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How to Secure Computer From USB Viruses in Windows 7

No doubt, windows 7 is an ultimate windows family member that is fully loaded with most of the security tools required to secure your system. Most of the common viruses spread using USB drive and waste a lot of time including file corruption, system slow response, annoying behavior of system and many more problems that can make your system unstable. All the above problem can be easily controlled and prevented by just making few very easy and handy configuration in your windows 7. Most viruses in USB drives spread by using autorun.inf style and copy few files in your system that start breading and making your system unstable.

Auto run function can now be controlled by following the under given instructions in windows 7. There is no need to make any change in registry or to take risk to make your system unstable by making any change in registry.
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How to Secure your Files And Communications

People are working around to make their files and communications more and more safer than their other things by using passwords, long and complex passwords with special characters and many more techniques but the experts proved that this is not the only thing you should do to save your files and important data. Not so long ago, computer enthusiasts have proved to retrieve an eight letter password by use of a GPU in three days. Makes you wonder how safe your data is. In PixelCryptor you choose a picture and use it to combine your files into a package. The pixel data is used to encrypt your data. The combinations are endless and hard to break. Nowadays people have not one, but dozens of passwords. It can be hard to remember them, and you might lose precious data when you forget them. PixelCryptor offers a solution.

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Encryption has been used for as long as people have been talking and wishing to keep their communications secret. Examples range from trans- position Cyphers used by the Spartan military to more modern techniques like DES and AES.

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Recover Data From NTFS Drive With Open Source Software

NTFS Undelete

NTFS undelete is a very handy, easy to use and efficient software to recover data from NTFS drives. Since deleted files recovery is a very delicate process that’s why this software provides many types of packages to perform many types of undelete processes. Its completely free. There is a very simple installation method even a beginner can do it without any problem. If you don’t like to install you can download the zip package, just unzip and here you goes.

You can choose the method of installation according to your specific situation.

Windows Installer

Installer will set up NTFS Undelete on your computer. This is the easiest way to install NTFS Undelete; however, installer can be used only when the files you want to undelete are not located on the system disk (usually disk "C:").

If deleted files are located on the system disk, then you should choose different method of installation.

Download NTFS Undelete (Windows installer)

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Migrate Your DHCP Server Without Interruption

Migrating DHCP server in LIVE environment from Microsoft Windows 2003 Server to Microsoft Windows 2008 is not an easy task to do. You have to shutdown your old server to configure your new server. Let me share a very handy and built-in method to migrate your DHCP server from windows 2003 server to windows 2008 server. You can perform this task even in office hours without any service interruption, no down time scheduling. All the things including scope, reservations and server settings will me moved to your new server. Steps are given as under;

1. You need to log into your DHCP server (Old DHCP server running windows 2003) with your administrator account and run the under given command by using the CMD;

netsh dhcp server export c:filename.txt all

The above command will take a complete backup of the DHCP server at the specified location.

2. Log into your new DHCP server (New DHCP server running windows 2008) with administrator privileges. Copy the above backed up file from the old server so that your can import that file into your new DHCP server that is already running DHCP role. I assume that you have copied the file to your C drive of 2008 server.

netsh dhcp server import c:filename.txt all

You might get some kind confliction errors if you have some predefined settings in your new DHCP server. Nothing to worry about, just go into your new server and remove the default settings for the server. There might be already given DNS server that can conflict with your old settings.

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Ubuntu Theme for Windows7

If you are a Linux lover but forced to work on windows environment specially on new family member of windows that’s windows7, you can now install a theme of Ubuntu on your windows 7 and use it like Linux.

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Microsoft Security Essentials Update Error

Microsoft Security Essentials Update Error

Microsoft Security Essentials Update Error can make you crazy because everything seems normal and there is no specific error as well. Microsoft Security Essential is a great anti-virus and anti-spyware software. I found this software more efficient,  light weight and easy to use. Now coming back to original point I am going to discuss a very common problem that can happen anytime in windows. I hope most of the people new and seen this error message that on startup of windows system says “at least one service is disabled”. This can cause lots of problems in most of the programs running on windows Like I said in the title “Microsoft Security Essential Update Error”.

 Error Code: 0x80070422

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Top 5 Free Compression Utilities (ZIP)

1. ZipItFree

zipitfree ZipItFree is a small free utility that supports over 15 compression formats, Including (ACE, ARC, BH, BZip, CAB, GZIP, JAR, LHA, RAR, TAR, UUE, XXE, ZIP,Zoo, And  Archive Stream). ZipItFree is easy to use with modern interface that works with archives also. The ZipItFree windows integration gives you One Click capability for most of compression functions like Extract Here, Zip & Email.

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Remotely Power On A System

Ever wonder you’re working on a remote system and you’ve mistakenly shutdown the remote system and there’s no body to hard boot it. What will you do? Another situation is that you’re in your office and want to turn on your home PC to copy some files from there. What will you do? StarWinds has …

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See The History Of Processor Usage In Windows

We can see the performance of the system processor by using Windows performance counters but they are pretty complex and not everyone is able to configure and then read the logs of performance counters. I always wondered if there is some easy way to see the history of processor usage in Windows so that I …

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Microsoft Security Essential Installation Error

msse errorMicrosoft Security Essentials is a free anti-virus software that can help you prevent and block virus to corrupt your system. It provides your real time security protection against Spywares, viruses and Other malicious software’s.

Microsoft Security Essentials is a free download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology.

There is a very common installation error appears most of the time on your system if you are using any other anti-virus software on your system.

Error

Cannot complete the Microsoft Security Essentials Installation Wizard: Error Code 0x80070002

Solution

The common reason of this error is the presence of any other anti-virus on your system. You need to clean uninstall that anti-virus software before installing Microsoft Security Essentials.

Here are few clean uninstall tools for different anti-virus software’s;

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