Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Protecting Folders with passwords
Compress the folder that you want to protect using the windows default zip software.
You follow the following procedure:-
Right click on folder that you want to protect, click on send to compressed (zipped) folder.
Open the compressed (zipped) folder, right click anywhere in the blank space.
Click on add a password, type the password to protect the compressed folder
You can also choose to use third party software to protect your folders.
Some of the third party folder protection software in the market include:-
FILE LOCK, AXCRPT, ENCRYT4ALL
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Partitioning your hard drive using Windows Vista
This is one of my few reasons I may fancy using Windows Vista over old versions of other windows operating systems.
Using the few steps below you can be able to partition your hard drive
Choose Disk Management from the Computer Management console to view your partitions.
Right click on the existing partition and choose “shrink volume” to create space for your new partition.
Enter amount of space to shrink
Right click on the new unallocated space and choose “New Simple Volume”
Format the new partition as NTFS and give it a name.
Windows Vista will format the new partition inside the Disk Management Console, after some minutes your newly created partition will be viewable and ready to read and write to.
Windows XP not Guinuine or Counterfeit error message
When you get a message on your computer screen showing that the copy of Windows XP you are using is not genuine or counterfeit do the following.
Go to this folder C:\Windows\Downloaded Program files; remove any files or folders associated with WGA.
Restart your computer and as soon as Windows logs off and restarts, press the F8 Key on your keyboard.
Windows Advanced Startup options will appear on your screen, select Safe Mode option.
Go to C:\Windows\System32 and the rename wgatray.exe to wgatrayold.exe.
Go to C:\Windows\System32\dllcache (Rename wgatray.exe to wgatrayold.exe)
Note: dllcache is a hidden folder, to view hidden folders do the following, go to Start, Control Panel, Folder Options,
Select the view Tab and under the Hidden Files option, select Show hidden files and folders
Go to the Safe Mode Registry
Click on Start, Run and within the open dialog box type regedit and click OK.
Within the registry locate the following folder:-
HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\WGALOGON
Right click and export the WGALOGON Folder (your doing this as a backup, just incase of any eventualities).
After exporting the folder, DELETE the WGALOGON folder
After deleting close all applications and reboot your machine back to Normal Mode.
After being prompted for successful validation, reboot your Machine.