Category Archives: Microsoft

What is FSUTIL?

Fsutil is a file system utility that performs various command-line operations related to file allocation table (FAT) and NTFS file systems. It’s primarily used for managing tasks such as:

Speed Up ISP Logon Time

On some systems it can take a long time to connect to the Internet, you can decrease the time required to connect to your ISP by trying these simple steps.

Corrupt Videos Crash Explorer

When you open a file in Windows XP that has a corrupted video, image files, HTML pages, or MP3 file, Windows Explorer crashes. You will need to somehow access this folder so that you can delete the offensive file.

Encrypt Page File

Here’s a tip for those who like to keep their Windows Vista computer super-secure. You can encrypt your pagefile so that data can’t be easily extracted from it.

Disable Shutdown

Sometimes you may want to disable to the shutdown of a system, such as a kiosk or a mission critical computer.  With the below registry tweak, the shutdown command will be disabled.  To re-enable the shutdown command, simply change the 1 to a 0 (zero).

Configure the IE6 Popup Blocker via Registry

This registry tweak will allow you to toggle the Internet Explorer popup blocker. By extrapolating the information here, you can actually control popups in other programs as well, such as MSN Messenger, Windows Explorer, and others. This hack has been tested on Windows XP SP2 and SP3, but not Vista. You can try with Vista, but your mileage… Read More »