Category: Windows

  • Move Windows User Profile To Another Location

    Previously I wrote about how to recover a corrupted Windows user profile. Now I want to write about how to move Windows user profile to another location. There are times when you will want to do this. I wanted to do this because the Windows drive was almost full and I wanted to move the…

  • How To Recover Corrupted User Profiles In Windows

    A client came to me stating that he was able to logon to the his computer which was in the Windows domain but was not getting his desktop and other profile features. The error message was that Windows was not able to locate his profile so was creating a temporary profile to logon. I investigated…

  • How to Manually Remove Virus From USB Flash Drive without Formatting

    Note: The method will work on a system which is not affected by viruses. Otherwise you may not be able to delete virus files. Indication of Virus 1. When you plugin a drive, Some Autoplay feature polls you to select a option. If you see a folder like icon that reads open using the program…

  • Manage Local Windows Users Easily In Windows Domain

    As a system administrator, it is a headache to manage local user accounts because an administrator can only have access to the domain user properties so only the domain user can be managed from the server. It is very difficult to manage local user accounts if the domain has a large number of users. Chily…

  • 3 Tools To Speed Up & Optimize Windows Startup

    Everyone wants a system that boots in as less time as possible. Some people do not shutdown their systems just because it takes a long time to start up again. Here I’ll discuss 3 utilities for analyzing the Windows startup. After analyzing, you will be able to see which file or program is actually taking…

  • Improve Applications Response Time With Regdefrag

    Windows is notorious for its frequent crashes and freezes. Most of the freezes and crashes are caused by incompatible drivers and invalid registry values. The Windows registry stores all the system information like operating system configuration, user preferences, hardware and software configuration.

  • How To Remove Antivirus 7

    If you get something named Antivirus 7, please don’t install it. Although the name looks very similar to Windows 7 but it is not legitimate.  Antivirus 7 is a fake/rogue antivirus program that does not protect you from viruses. Actually this rogue antivirus is installed through the use of trojans and often bundled with other…

  • How To Select Default Internet Connection From Multiple Connections

    There are times when we have multiple internet connections and multiple gateways to browse the internet. In this situation, we don’t know which internet connection is being used right now. All this can be seen with a built-in command in Windows. Issue the following command and you’ll get the full routing table of Windows: C:\>route…

  • Update Windows 7 With Autopatcher

    I have already written about how to download Windows 7 updates for offline installation. Do you remember Autopatcher? Autopatcher was a tool that could download all the Windows updates and then we could save those updates and easily install them later when we reinstalled the Windows. Then mysteriously Autopatcher went off on request of Microsoft.…

  • Download Latest RDC 7.0 (Remote Desktop Connection) For Windows XP, Vista

    RDC 6.0 was quite a bit of enhancement to the previous versions of Remote Desktop Connection especially in the area of security. Now RDC 7.0 has been released with a lot of improvement in many areas. Let’s discuss the features of the latest RDC client. Features System Tray Icon RDC 7 comes with a system…