Have you forgotten administrator password for your Windows Vista/XP powered computer, now you are worried that you have to format and reinstall windows in order to gain access to your windows admin account. Well It happens with many of us and even though we have helped other in this we don’t take care ow our own password. We tend to forget and this is a normal human tendency.
But you can recover your forgotten password using Lock Smith utility which is part of ERD Commander tool by win internals. How to do that is explained below.
E.R.D. Commander by Win internals —
ERD Commander is part of the Microsoft Diagnostics and recovery Toolkit and can be downloaded from Microsoft’s site or other sources you know. Among several method which can be used to Rest admin password in Windows XP ERD commander is one of them.
This tool is very useful if you don’t have more than one working admin account in your windows installation and you lost password for that. Also You don’t have password reset disk as well as Windows Installation disk, or lost any or both of these.
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Well these days each and every Free Webmail providers are giving you lots of free space, even some of them have given Virtually unlimited or Unlimited space… Like Gmail is giving more than 7Gb space (and counting) . Yahoo gives you unlimited space and same as rediffmail…
Also All of these Free mail provider are giving you a Large attachment size, varying from 10-20 MB but that’s not enough if you want to share Large Videos and Lots of pictures. So Pando is a free service which can be used to send large file in single email (as large as 1Gb for free and 3GB with Paid version). It works with free web email services such as gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and many others, and it also works with the email program on your own computer.
What is Pando and How It works ?
Pando is free personal Peer-to-peer software using which we can send and receive large file and folders through email. When you send large files using Pando, It uploads file to it;s own server, and then create an attachment of a small file (much like torrent). This pando Attachment can be opened using Pando on remote computer which in turn will download the files from it’s server sent by original sender. You can send files over IM, or you can also publish the files on Forums.
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You are tired of getting slow speed on your own Private network? Files present on other system opens very slowly and even it takes a long while to show name of available computers on network. Then you should try this registry hack.
This registry hack will not speed up your network access but it can also speed up your Internet Access speed. While using DialUp connection I have seen a boost of about 25% in internet speed where on higher speed connection it goes about 10-20%.
Increasing Network Browsing Speed
When you accessing your other computer on network, You get slow speed because of a special feature on Windows which is showing scheduled task on other computer. By default when you browsing Networked Computer, you cr computer will query and show the task which are scheduled on other computer. This process consumes some time and thus slowing down the process of showing computer and computer shares over the network. If your system is a bit slow you might feel like your system is hanged while it keep querying for these information.
Windows XP: Speeding Disk Access
The solution to this problem is very simple and straight forward, despite problem itself is a bit complex. As Scheduled task information is not useful for anyone unless you are configuring them remotely, you can safely disable this feature to speed up access to remote computers. This will increase the response time As your computer will not wait for information related to Scheduled tasks on remote computer. This can be done by editing registry and deleting related Registry key. To complete the process please follow the steps mentioned below -
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At times windows take hell lot of time to start or to shutdown. You are getting frustrated why it is happening but have no idea how to know about the reason. Well here is a registry hack which will tell you what windows was doing that took so long to start or shutdown…
By this registry hack you can get detailed information of what windows is doing during startup, Shutdown, Login or logoff. Activating this will slow down the windows further but as this shows detailed information about what it doing it will be good for troubleshooting purpose. It can also be handy for tuning so if you see any application or file takinga lot of time to load during startup you can remove that from startup. If it is a service you can set it to start in delayed mode (vista only).
I would recommend don’t use this setting turned on always, set it only when you want to troubleshoot as it further slow downs windows. Step to do it are explained below -
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If I ask you what is most annoying feature of Windows Vista, what would be the first thing in your mind ? I guess User Account Control (UAC) which keep you bugging for every now and then for action you perform but Vista thinks it’s a Virus or Trojan or some ghost trying to do that…
So most of the users disable UAC to get rid of these prompts, but that disable several other useful features like Protected Mode of IE. We have a better way to disable those nasty prompts but keep UAC running in background. This can be achieved by registry hack as explained below -
» Continue reading Run Vista’s UAC Without Alert Prompts
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