial defragmentation will result.
SATA AHCI Mode Bios Setting. What Does it do?
AHCI is the acronym for the Advanced Host Controller Interface. It is a new interface specification that allows the SATA controller driver to support advanced features like Native Command Queuing and Hot Plug.
Uninstall drivers for devices you no longer use
By default, Device Manager doesn't show devices that aren't connected to your computer, even if the drivers for those devices are installed and loaded. But why would you want to do this?
14-October-08 | Windows VistaWindows XP
How to Test for Bad Memory (RAM)
Bad memory can manifest itself in anything from frequent error messages and crashes to your system simply not starting. Errors in your computers memory (RAM) aren't always consistent, either; they can be intermittent and can get worse over time.
14-October-08 | Windows VistaWindows XP
How Malware Spreads on Windows
Once they've infected a system, viruses and the like can be very difficult to remove. For that reason, your best defense against them is to prevent them from infecting your computer in the first place.
02-October-08 | Windows VistaWindows XP
Understanding Hard Disk Cluster Sizes
Clusters are the smallest units into which a hard disk's space can be divided. A hard disk formatted with the traditional FAT system, found in Windows 95 and an ancient operating system called "DOS," can have no more than 65,536 clusters on each drive or partition. This means that the larger the hard disk, the larger the size of each cluster.
01-October-08 | Windows VistaWindows XP
Advanced NTFS Settings
The following settings allow you to fine-tune NTFS to squeeze the most performance out of your NTFS drive; experiment with these settings to find the configuration that works best for you.
01-October-08 | Windows VistaWindows XP
What Is svchost.exe and what does it do?
Svchost.exe and services.exe are responsible for launching the processes associated with the behind-the-scenes programs controlled by the Services window (services.msc).
22-September-08 | Windows VistaWindows XP
Reset a Forgotten Administrator Password in Vista or XP
Forgot your password? No problem. There are two ways to get into your PC: the easy way and the hard way.
22-September-08 | Windows VistaWindows XP
hiberfil.sys What is it?
To avoid some of the drawbacks of Vista's Sleep power-saving mode, you can hibernate your PC. hiberfil.sys saves a copy of everything in your PC’s memory (RAM) onto your hard disk before it shuts down.
14-September-08 | Windows VistaWindows XP
Descriptions and Fixes of Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) crash errors
There are a whole bunch of possible BSoD messages; probably more than a hundred. However, only about 20 happen frequently enough that they might imply that an actual problem exists. More than likely, you've seen atleast one of the following stop messages on your own system.
13-September-08 | Windows VistaWindows XP
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