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How to Recover Windows Product Key

June 28th, 2012 by Admin

I’ve got a virus on my machine and have to reinstall windows 7. I bought a copy from software for students so it was downloaded. I can’t really remember but I assume I must have also downloaded the product key. I usually keep all my product keys backed up but I can’t find it anywhere. My Question is, is there any way to recover Windows product key from my laptop?

Need to reinstall the OS of your computer but have misplaced the product key? The product key sticker in the bottom of your notebook is scratched? Reinstalling Windows requires you to have the original product key. If you’ve lost your product key, it could become a real nightmare until you can retrieve them back.

It doesn’t have to be this way, though. If you install Product Key Finder now, then it will scan your PC, and recover Windows product key and all the serial numbers for the applications installed. Print out the product keys or save them to disc and you’ll always have your keys to hand.

How to Recover Windows Product Key:

  1. Download and install Product Key Finder on your computer.
  2. Launch Product Key Finder and click the Start Recovery button. It will bring up a drop-down menu that provides three recovery mode: From current system, From non-booting system and From remote computer.
  3. To recover product keys from your current Windows installation, choose the first recovery mode.
  4. The program will scan your Windows registry and recover product keys for Windows, Office and many other software you’ve activated.

If by any chance, you’ve lost your Windows 7/Vista/XP/2008/2003/2000 product key, no need to worry, Product Key Finder can recover it for you. Additionally, Product Key Finder can also recover CD keys for many other applications such as Microsoft Office, SQL Server, VMware, Adobe Reader, etc. It’s very useful when you are going to reinstall or repair your Windows or Office setup but find you’ve lost the keys.

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Recover Twitter Password from All Browsers

June 27th, 2012 by Admin

Twitter becomes most popular choice to connect with peoples right after Facebook. It has grown up to very large community and most of us have been using it everyday. Today I’ll show you an easy way to recover Twitter account password saved inside not only Firefox but also from Google Chrome, Opera, Apple Safari and Internet Explorer.

Most of us will be using the  remember me option during logging in Twitter and other websites. This saves the username, password and required email address to login afterwards automatically filling those fields. While this features is useful, this could make havoc in some situations. Password saved inside browsers is open to all people accessing your computer. This means anyone can log in your account without your intervention.

Password Recovery Bundle is a complete all-in-one password recovery toolkit which can recover Twitter account password saved inside web browser. While it would be unethical to access and uncover other peoples password, and this application does this without any hassle, this password recovery software could to put to good job to test security. Yes, Password Recovery Bundle is a good application to check if your own twitter password is saved inside any browser. Even saved by mistake, it would make wired results if it falls in wrong hands. And this software will uncover password saved in any browser so you can easily clear its history to erase username and password.

How to Recover Twitter Password from All Browsers:

  1. Download and install Password Recovery Bundle.
  2. Run Password Recovery Bundle, then click the Start Recovery button. It will bring up a drop-down menu that shows all supported password types.
  3. Under the drop-down menu, you can find the password recovery options for IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari. For example, if you want to recover Twitter passwords saved in Firefox, you can select the Firefox Password option.
  4. Once you have chosen the recovery option, your Twitter username/email and password will be recovered immediately.

Apart form recovering Twitter password saved in all of those browsers, Password Recovery Bundle can also reset lost or forgotten Windows login password on Windows 8/7/Vista/XP and Windows Server 2008/2003/2000, even if you forgot Windows password and can’t log on to your computer.

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Recover TrueCrypt Password With Header Backup

June 27th, 2012 by Admin

TrueCrypt is one of the best and Encryption utility used by thousands. It offers good level of security. It is almost impossible to Brute Force its password without killer processing power. The situation can’t be imagined where you locked most important documents and forgot the password. If you are not able to guess it no way it can be recovered back. You will need to say good bye to all data. Of course you need to use strong which is difficult to guess, which also makes it difficult to remember. The best way to be prepared for this type of situation is to make backup of TrueCrypt volume header, which can reset the password if you ever forgot.

TrueCrypt is the best utility to encrypt.But what if you can’t remember lot of passwords. Then just backup header of the volume, and your data is secured even from your own mind.

There is also a case like someone forgot main password and went to restore header, but also forgot its password. So first use easy to remember password and take header backup. Go to Tools and select Backup Volume Header. Save the backup into safe location. Avoid to store into same computer, try to store in any offsite location. Then change the password to a very difficult and powerful one.

Don’t be under impression that the data is 100% safe. If someone gets access to header file with its password, he can compromise it. Change the name of file in such a way that it’s impossible to identify it as header file.

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Password Protect Your USB Flash Drive with Bitlocker

June 26th, 2012 by Admin

Data security on USB flash drives is a growing concern. USB flash drives, with the size no more than a pack of chewing gums, is always prone to theft or loss. Hence the security of data through USB data encryption is highly important.

There are many USB data encryption tools available, some are free and some are paid. However, did you know that starting from Windows Vista, Microsoft has added a free data encryption tool within the operating system. It is known as Bitlocker. In Windows Vista, it was only available for Business and Ultimate editions.

Bitlocker in Windows Vista was able to encrypt only the hard disks. But in Windows 7, Microsoft has extended the data encryption facility to USB flash drives also and rightly so, the encryption utility has been renamed as BitLocker To Go.

To use Microsoft BitLock to password protect your USB flash drive, please follow the steps below:

1. Right click on your USB flash drive.

2. Click on Turn on BitLocker….

3. Now the BitLocker feature starts encrypt the USB flash drive and its content.

4. Now we will be prompted to set a password or smart card protection for our USB flash drive.

5. Here you need to enter your password which need to to unlock the USB flash drive to continue. After enabling BitLocker feature you need this password to access data stored in the flash drive.

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How to Block a Website without Using Any Software

June 23rd, 2012 by Admin

Internet is so vast that any information you need is just a mouse click away. Yet the technology that helps us explore and use the web also makes it easy to expose our personal information to others. Hackers and spammers often use this phenomenon to their advantage, creating malicious websites, that when visited, can track your browsing habits, steal your passwords and credit card information, or can infect your computer with malicious softwares such as Viruses, Worms and Trojans.

The easiest way to protect ourselves or our family members from accessing such dangerous websites is to block them altogether. There are actually many softwares available on the internet which are pretty good in blocking websites on your computer, but they cost money and are sometimes difficult to operate.

In this article I will show you how to block unsafe websites on your Windows PC without investing in any additional software.

Note : Blocking harmful websites is not a complete security solution. It is still recommended that you run anti-virus software on your computer and be careful of the websites you visit.

How to Block A Website without Using Any Software:

1. Run Notepad as Administrator : For this go to Start  > All Programs > Accessories, right-click Notepad and select Run as administrator.

Note : If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or click Allow or Yes.

2. Within Notepad go to File > Open and select  All Files from the drop-down menu present near the bottom right corner of the window (check the screenshot).

3. Now type the following text in the File name field and click Open:

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

5.  The hosts file will open up. Go to the last line of the file and press the Enter key. Type 127.0.0.1 followed by the address of the website that you wish to block. For example, to block facebook.com, type :

Never add http:// at the start of the URL. Doing so will make the entry invalid. Also note that writing www is optional.

6. To block more websites, type 127.0.0.1 followed by the website address in every new line. You can block as many websites as you like.

7. Save and close the file.

Thats it! Now try to access the offending site(s) from your Web Browser. You’ll see that those specific website(s) will no longer be accessible.

In case you wish to undo the changes, follow Step 1-3 and delete the lines you had typed. You will again be able to open those sites.

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How to Show My Computer Icon on Windows 8 Desktop

June 22nd, 2012 by Admin

The latest Windows 8 is having a new Metro UI desktop and the older version of desktop also, but My Computer icon is missing on it. In earlier Operating Systems like Windows 7 or Windows Vista you can go to start menu and select ‘Show on Desktop’ option for My Computer. But, Windows 8 is missing the normal start menu also by default, so you don’t have option to select ‘Show on Desktop’ anymore. Here is the simple way on how to show my computer on desktop in Windows 8.

This will really make the life easy for accessing disk drives, computer management, device manager and properties in Windows 8.

How to Show My Computer Icon on Windows 8 Desktop

  1. Click on the Desktop in Metro UI (as shown below). This will bring the normal old desktop.
  2. Right Click on the blank space in desktop, select Personalize.
  3. In next screen Click on Change desktop icons. Here you can select the icons wanted to display in Windows 8 desktop. Select the tick box for Computer. Control Panel and Network icons also can be displayed on Windows 8 desktop by this method.

That’s it. Now you should have My computer icon on the desktop.

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How to Recover Website Password Saved in IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari

June 20th, 2012 by Admin

In our daily life, Internet is so important. We use the internet to check our emails, login into our online bank account, login to Paypal, check your feed news, and many more. Each of the website requires you to enter your username and password before you can use the services provided. One of the good methods to secure your accounts is to use different password for each account you have. But, the problem to human being is, some of them can’t remember all the passwords they use.

So, is there any method that can helps us to remember all the passwords? Most web browsers, including IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari, have the feature to remember the password we entered so we don’t need to type the password again next time we visit the same website. But, how about if we want to login from someone PC? Like your friend’s PC for example. Your passwords are stored in your PC and not in your friend’s PC. So, how can you login to your account if you can’t remember the password?

Password Recovery Bundle is the software that can help you recover all your website logins and passwords saved in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari web browser.  Easily recover your lost or forgotten passwords in just a few mouse clicks!

How to Recover Website Password Saved in IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari:

  1. Download and install Password Recovery Bundle.
  2. Run Password Recovery Bundle, then click the Start Recovery button. It will bring up a drop-down menu that shows all supported password types.
  3. Under the drop-down menu, you can find the password recovery options for IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari. For example, if you want to recover passwords saved in Firefox, you can select the Firefox Password option.
  4. Once you have chosen the recovery option, All website logins and passwords saved in your web browser will be revealed immediately.

After the website login details are recovered, you can then backup them and use on another computer.

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Windows won’t Start with Error “NTLDR is missing”

June 19th, 2012 by Admin

Every once in a while I note, in the forums where I participate, series of questions that appear over and over again. So is the case with the “NTLDR is Missing. Press any Key to Restart” error when the user attempts to boot their system.

What’s NTLDR?

NTLDR is short for NT loader – a program loaded from the hard drive boot sector that displays the Microsoft Windows NT startup menu and helps Microsoft Windows NT load. So when it goes missing for some reason, your windows cannot load. I use Windows XP on a Pentium 4 PC. Though it seemed common on a routine google search, it was not so easy to fix and many forums reported that formatting hard drive was the last solution eventually.

Fix the Error of NTLDR is missing

First please check if your system is trying to boot from a CD or USB stick. Remove the CD and USB stick and try again.  If your computer still throws the same error message at startup, please follow these steps to fix or repair the problem so your system should boot up properly.

  1. Insert your Windows installation DVD into the computer.
  2. When prompted to press any key to boot from the CD, press any key.
  3. Once in the Windows setup menu, press the R key to repair Windows.
  4. Log into your Windows installation by pressing the 1 key and pressing Enter.
  5. You will then be prompted for your administrator password, enter that password.
  6. Copy the below two files to the root directory of your Windows installation.  For example, my system drive is C:\ and the CD-ROM drive is E:\. Type the following command to copy the missing files from CD-ROM to your system drive:
    copy e:\i386\ntldr c:\
    copy e:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\
  7. Once both of these files have been successfully copied, remove the CD from the computer and reboot.

The trick can be used to fix the NTLDR errors with Windows XP/2003/2000/Me. Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista utilize BOOTMGR, not NTLDR.

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How to Recover CuteFTP Password

June 16th, 2012 by Admin

“I have a bunch of my websites setup in CuteFTP. I set them up a couple years ago and forgot the password for one of the sites. I would look in CuteFTP, but the passwords are blacked-out with dots. Is there any way to find out what I entered for the password? Is there a crack that can take away the black dots, or a way to find the password in the registry… PLEASE HELP!!!”

Forgot your FTP passwords setup in CuteFTP application?  You may think of using CuteFTP’s Import / Export feature to export your FTP site list, but the passwords are not included in the exported file.  What to do if you want to transfer your FTP login details over to a new machine or if for some reason you need to reinstall CuteFTP?

In this tutorial I’ll show you an easy way to recover forgotten FTP logins and passwords saved in CuteFTP application.  FTP Password Recovery is a small utility that can help you recover CuteFTP password in just a few simple steps.

How to Recover CuteFTP Password:

  1. Launch the FTP Password Recovery program.
  2. Click the Start Recovery button, a drop-down list will appear which displays all supported FTP clients.
  3. Select the  CuteFTP Passwordoption from the list.FTP Password Recovery
  4. The program will automatically recover CuteFTP password instantly. Display all your FTP hostnames, usernames and passwords stored in CuteFTP application.

Apart from CuteFTP, FTP Password Recovery can also recover logins and passwords saved in many other FTP applications, such as SmartFTP, FileZilla, FlashFXP, WS_FTP, Core FTP, FTP Control, FTP Navigator, FTP Commander, etc.

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