Archive for June 13th, 2010
MSConfig Cleanup
I wish I could take credit for this but Bill Mullins found this excellent utility that helps clean up MSConfig. When troubleshooting your computer, we recently recommended using the Task Manager and Resource Monitor. MSConfig and your startup are also excellent places to look for malicious software, software using resources you don’t need and other software applications. Go check it out at Bill’s site.
Also take a look at our article on the Task Manager.
Protect Me!
If you have a flash drive and sensitive data is held on the drive, encrypt it. Here’s another encryption program for your drive.
Protect Me! is free and offers these features -
Easily password-protect any file.
Oone .exe file which contains the encrypted file(s)
The result will be just a few KB bigger than the encrypted files.
SHA1 for password validation
AES (Rijndael) for your data
The container file is compiled at runtime
ChromePlus
OK, Chrome was the only browser not truly hacked. So what about ChromePlus? It offers features Chrome doesn’t have. Check it out.
Double Click Tab To Close Page
Also visit – What’s On My PC and see Google Chrome’s Fabulous new tab.
Backup Your Droid
Speed up Linux (debian) or Ubuntu
Want to speed up Ubuntu? Try these steps-
1. Use Preload – Preload is an adaptive readahead daemon that monitors applications and analyzing data and predicts what applications may run. To use Preload, open a terminal window and type – sudo apt -get install preload
2. Adjust Swappiness – Swappiness allows your computer to move things out of physical memory and down to the swap area of the physical drive.
Now edit the /etc/sysctl.conf file and enter the line – vm.swappiness=10
3. Try running boot processes in parallel – The /etc/ init.d/rc can be edited. Change concurrency=none to Concurrency =shell.
Free Domain Tools for Administrators
A little misleading but Desktop Central allows Administrators or users to find out information
- Software Inventory – Allows you to inventory known software on remote computers
- ShutDown/Restart – Utility to shutdown or restart the computers of a Windows Domain.
- Group Policy Object Update – Utility to perform a GPO Update in the computers of a Windows Domain.
- Wake on LAN -Utility to boot computers in the network (LAN) from remote. It allows the administrators to boot multiple computers simultaneously.
- Join/Unjoin Computer (to Domain) – Utility to move a computer from one domain to another or from a domian to a workgroup or from a workgroup to a domain.
- Networkshare Browser – Tool to get the information about the files, folders and Active Sessions of the shares in a remote computer.
- Remote Task Manager – Utility to view the processes running in a remote computer along with its details like, Process ID, Memory Usage, Session ID, Priority, etc.
- Currently Logged On User
- Hard Disk Space Detector – Utility to retrieve the information about the Hard Disk like Partition/Drives, Volume Name, Total Size, Free Space, and File System.
- Local Users / Groups
- Remote Command Prompt – Free tool to open a command prompt of a remote computer and execute a command.
- Laptop Battery Power Monitor (Information on Laptop Batteries across a Domain)
