To be able to access administrative shares and shut it down remotely, I added another user to my media center computer (HTPC) matching my usual username and password. Upon next boot, I discovered that instead of being logged on automatically, I was now presented with a logon screen, where I had to choose between the [...]
Even if your Windows Vista user account is a member of the Administrators group, you are still asked to give applications permission to access your system in different ways. To enable the hidden Vista Administrator account, and become free of these hassles, just follow these directions:
In the search field of the Start menu, type “cmd” [...]
When you have more than one computer in your local network, you may want to be able to access all your files on all your machines, whichever one you’re sitting at. Here’s how you can accomplish that in Windows:
To be able to access all files you will be using something called Administrative Shares. These are [...]
A few months ago, Futuremark announced their next generation benchmarking tool 3DMark Vantage. Today it has finally arrived.
I like 3DMark because it gives good indicators on where you could improve your system if its not quite up to par, and because its easy to compare your system performance with the performance of other systems like [...]
The first Beta version of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 has just been released publically.
Improvements include default mode interpreting web pages much more correctly according to W3C standards. A button to “Display as IE7″ is available for debugging.
The big news that MS is touting is something they call Webslices. Essentially Webslices are like RSS feeds [...]
NVIDIAs new Crysis-optimized beta drivers 169.01 and 169.04 were picked apart over at Elite Bastards, who could reveal shocking results. Apparently these drivers force removal of certain water/shadow effects, increasing performance at the expense of visual quality.
One can easily deduct that NVIDIA has made this move in order to better benchmarking results for their 8xxx [...]
The Mozilla team has released Firefox version 2.0.0.9. This update fixes a serious Java issue on Windows Vista where Java applets don’t work like they should after Firefox crashes. Four other bugs that were preventing add-ons from working after a successful upgrade of Firefox have also been squashed.
The official release notes for Firefox 2.0.0.9 (external link).
Download Firefox 2.0.0.9 from Firefox.com.
If you already have Firefox [...]
You just formatted your Dell laptop and popped in that nice little Recovery CD, only to find your computer full of all kinds of crap you never asked for?
Maybe you will like PC Decrapifier – a handy little app that picks up the trash and takes it out for you too.
PC Decrapifier scans [...]
If you’re so lucky to have an external hard disk drive that connects to your computer through USB / USB 2.0, then you can get increased performance from your hard disk in Windows Vista. This is because Vista treats your external drive differently than a FireWire (IEEE1394) or eSATA-connected drive, rather more like a USB [...]