Using and Creating a Recovery Disk

Owning a recovery disk is becoming a necessity of some sort today. The type I am referring to here is one created by you. This is important because of the many instances of computers being attacked by viruses, spyware which lead to system failure. You might have experienced one yourself.

RAID 5 Data Recovery

When you are operating on a technology-based system, anyone who experienced some technical failures will definitely feel that stomach-churning, knot-tightening touch that always comes first before you actually worry about making a backup on your important file. When you have a computer crash going on, the first thing you try to see is to make sure data was… Read More »

Change Default Explorer View

The default view when Windows Explorer is opened is the Libraries folder, which includes Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos. I can’t stand this view. Here’s how to change it. By applying this tweak, you’ll get the drive view rather than the library view when opening Windows Explorer from the Start Menu.

RAID is not for killing bugs

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or sometimes “Independent”) Disks. RAID is a method of combining multiple hard disks in a single logical unit to offer high availability, performance or a combination of both. This provides better resilience and performance than a single disk drive.

Shutdown within RDP

Ever wonder how to reboot a machine from within an RDP session?  Can’t find the shortcut off the Start menu?  Use the CLI version of Shutdown.exe to get your machine rebooted.

Disable the Windows 7 Control Panel

Need to stop people from accessing your control panel? Try this registry tweak for Windows 7. In a business environment, you can push this down via a group policy setting to many computers at once. But let’s say you just want to stop your children from monkeying with settings on your home pc. You can disable the control… Read More »

Need Some Pranks?

In this short list of 64 office and computer related pranks ought to brighten up your Aprils Fools Day.  Got a good one to add?  Let us know in the comments!

Right-click Defrag for Windows 7

Do you really want to quickly defragment your drive?, Instead of going through Start menu, programs and etc., use a simple tweak that adds Defrag to the context menu for each hard drive partition.