Buttar

Azhar Ali Buttar has 20 years of experience working in different domains within IT industry. From network protocols to server hardening, he knows about multiple areas and has been working side by side with MNCs to provide cost-effective security and infrastructure solutions. Azhar’s expertise lies in off-site and hybrid infrastructure deployment using multiple platforms which includes, but not limited to, Azure, AWS, Google and Private Clouds. He has also been leading several infrastructure and security teams to deploy and perform security optimization in multiple projects, and now leads Nocastra with his decision-making and client-oriented skills.

How To Delete GPT Protective Partition In Windows

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MBR-based partition table schemes insert the partitioning information in the master boot record (MBR) (which on a BIOS system is also the container for code that begins the process of booting the system). In a GPT, partition table information is stored in the GPT header, but to maintain compatibility, GPT retains the MBR entry as the first sector on the disk followed by a primary partition table header, the actual beginning of a GPT. Now here comes to the problem to convert this disk to MBR disk, there is a very simple and easy method to convert this disk to MBR disk but you will lose your data and partition from that disk. I assume that you have an empty disk where you have accidently enabled GPT and you need to convert it back to MBR disk.

If you are using Windows XP and you are not able to access or modify GPT protective disk, you can easily convert a GPT disk to MBR Disk by using the clean command under DiskPart Disk Utility, which will remove all data and partition structures from a GPT disk.

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How To Set Date, Time And Time Zone In CISCO 2811 Router

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Sometimes its quite necessary to setup the Date, Time and Time Zone of a CISCO router because if you need to take the backup of your router on regular basis and you want to use the kron (Schedule) to take the backup automatically it will sure ask you to set your clock first and then … Read more

Make Your IT System More Efficient, Secure And Flexible With VMware

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Reduce the cost and complexity of your IT infrastructure, this is the saying of VMware to all the virtualization lovers. VMware is the most easiest and efficient software I had ever used for virtual machines, there are many other softwares available in the market but this software, I think is the best. This is not a free software but few applications from VMware are free and very useful to perform daily tasks. I would like to include only those softwares which are free.

VMware Player

VMware player is free to try any operating system like, You want to try Windows 7 go for free VMware player and if you like to make your mind to see what’s going on in Ubuntu you can choose VMware player and get everything done in just few very easy steps.

VMware Server

Start Achieving the Benefits of Virtualization

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Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates – Funny

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Lets have a close look, what Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are discussing? I am quite sure that you guys will think about business, someone will think about the charity and most of you guys will think about stock market, many will think about the money and few will think about something else. Lets find … Read more

Free Apple Snow Transformation Pack For Windows 7/Vista

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I am pretty sure that most of the user will like this post because people are tired of using the same desktop and Icons of windows and they like to change it. After a few very basic tweaking one can use this transformation pack for a long time because this look pretty nice and easy to use than the default windows 7 theme. Why I am sure that people will like this post is that because of the popularity of one of my earlier post and that is about the theme of ubuntu for windows 7. I am getting almost 20% of my total traffic from that only one post and that is on the top Google search pages. Check the Ubuntu Theme for Windows 7, please follow the under given link:

UBUNTU Theme for Windows 7

I am really very thankful to the users for giving so much warm response on that post. To download this transformation pack please go to the end of this post.

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Download Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0.0522.0 Beta

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Microsoft Security Essentials is a very good software to protect your client computers and its very easy to install and configure on your computer. You just need to download the latest available version from the Microsoft website, double click the exe and you are ready to ride your computer without worrying about viruses and malwares. Today I am going to share the new BETA version of Microsoft Security Essentials that is now available for limited nations but I was able to connect to my account and downloaded this marvelous software on my computer. I know that you will ask me this question that you already had an updated Microsoft Security Essentials and why would you need another one and I would surely say that this new Microsoft Security Essentials have few extra facilities like given as under:

Windows® Firewall integration: Microsoft Security Essentials setup allows you to turn on Windows Firewall.

New and improved protection engine: The updated engine offers enhanced detection and cleanup capabilities and better performance.

How and from where to download?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: More Reliable, More Open and More Comprehensive

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux is an enterprise platform well-suited for a broad range of applications across the IT infrastructure. The latest release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, represents a new standard for Red Hat by offering greater flexibility, efficiency, and control. I personally rank this operating system more than any other operating system of the world. I started working on it and was not able to stop myself moving from windows to Linux. Red Hat was the basic reason behind my move.

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I am not the only one fan of this fantastic operating system, there are many others and I would like to give you a proof of what I believe. Senior IT managers rank the quality of Red Hat’s technology in the top tier of the software vendors list, as the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey has reported for the past seven years running. Its more reliable than Microsoft.

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Easiest Way to Set Date, Time And Time Zone In Debian

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You can set date and time in just one minute in debian operating system. Date and time can create a couple of problems if you are working in a development environment. Many problem will arise like date is not set correct, time is not synchronized with the time zone and so on. There will be … Read more

Remove Fake Security Essentials 2011

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Microsoft-Security-Essentials   Microsoft didn’t released security essentials 2011 till now and there is one more thing that Microsoft always called Microsoft Security Essentials not Security Essentials only. You must be aware of few other things about this fake anti-virus actually to be called virus (precisely) that this rogue is installed by malware that impersonates Flash updates or video codec’s that are required to watch an online video when you install these Trojans, instead of allowing you to watch the video they will download and install Security Essentials 2011 onto your computer without your permission or knowledge. Once Security Essentials 2011 is installed, it will be configured to start automatically when you log into Windows and you are gone to hell with your PC with bad behavior and many more idiotic things. Fake security Essentials will look like the under given:

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