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18,535 Questions
Why are passwords typed twice?
To ensure that you have typed the password correctly the first time, instead of having you enter it wrong and then be unable to access your account.
What are the main character in button button by Richard Matheson?
Dont let money get the best of you or be careful what you wish for
How do I get my HP and Bing toolbar back?
You just need to right click at the bottom and select properties. It actually depends if you hide it or not. If you hide it, it will work as it will pop out again. If not, go to the control panel to change your settings.
How do you become an administrator on a school computer?
- Go to My Documents
- Click File>new>shortcut
- Type in lusrmgr.msc
- Open it
- Click GROUPS
- Click Administrators
- Click Add
- Click Advanced
- Click Find Now (There may be over 10,000 user names!)
- Find your user name
- Double click it
- Click OK
- Click Apply
- Click OK
- Log-off
- Log-on
Then you should be an administrator. If it doesn't allow you to open the shortcut link then your computer is more secure then normal and you can't become an administrator.
What is used to view a second website without closing the first website?
Press CTR + Click the website.
should appear on another tab
Two tasks you can't perform in the recovery console?
This question is a little backwards but:
You can't change user names or passwords
You can't reset the administrator password
For more information on the recovery console go to: http://commandwindows.com/recovery.htm
Application Software
What is meant by hashing of a file?
Hashing a file is retrieving its unique hash. Any file is different and they all have other hashes. You can compare hashes with the fingerprint of a human. These hashes serve for many purposes.
Virustotal.com for example, uses hashes to identify files which have already been scanned before. Many distributors of huge files (such as game clients or operating systems such as Ubuntu) often show the MD5 hash of the file. If you hash the file and get the same MD5 hash, the file has been downloaded entirely with no errors.
You can hash a file using various applications. I use HashTab for that.
How do you transfer songs off of thumb drive to windows media player?
Getting files from a flash drive to Windows Media Player is a simple process. Plug the USB into the computer, and open Windows Media Player. Go to the area that imports files, and select the flash drive. Windows Media Player will import the files into the program, and can copy them so that they are always available in the player.
What part of the window displays the name of a program you open?
what part of the window shows the name you opened
How do you make Vindictus run faster on your PC?
If you want to make vindictus faster on your computer, you can shut down all back ground processes, just be careful not to shut down anything important to your system. You can do this in task manager. You can also right click on the vindictus process, and select set priority, and then High, or on Vista, You can select Realtime.
How do you change the way a user logs on?
In the user accounts management in the Control Panel is an option to choose between a requirement to use Ctrl + Alt + Del or use the welcome screen.
In Data Exchange how do you save a file under a new name?
Type the new name in the Save As dialog box
What is a guest accounts and non-guest accounts?
The difference is a user account is for a certain person or a certain group but guest account is for anyone who uses that computer without a user account.
What is the function of scandisk?
Scandisk is a Microsoft utility that checks and makes corrections on the hard disk drive. It was first available in the Windows 98 operating system.
What does cc mean on an email?
It stands for "carbon copy", which refers to the idea that someone else is receiving (being copied on) the email/mail. Carbon copies were literally used back when physically mailing something to someone. The copy (cc) that someone would receive was literally a carbon copy of the original document or writing. Nowadays in emails the term "cc" is still used, but simply to notify others of who is being copied or also receiving the message.
Bcc stands for Blind carbon copy and if you send an email to person 1 and then send a blind copy to person 2 then person 1 wont know that you sent the copy to person 2.
What creates restore points at regular intervals and just before you install software and hardware?
System Protection
Can you use DirectX on Macintosh?
DirectX was created by Microsoft as a means of handling multimedia within their Windows operating system. As such it serves no purpose on a Mac; unless you are running Windows on the Mac.
What is the windows keyboard shortcut to display the start menu from the windows desktop?
Windows key or Ctrl + Esc
2) Choose Tools and select "Folder options"
- Click on "View" tab, select "Show Hidden files and folders" and uncheck "Hide Extention...."
- Click on "Hide protected operating system files" (these selections are important to find the files you need to delete)/
- Click "OK."
3. Open Windows Task Manager (ctrl-alt-del) and select the "Processes" tab
- Click on "Image name" to sort the list
- Find "wscript.exe" and click on "End Process" (if there is more than one process with that name you have to end all of them)
- Close Windows Task Manager.
4. Click on Start and select "Search" and search for "autorun.inf" (search the computer)
- Delete all the files that contain the text MS32DLL.dll.vbs (the virus) by pressing Shift+Delete. (There obviously should not be Autorun.inf in the C: root).
5. You will also delete the virus from the system (%homedrive%:\WINDOWS\ MS32DLL.dll.vbs) by pressing g Shift+Delete.
6. Next you have to edit the Register. (Please not that you have to be very careful in the Registry tools; certain mistakes in the Registry can crash your computer)
- Click on "Start" and select "Run" and type in "Regedit" and press "Enter".
- Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE --> Software -->Microsoft -->Windows --> Current Version --> Run.
- Find "MS32DLL" and delete that entry.
6. Select HKEY_CURRENT_USER --> Software --> Microsoft --> Internet Explorer --> Main. There you find Window Title "Hacked by Godzilla" and you should delete that entry. You can close the Registry now.
7. Click on Start --> Run and type in "gpedit.msc" and press "Enter."
-- Open "Group Policy": select User Configuration --> Administrative Templates --> System --> and there you will double click on "Turn Off Autoplay"
- In the window there you should select "Enabled" and select "All drives" (they say in a certain Thai website that select all turn of Autoplay will be safer for not getting viruses). Now you can close the Group Policy.
8. Click on Start --> Run and type "msconfig" and press "Enter".
- Open "System Configuration Utility".
- Click on "Startup" tap
- Find the file MS32DLL, choose Enable All, then uncheck"MS32DLL"
- Click Apply and then OK to close
- Exit the "System Configuration Utility" and select "Exit Without Restart" when prompt.
9. After this, double-click on My Computer and select "Tools" and "Folder Options" and "View" tap to change back there.
- select "Hide Extention..." and "Hide protected operating system file" and "Don't show hidden files and folders".
- Empty the "Recycle bin" and "Restart" your computer.
Extended Solution:
After you have deleted all these Autorun files, if your drives still do not want to open with a left click:
Start the Registry editor: Start->Run "regedit"
or alt-ctrl-del, File->New Task... "regedit"
Navigate to:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell
- If there is a folder: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\open
Delete it.
There should only be Drive\shell\find and maybe Drive\shell\cmd, but if you see Drive\shell\open, delete it.
- Make sure that when in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\, the (Default) key on the right hand window should have a value of "none":
Name: (Default), Type: REG_SZ, Value: none
If your computer is still not fixed, here is a complete registry dump of what the HKCR\Drive\ registry path should look like, along with the HKCR\Directory\ path as well:
Note: you can copy the below lines into a text editor (notepad) and save it as "drivefix.reg" and double click it. All the values below will be entered into the registry, overwriting existing values. But values which do not appear here are not affected.
Note: The @ sign is the name of the (Default) value for each directory/key in in the registry.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive]
@="Drive"
"EditFlags"=hex:d2,01,00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\DefaultIcon]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\ 00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,\ 65,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,38,00,00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell]
@="none"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\find]
"SuppressionPolicy"=dword:00000080
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\find\command]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,45,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\
65,00,00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\find\ddeexec]
@="[FindFolder("%l", %I)]"
"NoActivateHandler"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\find\ddeexec\application]
@="Folders"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\find\ddeexec\topic]
@="AppProperties"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory]
@="File Folder"
"AlwaysShowExt"=""
"EditFlags"=hex:d2,01,00,00
"InfoTip"="prop:DocComments"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\New]
@="{D969A300-E7FF-11d0-A93B-00A0C90F2719}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\DefaultIcon]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,\
65,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,33,00,00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell]
@="none"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\find]
"SuppressionPolicy"=dword:00000080
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\find\command]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,45,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\
65,00,00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\find\ddeexec]
@="[FindFolder("%l", %I)]"
"NoActivateHandler"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\find\ddeexec\application]
@="Folders"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\find\ddeexec\topic]
@="AppProperties"
HERE'S A SHORTER APPROACH:
- Install "unlocker" from FileHippo.com
- Double-click on My Computer on Desktop.
Choose Tools and select "Folder options"
- Click on "View" tab, select "Show Hidden files and folders" and uncheck "Hide Extention...."
- Click on "Hide protected operating system files" (these selections are important to find the files you need to delete)/
- Click "OK."
- Search for the the file autorun.inf.
- Delete it. It will go to the Recycle Bin.
- Open Recycle Bin. Delete autorun.inf.
- Go to C:\RECYCLER. The search you previously performed will show you what folder where the autorun.inf is. Right click the folder and click Unlocker. Choose unlock, then delete.
- If it's still present in the C:\RECYCLER, repeat the process with the Unlocker until the file/folder is gone.
Go to http://devterch.com/blog/?p=31 they have a tool that you can use and you do not have to be a techie person. The problem with some of these answers is that they require technical people to be able to fix the issues.
http://devterch.com/blog/?p=31
What does your Windows firewall do?
Sadly, the Windows firewall does very little, if anything, to help protect your computer.
Of the 25 recognized firewall tests - Windows firewall passed none.
Think of a firewall as having a security guard on every door and window of your home. That security guard only lets the people you allow to enter or leave.
It is a good idea to have a firewall, just it is not a good idea to depend on the windows firewall, there are much better free ones available on the Internet.
