A lot of windows users still actually don’t understand what the registry is and why they have to backup. In simple words, registry is a vault where all the windows settings and information and behavior of the programs used is stored. Why backup registry? Is it important? One has to be very careful while editing the registry, as one single mistake can basically stop windows from loading at startup. Changes are made in the registry when you install or uninstall any program this may even makes ...

Most harmful viruses on the net disable the Task Manager and Registry editor making it difficult for  you to deal with their infections. This makes almost impossible for us to kill the running malicious processes or delete the registry entries from the startup. Always, running an anti-virus scan is the first solution in such case, but if still unsuccessful and you want to enable the Task manager manually, here are 2 simple  methods to fix this error.

In my earlier posts i have already written about How to Hide Folders without using any software. With simple registry changes you can show/hide drives in “My computer” and Network Sharing. This way you can prevent other users from accessing your hard drive that contain private and important data.

By default Windows XP allows maximum 10 simultaneous half-open (incomplete) outbound TCP connection attempts per second. This limitation was enforced to prevent rapid spreading of malicious internet-worms incase user machine gets infected.

In my earlier article i wrote about streaming TV over then LAN. The same way you can start your LAN RADIO using winamp and other two small softwares that will help you stream audio at desired bit-rate. Now, you can share you favorite music with your friends on your LAN.

Many are still confused between these two Windows XP power saving modes. These power saving schemes can be useful, off course to save power and to keep your pc healthy. Which power saving mode should i use? To understand this, you should understand the difference between the two.

Besides Sharing files and chatting with users, one can play LAN games like Counter strike, listen and broadcast music on LAN, Broadcast Streaming TV  or videos over LAN. In this post i will guide you through simple steps to setup your Live TV server so all users can connect and view the channels you wish to broadcast.

One of the quick and easy way to increase hard disk performance is by defragmenting the Disk drives. Of course you can use the Windows Disk Defragmenter, but i recommend Power Defragmenter a small free utility by sysinternals . The latest 3.0 version comes with TriplePass(TM) mode replacing obsolete PowerMode(TM) and can Defragment removable disks. Further you can also use Page Degrag another free utility again by sysinternals to defrag you paging and registry files. But thats not all, here is a ...