Category: Windows

  • How To Delete Remembered Network Passwords In Windows

    A user asked in the forums about how to delete a cached password that is stored in Windows. When we want to access another computer (specifically Windows), sometimes if the remote computer requires a password to access its resources like files and printers, we have to give the username and password once and then it…

  • Fully Optimize Windows Vista Services

    Windows Vista has been pathetic in terms of resource usage. Even with a system of relative high configuration it runs rather slow. The cause of this slowness seems to be a ton of services running in the background that are by default started automatically at Windows startup. We have already written about disabling services to…

  • Free Task Manager, Services Manager And Startup Manager For Windows

    There are a lot of task managers and other system utilities for Windows that serve as an alternative to Windows built-in utilities. We, at Technize, have reviewed a few of them like Windows Task Manager alternatives, ProcX the light weight task manager or Powerexes of Abdullah. For the last month, I have been using another…

  • Portable System Information Tool

    As a systems administrator, I have to hop from one system to another and I have to keep an eye on the system information and configuration while I’m working on that system to better understand the way it is configured and troubleshooting also gets easier. In this mobile environment I need to have a portable…

  • Windows Domain Logon Takes A Long Time

    I have been encountering this problem right from the start when I started systems administration. The problem is after adding a computer in a domain, when the computer is restarted and the logon screen appears (usually it’s the classic logon screen) and we want to change the logon domain. As soon as we click the…

  • Solution: Remove Ahsan’s Computer Virus Infection Completely

    Yesterday a Technize reader mailed me that he was having a virus in his computer which had renamed My Computer to “Ahsan’s Computer” and My Documents to “Ahsan’s Documents”. I have already fixed this virus in my friend’s computer. What this virus does in addition to renaming My Computer and My documents is it renames…

  • Solution:Windows Asks For Password On Shared Folders On The Network

    This is the most common problem that I encounter when we make a home network using Windows Workgroup that Windows starts asking for username and password when we try to access a shared folder across the network. The worst condition comes in when Windows asks for only the password. The user name is defaulted to…

  • Solution: Quick Launch Disappears After Restart In Windows

    I got a mail from a Technize reader asking me about his problem. The problem was that every time he enabled the quick launch toolbar and then restarted the system, the toolbar had gone and had to be re=enabled again. Actually when Windows shuts down, it saves all the settings in the user profile including…

  • How To Save Yourself From Conficker Worm April Attack

    Conficker, also known as Downup, Downadup, Kido or the Microsoft Worm began spreading in October 2008. By January 2009, it had affected 16 million computer around the globe which included hospital system and sensitive military systems. The worst part of it is that Microsoft had already released a patch for the vulnerability Conficker has been…

  • Disable Annoying Restart Notification After Windows Update

    It’s always annoying to get a restart notification every few minutes when Windows has installed the Windows updates. The problem with me was that whenever I was typing, that popup would come up automatically and I would press some key that would automatically say yes to that screen ……………………. and the computer restarts. That’s more…