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If you are a pro computer user and lot many times you feel that so many applications are running on your computer. Lot many windows opened and these running applications and slowing down your PC. If you go ahead and close each of them one by one, it will involve around 15 – 20 clicks or more. Windows users can close all running applications on single click by using a very tiny application. Close All is a small utility developed by Ntwind Software which can close al running applications at one click.
Close All doesn’t need any kind of installation on your computer. You just need to download the zipped folder and extract it on your
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: General, Operating Systems | Comments Off
Sometimes you will see your computer getting restarted or shutdown automatically without any instruction from your side. This is a frustrating scenario when you are working on some important stuff and your computer restarts without any notice. Of course this is an improper restart or shutdown and may damage your computer’s hardware like Hard Disk or may damage your Operating System like Windows. This is a common problem in old computers specially PCs i.e. computers running on Windows OS. But there may be different reasons for this common problem. Here are some of the reasons which may cause frequent auto restart or shutdown of your PC.
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Posted: February 21st, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: General, Operating Systems | Comments Off
Backups help ensure that your files aren’t permanently lost or damaged. With automatic backups, you don’t have to remember to back up your files. You can change your automatic backup settings (such as how often you back up, the type of storage you use, or the types of files you back up) whenever you want.
To set up automatic backupsIf you’ve never used Windows Backup before, the Windows Backup wizard automatically creates a schedule for you, which you can change.
Open Backup and Restore by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, and then clicking Backup and Restore.
Click Set up
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Posted: February 18th, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: Operating Systems | Comments Off
Ever had the problem when windows system does not give you sound and audio suddenly or despite sound card or audio device is present and working previously? Windows XP, 2000, NT, 2003 or even Vista computers may lose Windows audio and system sounds output due to the mess on file system or registry that created or left by third party utilities after installation and uninstallation, or corrupted and missing codecs, (a CODEC is a component necessary to decompress and decode media files so that can be playback by Windows system).When the Windows “no sound problem occurs”, the symptoms include users do not hear any Windows system sound
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Posted: February 17th, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: Operating Systems | Comments Off
Search the Internet from Start Menu:The start menu search box is convenient way to search through PC – but you can also use this search box to perform double duty by making to search the internet from well within the Start menu search. To enable this log on with an administrator account and perform this:
In the Start menu search box, type ‘gpedit.msc’ (without quotes) and press enter to run the Group Policy Editor.
Go to User Configuration –> Administrative Templates –> Start Menu and Taskbar.
Double click “Add search internet link to Start Menu”, and then from the screen that appears, select Enabled. Then click OK and cl
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Posted: February 12th, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: Operating Systems | Tags: Search, Tips, Windows 7 | No Comments »
Windows 7 by default has only few themes available for customization. People who are not satisfied with these in build themes can get few more themes for Windows 7 which are actually hidden. These themes are available for certain regional countries such as Australia, Canada, Great Britain, United States and South Africa. These themes can be revealed and used by the following steps.
Open Windows Explorer and click Organize
Select Folder and Search Options and navigate to the View tab.
Select Show hidden files, folders and drivers and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended). Click Yes, if prompted for confirmation.
Click OK
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: Operating Systems | Comments Off
This is useful for machines which are e.g. in a Meeting Room and always need to be on.
Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe) in Run under Start Menu
Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer and to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
In both these locations create or modify the Dword value ‘NoClose’ & set it to 1. This will prevent windows from shutting down
If you want windows to get shut down again then set the above value to 0
Go to: Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Local Security Policy
Security Settings >
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Posted: January 28th, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: Computers / IT, General, Operating Systems, Tips & Tricks | Tags: Restart, Shut Down, Stand, start, Startup/Shutdown, Windows XP | No Comments »
In my opinion the absolute best alternative to windows native WUAUCLT commands
wuauclt.exe /detectnow
wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization /detectnow
would be the WuInstall (Freeware) Tool. below is a download link and Basic how to on the usage of the Windows Update Install Tool. it gives you more control over your updates.
1. Basic functions
There are three basic switches. Exactly one of them must be specified in order for wuInstall to do something. It makes no sense to specify more than one of those switches (e.g. wuInstall /search /install), because download automatically includes a search and install
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Posted: January 26th, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: Computers / IT, Operating Systems, Servers, Tips & Tricks | Tags: cli, logs, patching, update, windows, windows update, wsus, wuauclt | Comments Off
Modify UAC (User Account Control):The User Account Control security feature was one of the most reviled additions to Windows Vista, with good reason – its constant warning messages asking for permission to continue many operations drove the users around the bend. UAC has been improved upon a lot in Windows 7 so that it’s not as intrusive as in Windows Vista, but you can still tweak it if you like.Here’s is how to turn UAC on or off, and make it less or more intrusive than the default:
Go to the Control Panel –> User Accounts and Family Safety.
Click User Accounts , then click Change User Account Control Settings.
If confirmation p
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Posted: January 23rd, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: Operating Systems | Comments Off
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