Here is a quick tip that might come in handy in certain situations. Most users have at least some software programs in their system autostart. This means that these programs are started when the Windows operating system starts. The benefit is that these programs are loaded before any user interaction which is essential for security [...]
Turn Off Computer Hardware With A Single Click
Rarst inspired me to take a closer look at the command line utility devcon which has been created by Microsoft. Devcon is basically a command line version of the Windows Device Manager. We recently published an energy saving article that contained a tip to disable computer hardware to save power which is especially useful for [...]
How To Remove Third Party Services In Windows
Sometimes things go bad. You try to uninstall a software program that you do not longer need or recover a computer system after a hard drive crash only to find out that some traces of old programs are still in the system. One of these places is Services in the Windows operating system. What are [...]
Windows Update Fix
Windows Update is Microsoft’s main website for updating the Windows operating system. Users can visit the website using Internet Explorer to scan their operating system for possible updates. Updates can then be installed automatically and directly on the website.
Windows Update can cause problems on some computer systems. The first and probably most common problem that [...]
Windows Cannot Find Msconfig
MSConfig, which stands for Microsoft System Configuration Utility, is a administrative tool that gets distributed with the Windows operating system. It has been designed by Microsoft to provide quick access to several system settings, files and parameters like startup items, Windows services or ini files like boot.ini or system.ini.
MSConfig can be accessed from the run [...]
USB Flash Drive Write Protection
System administrators might want to limit the use of external USB flash drives by making them read only. This can actually be useful in several situations like preventing users from copying local data to the external device or preventing malicious software from spreading on a computer network using those flash drives.
The Windows operating system has [...]
Application Mover
The hard drive where you install the majority of software programs is filled to the brim and it becomes clear that the need will arise to move some of the installed applications to another hard drive or storage device to make room for additional installs. Some software programs do not take it lightly if you [...]
