Losing a USB flash drive can be the stuff of nightmares if it contains sensitive or valuable information. If your computer is running the Ultimate or Enterprise edition of Windows 8/7/Vista, you can use Microsoft’s included BitLocker To Go feature to encrypt your entire USB drive. BitLocker To Go allows you to encrypt the data […]
How to Retrieve Email Passwords from Any Email Client
October 25, 2012 by No comments »If you’re about to start using a new computer, you might be concerned about migrating your old computer data. All the easy stuff transfers just fine, but then you realize that Outlook or Thunderbird need to get moved over. Getting the email client data files moved across machines is fairly simple, but then the tricky […]
Backup and Restore Saved Passwords in Windows Vault
October 24, 2012 by No comments »Windows 7 includes a new feature called Windows Vault, which is actually a new name for Stored User Names and Passwords in Windows Vista/XP. Whenever you access a file share on another machine, map a drive to a remote server, or connect to a Windows domain, you will be prompted to provide a username and […]
How to Remove Windows Administrator Password
October 24, 2012 by No comments »Forgot Windows administrator password? This might bring a lot of irritating and time consuming consequences. Even if you can still log on your computer with a limited account, you don’t have full right to remove or change administrator password. So the only option is to do it from a boot CD/USB. With Reset Windows Password […]
How to Copy and Paste Files Across Remote Desktop
October 23, 2012 by No comments »There are occasions when you need to copy or transfer files between your local and remote computers via remote desktop. However the copy and paste generally doesn’t work. The well-known solution is to enable drive mapping in remote desktop, so you can access your local drive from the remote computer. But it will expose your […]
How to Disable Prompt for Password on Wake Up from Sleep/Standby
October 22, 2012 by No comments »The prompt for user password upon wake up from sleep, standby or hibernate is a feature provided in Windows 7/Vista/XP for security reason. But if you are the sole owner of PC and you do not have any threat from someone gaining access to your PC then you might find this feature an annoying one […]
How to Reset Login Password in Windows 7/Vista/XP
October 21, 2012 by No comments »Forgot the login password in Windows 7/Vista/XP? There a couple of different approaches you can take to recover access to your computer, depending on your exact situation. In any event you have two basic choices: you must either crack the login password or forcefully reset it to something known. It seems obvious to me that […]
How to Remove Windows Vista Password
October 20, 2012 by No comments »I have a friend who just bought a desktop computer with Windows Vista. Her daughter create a login ID with a password (as the administrator) but she forgot the password. How can I remove this password? How to remove Windows Vista password when you forgot it? Whether you have forgotten your own password, or you […]
How to Perform Active Directory Offline Defragmentation
October 19, 2012 by No comments »The Active Directory database tends to become fragmented over time, just like any other database does. Although Windows Server 2008/2003/2000 performs behind-the-scenes online defragmentation periodically, this defragmentation only moves data around the database file (NTDS.DIT) and doesn’t reduce the file’s size – the ntds.dit database file cannot be compacted while Active Directory is online. If […]
How to Backup Windows Server 2008 Active Directory
October 19, 2012 by No comments »Backing up Active Directory is essential to maintain an Active Directory database. A system state backup is particularly important for disaster recovery purpose in case of a accidental corruption or deletion of Active Directory objects. Since Windows Server 2008, you won’t find the well-known ntbackup.exe, the native backup tool in previous Windows versions. Instead, you […]