The more stuff that Windows has to start up during boot, the longer it will take to complete.
So, with that in mind, the first thing you need to do is start unloading programs which are set to start automatically when you boot Windows. There are two places, primarily, that you want to look at:
1. Look in the “Startup†folder in your Start Menu. Anything in that folder is set to start automatically. To remove a program from this folder, simply navigate to the “Startup†folder in your Start Menu, right-click on the item you want to remove, and choose “Delete†from the menu. This will not delete the program…only the shortcut to it. (more…)
boot windows,
computer,
configuration window,
delete the program,
esellerate,
msconfig,
press enter,
reboot,
shortcut,
startup folder,
startup tab,
system configuration,
windows registry
Written by Jason on November 28th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) are now in Beta, available on https://connect.microsoft.com/ - I just got hold on them!
The download contains:
Remote Server Administration Tools Beta Fact Sheet.docx
Windows6.0-KB941314-x64.msu
Windows6.0-KB941314-x86.msu
Still waiting to install on my Vista SP1 Beta…
[UPDATE]
Install went just fine - but some admin tools are still not included (se readme for more info).
This is the exact download location:
http://connect.microsoft.com/windows/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=9561
More info:
http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2007/11/28/remote-server-administration-tools-rsat-beta-is-now-available.aspx
Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on November 28th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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I knew this was going to happen someday, as Ubuntu is more and more popular each day. It seems that there is a growing trend to offer malicious commands to new and inexperienced Ubuntu users on Ubuntu forums and not only there. Therefore I thought it would be a very smart idea to take a moment to review all these malicious commands, that you should NOT execute in a terminal.
The following commands can cause massive damage to your Ubuntu operating system! Please DO NOT execute any of them, just read and learn! (more…)
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Linux,
malicious commands,
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sudo,
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Written by Jason on November 28th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Recently
Yahoo introduced a structured web search which is said to be suitable for e-commerce application (e.g. online shopping). However, I can't test it out as it seems like they haven't implemented yet in their search engine. I wonder could it be something similar to the
Cluster Search Engine (Clusty). Could it be yahoo steal the concept from Clusty? Maybe something more advance than this?
So the first question you or I may ask, will Structured web Search by Yahoo can beat Google? I honestly don't know because I can't try. They just said it soon to be rolled out. If I want to give my best guess, I will say "No way, Structured Web Search by Yahoo cannot beat Google". Yes, that is only based on my feeling until I really try it out. Maybe I've already fallen in love with Google. Opss...
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Written by ChampDog on November 28th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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I was doing some house cleaning on one of my systems and I noticed a few test accounts that had been sitting around for over a year. I don't like having dormant accounts laying around since it creates a higher possibility that someone could use them to get in.
I wanted an easy way to list all accounts that have not been accessed within the last 60 days...on every computer on my network.
To start out I wrote a script that would output a list of dormant accounts on a single remote computer.
Here is my first crack at it:
'Minimum age of account we want to report (In Days)
iDays = 60
Sub ReportUnusedAccounts(sComputer)
'Get a connection to the remote computer
Set poComputer = GetObject("WinNT://" & sComputer)
'Used as a flag to see if we could see any accounts on the remote computer
bFoundAccount=FALSE
'Loop through each account and see how old it is
For Each poItem in poComputer
if poItem.Class="User" then
'Update our counter so we know we found at least one account
bFoundAccount=TRUE
'Get the number of days since the last login
iDuration=DateDiff("D",poItem.LastLogin,Date)
'If greater than our trigger, then report
if (iDuration > iDays) then
sOutput = sOutput & sComputer & ", '" & poItem.Name & "', '" & poItem.LastLogin & "','" & iDuration & "'" & vbLF
end if
end if
next
'If we saw no accounts, then we had a problem connecting
if (bFoundAccount=FALSE) then
Wscript.Echo sComputer & ", 'Could not connect, or access denied'"
else
WScript.Echo (sOutput)
end if
end sub
When I call the function in the script, it comes back with a comma delimited list of accounts that have not been accessed for more than 60 days.
I needed to do this for every computer on my domain. So I added a script that would query the domain for a list of computers, and execute the above function on each one:
'Make sure we got our argument from the command line
if (WScript.Arguments.Count=0) then
Wscript.Echo "***************************************"
WScript.Echo "* IntelliAdmin, LLC *"
Wscript.Echo "* http://www.intelliadmin.com *"
WScript.Echo "* (Unused Accounts Reporter) *"
WScript.Echo "***************************************"
WSCript.Echo "Missing Arguments. Usage shown below: "
Wscript.Echo "UnusedAccounts.vbs "
else
'Get domain object so we can query a list of computers
Set DomObj = GetObject("WinNT://" & WScript.Arguments(0) )
'Filter only computer objects
DomObj.Filter = Array("computer")
'Loop through all computers and execute our ReportUnusedAccounts sub
For Each sComputer In DomObj
ReportUnusedAccounts sComputer.Name
Next
end if
Now I can call the script (With my domain as the only argument) and it will cycle through all computers on the network. It reports the unused accounts in a nice CSV format:
(Note: It can take up to 90 seconds for it to fail on a computer that is not available. This means the report can take some time to generate)
Execute the script like this from the command line to output it to a CSV file:
cscript.exe //nologo UnusedAccounts.vbs >> UnusedAccounts.csv
Then you could simply open the UnusedAccounts.CSV with Microsoft Excel and sort it the way you pleased.
Download the script from here
Written by Steve Wiseman on November 28th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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What search engine you're using right? Google or Yahoo? No need to say much, I bet most of you are using the Google search engine. Yes, I'm one of them.
Today I'm going to introduce you a new search engine that you may have never heard of it before. It is called Clusty. It was originally from Vivisimo company. It is a new way of searching the web. Instead of displaying a million of pages in a long list, Clusty uses a "cluster" concept to group meaningful pages together. Most importantly this cluster search engine helps you find result that you may have missed especially those results appears in the third or fourth pages of your Google or Yahoo search.
This is what you may want to do:
1. Search from Google but can't find what you want.
2. Try it out Clusty, it may hits.
Ok here come a sad news based on my personal experience, most of the case whatever I can't find in Google, I can't find it in Clusty too. Only just once in a while for certain keyword the Clusty gives me a better result than Google. Therefore, most of time I'm still using Goolge Search Engine. Why don't you experience it now? Perhaps you can share the results with me here? Doest Clusty find what you want?
Try Clusty Now! and let me know what you think.
Not to talk about the result, the cluster concept is very impressive. It could be next generation of search engine. Both Google and Yahoo will adopt it one day...
Written by ChampDog on November 28th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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I’ve been seeing this news all over the web, and it seems that to some people is not really equaling the hype in terms of speed and performance and that XP is Vista’s biggest rival. hrrmmm. But reading this news well it kinda explains some things, but I would still want to use my Windows Vista because it’s still performing to needs and I’m proud to say I’m pleased with it.
My previous post about the news on the testing done on Windows Vista SP1 and why Vista SP1 doesn’t do anything to speed up Vista
Now you can check the news and read Windows XP SP3 Yields Performance Gains, and enjoy reading the comments too, but still you don’t have to take their word for it, because after all you’re the one who’s using it. So if it still performs nicely, then that’s good. This is merely news. But I have to say the news may seem disturbing as lots of people are angry with Windows Vista
Written by PC Freak on November 28th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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