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1. Right-Click on your desktop
2. Go to New then Shourtcut
3. Type : shutdown /s /t 0 (that's a zero, not an "O") 4. Click Next 5. Name your shortcut 6. Click Finish
Have you ever heard a fake antivirus? A fake antivirus is a program that has a look just like a real antivirus. An Example of a fake antivirus is a program named Windows Basic Antivirus. This program shows you a fake warning. The warning said that your computer was infected by viruses but actually was not. Windows Basic Antivirus is a kind of virus named Gen.variant.Zusy.905. These are the steps to get rid of it:
1. Enter Windows in save mode
2. Disable "System Restore" if you have Windows XP/Vista/7 as an operating system
3. Clean your computer with a real antivirus
4. Repair Windows registry by making a file with notepad.
Open your notepad then type the script below, if you've finished typing, save it as REPAIR.INF.
5. Go to Folder Options. Choose option "Show hidden files and folders", uncheck option "Hide extension for known file types", also uncheck option "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)".
6. Delete these files made by viruses:
a. Protector-pma.exe (located in C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Application Data\)
b. result.db (located in C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Application Data\)
c. Windows Basic AntiVirus.Ink (located in C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Desktop\)
7. Re scan with an updated real antivirus program.
There is a such a secret feature in Windows 7. It is called PSR (Problem Steps Recorder). This feature helps you to give a program tutorial to your friends in a simple way. We don't need to use a PrintScreen to adding pictures in our tutorial presentation. These are the steps:
Start --> Run --> type: PSR then press Enter
and then the program will be launched as you see in a picture below
Just simply click on "Start Record" button to start saving your steps and click on "Stop Record" to stop saving.
I've just revealed a great tool in Windows 7, now you can try further by yourself.
With Hibernate, you can save energy of your laptop. The difference between Sleep Mode and Hibernate is that
Sleep Mode saves files and opened documents to memory while Hibernate saves opened documents to harddisk and cuts off the electric current. With Hibernate, you don't need to reboot your laptop to back to last edited document.
These are the steps:
1. Open Command Prompt through Administrator Privilege.
2. Type "cmd" in Start Menu then press Ctrl + Shift + Enter
3. Type the following instruction: "powercfg /hibernate on"
then press Enter.
4. Type "exit" then press Enter to close Command Prompt.
Then You will see an option "Hibernate" in Start Menu. Good Luck !
The command prompt that has been in previous versions of Windows is still with us and is not much changed from Windows Vista. The command line remains a powerful and much used feature by system administrators everywhere. Thus, the old command interpreter cmd.exe has been continued although in a slightly newer version. Several commands are now in the standard list that were formerly available only on servers. There are many commands but here are 10 very important commands you must know.
1. Driverquery
Incorrect device drivers can lead to any number of system problems. If you want to see which drivers are installed on a Windows 7 system, you can do so by running the driverquery tool. This simple command-line tool provides information about each driver that is being used. The command is:
driverquery
If you need a bit more information, you can append the -v switch. Another option is to append the -si switch, which causes the tool to display signature information for the drivers. Here’s how they look:
driverquery -v
driverquery -si
2. Ping
Ping is probably the simplest of all diagnostic commands. It’s used to verify basic TCP/IP connectivity to a network host. To use it, simply enter the command, followed by the name or IP address of the host you want to test. For example:
ping 192.168.1.1
Keep in mind that this command will work only if Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) traffic is allowed to pass between the two machines. If at any point a firewall is blocking ICMP traffic, the ping will fail.
3. System File Checker
Malicious software will often attempt to replace core system files with modified versions in an effort to take control of the system. The System File Checker can be used to verify the integrity of the Windows system files. If any of the files are found to be missing or corrupt, they will be replaced. You can run the System File Checker by using this command:
sfc /scannow
4. File Signature Verification
One way to verify the integrity of a system is to make sure that all the system files are digitally signed. You can accomplish this with the File Signature Verification tool. This tool is launched from the command line but uses a GUI interface. It will tell you which system files are signed and which aren’t. As a rule, all the system files should be digitally signed, although some hardware vendors don’t sign driver files. The command used to launch the File Signature Verification tool is:
sigverif
5. Nslookup
The nslookup tool can help you to verify that DNS name resolution is working correctly. When you run nslookup against a host name, the tool will show you how the name was resolved, as well as which DNS server was used during the lookup. This tool can be extremely helpful when troubleshooting problems related to legacy DNS records that still exist but that are no longer correct.
To use this tool, just enter the nslookup command, followed by the name of the host you want to resolve. For example:
nslookup dc1.contoso.com
6. Repair-bde
If a drive that is encrypted with BitLocker has problems, you can sometimes recover the data using a utility called repair-bde. To use this command, you will need a destination drive to which the recovered data can be written, as well as your BitLocker recovery key or recovery password. The basic syntax for this command is:
repair-bde -rk | rp
You must specify the source drive, the destination drive, and either the rk (recovery key) or the rp (recovery password) switch, along with the path to the recovery key or the recovery password. Here are two examples of how to use this utility:
The taskkill command terminates a task, either by name (which is referred to as the image name) or by process ID. The syntax for this command is simple. You must follow the taskkill command with -pid (process ID) or -im (image name) and the name or process ID of the task that you want to terminate. Here are two examples of how this command works:
taskkill -pid 4104
taskkill -im iexplore.exe
8. Pathping
Ping does a good job of telling you whether two machines can communicate with one another over TCP/IP, but if a ping does fail, you won’t receive any information regarding the nature of the failure. This is where the pathping utility comes in.
Pathping is designed for environments in which one or more routers exist between hosts. It sends a series of packets to each router that’s in the path to the destination host in an effort to determine whether the router is performing slowly or dropping packets. At its simplest, the syntax for pathping is identical to that of the ping command (although there are some optional switches you can use). The command looks like this:
pathping 192.168.1.1
9. Ipconfig
The ipconfig command is used to view or modify a computer’s IP addresses. For example, if you wanted to view a Windows 7 system’s full IP configuration, you could use the following command:
ipconfig /all
Assuming that the system has acquired its IP address from a DHCP server, you can use the ipconfig command to release and then renew the IP address. Doing so involves using the following commands:
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
Another handy thing you can do with ipconfig is flush the DNS resolver cache. This can be helpful when a system is resolving DNS addresses incorrectly. You can flush the DNS cache by using this command:
ipconfig /flushdns
10. Tasklist
The tasklist command is designed to provide information about the tasks that are running on a Windows 7 system. At its most basic, you can enter the following command:
tasklist
The tasklist command has numerous optional switches, but there are a couple I want to mention. One is the -m switch, which causes tasklist to display all the DLL modules associated with a task. The other is the -svc switch, which lists the services that support each task. Here’s how they look:
There are many ways for a crackers to break your account, such as a brute force method. In this method , a cracker tries to combine characters, letter and numbers to break your user account, or guessing various words in dictionary, or breaking your account directly through the weakness of system.
In Windows 7, There is a way to reduce an account breaking by locking the account. A locking is done automatically after user gives incorrect password for several times.
These are the steps to activate this feature:
1.Start_then type "secpol.msc" in Searching box
2.Local Security Policy Editor will be opened, go to Account Policies and choose Account Lockout Policy
3.Right click Account lockout thereshold and choose properties
4.Add amount of "invalid logon" from default 0 to higher number. If you enter "3" then the user account will be blocked after the user give a wrong password 3 times
There are actually several ways that you can get to the System Recovery Options, and the method you choose will depend on your situation.
If your system will still attempt to start Windows, then you can attempt to access the System Recovery Options from your hard disk.
If Windows won’t start at all, you can access the System Recovery Options by booting from the Windows 7 DVD.
If you have created a System Repair Disc, you can boot from that disk as well and access the System Recovery Options. (I’ll cover the creation of a System Repair Disc next time.)
For example, let’s suppose that your system will still attempt to start Windows, but it fails to complete the boot-up process. To access System Recovery, you will need to first power down the system and then turn it back on. After the system boots up and as soon as you hear the beep that signals the beginning of the Windows boot, press and hold the [F8] key.
When you see the Advance Boot Options screen, select the Repair Your Computer option. As you can see from the description at the bottom of the screen, selecting this option will display a list of system recovery tools that you can use to repair startup problems, run diagnostics, or restore your system. To continue, just press [Enter].
When you do, you’ll see a screen that tells you that Windows is loading files. Then you’ll see a boot screen with a green animated progress bar. After a few moments, you’ll be prompted to choose a keyboard input method,. To continue, click the Next button.
You’ll then see the logon screen. You should log on with an account that has administrative privileges. When you do, you will see the System Recovery Options menu.
As you can see, there are five options on the System Recovery Options menu. Let’s take a closer look.
Startup Repair: This should be your first choice if it did not run automatically when a boot problem was encountered. Keep in mind that Startup Repair is designed to fix only certain problems, such as missing or damaged system files. It is not designed to fix problems caused by hardware failures, such as a failing hard disk.
System Restore: As you know, this tool is designed to restore Windows system files to an earlier point in time without affecting your data files, such as email, documents, or photos, in any way. To accomplish this feat, System Restore continuously monitors your system, looking for significant changes to the operating system, such as an application or driver installation or an operating system update procedure, and will automatically create a Restore Point when it senses such an impending change. Restore Points are essentially snapshots of your system state, which include crucial system files and certain parts of the registry. System Restore maintains multiple restore points, which gives you the choice of restoring your computer to any number of previously saved states. As such, running System Restore and choosing a recent restore point is a good way to recover from an unbootable system.
System Image Recovery: If for some reason System Restore is unable to do its job and you have recently created a system image of your hard disk, you can use the System Image Recovery option to revive an unbootable system. A system image includes the operating system and all your system settings, your programs, and all your files. Keep in mind that when you restore your computer from a system image, it will actually perform a complete restoration of your entire system, which means that all your current programs, system settings, and files will be replaced with the versions that were current when you made the system image.
Windows Memory Diagnostic: If in addition to having problems starting Windows, you’ve been encountering application failures, operating system faults, or Stop errors, you can use the Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool to test the RAM chips in your system and investigate the possibility of defective or failing RAM. Essentially, the Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool performs its test by repeatedly writing values to memory and then reading those values from memory in order to verify that the data has not changed.
Command Prompt: When you select the Command Prompt option, you’ll be able to run a specific set of command-line tools that you can use to perform recovery operations as well as other types of diagnostics.
With Hibernate, you can save energy of your laptop. The difference between Sleep Mode and Hibernate is that