There are a multitude of system services which can be disabled or set to manual startup. By switching the following services to manual or disabled, you can realize an increase in speed, both in bootup and in standard use.
Some Network Interface Cards (NICs) have an option to allow Windows to turn off the device to save power. While this seems like a great, green power saving idea, it can cause some real problems.
Cookies are handled very different in Internet Explorer 8 than they are in older versions of IE. Here’s how you can enable or disable them.
If you’re on a network but you can’t send or receive data, use any network resources, or visit the Internet, the culprit may be a problem with your DHCP-assigned IP address. The simplest way to fix it is to renew the IP address – get rid of the old one and ask the DHCP server to send along… Read More »
The FSMO role holders can be easily found by use of the Netdom command. Netdom.exe is a part of the Windows 2000/XP/2003 Support Tools. You must either download it separately (from here Download Free Windows 2000 Resource Kit Tools) or by obtaining the correct Support Tools pack for your operating system. The Support Tools pack can be found in… Read More »
A cross-domain vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running IE.
URL poisoning, also known as location poisoning, is a method of tracking Web user behavior by adding an identification (ID) number to the page address (Uniform Resource Locator) line of the Web browser when a user visits a particular site.
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a decentralized naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the internet or a private network. It translates easily memorizable domain names, like “example.com”, into numerical IP addresses, which are used by computers to identify each other on the network.
If the Send To > Mail Recipient missing when you right-click on a JPG image file, you can fix it with these registry modifications:
If images aren’t loading in any web pages in IE7, there may be a setting that somehow got turned off. You can find the setting with the steps below: