ShareWatcher is a free Windows utility which helps users to keep an eye and to monitor their shared files or folders. This tiny utility will monitor the shared files or folders and alert users when their shared folders are accessed as well as when files are added to others’ shared locations. Users can trace and be notified if someone is trying to access some files or data store in the shared folder. Necessary action can be taken for unauthorized access from personnel.

ShareWatcher can be downloaded free via the link here to keep track of users’ network activity.

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Google’s Web History service actually keeps track of all the search activities done by users. With this service, users will be able to know searches they have done, at what time, the urls, etc. Users need to sign in to their Google Account before the service can be activated. When users go to the Google Web History page, users will notice a list of users’ search record listed on the page. The record comes with time, the name of sites users have searched and visited, the sites’ url and so on.

The Web History generally breaks down users’ search history to nine categories: web, images, news, products, sponsored links, video, maps, blogs and books. Besides, there is a small calendar incorporated at the Web History page which allows users to click on the calendar and trace the search records on a particular date.

Users can also click on the tiny star icon to edit, label and bookmark a particular site from the list using this web history recording service.

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SymVPN 2.00 allows you to create a regular Access Point (from the Symbian OS point of view) that can be used in an ordinary manner by any appropriate application that requires an Internet connection.

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Text to Voice (Text to Speech) is a free Firefox add-on which can make your browser talk. After installing it, users will notice a tiny speaker icon appearing on the bottom right of the browser. To get the pronunciation from this add-on application, users just need to highlight the particular word/phrase they need to check the pronunciation, then click on to the speaker icon. Once the icon is clicked on, a new browser tab will be opened. Users will be directed to the vozMe (a free online text to speech tool) page for the right pronunciation. Users can play the pronunciation of the word/phrase/sentence they highlighted repeatedly. They can even download the pronunciation as audio file (in mp3 format) and keep it in the selected location on the computer.

Powered by vozMe online text to speech tool, this free tool is quite useful to help especially non English native people to learn English while they are browsing internet. Having said that, the effect of pronunciation by Text to Voice Firefox add-on application is quite robotic and some users might find the pronunciation not so clear.

The most common mistakes I hear or read about email usually begin with people talking about POP3 and IMAP, so let’s clear those off the table: POP3 and IMAP have absolutely nothing to do with sending or receiving email,  so get that notion out of your head (if it’s in there). Email is sent and received using SMTP, which stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.

It’s a good name, because getting email from one place to another really IS simple, and it works a lot like sending a snail mail letter in real life:

Step 1: You open up your email program, and hit the button to compose a new email, and you write up the latest gossip about your new job.

In real life, this is the same thing as sitting down at a desk, getting out a piece of paper, and handwriting the same letter.

Step 2: You want to send this to your mother, so you put in her e-mail address, mary@ToVille.com, in the “To” field and hit Send. Your email program automatically fills in your “From” address, which happens to be “gr8gonzo@FromTown.com”.

In real life, you put the letter into an envelope, write her full mailing address on the outside, and write in your address in the “From” section.

Step 3: After you hit the Send button, you might wait for a few seconds while it says it is Sending. Behind the scenes, your email program is talking in code to your mail server and handing it your letter.

In real life, this is the same as taking the envelope to the nearest post office and dropping it off in their outgoing mail slot.

Step 4: Now your mail server takes the email message, and looks at the “To” address, which happens to be mary@ToVille.com, and separates the address into the recipient’s name (“mary”) and a domain (“ToVille.com”). Now, your mail server says, “Well, -I- only handle email addresses that end in @FromTown.com, so I need to send this message over to a mail server that handles email addresses that end in @ToVille.com.”

In real life, your post office looks at the city, state, and zip code on the “From” address on the envelope, which happens to be FromTown, VA 22033. The envelope should go to your mother, who lives in ToVille, TX. The post office in Virginia can’t just send a postal truck from Virginia all the way to Texas to deliver the letter straight to your mother, so they say, “We have to send this envelope over to a post office in ToVille, TX. That post office will know the physical location of Mary’s mailbox.”

Step 5: Your email server performs a special lookup that returns a list of servers like mail1.ToVille.com and mail2.ToVille.com that handle emails that end in @ToVille.com. (Side note: this special lookup is a DNS lookup, and the mail server records are called MX records.) It then tries to connect to each one until it gets through, and once it connects, it sends your original message to that server (with one minor addition – it updates some of the hidden header information in your message to record the fact that it handled the message).
In real life, the FromTown, VA post office puts a stamp on the letter that just lets the recipient know that they received the letter on a certain date. The post office has a big truck that carries mail between different US states / post offices, so the envelope gets put onto that truck, and it makes its way over to the ToVille, TX post office.

Step 6: Now your email is on the server (we’ll say that it’s mail2.ToVille.com), which handles that “To” email address, so it says, “Okay – I AM the right server to be receiving this email, so I’m just going to save it on my hard drive here. My job is done.” Later, your mother will check her email and her email program will download the new message.

In real life, the post office in ToVille, TX gets the envelope and says, “Yup, we’re the right post office for this letter. Mary happens to have a mailbox right here, so let’s just put the envelope into her mailbox, and our job is done.” Later, Mary will come to the post office and open her mailbox and see the letter.

In 6 simple steps, you’ve gotten an email and a letter from one place to another. Now let’s look at some different scenarios:

1. Multiple Mail Servers
Sometimes more than two mail servers will be involved. For example, when I’m hired to set up a mail system, I usually have two servers. The first one initially receives the mail and does some spam filtering and virus-checking, and then sends the message to the second mail server that actually contains the person’s mailbox and is responsible for storing the message.

2. Reading Mail Headers (Received)
By looking at a message’s header, you can see how many servers were involved in the delivery process. Here’s an example:

Received: from aserver.experts-exchange.com (xx.xxx.xxx.164)
by myserver.com with SMTP; 19 Oct 2009 15:01:14 -0000
Received: from aserver.experts-exchange.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by aserver.experts-exchange.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n9JF1DmL003430
for <me@myserver.com>; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:01:13 -0700 (PDT)
(envelope-from noreply@experts-exchange.com)

That might look complicated, but it’s really not. The order is in from most newest event to oldest, so if we flip the order, we start with:

Received: from aserver.experts-exchange.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by aserver.experts-exchange.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n9JF1DmL003430
for <me@myserver.com>; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:01:13 -0700 (PDT)
(envelope-from noreply@experts-exchange.com)

So on October 19th, 2009 at approximately 8 AM, someone on the server called aserver.experts-exchange.com created an email that was going to be sent to me@myserver.com, and they said the “from” address was noreply@experts-exchange.com. The email was created on the same server that was going to send the mail, so we see that it came from:

Received: from aserver.experts-exchange.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])

And was handed off to a mailing program that was running on the same server:

by aserver.experts-exchange.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n9JF1DmL003430

Now we look at the next header:

Received: from aserver.experts-exchange.com (xx.xxx.xxx.164)
by myserver.com with SMTP; 19 Oct 2009 15:01:14 -0000

This just says that the aserver.experts-exchange.com server handed the message to myserver.com within 1 second (the 15:01:14 -0000 timestamp = 08:01:14 -0700, and the message was originally send on 08:01:13 -0700).

That’s how you can see what servers were involved in your message’s delivery.

3. Other Mail Headers
There are a variety of other headers that can contain some information about the message. Some headers are almost always there, like “To”, “From”, “Subject”, and “Date”, while other headers might come from the mail server or from the email program used. Many email programs like to advertise themselves by adding an email header that says that the email was written using that program. Some mail servers might check a message for spam and viruses and add a header to indicate that a message is clean (or maybe one to say it’s not clean). The important thing to know is that headers are all optional. If you leave off the “Date” header, the mail server will often add it in. Still, headers can sometimes be useful to debugging mail problems.

4. Bounces
You can send a message to bittyboombam79639763976@gmail.com, but that doesn’t mean that it’s a valid recipient. Still, if you send a message there, it will make its way over to gmail.com’s mail servers, who will then check to see if bittyboombam79639763976 is actually a real recipient. If it’s not a valid address, or maybe if their mailbox is full, then gmail.com’s mail servers will sometimes generate a “bounce” or an NDR (Non-Delivery Report) that says that it could not deliver your message to that address, and it will usually give you the reason.

One side note to this is that with all the spam tricks that go on nowadays with fake “from” addresses, some mail servers aren’t sending bounces anymore. If it’s not a valid recipient, they might just delete the message and not tell you anything. It really depends on the mail servers (or who set them up).

5. Direct Mailing
Remember the real-life explanation of post office mail above? Imagine if you didn’t drop your letter off at your local post office in FromTown, VA, but INSTEAD jumped into your car and took a long road trip down to ToVille, TX. Once you got there, you handed the envelope to the post office right there. It’s definitely possible to do, and you would have a few benefits (faster delivery, for example), but it may not be worth the drive.

However, in the email world, the “road trip” can just be a matter of milliseconds. All of the tools needed to look up the right mail server and connect directly to it are freely available, so this all makes it nearly trivial to directly connect to the recipient’s mail server and send your message(s). This is a tactic of many mass mailer programs, and can be useful because having a direct connection to the “final” server can also give you immediate notification of failed and/or successful delivery.

On the flip side, direct mailing is most often used by spammers who don’t want to risk their illegitimate emails being blocked by a single server. As a result, most major internet service providers will block you from using direct mailing methods. They force you to send all your email through their own servers (and if you begin spamming, they can easily flip a switch and block all of your messages from going out). Usually those same providers will have a “business” connection that is more expensive, but allows you to do direct mailing.

All that said, even messages sent from “business” connections can still be easily flagged as spam by many antispam programs. A mail administrator should know the technical steps (things like properly-configured, reverse DNS) to take in order to allow mail to be sent without getting flagged as direct mail spam, so don’t plan on doing any mass mailings until you’ve taken those proper steps, and don’t try to use cheap, mass-mailing programs to avoid costs associated with commercial email campaigns.

6. Fake “From” Addresses
While we’re on the topic of spam, there’s one thing that almost everyone notices when they learn how to manually send e-mail using SMTP (something you’ll learn a bit further down in this article). Part of the SMTP protocol involves you telling the mail server what your email address is (the “from” address). There’s USUALLY no validation done on this to make sure that you’ve typed in your own e-mail address. This means that you could type in any valid e-mail address as if it were your own. Likewise, someone else could easily send an email pretending to be from you by filling in YOUR email address as the “from” address. This is why so much spam seems to come from bogus e-mail addresses or even from an email address on your own domain!

Luckily, there are some antispam measures out there that can do a bit of detective work to find out which “from” addresses are real or fake. It’s not perfect, but it does cut down on spam, and it’s getting better every day. There’s also more and more mail servers that require authentication (username and password) to be able to send e-mail out, which further helps control fake sender addresses. Ultimately, using a “fake” from address is never a good idea if you actually want your mail to be delivered, but it’s good to know WHY you shouldn’t do something.

7. Security Concerns
One downside to SMTP is that it is not a secure protocol. From the moment you press Send, your message is being transferred from computer-to-computer, and every computer that is involved in the delivery process has the ability to see your entire email. Anyone that runs any of those servers can flip a switch and start saving copies of all the email, and then read through them later, so be VERY careful of what you send through email. Never send any information that you wouldn’t be willing to give to a complete stranger (because technically that’s exactly what you’re doing).

There are some ways of addressing this problem. You can encrypt your emails using a variety of methods, the most popular methods being PGP (Pretty Good Privacy, http://www.pgp.com/) and GPG (GNU Privacy Guard, http://www.gnupg.org/). The former is a commercial solution, the latter is an open-source, free alternative, and both are usually well-supported by most popular e-mail programs.

If you don’t have either of those installed but need to send something securely, the best alternative is to save the sensitive information into a text file, then put that text file into an encrypted, password-protected ZIP file, and simply attach the ZIP file. This usually works, but due to the increasing number of viruses being spread through password-protected ZIP files, the email might just get blocked entirely. If that’s the case, post the ZIP file onto a web server somewhere and send the URL to the recipient. Once they’ve downloaded the ZIP file, delete it from the web server. Never send the password along with the ZIP file – always try to communicate the password by phone or via some other method. Otherwise, it’s like locking up your valuables in a safe, and then taping a piece of paper with the combination to the safe.

8. Technical Trivia
The standard network port for sending mail to mail servers (using SMTP) is port 25. There are also ways of running secure versions of SMTP, so the process of sending your message to the server is secured. The standard port for secure SMTP is port 465. NOTE: connecting securely to a mail server only encrypts the original transmission of the message from your computer to your mail server – it does not actually encrypt the message itself, nor does it encrypt any further transmissions.

9. Message Structure – Headers and Body
A basic email message is very straightforward. The message is split into two parts – all of the headers and all of the body. Headers have the form of a name followed by a colon and a space, and then a value for that header. For example, your basic subject line header looks like this:

Subject: Hello world!

The message is split into pieces by the use of a single blank line. So all of the data leading up to that single blank line is considered headers, and all of the data AFTER that single blank line is considered the message body. Pretty simple stuff.

10. Complex Messages – Attachments, Text and HTML, and Mimes, Oh My!
Basic, text-only emails were good for a while. Then someone figured out that attachments could be extremely useful. The problem was that attachments were made up of all sorts of binary data, and that it was hard to put good ol’ raw data straight into an email message without potentially messing up the message itself. So the first step to solving that problem was to turn the nasty raw data (all that gibberish) into an email-friendly format. Now fast-forward to today, where the most common method of doing that task is to use something called Base64. Without getting into specifics, encoding raw data using Base64 created a big block of letters and numbers that looks like:

U01UUA0KDQpUaGUgbW9zdCBjb21tb24gbWlzdGFrZXMgSSBoZW FyIG9==

…although usually much longer. The important thing was that none of the characters were gibberish – they were all letters and numbers and characters that you could easily find in a normal message. This meant that the data could be transmitted along with an email message without any trouble, and the recipient could use a Base64-decoder to turn all those letters and numbers back into the original, raw data again.

Of course, imagine if everytime you got an email, you had to copy all that Base64-encoded data, put it into a decoder, and then run it to produce the original file again! People would never put up with having to do that! As a result, MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) was born. MIME is really just an add-on to the normal structure of an email. Instead of the simple header/body structure, a MIME message is simply a normal email message where the body has been divided into different pieces.

Imagine a big freeway that just has one big lane. That big lane is your message body. Turning a message into a MIME message is the equivalent of painting some more lines on the freeway to create more lanes. You’re still using the same big block of concrete, but the lanes now organize all the traffic a bit better, and now you can even specify that some lanes hold special traffic. For example, you can put a sign over one lane to designate it as an HOV / carpool lane, and another lane as a truck-only lane.

MIME is exactly the same – you’re taking the body part of the mesage and splitting it up into different pieces using boundaries. Each piece can be designated to hold certain types of content. One piece might hold the text version of a message, while another piece holds the HTML version of the message, and yet another piece holds the Base64-encoded data of an attachment. You can have as many pieces as you want, and each piece can hold any type of data. It’s up to the email reader to know what to do with each piece.

By using MIME and specifying certain pieces of the body as Base64-encoded data, an email-reading program can now automatically take that data and decode it for you, and then present the file to you to make it easy to work with attachments.

Presto – the problem of sending files along with emails is solved using a combination of “friendly” encoding, and simple boundaries to tell the email program what part of the body is an encoded attachment.

You may have assumed this already, but HTML can also be a piece of the MIME message, and a good e-mail reader can show you the nice HTML version of the message.

Manually Sending an Email
Now that we’ve got all that stuff out of the way, the fun part – let’s see how we can manually send an email without the use of an email program at all – just by typing in the SMTP codes! To be able to follow along, you’ll need two things: a telnet program (something that is usually installed on most Windows, Linux, and Mac desktops), and you need the hostname of your mail server. Currently, I use a Cox cable connection at home, and I’m on the east coast, so the SMTP server I use is smtp.east.cox.net. I’m on a Windows Vista PC, but the instructions should be similar on almost all computers.

Step 1: Get into your command shell.
On Windows desktops, this is usually done by hitting your Start button and then running cmd.exe. You should be taken to a DOS prompt. Linux and Macs will have a Terminal application that does the same thing.

Step 2: Type:

1:telnet smtp.east.cox.net 25

(replace smtp.east.cox.net with whatever your mail server’s hostname is)
This connects us to port 25 on the mail server – you should see a message. Mine says:

1:220 eastrmimpo01.cox.net bizsmtp ESMTP server ready

Step 3: Identify yourself by saying hello. Literally, you type:

1:HELO me

The server should respond with an acknowledgement. Cox tells me:

1:250 eastrmimpo01.cox.net hello [68.100.123.109], pleased to meet you

Step 4: Say who it’s from by typing:

1:MAIL FROM:<youremailaddress@goeshere.com>
The server should respond again by saying that it’s okay with your answers so far. Cox says:

1:250 2.1.0 <youremailaddress@goeshere.com> sender ok

Step 5: Give the recipient’s email address by typing:

1:RCPT TO:<otherperson@theirdomain.com>

At this point, sometimes mail servers will do some light checking to see if the other address looks good. If it does, then it will respond with:

1:250 2.1.5 <otherperson@theirdomain.com> recipient ok

Step 6: Now we’re ready to feed it the message, so type:

1:ATA

The server should say:

1:354 enter mail, end with “.” on a line by itself

Step 7: Type in all of our headers.
Just for this run, we’ll provide the Subject line and From address only, so type:

1:2:Subject: Hello Experts Exchange Readers!From: <youremailaddress@goeshere.com>

Step 8: To indicate that we’re done with the headers and want to move onto the body of the email, just hit Enter again to put in one completely-blank line.

Step 9: Fill out the body of the message:

1:2:Hey there,This is me sending a message without using an e-mail program!

Step 10: Tell the mail server that you’re finished with the message by ending with a line that has nothing but a period on it:

1:.

The server should respond with a message that looks something like this (it won’t be exact, but the important part is that the 3-digit number at the beginning is 250):

1:250 2.0.0 uqWj1c00433leSC02qX1Ur mail accepted for delivery

Step 11: The message has been sent, so now we just need to close the connection. Just type:

1:QUIT

and the server should close the connection (sometimes with a message). You’re done!

From start to finish, all of your commands and server responses should look something like this:

1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8:9:10:11:12:13:14:15:16:17:220 eastrmimpo01.cox.net bizsmtp ESMTP server readyHELO me250 eastrmimpo01.cox.net hello [68.100.123.109], pleased to meet youMAIL FROM:<youremailaddress@goeshere.com>250 2.1.0 <youremailaddress@goeshere.com> sender okRCPT TO:<otherperson@theirdomain.com>250 2.1.5 <otherperson@theirdomain.com> recipient okDATA354 enter mail, end with “.” on a line by itselfSubject: Hello Experts Exchange Readers!From: <youremailaddress@goeshere.com>Hey there,This is me sending a message without using an e-mail program!.250 2.0.0 uqWj1c00433leSC02qX1Ur mail accepted for deliveryQUIT
POP3 and IMAP
SMTP is responsible for simply delivering and storing messages on a server. Just like in real life, the post office is not responsible for putting the envelopes into your hands – they just put it into a mailbox somewhere and leave it up to you to go check your mailbox. In the computer world, an email reader program needs to be able to check a mailbox, and that’s where POP3 and IMAP come in. POP3 and IMAP are just two different ways that allow email readers to connect to a mailbox.

Conclusion
And we’re done! You can send any type of email using SMTP, and access the message with POP3 or IMAP. The important part of all this is simply structuring the message properly (which gets more difficult with MIME messages and attachments), but you have the power and knowledge now. Make good use of it!

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1. Problem Steps Recorder
As the local PC guru you’re probably very used to friends and family asking for help with their computer problems, yet having no idea how to clearly describe what’s going on. It’s frustrating, but Microsoft feels your pain, and Windows 7 will include an excellent new solution in the Problem Steps Recorder.
When any app starts misbehaving under Windows 7 then all your friends need do is click Start, type PSR and press Enter, then click Start Record. If they then work through whatever they’re doing then the Problem Steps Recorder will record every click and keypress, take screen grabs, and package everything up into a single zipped MHTML file when they’re finished, ready for emailing to you. It’s quick, easy and effective, and will save you hours of troubleshooting time.

2. Burn images
Windows 7 finally introduces a feature that other operating systems have had for years – the ability to burn ISO images to CDs or DVDs. And it couldn’t be much easier to use. Just double-click the ISO image, choose the drive with the blank disc, click Burn and watch as your disc is created.

3. Create and mount VHD files
Microsoft’s Virtual PC creates its virtual machine hard drives in VHD files, and Windows 7 can now mount these directly so you can access them in the host system. Click Start, type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter, then click Action > Attach VHD and choose the file you’d like to mount. It will then appear as a virtual drive in Explorer and can be accessed, copied or written just like any other drive.
Click Action > Create VHD and you can now create a new virtual drive of your own (right-click it, select Initialise Disk, and after it’s set up right-click the unallocated space and select New Simple Volume to set this up). Again, you’ll be left with a virtual drive that behaves just like any other, where you can drag and drop files, install programs, test partitioning software or do whatever you like. But it’s actually just this VHD file on your real hard drive which you can easily back up or share with others. Right-click the disk (that’s the left-hand label that says “Disk 2″ or whatever) and select Detach VHD to remove it.
The command line DISKPART utility has also been upgraded with tools to detach a VHD file, and an EXPAND command to increase a virtual disk’s maximum size. Don’t play around with this unless you know what you’re doing, though – it’s all too easy to trash your system.

4. Troubleshoot problems
If some part of Windows 7 is behaving strangely, and you don’t know why, then click Control Panel > Find and fix problems (or ‘Troubleshooting’) to access the new troubleshooting packs. These are simple wizards that will resolve common problems, check your settings, clean up your system and more.

5. Startup repair
If you’ve downloaded Windows 7 (and even if you haven’t) it’s a good idea to create a system repair disc straight away in case you run into problems booting the OS later on. Click Start > Maintenance > Create a System Repair Disc, and let Windows 7 build a bootable emergency disc. If the worst does happen then it could be the only way to get your PC running again.

6. Take control
Tired of the kids installing dubious software or running applications you’d rather they left alone? AppLocker is a new Windows 7 feature that ensures users can only run the programs you specify. Don’t worry, that’s easier to set up than it sounds: you can create a rule to allow everything signed by a particular publisher, so choose Microsoft, say, and that one rule will let you run all signed Microsoft applications. Launch GPEDIT.MSC and go to Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Application Control Policies > AppLocker to get a feel for how this works.

7. Calculate more
At first glance the Windows 7 calculator looks just like Vista’s version, but explore the Mode menu and you’ll see powerful new Statistics and Programmer views. And if you’re clueless about bitwise manipulation, then try the Options menu instead. This offers many different unit conversions (length, weight, volume and more), date calculations (how many days between two dates?), and spreadsheet-type templates to help you calculate vehicle mileage, mortgage rates and more.
Don’t take any Windows 7 applet at face value, then – there are some very powerful new features hidden in the background. Be sure to explore every option in all Windows applets to ensure you don’t miss anything important.

8. Switch to a projector
Windows 7 now provides a standard way to switch your display from one monitor to another, or a projector – just press Win+P or run DisplaySwitch.exe and choose your preferred display. (This will have no effect if you’ve only one display connected.)

9. Get a power efficiency report
If you have a laptop, you can use the efficiency calculator to get Windows 7 to generate loads of useful information about its power consumption. Used in the right way, this can help you make huge gains in terms of battery life and performance. To do this you must open a command prompt as an administrator by typing ‘cmd’ in Start Search, and when the cmd icon appears, right-click it and choose Run as administrator.
Then at the command line, just type in ‘powercfg -energy’ (without quotes) and hit Return, and Windows 7 will scan your system looking for ways to improve power efficiency. It will then publish the results in an HTML file, usually in the System32 folder. Just follow the path it gives you to find your report.

10. Understanding System Restore
Using System Restore in previous versions of Windows has been something of a gamble. There’s no way of telling which applications or drivers it might affect – you just have to try it and see.
Windows 7 is different. Right-click Computer, select Properties > System Protection > System Restore > Next, and choose the restore point you’d like to use. Click the new button to ‘Scan for affected programs’ and Windows will tell you which (if any) programs and drivers will be deleted or recovered by selecting this restore point.

11. Set the time zone
System administrators will appreciate the new command line tzutil.exe utility, which lets you set a PC’s time zone from scripts. If you wanted to set a PC to Greenwich Mean Time, for instance, you’d use the command
tzutil /s “gmt standard time”
The command “tzutil /g” displays the current time zone, “tzutil /l” lists all possible time zones, and “tzutil /?” displays details on how the command works.

12. Calibrate your screen
The colours you see on your screen will vary depending on your monitor, graphics cards settings, lighting and more, yet most people use the same default Windows colour profile. And that means a digital photo you think looks perfect might appear very poor to everybody else. Fortunately Windows 7 now provides a Display Colour Calibration Wizard that helps you properly set up your brightness, contrast and colour settings, and a ClearType tuner to ensure text is crisp and sharp. Click Start, type DCCW and press Enter to give it a try.

13. Clean up Live Essentials
Installing Windows Live Essentials will get you the new versions of Mail, Movie Maker, Photo Gallery and others – great. Unfortunately it also includes other components that may be unnecessary, but if you like to keep a clean system then these can be quickly removed.
If you left the default “Set your search provider” option selected during installation, for instance, Windows Live will install Choice Guard, a tool to set your browser home page and search engine, and prevent other programs from changing them. If this causes problems later, or you just decide you don’t need it, then Choice Guard may be removed by clicking Start, typing msiexec /x and pressing [Enter].
Windows Live Essentials also adds an ActiveX Control to help upload your files to Windows Live SkyDrive, as well as the Windows Live Sign-in Assistant, which makes it easier to manage and switch between multiple Windows Live accounts. If you’re sure you’ll never need either then remove them with the Control Panel “Uninstall a Program” applet.

14. Add network support
By default Windows Live MovieMaker won’t let you import files over a network, but a quick Registry tweak will change this. Run REGEDIT, browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Live\Movie Maker, add a DWORD value called AllowNetworkFiles and set it to 1 to add network support.

15. Activate XP mode
If you’ve old but important software that no longer runs under Windows 7, then you could try using XP Mode, a virtual copy of XP that runs in a window on your Windows 7 desktop. But there’s a big potential problem, as XP Mode only works with systems that have hardware virtualisation (AMD-V or Intel VT) built-in and turned on. If you’ve a compatible CPU then this may just be a matter of enabling the option in your BIOS set-up program, however some high profile brands, including Sony Vaio, disable the setting for “security reasons”. And that blocks XP Mode from working, too.

One solution has emerged, but it’s a little risky, as essentially you’ll have to alter a byte in your laptop firmware and hope this doesn’t have any unexpected side-effects. Gulp.  if you are feeling brave then take a look at the google search, you will get a lot of answers..But dont blame me if it goes wrong

If you have any queries,  don’t hesitate to ask.

There are various Public DNS services which aim to assist users to speed up their browsing experience. For instance, Google has announced a free Google DNS service designed to speed up users’ browsing experience a couple of weeks ago.  If you have tested Google Public DNS or other public DNS Services, but cannot decide or have doubts which one is the fastest and most secure, perhaps this tiny and free utility, Namebench, might give you some guideline and ideas.

Developed by Thomas Stromberg, a Google engineer in Belgium, Namebench will do a quick search and locate the fastest DNS server for users once it is installed. The search test takes a few minutes and the result will be displayed in the web browser. For easy illustration and understanding, the results are summarized and presented in various charts and graphs. Users who want to give it a try to test their own ISP’s DNS servers and compare with OpenDNS, Google Public DNS, and other DNS servers can download it via the link here. This tiny application supports OS X, Windows, and Linux.

RUNit is a standalone application which doesn’t require any installation and you can download it via the link here. Users just need to double click the application to run it. Once it is executed, this program icon
will be added in the Windows taskbar. Users can select Setup RUNit to set up a customized menu for program quick launch. Users can drag and drop the program shortcuts which they want to include in the menu to RUNit.