RSS Feed for windows tipsCategory: windows tips

Reset Your Password on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 Server, Windows NT using USB Drive »

In my earlier article, I described various tools that can be used to reset Windows password. To use these tools, I have to create a bootable CD from the ISO image given.
I have encountered one problem recently whereby one of the laptop passed to me has no floppy and the external CD-ROM is missing. Worst […]

PowerShell Prompt: A Useful Utility for Developer »

Thanks to Scott Hanselman, now I can easily use PowerShell prompt by right clicking on a folder. You can download the INF file from his blog at http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingPowerShellPromptHere.aspx.
For those of you who want to have a more powerful scripting language on Windows comparable to *nix platform, you may already been using PowerShell.
As described by […]

14 Windows Registry Commonly used by Malicious Adware »

Download Sample

Most of us have the experience of after visiting certain websites, our IE settings like the main page, title or some of the Windows settings are changed. This happened specially in the early age of Internet usage. Now there are lots of tools that can help to prevent this, but it is important that […]

Remote Desktop max connection exceeded. Cannot login anymore to servers »

This happens when users don’t log off properly from remote desktop by closing the Remote Desktop Client. Disconnected sessions exceed the maximum number of active sessions and prevent new sessions. Thus no one can get into the server anymore. Incase this happens, go to Run and issue “mstsc /console” command. This will launch the same […]