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Swtiched my PC on, and found it wouldn't boot, crashing during bootup, with a brief flash of a blue-screen message. Is there a way to enable the system protection of the drive C (where the OS is instalated), from the command prompt option, that is available under the system recovery.?
My real problem is that when I start the system restore option, just after the selection of the restore selection point, when Its the time to confirm the disk to restore, it says "You must enable system restore protection on this drive"!!! and I cannot do it!!
Now, how do we activate the system protection. And how can we do it from a command line? Just its not even possible to boot in safe mode. As booting in safemode also crashes on startup.

Solution:
Put the following commands into Powershell file and add Powershell task at the end, if you use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT).

enable-computerrestore -drive "c:\"
vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=c: /for=c: /maxsize=5%
checkpoint-computer -description "Done"

Note:
PS is PowerShell.
MDT is Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010.

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Here is a new problem started surfacing in Windows 7 that, Windows automatically get resized and disappear.

Whenever we start our Windows 7 PC, after a minutes or so, all the windows and dialogue boxes take a vertical bar shape and suddenly will disappear, and i am left on desktop!

When we use Alt+Tab to browse the windows, instead of regular rectangular shape, they will appear as a vertical bar, when we click on them or leave alt+Tab when it highlights particular window, it never opens.

We have to point to the task bar icons, when a small preview (snapshot) window appears over that icon, then we have to right click on that preview(snapshot) window, and click on maximize! Sometimes it works, especially for windows displaying folders and file, etc. For application windows like for Firefox, IDM, Gtalk, etc. it wont work either. All we have to do is restart the app. or reboot windows! And morover, this will also freeze the windows gadgets.


Even disabling Aero Snap never worked for this. AeroSnap will work only when we click on title bar and move it! But when we have not done anything like that, and even not the touch of the mouse happened here and still the windows disappeared!

However we have got a solution! It was happening due to a Backdoor.W32 program, that was trying to connect some harmful websites which were blocked by Windows or other anti-virus software. Just try to clean your system and the problem will be solved. And your windows gadgets too will start functioning normally once the backdoor.w32 being removed.

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Sometimes, while using ROBOCOPY to transfer a large file from or to a USB drive and the destination Directory on both occasions will be changed to a hidden system directory, which could not be seen in Windows explorer or through command line access, even with the "Show hidden and System files" set on in the view properties window.

The command executed was:
ROBOCOPY {source drive} {destination drive\folder} /MIR
The command will echo all the actions performed during the copy and will also display a successful copy command summary at the end.
To enable windows to see the directory you have to either type the directory in the explorer address bar, or use the command prompt to change the attribute of the directory as follows "attrib -h -s d:\Films", whereupon the directory was visible in windows explorer.

Is there anyway out if this works without the need to execute the attribb -h -s command after every ROBOCOPY command

Solution:
It may be due to the USB drive itself, it may be infected by viruses or malware. Regarding this, I would like to provide the following suggestions:
  1. Use ROBOCOPY to copy files to the built-in hard drive to see if the issue occurs.
  2. Manually copy the files to the external USB drive to see if they are hidden.
  3. Update the security software and perform a full scan.
  4. Format the USB drive to remove suspicious files completely and perform ROBOCOPY again.

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Security updates for SP1: Today Windows Update offered one small update specifically for SP1 RC. Where as if you are using non Service Pack version of Windows 7, you till be offered more than 10 updates from Microsoft.

It actually means that the vulnerabilities patched in the original version have already been addressed in SP1. Some updates are already part of the Sp1 RC. Microsoft always fixes the issues in their Windows (Main version) Service Pack source code branches and next releases them as updates for Windows 7.

So some updates are already part of Sp1 RC and some newer updates are not. When ever you are offered an update by windows, it is advised that you install all, and you are fine.

Also note that, You can find a list of all hotfixes and security updates that are included in Windows 7/Windows 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 RC here:

If you have already using Windows 7 SP1 RC and you did not find any of the recent updates in the list as far as you could see, and none of the recent updates were offered for SP1 RC either. Then it is assumed that none were necessary for SP1, because the security issues had already been addressed in some other way. As, some where already fixed in Sp1 (RC).

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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Requesting AIK: MDT 2010 provides a common console with the comprehensive tools and guidance needed to efficiently manage deployment of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 is the recommended process and toolset to automate desktop and server deployment.

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 provides detailed guidance and job aids for every organizational role involved with large-scale deployment projects.

New features in MDT include Office 2010 support, the ability for users to initiate and customize their own deployments using Configuration Manager, key enhancements in Windows 7 driver support, and much more.

When you install MDT and try open the workbench, it will prompt that you need to install AIK. Now, from where one can download AIK.


Its about 1.8 GB of file. And it will take time for the download to complete. Make sure it goes properly. And then, burn this file to the DVD Using ISO burner or mount the iso files as virtual drive and use it. I used 'Power ISO' to mount the .iso to the Vm and it worked perfect.

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When a user logs on to a server, he or she first has to submit their password. This password is passed through a hashing function, a mathematical process that converts it into a completely different string of characters, known as the password hash.

The server consults a list that contains passwords hashes of all its users, and checks that the one it has received fromthe usermatches the one in its password list. The beauty of this system is that since hash functions are one-way (meaning that it is not possible to convert a password hash back to the original password) a hacker that gets access to the list of password hashes by breaking in to a server has no direct way to get at the passwords themselves: all they have is a list of password hashes, which have no instant value in themselves.

The only way to use the password hashes to get at the original passwords is by feeding different guesses into the hashing function and waiting until a password hash comes out that matches one of the hashes in the password list. Since the hacker has the password hash list in their possession, there is no need to submit guesses to the server (using a tool like Hydra) to see if they are correct.

Instead, they can run the whole process of passing guesses through a hashing function and comparing the results with the password hashes on the stolen password list on their own computer – a so-called "offline attack."

An offline attack is many times faster than an online attack, limited by the power of the computer carrying out the attack, not the server under attack. The server can't detect an offline attack itself, as it is being carried out on a completely unconnected system.

As well as using a list of guesses to try, it is also possible to attempt to "brute-force" the password hashes. This involves trying every combination of one, two, three, four (and so on) character passwords. Given enough time brute-force attacks are bound to be successful. A brute-force attack will find short passwords very quickly indeed, but a password made up of eight random characters could take hundreds of years to brute-force, and a nine character password could take thousands of years.

To test whether any of your users are using easily guessable or short passwords, you need an offline password-cracking tool like John the Ripper – known simply as John - which is included in BackTrack 3. Unlike many of the open source tools in BackTrack3, John has no built-in GUI, but fortunately it is very simple to use
An offline attack is many times faster than an online attack, limited by the power of the computer carrying out the attack, not the server under attack.

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Checking Wireless Security with aircrack-ng: Wireless networking can be a very big security risk for your organization for at least two reasons:
  • A hacker could get access to your network if they can get within range of a wireless access point that is not protected by encryption (an "open" network) or if the encryption key can easily be guessed
  • A hacker could set up a socalled "rogue" open access point, and then trick users into connecting to that rather than the company's real wireless access point. Once connected the hacker can usually gain access to the user's computer and any data sent to the rogue access point.
Wireless Encryption
To connect to your wireless network, a hacker first needs to authenticate himself by providing an encryption key (unless it is an "open" access, which is an open invitation to hackers). Most organizations use a system called WPA Enterprise, which is generally very secure, but smaller organizations may use alternative systems called WPA, WPA2, or WEP.

WEP is a very insecure system, and a hacker can often get access to a network that uses WEP encryption in less than two minutes. (For more information about this, see

WPA and WPA2, on the other hand, are both very secure -- unless the WPA key needed to access the wireless network is short enough to be brute-forced.

To maintain security it is important to ensure some form of WPA with long, random passwords protects your wireless networks. There is also a danger that users within your organization decide to connect their own access points to the network for their own purposes – perhaps so that they can use a Wi-Fi equipped mobile device – or that a hacker
sets up an open access point. 

These unauthorized or rogue access points are security risks, so it is important to scan your workplace regularly to detect them as quickly as possible.

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Penetration testing seeks to find out how effective the security measures you have in place to protect your corporate IT infrastructure really are by putting them to the test. It may involve a number of stages including:
  • Information gathering: using Google and other resources to find out as much as possible about a company, its employees, their names, and so on
  • Port scanning: to establish what machines are connected to a network and what services they have running that may be vulnerable to attack
  • Reconnaissance: contacting particular servers that an organization may be running and getting information from them (like the usernames of employees, or the applications that are running on a server)
  • Network sniffing: to find usernames and passwords as they travel over the network
  • Password attacks: to decrypt passwords found in encrypted form, or to guess passwords to get access to computers or services
Defending a network and attacking a network are two different disciplines that require different mindsets, so it follows that the people best qualified to carry out a penetration test are not corporate security staff – who are experts at defending a network – but hackers, who are experts at attacking them. The best penetration tests involve using the services of "ethical hackers" who are engaged to attempt to break in to the network and discover as much information and get access to as many computers as possible.

A cheaper option is to use penetration-testing software, which searches for vulnerabilities, and in some cases even carries out attacks automatically. A skilled human is more likely to be successful than any software tool, but using penetration- testing software to carry out your own penetration tests is still a good idea.

The software allows you to carry out these tests yourself on a monthly or even weekly basis, or whenever you make significant infrastructure changes, without incurring the costs associated with repeated tests carried out by a consultant. If you use many of the free penetration testing tools that are available you will almost certainly be using the same ones that many hackers use as hacking tools. If you can successfully compromise your organization's security with these tools then so can hackers – even relatively unskilled hackers who know how to use the software.
A skilled human is more likely to be successful than any software tool, but using penetration-testing software to carry out your own penetration tests is still a good idea.

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Is net 4.0 part of service pack 1? Answer is probably no. It is not part of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, but we can install it with the Installer.

It is an important feature, and why it's not included in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1:  
.net Framework will be inlcuced into Windows WHEN a tool inside the Windows needs it. It makes sense because not many many programs need .net 4.0 runtime and not many were written in net 4.0? So, it is adjustable as long as we can use the installer to make use of it when ever required.
Note: .Net 4.0 was Released To Manufacturing (RTM) in March 2010 after Windows 7 is out, so No Windows 7 tool uses it. But, the next version of Windows, Windows 8 will mostly include it. 
Related Post:
Fact: Currently the amount of tools which use .net 4.0 is very small. But it will grow. .Net 4.0 was released with Visual studio 2010 this year, so it takes a time until the first programs use it.

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Keeping the servers, laptops and desktop PCs in your organization secure is a vital job, as a breach in security can lead to:
  • Valuable data being destroyed or altered;
  • Confidential data being leaked;
  • Loss of customer confidence (leading to lost business);
And the inability to use computing resources (and therefore lost productivity).
The cost of a serious security breach can be very high indeed, so most organizations devote significant resources to keeping malware and malicious hackers from getting on to the corporate network and getting access to data.

Typical defenses against these threats include:
  • A firewall to separate the corporate network from the Internet
  • An intrusion prevention/detection system (IPS/IDS) to detect when typical hacker activities, such as port scans, occur and to take steps to prevent them from successfully penetrating the network
  • Malware scanners to prevent malicious software getting on to the network hidden in e-mail, instant messaging or Web traffic
  • The use of passwords to prevent unauthorized access to networks, computers, or data stored on them.
Every organization should have these defenses in place, but this leaves a very important question to be answered: How effective are these measures? It's a deceptively simple question, but it's essential that you know the answer to it. That's because if you don't it may turn out that:
  • Holes in your firewall leave your network vulnerable
  • Your IPS/IDS is not configured correctly and will not protect your network effectively
  • The passwords used to protect your resources are not sufficiently strong to provide the protection you require
  • Your IT infrastructure has other vulnerabilities you are not aware of, such as an unauthorized and insecure wireless access point, set up by an employee.

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Most of you might have tried adding network folders as libraries and then having them fail to index, and that raises a question among most of us, if it is possible to do this within Windows 7. 

I managed to fix mine. Obviously this works best if you are trying to include a folder containing Music, Pictures, Videos or Movies etc. although you can also do this for your Documents folder if you like. To include a network folder in a library and have it indexed by Windows 7, follows these instructions:
  • Open Windows Explorer and click Map Network Drive. Set the Drive letter and Folder then click Finish. I mapped M: to \\10.1.1.2\Music for example.
  • In Windows Explorer navigate to C:\Users\Username, right-click My Music folder and select Properties from the popup-menu.
  • Click the Location tab then click the Move... button.
  • In the Select a Destination dialog click Computer, select the new M: drive, then click the Select Folder button, or just type M: in the textbox.
  • Click OK. When asked if you want to move all of the files from the old location to the new location click No.
  • Open Windows Media Centre and navigate to Tasks | Settings. Click Media Libraries.
  • Select the Music radio button then click Next.
  • Select the Add folders to the library radio button then click Next.
  • Select the On this computer (includes mapped network drives) radio button then click Next.
  • Tick the checkbox next to the M: network folder containing your Music, e.g. mine was \\10.1.1.2\Music (M:), then click Next.
  • Select the Yes, use these locations radio button then click the Finish button.
  • Wait for Windows Media Centre to finish indexing your folder.
  • Close and re-open Windows Explorer and navigate to your Music library. You should see that it is now pointing to your network folder. If you try the search in the top-right you'll find that it is also indexed.
Note: 'Do not index the same folder twice' while doing this so make sure you don't do the same thing! If you do you'll need to go back into Windows Media Centre and select the Remove folders from library radio button.

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Windows cannot connect to WEP: Sometimes when you upgraded to Windows 7 from earlier version of Windows, you may mess up connecting to the internet with your Wireless Router using WEP encryption. And you will receive an error message that says windows cannot connect…
Actually, if you have certain N wireless NICs, they will not connect using WEP as support is not in the drivers. There are some Intel NICs for example.
Solution:
If you have connection problem between your windows 7 PC and Wireless Router, Just try the idea of taking the security off to see if you can connect, but there have never been an incompatible router. Regardless of brand or type the only thing that has to be compatible is the wireless signal ( and that is pretty easy as long as its not A or B).
  1. Access the router by using a wired connection.
  2. Go to the administration part / Wireless
  3. Under administration there was a choice for "Authentication and Encryption"
  4. Click on "Authentication and Encryption"
  5. It will give you a choice to disable security under that.
  6. Disable security and from that you will be able to connect to your router wirelessly.
  7. After connected wirelessly, access the rourter and re enabled security.
  8. Reboot the computer (pull out the wired connection) and it will always connect to the wireless WEP connection with no problem.
Warning! Not everyone is personally aware of the WEP risks. And not everyone who visits internet through a wireless router is an expert on wireless networking. But to tell you the fact, WEP is NOT safe. WEP was made optional in the final 802.11n specification. And some users do not know how unsafe WEP is. Most people would like the choice of securing their networks properly. And if you are looking for a secured connection, You need to change to at least WPA. Even if that means buying new hardware.

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Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is an update for consumers and IT Pros that helps keep your PCs supported, provides ongoing improvement to the operating system, includes previous updates delivered over Windows Update as well as continuing incremental updates to the Windows 7 platform based on customer and partner feedback, and is easy for organizations to deploy a single set of updates.
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 is an update for enterprises and IT Professionals that offers important virtualization enhancements to customers with the introduction of Dynamic Memory and Microsoft RemoteFX. It also includes previous improvements delivered via Windows Update and addresses feedback from customers. Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 will have Dynamic Memory on Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Service Pack 1 will be released within the first half of calendar year 2011. However, Release Canditate Version SP1 is now available for download. The RC is best suited for IT Pros, tech enthusiasts, and developers who need to test the service pack in their organization or with the software they are developing. The final release of Service Pack 1 will be available through Windows Update for consumers when it is ready.
If you have already installed the RC Version of Windows 7, You cannot upgrade from the RC builds to the final build of SP1. You will have to uninstall the Service Pack or do a clean install of Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
System Requirements For Service Pack 1:
Your current operating system must be the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) version of Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 (build 7600).
You cannot install the Release Candidate over the Beta of SP1. You must uninstall the beta. But you can install the RC on an evaluation version of Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
There are several downloads available for Windows 7 And Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. And if you are not sure of Which one you should choose, here is some simple tip for you. Actually, there are two ways you can obtain the service pack RC. You can download a special key to enable Windows Update to offer you the service pack RC, or you can download the service pack directly. For each download method, you should choose the correct download for your platform (x86, IA64 or x64).

Windows 7 is a high quality release and provides many benefits to consumers and businesses alike. SP1 will include all updates previously available to Windows 7 users through Windows Update, so there is no reason to wait or delay their use of Windows 7.

And there will not be a slipstream build of SP1 RC. The RC will only be available as the service pack update itself. You will need to have a release to manufacturing (RTM) version of Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 to install the RC of the service pack. And you will be able to uninstall the service pack RC if you need to.

Please note, it is always a best practice to back up your data prior to installing any RC software.
Warning! RC will stop functioning after a certain amount of time: You will be reminded beginning August 30, 2011. The RC will expire on November 30, 2011. You will have to upgrade to a newer build or uninstall and return to the RTM build by that time.
One of the major improvements included in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 is virtualization enhancements And for other improvements, please see the Notable Changes document for detail on the additional improvements in SP1.

Difference Between RemoteFX And  Remote Desktop Services.  How do they integrate:
RemoteFX describes a set of rich media capabilities that are available to customers using the Remote Desktop Services platform to deploy a virtual machine- or session-based remote desktop infrastructure. Specifically, RemoteFX enhances the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in Remote Desktop Services so that remote workers can access any type of application or screen content, including rich media and 3D applications, improving end user productivity.

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If you’re coming to Windows 7 from Windows Vista, you’ll probably land with all guns blazing. Most of the layout, techniques, and functions are very similar. If you’re coming straight to Windows 7 from Windows XP, though, you might feel as though you came home from college to find that your parents turned your old bedroom into a home office. Where is everything? A lot went on while you were away.

Here’s a heads-up to some of the biggest changes: 

Security. You could fill several books with information about the security enhancements Microsoft has made to Windows. A lot of them are so technical, they’d make your eyes glaze over, but here’s a sampling. User Account Control is a dialog box that pops up whenever you try to install a program or adjust a PC-wide setting, requesting that you type your password. It means that viruses can no longer make changes to your system without your knowing about it. You’ll see one of these dialog boxes, and if you aren’t the one trying to make the change, you’ll click Cancel instead of Continue. 
Windows Defender protects your PC from spyware (downloads from the Internet that, unbeknownst to you, send information back to their creators or hijack your Web browser).
A cosmetic overhaul. Thanks to a new design scheme called Aero, window edges are translucent; menus and windows fade away when closed; the taskbar shows actual thumbnail images of the open documents, not just their names; all the icons have been redesigned with a clean, 3-D look and greater resolution; and so on.
Not everyone gets to enjoy these Aero features. Some PCs are too slow to handle all this graphics processing; on those machines, the transparency and taskbar features are missing.
The Start menu is a better-organized, two-column affair; that awful XP business of superimposing the All Programs menu on top of the two other columns is long gone.

New programs and features. Lots of new or upgraded software programs and features debuted in Vista. For example:
Instant Search. With one keystroke (the windows key), you open the Start menu’s new Search box. It searches your entire PC for the search phrase you type—even inside files that have different names.

New apps. Check out the Snipping Tool (for capturing patches of the screen as graphics, for use in illustrating computer books) and Windows Fax and Scan, one-stop shopping for scanning and faxing. Speech Recognition lets you dictate email and documents, and even control Windows itself, all by voice.

Laptop goodies. You’ll find folder synchronization with another computer, more powerful battery-control settings, and a central Mobility Center that governs all laptop features in one place.

New Explorer features. Explorer windows can now have information panels and controls on all four edges, including the Navigation pane (left); task toolbar (top); Preview pane (right); and Details pane (bottom). The new address bar, which displays the path you’ve taken to burrow into the folder you’re now inspecting, is loaded with doodads and clickable spots that make navigation far easier.

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Microsoft added a few choice new features, not the usual list of several hundred. This What’s New time around, the master plan wasn’t “Triple the length of the feature list,” as usual at Microsoft. Instead, it was “Polish and fix what we’ve already got.” The formula worked. New color schemes make the whole thing feel lighter and less daunting. New fonts make everything cleaner and sharper. There’s a new design consistency, too, featuring plain-English, lowercase, one-click toolbar commands for the things you’re most likely to want to do at the moment (“Burn,” “New folder,” “Share,” and so on).

That’s not to say that Microsoft didn’t add any new features at all in Win7. Here are some of the highlights:
New taskbar. The taskbar, the traditional row of buttons at the bottom of the screen (representing your open programs), has been given the most radical overhaul in years. Now it resembles the Dock on the Mac: It holds the icons for open programs and icons you’ve dragged there for quick access.

If you point to a program’s icon, Triscuit-sized miniatures of its windows pop up. You can either click one, to bring that window forward, or you can just run your cursor across them; as you do so, the corresponding full-size windows flash to the fore. All of this means easier navigation in a screen awash with window clutter.

Jump lists. Another taskbar feature. When you right-click a taskbar icon, you get a new, specialized list of shortcuts called a jump list. It maintains a list of that program’s most recently or frequently opened documents, and offers a few other important program-related commands too.
New window treatments. Now Windows does more for windows. You can drag a window’s edge against the top or side edge of your screen to make it fill the whole screen or half of it. You can give a window a little shake with the mouse to minimize all other windows when you need a quick look at your desktop. The Show Desktop button has been reborn as a sliver at the right end of the taskbar—a one-click shortcut for hiding all windows instantly.

A new folder concept: Libraries. Libraries are like meta-folders: They display the contents of up to 50 other folders, which may be scattered all over your system or even all over your network. Libraries make it easy to keep project files together, to back them up en masse, or to share them with other PCs on the network.

Effortless networking. Windows has always been good at networking computers together—but Microsoft has never been especially good at making that easy for the average non-techie. That all changes with Windows 7’s HomeGroups feature. You just enter a one-time password on each machine in your house. Once that’s done, each computer can see the photos, music, printers, and documents on all the other ones. At no time do you have to mess with accounts, permissions, or passwords. Obviously, homegroups aren’t ideal for government agencies or NASA—but if it’s just you and a couple of family members, the convenience of sharing your printers and music collections may well be more important than big-deal security barriers.

Wild music sharing. Windows Media Player lets you listen to the music from one PC while seated at another one—across the room, across the network, or even across the Internet.

Better plug-and-play. Microsoft’s little driver slave drivers were busy during the three-year gestation of Windows 7. Thousands more gadgets now work automatically when you plug them in, without your having to worry about drivers or software installation. The new Device Stage window even shows a picture of the camera/phone/printer/scanner you’ve just plugged in, describes it for you, and offers links to its most useful functions.

Multitouch. Does the world really want multitouch laptops and desktop PCs that work like an iPhone? It’s too soon to tell, but Microsoft is ready for the new wave of multitouch screens. Windows 7 recognizes the basic two-finger “gestures”: pinching and zooming (to shrink or enlarge a photo or a Web page), rotating (for a photo), dragging a finger (to scroll), and so on. Other new-and-improved items lurk around every corner; among other improvements, somebody with a degree in English has swept through every corner and rewritten buttons, links, and dialog boxes for better clarity.
Note: Microsoft has taken a bunch of stuff away, too. Most of it is complicated clutter, introduced in Vista, that nobody wound up using. The not-so-dearly departed features include Stacking in desktop windows, the Quick Launch toolbar, the Sidebar, and Offline Favorites.

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Internet Explorer Closed Unexpectedly? Actually it might not be the case, in most situation Internet Explorer is never closed "unexpectedly". Even if it is closed by correctly by clicking on the X at the top right hand corner, you will get this message. What could be the cause of the spurious message?

And after that, when Internet Explorer is opened, it always displays a dialog box with two choices that reads:

Your last browsing session closed unexpectedly
  • Restore your last session
  • Go to your home page
After clicking either choice, IE works without a hitch.

Solution:
Do a quick test:
  1. After closing IE by clicking on the red X,
  2. Open up Task Manager, and select Process.
  3. From there, see if you can find IExplorer.exe from the list.
  4. If yes, then it shows that IE wasn't closed properly - Could be caused by an add on.
In this case, try opening Internet Explorer (No Add-Ons) from Start -> Accessories -> System Tools, and see if this issue persists. Hopefully, it should not. 

Then you have to find the troubled Ad-ons and to disable it from loading, or if an update is available for the ad-ons you can go for an update. Meanwhile, uninstall any unwanted toolbars. And if you have some toolbar installed, try to uninstall it and then reinstall the same with the latest version of the toolbar.

And in case if you wish to turn off the warnings "Your last browsing session closed unexpectedly", follow these steps.
  • Open gpedit.msc
  • Move to - Administrative Templates - > Windows Components -> Internet Explorer
  • Enable - Turn off Automatic Crash Recovery Prompt
This also might be useful:
  • Enable - Turn off Crash Detection

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USB External Drives : Setting The Performance Mode Of The USB Device:
If you bought yourself a nifty USB external hard drive to hold your VM files, you may find it sometimes acts a little sluggish, even occasionally crashing the VM host app (VMware, Virtual Box, whatever). One thing you might want to try is setting the performance mode of the USB device. To do this on Windows 7, right-click on the drive assignment in Windows Explorer, and select 'Properties". Then click the Hardware tab, and select the specific device in the disk drives list. Then click the "Properties" button at the bottom. Then click the "Change Settings" button, select the "Policies" tab and set the Removal policy to "Better performance" instead of "Quick removal"

Active Directory Synchronization
If your VM guests are joined to an AD domain and you find that the guests drop off the domain every few weeks, it's most likely due to the computer account password synchronization getting wacked. This can happen if the machines are powered off longer than the default resync cycle period, or if you reset (roll-back) to a snapshot from prior to the last resync. You can modify this as follows:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters\DisablePasswordChange

Change this from 0 to 1.

If you are working with snapshots, you may need to implement this on each snapshot up to the parent state.

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When you are running some application in Windows 7, specifically game programs for example, chances are there that your keyboard layout changes to a foreign language that every letter key on the keyboard begins typing 123456789 in sequence.

Its possibly an eastern language keyboard layout that does this. It might also be the input language changing and not the keyboard. Also the keyboard input becomes normal if you  hold down the ctrl key or the alt key, which leads us to believe it is definitely switching between two input languages/layouts. So for example if the z key normally types z but instead is typing 12345 it will only type z if I hold down the ctrl key or the alt key.

Solution:
Before going any further, Perform to troubleshoot the issue:
  • Check  whether the game or the application that cause this issue  is compatible with Windows 7 or not, you can check it on Windows 7 Compatibility Center the game which incompatible with Windows 7 will cause unrespectable issue. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/windows-7/en-us
  • Reinstall the Keyboard driver. Uninstall the Keyboard in Device Manager and scan for hardware changes.
  • See if the issue is solved with this, if it has not, continue reading further.
  • Go to “Region and Language”---“Keyboards and Languages”---“Change Keyboards”, remove the useless keyboard and press “OK”
  • Update BIOS to the latest version
  • Login in with Clean Boot to see if the same issue occurs.
  • Press the defined keys to change the input when running the game or application and see if it occurs next time.

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Registering MSCOMCT2.OCX (Microsoft DatePicker) (with the aim of using this control on any of your development / application) may take you to an error code 0x8002801c.
The c:\windows\sysWOW64\mscomct2.ocx module has been loaded, but the call to DllRegisterServer has failed, with the error code 0x8002801c"
Registering OCX Files In Windows 7 and Windows Vista:
Note: You need to copy the MSCOMCT2.OCX file to c:\windows\sysWOW64 not c:\windows\system32. You then can register it by running from the command prompt or run in the start menu regsvr32 c:\windows\sysWOW64\mscomct2.ocx and it should register although make sure that you run regsvr32 with administrator privileges.
Copy MSCOMCT2.OCX to the C:\windows\SysWOW64 directory. Please note that when you are using Windows 64Bit, you need to copy to SYSWOM64 Folder in Windows. And incase if you are using 32 Bit Windows, you wont find any folder like SYSWOW64. So, you need to copy the OCX file to Windows / System.

How to Register .OCX File From Command Prompt in Administrative Mode
  1. Click the Start button, then in the "Start Search" box, type CMD but DO NOT press Enter yet.
  2. In the list above, under "Programs" right-click on CMD that appears above and choose "Run as Administrator" and click "Continue".
  3. In the open window, type the following command and press Enter:
regsvr32 c:\windows\sysWOW64\mscomct2.ocx
Hope, this will help. The above method is explained to register MSCOMCT2.OCX File, you can register any OCX File using the above method. The only thing is, you need to copy the file to the SYSwow64 folder and then use the command prompt in Administration Mode and give the folloing command.
regsvr32 c:\windows\sysWOW64\filename.ocx
Note: File name can be substituded with the OCX file you need to register.

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When ever you try to open a hyperlink, or a link to another webpage, the website always opens "about:blank" instead of the web site address in it. what could be the problem?

You may refer to the following steps to troubleshoot If Internet Explorer cannot open the hyperlink for all the sites.

Please first disable the third party security software (anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall) to check the issue. If the issue persists without enabling this kind of software, please test the issue in Clean Boot.

If the issue still exists in Clean Boot mode, please reset Internet Explorer 8 by the steps below:

Reset Internet Explorer 8
Note: the following steps will remove all of installed add-ons and reset IE to default settings. We need to reinstall the add-ons after resetting.
  1. Click "Start", type "inetcpl.cpl" (without quotation marks) into “Search” bar and press "Enter" to open the “Internet Options” window.
  2. Switch to the "Advanced" tab.
  3. Click "Reset…" to reset Internet Explorer settings.
  4. Check "Delete personal settings" box and click "Reset" to confirm the operation.
  5. Click "Close" when the resetting process is complete.
  6. Close the Internet Explorer window and restart IE to check the issue.

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One has to know the very simple logic that, when a file is already open, it cant be deleted. And this also applies to Windows Themes.

Have you ever noticed in Windows 7 when you are working with Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Personalization.

You can create a new desktop theme; however, You wont find a option to delete or remove a theme once it has been created.

Is this a bug in Windows 7? No, it is not. It is by design, that you cannot change /alter or delete a file that is in use by Windows.

What is the way to delete?
Pretty much this, The theme you want to delete cant be in use. Try applying a completely different theme, and try again or just follow the steps below.
  1. You have to click on another theme so the one you want to delete is not highlighted
  2. And then right click the theme you want to delete, then click on "Delete theme".
If its highlighted when you right click it, the only options are "Save theme" and "Save theme for sharing"

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How can one run a program at the start of windows 7 when the user log in to windows. Well, the easiest way is to add a shortcut to the program to your Startup folder.\

How to add a shortcut of any program to Windows Startup folder:
  1. Go to the application which you want windows to load while booting.
  2. Right click the .exe (Application) file and click on copy
  3. Right click on windows ICON in the left bottom corner, and then choose EXPLORER.
  4. Double Click Programs Folder
  5. Double click Start-up Folder
  6. Right click on any empty area and click on paste shortcut.
Please remeber, if the program requires administration right, every time windows logs in, it will show UAC as this program is configued to run with elivated rights.

To avoid this problem, the best way to make a program run at the start up on windows is, to run it through a script. By creating a schedule task with your script to schedule a program to run at the next reboot. In my opinion, Windows 7 do not have any other reliable alternative to Run A program At startup.

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Nobody knows what the next version of Windows will be called. It's even likely that Microsoft hasn't decided on a name yet. Do not assume that it will be Windows 8; it may be that, or it may be something else.

Okay, if it is Windows 8, When will Windows 8 Beta be available to download?
Again it is so silly to think as the answer will be just similar to the above. Nobody knows when the first beta version of the next version of Windows will be available. It's even likely that Microsoft doesn't know yet. They may have a plan for when they want it to be ready, but not everything in all plans happens when it's planned.

When a beta version does come out, the reason it will be a beta test version instead of a released version is that it will still have bugs in it, and Microsoft will be looking for beta test users to inform them of other bugs as they are found, In my view, unless you have a spare computer to install it on, and enjoy doing beta testing of software and reporting of bugs to Microsoft, installing such beta software is just looking for trouble.

Yes, you can install beta versions, but for almost everyone I strongly advise against doing that, and waiting for it to be released.

And finally, note that the reason it will be a beta version instead of a released version is that it will still have bugs in it, and Microsoft will be looking for beta test users to inform them of other bugs as they are found,

In my view, unless you have a spare computer to install it on, and enjoy doing beta testing of software and reporting of bugs to Microsoft, installing such beta software is just looking for trouble.

Yes, you can install the beta version when it comes out, but for almost everyone I strongly advise *against* doing that, and waiting for it to be released.

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This problem occurs when you Upgrade your windows using Windows Anytime Upgrade. The Offline Files Service will be listed in Windows services, but when trying to start it, it will just go for a bit and then it will give an error stating that the file can not be found.

"Windows could not start the Offline Files service on Local Computer. Error 3: The system cannot find the path specified."

The Windows\csc folder is completly empty (No files). This will help windows to index a network folder and to use as an addition to the "My Documents" Library.

Please remember, You can’t start the Offline files service via Service Manager. And this is how you have to start and manage your Offline Files Services In Windows 7

You may try the following steps to open the Offline files feature.
  1. Click the Start Menu. Then type Offline files in the search box.
  2. Then Click the Manage Offline files in the search result.
  3. Hit Enable Offline files.

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The main differences between Ultimate and Home Premium are:
  • Ability to change between different UI (display) languages. Useful for multinational environments where each user can select his own localized UI, and for jobs where an easy access to different tech terms is a great help 
what's "Ctrl Panel, Device Manager, Sound, video and game controllers" in French?. A bit overpowered for people who purchased their laptop in Japan and want an English interface now buying an English HP version at home might be cheaper
  • Bitlocker Drive encryption. Useful for securing valuable enterprise apps and data. Less useful for people who don't want their kids reviewing Dad's photo album (can be achieved easier.
  • Better networking than on Professional (Direct Access, better sync). Useful if needed.
  • Booting from VHD. Might be a technique for the cloudy future, limited scenarios at the moment.
  • Most importantly, Ultimate is more expensive than Home Premium.

The old differences (with Windows Vista) between "Home" (including media features), "Business" (more networking, no media features) and "Ultimate" (has it all, plus "Ultimate Extras") are gone with Windows 7.
If you are running windows 7 home premium and if you would like to upgrade to windows 7 Ultimate. Here is how it can be easy, just choose Anytime Upgrade.
Anytime Upgrade is very easy, find out why from the link(s) below.

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Just if something has gone terribly wrong and you cannot boot into Windows... Say for example, when some Windows file got corrupt... like winload.exe and some vital dll's - or maybe something has gone wrong in the registry, the best solution to save your Installed applications and system registry information is to do a repair installation.
Note: In some worst case, if you cant log into windows due to some blue screen error, you cannot perform Repair installation. In such case, the only way is to do a clean install of your Windows 7 or windows Vista. Also note that, The installer for Windows 6 (VISTA) and Windows 7 are almost identical in this regard.
The question is, How to do a repair install to fix the problem without deleting all of  your programs, current registry etc. In case of Windows XP, we could just boot off the disk and do a repair install, but one can't seem to find a similar function with Windows 7 or Windows Vista

Ok, the solution is simple..
  • Boot from the DVD
  • Go through the installation wizard.
  • When it asks you if you want to do a clean install or an upgrade, select the Upgrade option.
This will do what is called an "in place upgrade" of the Operating System. This will also work for Vista. The installer for Windows 6.x (both Vista and 7) are almost identical in this regard.
Note: When you finish, you will need to re-activate Windows 7 and you will likely want to run Windows Update to make sure you've got all of the latest updates from there, but your installed apps will still be there.

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When you are going to Windows Explorer address bar, have you noticed a drop down menu that shows where you have been in the past. ? Ya.. you might have, and not many will welcome that idea. i mean, not many.. but there are few who like this way so that it will be easy for them to browse again and again the same location. 

But,  I don't want the drop down menu to show where I have been: Is there a way to delete the paths that are shown when typing in the address bar. And this applies to both Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer.

Solution: 
This settings can be acheived from Internet Options. Yes, not only for Internet Explorer, the settings that you make in Internet Explorer also applies to Windows Explorer.
Turning off AutoComplete by unchecking the Address bar box below in 
Internet Options -  Content - -  Settings - Uncheck The Address Bar settings in the menu.
And then clicking on OK will remove them for you. 

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Typing on the any Laptop with big hands is a pain. The touchpad always gets in your way. When you are typing, you may then lightly brush the surface of the touchpad and the mouse moves. 

To solve this issue, it takes just few seconds... and here is how it can be disabled.

How to Disable the touchpad depends on which type of computer or touchpad you are using. Please note that, this is not a Windows configuration setting and depending upon your laptop the configutation can be different. But the settings remain the same for most of the Windows Based Operating System.

On some systems, you can disable the touchpad in the systems BIOS settings, while on others, such as most Dell systems there is an option in Control Panel/Mouse/Dell Touchpad settings. Other laptops simply automatically disable the touchpad when you plug in an external mouse.

And remember, you can also add delay to the touchpad after a keystroke. Read the manual for the system for the specific instructions or contact the manufacturers support for that laptop.
Ok, here it is... refer the screen shot below. As i told before, the screen shot displayed here wont be the same for all kind of laptops.
  • Install the latest Synaptic driver
  • Go into synaptic settings. Normally, you can go to the synaptic settings by double clicking the synaptic icon that is near your system clock. (Refer Screen Shot) Also note: you may need to click arrow to open hidden tray icons.
  • Find tapping and disable it.

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Have you ever noticed that when windows returning from sleep, approximately 50% of the time, the dynamic disk disappears completely - It's will not be visible in disk nor device management, and likewise, it's drive letter becomes available for reuse and the disk disappears from Computer. And the disk will return to use after a full reboot. Does it have anything to do with hardware configuration or hardware compatibility.

This certainly is a problem with hardware compatibility. And here is a work around on how to solve this problem.
To perform this procedure on a local computer, you must be a member of the Backup Operators group or Administrators group on the local computer, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority. To perform this procedure remotely, you must be a member of the Backup Operators group or Administrators group on the remote computer. If the computer is joined to a domain, members of the Domain Admins group might be able to perform this procedure. As a security best practice, consider using Run as to perform this procedure.
To work around this issue, I suggest you use the diskpart command lines to reactivate the dynamic disk when the disk is not shown.

Reactivate a missing or offline dynamic disk Storage Services; Local File Systems

Please note that you reactivate a missing or offline dynamic disk in two ways.
  • Using the Windows interface
  • Using a command line
Using the Windows interface
  1. Open Computer Management (Local).
  2. In the console tree, click Computer Management (Local), click Storage, and then click Disk Management.
  3. Right-click the disk marked Missing or Offline, and then click Reactivate Disk.
The disk should be marked Online after the disk is reactivated.
  • To open Computer Management, click Start, click Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.
  • A dynamic disk may become Missing when it is corrupted, powered down, or disconnected.
  • A dynamic disk may become Offline if it is corrupted or intermittently unavailable. A dynamic disk may also become Offline if you attempt to import a foreign (dynamic) disk and the import fails. An error icon appears on the Offline disk. Only dynamic disks display the Missing or Offline status.
  • Only dynamic disks can be reactivated.
Using a command line
  • 1. Open Command Prompt.
  • 2. Type:
diskpart
  • 3. At the DISKPART prompt, type:
list disk
Make note of the disk number of the missing or offline disk that you want to bring online. Missing disks are numbered M0, M1, M2, etc. and offline disks are numbered 0, 1, 2, etc.
  • 4. At the DISKPART prompt, type:
select diskn
  • 5. At the DISKPART prompt, type:
online

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System File Checker tool to troubleshoot missing or corrupted system files: This article describes how to use the System File Checker tool (SFC.exe) to troubleshoot missing or corrupted system files on Windows Vista or on Windows 7.

If a Windows Resource Protection (WRP) file is missing or is corrupted, Windows may not behave as expected. For example, some Windows functions may not work, or Windows may crash. The System File Checker tool (SFC.exe) scans for missing or corrupted system files and repairs them.

Use the System File Checker tool (SFC.exe) to determine which file is causing the issue, and then replace the file. To do this, follow these steps:
  • Open an elevated command prompt. 
To do this, click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator. If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or click Allow.
  • Type the following command, and then press ENTER:
sfc /scannow
The sfc /scannow command scans all protected system files and replaces incorrect versions with correct Microsoft versions. 
To determine which files could not be repaired by the System File Checker tool, follow these steps:
Open an elevated command prompt.
Type the following command, and then press ENTER:
findstr /C:"[SR] Cannot repair member file" %windir%\logs\cbs\cbs.log >sfcdetails.txt

Note: The Sfcdetails.txt file contains details from every time that the System File Checker tool has been run on the computer. The file includes information about files that were not repaired by the System File Checker tool.

Verify the date and time entries to determine the problem files that were found the last time that you ran the System File Checker tool.
Type the following command, and then press ENTER:
edit sfcdetails.txt
The Sfcdetails.txt file uses the following format:
Date/Time SFC detail
If the System File Checker tool cannot repair a file, follow this link, To Know How To Take Ownership Of The File.

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This article describes how to take ownership of a file or a folder to which you are denied access.
Applies To:
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows Server 2008
If you must access a file or a folder that you do not have rights to, you must take ownership of that file or folder. When you do this, you replace the security permissions that were originally created for the file or folder.

You must be either logged on to Windows as an administrator or you should have access to administrator password for the computer for which you are going to use these steps in order to change security permissions for a file or a folder.

If the computer is your personal computer, you are likely already logged on with an administrator account. If the computer is part of a network at work, you might have to ask the system administrator for help. To verify that you are logged on to Windows with a user account that is a computer administrator, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

Open an elevated command prompt. To do this, click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator.


If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or click Allow.


At an elevated command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER: takeown /f Path_And_File_Name
For example, type takeown /f E:\windows\system32\jscript.dll.
Type the following command, and then press ENTER to grant administrators full access to the file:
icacls Path_And_File_Name /GRANT ADMINISTRATORS:F
For example, type icacls E:\windows\system32\jscript.dll /grant administrators:F.
Type the following command to replace the file with a known good copy of the file: 
Copy Path_And_File_Name_Of_Source_File Path_And_File_Name_Of_Destination
For example, type copy E:\temp\jscript.dll E:\windows\system32\jscript.dll.

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