How to remotely enable Remote Desktop (RDP) in Windows XP/Vista/7/2008

Remote Desktop or RDP service is a free useful tool to remotely log on to remote computer and gain full access and privileges as if user is in front of local console. Remote Desktop is also known as Terminal Services. It’s useful if the server, or PC is located miles away in remote location, and frequent trip to the site to troubleshoot, configure or manage the system is not a viable option.

However, if an off-site server needs to be access via Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) client immediately, yet the Remote Desktop is not enabled on the server, then it will be a headache. Luckily it’s possible to remotely enable and turn of the Remote Desktop service on a remote PC or server by remotely editing its registry.

To remotely enable RDP on another computer, follow these steps:

• Login to the workstation with administrator credentials.
• Run Registry Editor (regedit).
• Click on File menu.
• Select the Connect Network Registry in the pull down menu.

 

• A “Select Computer” dialog search box is opened. Type the host name of the remote computer in the text box, or browse Active Directory to locate the remote server, or click on “Advanced” button to search for the remote computer.

• Click OK after the remote computer is selected. A node for the remote computer network registry will be displayed in the Registry Editor with HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM) and HKEY_USERS (HKU) hives.

 

• Navigate to the following registry key for the remote computer:

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server

 

• In the right pane, locate a REG_DWORD value named fDenyTSConnection. Double-click onfDenyTSConnection and change the value data from 1 (Remote Desktop disabled) to 0 (Remote Desktop enabled).

• Reboot the remote machine by issuing the following command in Command Prompt:

shutdown -m \\Musheer-Laptop –r

• Replace ‘Musheer-Laptop’ with the actual computer name of the remote host.

Remote Desktop for the remote computer has been enabled.

There are also plenty of freeware utility that allows user to remotely enable Remote Desktop without modifying registry, like IntelliAdmin, Acroni, etc…

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How to remove it free “System Care Antivirus” Virus

Please follow the below steps to remove this malware.

Re-boot system in to windows safe-mode

• Restart your PC through “Start” menu by selecting the respective command.
• Before Windows OS starts booting press “F8” button of your keyboard repeatedly by hitting it and releasing several times simultaneously.
• The following windows comes up:

• Using the arrow keys on your keyboard select the “Safe Mode with Networking” option.

Optional way to terminate the process of System Care Antivirus scam:

1. Make sure you can see hidden files on your PC depending on the operating system of your computer.

How to view hidden files in Windows XP:

• Open “My Computer”, go to “Tools” tab and select “Folder Options”.

  

• In the window that appeared select “View” tab and choose the option “Show hidden files and folders”. Click “Apply” and “OK”.

How to view hidden files in Windows Vista/7:

• Open “My Computer”, go to “Organize” tab and select “Folder and search options”.

  
  

  • In the window that appeared select “View” tab and choose the option “Show hidden files, folders, and drives”. Click “Apply” and “OK”.
  

2. Find the location of System Care Antivirus malware’s executable.

Typical location for Windows XP:

C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/[Random.exe]

Typical location for Windows Vista/Windows 7:

C:/Program Data/[Random.exe]

3. Remove the executable of the rogue into other random name (virus.exe or malware.exe) and restart your PC.
4. Upon reboot the malware should no longer be active. Thus, you can download the security application that will remove all remnants of System Care Antivirus scareware.

Note: To see the correct location of System Care Antivirus executable, right-click its desktop icon, click “Properties” and look for the information in “Target” field. It will tell the exact place where the rogue dwells on your PC.

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Difference between sleep mode and hibernate

Windows 7 provides several options for conserving power when you are not using your PC. These options include Sleep and Hibernate. Both are very useful if you are using a laptop. And both mode will help us to maintain battery life. but what is the difference between them, or which on is better to use? Here’s we are going to learn about this moth mode.

Sleep Mode

Sleep is a power-saving state that allows a computer to quickly resume full-power operation (typically within several seconds) when you want to start working again. And this mode is a power-saving state that is similar to pausing a DVD movie. All actions on the computer are stopped and any open documents and applications are put in memory. You can quickly resume normal, full-power operation within a few seconds. Sleep mode is basically the same thing as “Standby” mode. when the computer will go to sleep mode, the opened files and applications opened data will stored in RAM. this is why it is waking up quickly. but while in sleep mode if we lost the batter power all data and opened application will be lost. and computer will run as from the 1st start.

The Sleep mode is useful if you want to stop working for a short period of time. The computer doesn’t use much power in Sleep mode.

Hibernate

The Hibernate mode saves your open documents and running applications to your hard disk and shuts down the computer, which means once your computer is in Hibernate mode, it uses zero power. So hibernation uses the least amount of power. Once the computer is powered back on, it will resume everything where you let off. Waking up from Hibernate mode will take time to than from sleep mode. but very few time deference only.

Remember before you enable Hibernate, you should have free space in your hard disk which is equivalent to your system RAM size. for example if you have 4 GB RAM, then your must have 4 GB free space in your hard disk.

Use this mode if you won’t be using the laptop for an extended period of time, and you don’t want to close your documents.

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How to fix corrupt windows user profile

Every user in the Windows OS has a user folder associated with the account name which  stores computer settings and data.A common problem with Windows machines is a corrupt user profile.So windows fails to recognize the user profile and folder that is linked to the user account.This can be caused by a hard drive error, joining/leaving a domain, file system issues and a change of username.What will happen in this case is that the next time the user logs-on, a fresh, empty profile will be created, named 'user.domain' or 'user.computer' instead of just 'user' -and from that point on, the new profile will be used instead of the correct one.

Before we start learning how we fix any corrupt account make sure you have a an account which either is admin or is  admin privileged.

All the Windows User Profiles are located under C:\Users\UserName which contains all our settings. Now go to your account and unhide hidden folders and uncheck Hide Protected operating system files. You would see three files NTUSER.DAT, NTUSER.dat.log and ntuser.ini which you will need to be careful about.

• Login with your admin account and  create new account.
• Now identify which user profile is corrupted and  go to that folder which will be like C:\Users\UserName
• Unhide Folders / Files and display system files
• Copy everything from this folder  except three files NTUSER.DAT, NTUSER.dat.log and ntuser.ini
• Go to new account folder located under C:\users and paste all the files you copied in above step.
• Logoff and login to the new account to confirm.
• Delete the old account.

This should fix your problems. Remember many a times because of some bug you might see Windows giving you a brand new profile but if you logoff and try logging in again you would see the issues getting fixed.

There is another alternative called as Reprofiler a software which can also help you in fix these issues by remapping users to their profiles, fixing registry settings and permissions which is required to fix any corrupt windows account.

It displays all the user accounts above and all the windows users folder below. Now to fix it or map to any other account you can just select first a user name above and a folder below and then hit Assign. This will make sure it copies and assigns proper settings. You can also remove / detach folders which is useful when it comes to erase the data.

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Fix Windows User Profile Errors With Reprofiler

Every user in the Windows OS has a user folder associated with the account name which  stores computer settings and data.A common problem with Windows machines is a corrupt user profile.So windows fails to recognize the user profile and folder that is linked to the user account.This can be caused by a hard drive error, joining/leaving a domain, file system issues and a change of username.What will happen in this case is that the next time the user logs-on, a fresh, empty profile will be created, named 'user.domain' or 'user.computer' instead of just 'user' -and from that point on, the new profile will be used instead of the correct one.

You can correct this problem manually, but  you have to  edit the registry and adjust  permissions, tasks.All these are  are painstaking and time-consuming, and are probably beyond the skill-level of the average user.  ReProfiler offers an easy way to see which profile is associated with which user.It  is a small, freeware and portable tool designed to reassign the data and settings of a Windows user account to another account.

Download : ReProfiler |OS: Windows 2000, Server 2003, XP, Vista ,Server 2008 and Windows 7.|Homepage

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WinGuard Pro Free: Password Protect Files, Drives, Programs & Windows Explorer

WinGuard Pro is a free application to password protect programs, files, drives and other items on a Windows machine. WinGuard Pro uses triple layer locking system to secure your PC. 

Other than the usual encrypt file, folder and drive features, you can find many advanced options such as password Internet Explorer browser, lock installed programs, lock native Windows programs, lock Task Manager, and Windows Explorer.

Installing and setting up the tool is pretty simple. Once installed, you need to assign a password to start using WinGuard Pro.

Key features:
    # Lock any program with a password
    # Encrypt files, folders & drives from Windows Explorer
    # Disable software installation
    # Password protect Windows Explorer
    # Password Internet Explorer
    # Restrict Registry and Task Manager
    # Works alongside any Antivirus/Spyware program

WinGuard Pro offers complete protection for your PC as you can even password protect the Windows Explorer. If you are looking for an all-in-one tool to secure your files, drives and programs with password, this is the right tool for you. Also read how to hide files and folders in Windows 7.

Download WinGuard Pro

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Bypass Windows Boot Manager in Dual OS

Many of you have multiple OS(dual boot).But  selecting another OS is not easy, as it involves  pressing restart, waiting for Windows to shut down, then waiting for it to bring up the Windows Boot Manager before selecting the OS you want to load.Here is a small tool  iReboot , which enables you that use such  dual-boot systems to quickly switch operating systems without the need to wait for the operating selection screen. Just  select the operation system you want to boot into from the

system tray icon and the program will do the rest.iReboot can really save your time, because it simplifies procedure.

This free tool is light weighted one and has stable performance.After installing and launching this utility runs in your system tray.It  takes only taking up 400KB of memory.

Download :iReboot

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Enable/Disable Hibernation in Windows Vista

What is the difference between Vista's sleep and hibernate?   Sleep awakens quicker than hibernate.  In the event of complete power loss, sleep stores the information in RAM, thus loss of power means loss of unsaved data.  Hibernate on the other hand, saves the contents of memory to a file called hiberfil.sys, thus you would not lose unsaved data.

The space it takes up depends on your RAM. If you have 1 GB of RAM, Hibernation uses up to 1 GB of hard drive space.If you don't use the Hibernation feature Windows Vista offers, it's taking up a lot of unnecessary hard drive space.

Enable Hibernation in Vista

To enable hibernation, click on your Start menu, and type powercfg.exe /hibernate on in your search box. Then press Ctrl+Shift+Enter, which will run the command line you typed in as an administrator.

Disable Hibernation in Vista

To disable hibernation, click on your Start menu, and type powercfg.exe /hibernate off in your search box. Then press Ctrl+Shift+Enter, which will run the command line you typed in as an administrator.

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Block Programs in Vista

If you have multiple users working on your computer ,using different  accounts ,then your PC is sure to be at risk.There are wide range of applications available in net, which can be downloaded and installed .To overcome this problem, you can use the parental control feature in Windows Vista.This can block the installation and access of such applications  on different user accounts.

To use this utility do the following.

• Start>Control Panel.Click the ‘Setup Parental Controls for any User “link
• Select a user account on the resulting screen
• Click the ‘On,enforce current settings’ radio button.
• Click the ‘Allow and block specific programs ‘ link
• Select the ‘This account can only use the programs I allow’ radio button .A list of applications will now be displayed.
• Select the applications that need to blocked  and click “OK”
• If the program is not mentioned in the list,click “Browse’” and select the required program.
• Once the program has appeared in the list ,select it and click “OK”

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Optimize you PC with TweakNow PowerPack 2009

TweakNow PowerPack is a fully-integrated suite of utilities that let you fine-tune every aspect of your computer's operating system and Web browser.It provides more than 100 hidden Windows settings in the Windows Secret section.To keep your computer always at  top performance, you have  to clean your registry  at least once a month.By using Registry Cleaner  module provides you with a safe and simple way to clean Windows Registry. It includes Disk Cleaner,Disk Usage Analyzer,Registry Cleaner & Defragmenter , Startup Manager,Track Cleaner,System Information and more.

This suite also gives you a complete picture of all aspects of your computer's hardware, including detailed information about your motherboard, processor, video card, memory, hard disk and network.

The Virtual Desktop module allow you run four custom-designed desktop configurations simultaneously.An AutoShutdown utility that lets you suspend, hibernate, or shut down your computer after a specified period of time.In addition to saving resources, this program keeps your system more secure by making it unavailable to unauthorized people.By using all of these modules , you can easily customize your Windows like geeks do.

OS: Windows 7/Vista/XP| Freeware | 5.45MB |    TweakNowPowerPack2009

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Speed Up Your Internet Bandwidth

Well, Many of you already know this tweak, but just want to recall it again.A nice little tweak for XP. Microsoft reserve 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes (suspect for updates and interrogating your machine etc..)

Here’s how to get it back:

Click Start–>Run–>type “gpedit.msc”

This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:

Local Computer Policy–>Computer Configuration–>Administrative Templates–>Network–>QOS Packet Scheduler–>Limit Reservable Bandwidth

Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the ‘Explain’ tab :

“By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default.”

So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO.

 

This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.

Update Group Policy

 

Click Start–>Run–>type “cmd” to open command prompt.

type gpupdate /force

 

Or restart your computer for GP update.

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Create a wireless hotspot using your laptop

Have you  reached a place where there is no Wi-Fi hotspots?Even if hotspots are available ,you may not be able to access it because of secured connection.A call to a nearby service provider  may not work even. Don’t worry,you can turn your Laptop into a local hotspot with some simple steps.

If you have an access to a wired broadband connection and if your Laptop have the Ethernet support you can easily setup a wireless hotspot.This trick works fine,but just some times the DHCP can mess up. Its just bridging the connections and making an ad hoc network with forwarded net.

Here are the steps to implement your own hotspot in no time:

In Windows Vista:

1)Connect the laptop to the internet using the Ethernet cable.

2}Open the control panel and go into the Network and Sharing Center.

3)Set up a new connection called a wireless ad hoc network.

4)Give it a name and setup the desired security options.

5)Deselect Save this Network.

6)Finally, click on Turn on Internet Connection Sharing.

7)Now anyone can connect to your laptop’s Wi-Fi.

In Windows XP:

1)Make sure your laptop is connected to the Internet using the Ethernet cable.

2)Go to Control Panel and open up Network Connections.

3)Right-click on your wireless connection and select Properties.

4)On the Wireless Networks tab, check Use Windows to configure my wireless network setting.

5)Under Preferred networks, click Add, and name your network.

6)Select shared, and provide a password.

7)Click the Advanced button and select Computer-to-Computer (ad hoc) networks only.

8)Go back to the Network Connections control panel and open the Properties dialog for your wired internet connection.

9)Go to the Advanced menu and check the box next to Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s internet connection.

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Sleep Moon Xpress - Automation Utility

Sleep Moon Xpress is a next-generation Automation Utility that takes computer automation to the highest level. It is simple to use, yet it comes packed with a lot options and features, You will be able to easily manage your computer, either remotely or automatically with Sleep Moon Xpress.It is simple to use, and packed with a lot options and features, such as Alarms, Automatic Shutdown, Remote Executions, Download & Upload Speed Detection and much much more. You can  remotely control your computer using any Bluetooth or Infrared enabled device with  the help of WTP Mobile Technology.

With Sleep Moon Xpress, remotely or automatically, controlling your computer will become a piece of cake. It can be used in multiple scenarios and situations, from as simple as displaying a notification at 4:30:50 PM  to as complex as rebooting your computer using a Bluetooth mobile phone equipped with a camera.

Key features

• Shutdown Option
• Reboot Option
• Log OFF Option
• Power OFF ATX Option
• Silent Alarm Option
• Run File Option
• Alarm Option (With 4 Pre-Installed Alarms)
• Atomic Time Synchronization
• BlueActive Technology (Range: 80 - 400M)
• WTP Mobile Technology (Range: Unlimited)
• Audio Sensitive Trigger System

12.5 MB| Freeware | Homepage

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Easy way to get complete System Information

In Windows XP, open the command prompt of the operating system by entering ‘cmd.exe’ through ‘Start | Run’, and click ‘OK’. In Windows Vista, you can enter the commands directly in the search field of the start menu.

In the command prompt, type ‘Systeminfo.exe’ and confirm with [Enter]. The program lists the operating system configuration including the service packs. A description of the possible parameters is available with the command ‘Systeminfo.exe /?’. The output of the program can be copied to a text file and you can give it any name of your choice. This file contains all important information needed during a support query, but apart from the user name, no other personal data is included.

For example, to store the information in a file called ‘Systeminfo.txt’, use the command ‘systeminfo> c:\systeminfo.txt’ and confirm with [Enter]. If the file does not exist, Windows creates it automatically. Otherwise, the operating system overwrites it without prompting.

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How to Create Password Reset Disk in Vista

Windows allows you to create several user accounts. Each account may tend to have a particular password associated to it as well. In case if you forget your password later, you can recover it by using a password reset disk. Note that the password reset disk can only be used for local user accounts. To create a password reset disk follow the steps below:

• Insert a removable storage device,for example a USB drive.
• Click ‘Start|Control Panel’.
• Double-click the ‘User Accounts’ icon.
• Click the ‘Create a password reset disk’ link residing on the left pane.
• Click ‘Next’ and select the removable device.
• In the next screen, enter the current user account password in the text box and click ‘Next’.
• Once done click ‘Finish’

To reset your password using the password reset disk, follow the steps below:

• Plug in the USB drive.
• When the login screen appears,simply place the cursor on the password field and press ‘Enter’.
• You will now be able to view the ‘Reset password’ link.
• Click the ‘Reset Password’ link.
• Click ‘Next’.
• Enter your new password, retype it and enter a hint for your password in the respective fields.
• Once done click ‘Next’. You will now be able to login to your system using the new password.

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Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor

If your PC can run Windows Vista, it can run Windows 7. But if you're not running Windows Vista, or are just not sure if your system is ready to run Windows 7, there's a quick way to do a simple check.This will help you to know ,whether there is any compatibility issues .

Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor check  your PC’s processor, memory, storage, and graphics capabilities, identifies known compatibility issues with installed software and devices and finally provides guidance on how to resolve those issues if any solutions are possible.Before you run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor beta, be sure to plug in any USB devices or other devices such as printers, external hard drives, or scanners that are regularly used with the PC you're evaluating.

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