How to Break Into a Windows PC (And Prevent it from Happening to You)
Whether you’ve forgotten your password or you have a more malicious intent, it’s actually extremely easy to break into a Windows computer without knowing the password. Here’s how to do it, and how to prevent others from doing the same to you.
There are a few methods to breaking into a computer, [...]
Convert Windows XP into a Windows 7 Virtual Machine with Disk2vhd
Would you like to be able to still run Microsoft Windows XP while you get familiar with Windows 7? Well, moving your existing Windows XP system to a virtual machine that you can run in Windows 7 is a relatively easy procedure with the Disk2vhd tool from Microsoft’s Windows Sysinternals team: Mark [...]
How do I make my Windows 7 desktop look and feel like a Linux desktop?
Those of you who have worked on a Linux desktop know how much more efficient you can be. You also know that the possibility of having your Windows desktop look and feel more like a Linux desktop would be a boost to productivity, not only in efficiency, but in ease of use [...]
How to add your favorite folders to My Places in Office 2010
I’m in and out of the same folders a lot and some of them are a few layers deep. Working through that hierarchy is monotonous and inefficient. Using Office 2003’s, I added these frequently used folders to My Places (the bar to the left in many dialog boxes)—it’s a great shortcut. [...]
Ubuntu’s two big advantages over Windows and Mac
I’ve been using the latest version (10.04) of Ubuntu Linux since April and there’s a lot to like about it. I announced earlier this year that I was giving desktop Linux another look, and I went with Ubuntu because it is the Linux distribution most focused on a desktop OS. [...]
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