Do you think no one can see your computer folders and files over network when its not shared? That is not the case. Any user with administrative access on your local computer or Domain ( if its connected) can access your whole C, D or other partitions without your knowledge and normal sharing. All partitions are shared for administrators in Windows Operating Systems which is called ‘ Administrative Shares’.  This post shows how to disable administrative shares in Windows 7 computer to keep your data secret.  Read more...

While I’m preparing a different post related to this topic, I noticed administrative shares not working in my Windows 7 workgroup computer. If the computer becomes part of domain, it started working for domain administrator, but in workgroup, no luck. After several tries and searches, this way helped me fix the issue.  Read more...

When multiple Operating Systems installed with Windows 7 then editing boot loader is not easy as Windows XP.  This small post shows how to use free GUI Boot loader editor for Windows 7 to easily manage and edit boot options.

In windows 7 Boot loader  called ‘ Boot Configuration Data (BCD)’ and its having complete command line utility. Though command line utility works well, but GUI is easy to work.  In earlier Operating Systems editing boot loader options, such as changing boot order, timeout, display name, disks and partitions numbers can be done easily by going to Startup and Recovery settings under advanced system properties, then open like text editor. But Windows 7 is not having same option.  Read more...

If you are looking to browse Recent documents in Windows 7 explorer, then it will not be available where you found in Windows XP. It’s in different location like Vista. Find out the Windows 7 recent documents location with this small guide.

This is helpful to  access  Windows 7 drives over the network to find out recently opened documents and visited places in explorer.

Recent documents for Windows 7 is located under here,

Look at above location when you browse other users’ data over network or as separate disk.

I’m not completely against facebook except their annoying emails and useless applications, but I  hate people who dying front of computer with facebook. At most of the work places its blocked easily by proxy servers. There are some methods to access it even when it blocked by proxy servers. Anyhow it is pointless to talk about it.  In this post I show few steps on how to block Facebook on Windows 7 Home computer.

As you don’t have proxy servers at home, we have to do it in other ways. 5 methods available here, take which one suites for your and others (blocking for them).  Read more...

May be I’m posting this late but still lots of users use Windows XP, Windows Vista where I live, except who buy new computers with MS OS. Windows 7 is the really a best OS from Microsoft.  Have you ever felt the difference between Windows Me and XP when XP was released? Same scenario here too. The people used XP for long time and tired with Vista, surprised by Windows 7 performance and features. Why Windows 7 better than Vista? here are some points. This is completely from my experience with both OSs.

You can share your thoughts here, as I might miss something.  Read more...

Safari 5, the most expected web browser from apple is finally available for download. Download safari 5 for Windows 7, XP and Vista from official site.

The first look at safari 5 available here, check before downloading.

Safari 5 for Windows requires Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista or Windows 7, a minimum 256MB of memory and a system with at least a 500 MHz Intel Pentium processor.

Share you browsing experience with this.

Warning:  You are allowed to use this tool only for password recovery and educational purpose. Do not use this tool for illegal purpose.

Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 server Operating Systems are the latest and more secured versions from Microsoft. If you are a system administrator dealing with MS products, you might have faced situations to open computers without knowing Windows administrator password. This post explains very simple step to reset Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 administrator password in two minutes. Earlier MS OS versions also work.  Read more...