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Control Windows Services Remotely Via Internet

Rohit — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:37:27 +0000

Have you ever wanted to control your Windows PC from anywhere in the world ? Well there are ways to connect and control your computer from anywhere using tools like – TeamViewer for Windows. Also you can access your remote desktop to computer using iPhone. But remote desktop is a very bandwidth consuming way of controlling specific things like managing Windows services remotely. And remote desktop might not even work at placed where Internet speed is poor like on a GPRS connection etc.

In this post, I will review a open source free to use tool called Panel Daemon which allows you to control and manage windows services via web-based Interface. Using this tool, you can control your computer’s Windows services from anywhere in the world using Internet connection on any PC / Tabled device / iPhone or any Internet enabled phone using a web-browser. This web based application needs very little bandwidth compared to the remote desktop based application and services.

Panel Daemon tool is a free web based Windows Services Applications Manager tool and runs using IIS server in Windows. This is a open source free toll under GPL license.

To use panel daemon, you need have Windows IIS server preinstalled on your Windows Computer which will allow the PC to be connected with the Internet using this IIS server and allow you to access it remotely. Also it requires you to have .NET 2.0 or newer installed on your PC. If you need any of these, you can get them here – .Net Framework Download , Windows IIS Server Installation Instructions.

To install it, you need to follow these steps :

1. Make sure that your user has Administrator rights

2. Make sure that your user account has a password set

3. Make sure that IIS server and .Net framework are installed

4. Update windows using windows update

5. Run the setup of Panel Daemon (download link at the end of post)

6. Note down the username and password created during the installation

7. Open the browser and put this address in browser :

http://hostname/PanelDaemon_v1.5

You are good to go. Now you can remotely access the your Computer’s Windows services from anywhere using Internet.

Download Panel Daemon Setup | Panel Daemon User Guide | Panel Daemon Homepage

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Windows Backup Files And Folders Program Application

Rohit — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:16:47 +0000

7Backup is free tool which allows you to backup files and folders from local file system as well as from network file system, this application is designed to use 7-Zip compression tool. So for the all the files and folders it will backup, it will create a combined 7–Zip file one for local backup and another for network as shown in the image below.

You can optionally shutdown your computer after backup is done, once you start the backup it will show the following screen in which you can see further details about the files and folders being backed up using 7 zip.

Some Key Features of 7Backup

it can backup up files
it can do archive backed up
7-zip compression
Local backup
Network backup

Note: This tool works on all windows, from windows XP to windows 7 as we have tested, but it requires .net framework 3.5

Download 7Backup

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Reveal Serial Number or License Key Of Windows 7 And Other Windows OS

Rohit — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:01:47 +0000

Sometimes there could be some requirement when you want to know the serial number or product key or license key of the windows operating system installed on your computer. We had previously wrote about Microsoft Windows Product Key Finder which lets you find out the product key of any windows version.

Here is another useful key finder application for windows which also displays lot more other options about your computer.

This small utility is called Windows 7 Key Finder can retrieve a lost product key for any version of windows including windows 7 and it also displays also a series of useful additional information about your machine like Versioning Info, Organization, Owner etc.

It does not matter which version of windows you have installed on your computer, it works with all version of windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.

Download Windows 7 Key Finder

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Know Whether Your Windows Is Legal and Genuine or Not ?

Rohit — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:30:00 +0000

It could be quite difficult for people to find out whether your windows is genuine or not, as sometimes the computer dealer may install a pirated copy of windows on your computer and you never know that you have a illegal copy of windows on your computer.

So, if you want to know whether your copy of windows is genuine or not, follow the methods given below. The methods given below applies to all windows versions so it is irrespective of what windows version you are running on your computer.

In order to find out whether your windows is genuine you can do the following things mentioned below.

Windows XP Genuine Check

Run the following command in Run Prompt [ Press Window Key + r to open run prompt ] – type the following command without quotes – “c:\windows\system32\oobe\msoobe /a”

Note: For the above command if you get a dialog box saying Thanks for using our product" then you have a genuine copy of windows but If the dialog ask you to activate the product then you own a pirated copy of windows.

Windows Vista Genuine Check

Open the command Prompt by pressing Windows + R key . Run the following scripts on the command prompt.

slmgr –xpr

slmgr.vbs -dli
slmgr.vbs -dlv

These scripts will display expiry date, License information and verification details as seen below :

Windows 7 Genuine Check

Microsoft has just released an update which help you confirm the copy of windows 7 installed on your computer is genuine or not. This update is made available and mandatory for all the windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit users.

This update will get installed and runs a validation in background. If the validation error or activation exploit is detected due to illegal or pirated copy of windows 7 on your system then it will redirect you towards the resolution, and you may be asked to validate to activate the copy of windows 7 running on your computer, if you don’t activate it will pop up after every x number of days to activate windows 7 running on your computer which is not genuine.

Download Windows 7 Genuine Check Update For Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit

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Upgrade Computer Hard Drive With Without Installing Windows Again

Abhishek — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:37:58 +0000

Trouble:

Computer hard drives are prone to failures usually after 2 or 3 years of their use. There are some useful tools that we have reviewed to Diagnose Faulty Hard Disk Drive Using Bootable CD

When you know that your computer hard disk is almost failing, the most intelligent thing is to take the backup of important data. After this, the second thing to do can be cloning your hard disk primary partition. This is a very useful way of preserving your Windows Installation and all other software installations when you are upgrading a hard disk drive with a new one.

In this article, I will review a tool called Simple HDD Cloner which will help you clone a drive partition on to another drive.

Fix:

We have already reviewed some Hard Disk Cloning tools for Full System Recovery. Simple HDD Cloner 2.0 is a easy to use tool which is much simpler compared to the tools which we have reviewed earlier.

To make a clone for replacing hard disk:

1. Attach your new hard disk to computer as secondary disk.

2. Make primary partition on the new hard disk of the same size as that of the primary partition on the older hard disk. Format the

3. Run the Simple HDD Cloner Tool, link at the end of this article.

4. Select the source as the primary partition of the old hard disk (Primary drive), and Destination

as the Primary Partition of the New hard disk (Secondary Drive). Click the Cone button.

5. It will take some time depending on the size and heath of your old drive.

6. After the cloning is complete, remove the old primary drive from the computer and use the new drive as primary drive. If you followed everything correctly, the computer will boot from the new hard drive and will load Windows normally as it used to with the old drive.

Hope you find this tutorial easy to follow.

Download Simple HDD Cloner 2.0

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Critical Fix Patch For Internet Explorer All Versions – KB978207

Abhishek — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:29:48 +0000

Microsoft has recently released a critical patch KB978207 which fixes a major venerability in all the versions of Internet Explorer from 5 to 8. As the exploit has been there in all the browsers you should install this patch to fix it.

If you have the setting enabled that windows will automatically download an install updates, then you it will get installed through windows update and for those who do not have this settings turned on better download this patch and install it to fix the bug in your internet explorer.

This security update resolves seven privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The more severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer.

Note: This security update is rated Critical for all supported releases of Internet Explorer: Internet Explorer 5.01, Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1, Internet Explorer 7, and Internet Explorer 8 (except Internet Explorer 6 for supported editions of Windows Server 2003). For Internet Explorer 6 for supported editions of Windows Server 2003 as listed, this update is rated Moderate.

We would suggest all the trouble fixers readers to download and install this patch manually on your windows from this link – the bug patch is named as MS10-002 – Critical

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Disable or Remove Item Entry In Right Click New Submenu With ShellMenuNew

Abhishek — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:07:24 +0000

Trouble:

As you keep using using windows, the items shown in new submenu keeps on increasing with time, due to the newly installed programs on your computer, you may want to just disable and remove some the non used items from the list, removing some items from the list will allows you to make it small look easy to read and show up quickly due to less items.

Here is a free tool which lets you remove and add entries in right click new submenu

Fix:

ShellMenuNew is a small utility that displays the list of all menu items in the ‘New’ submenu of Windows Explorer. It allows you to easily disable unwanted menu items, so this ‘New’ submenu will display only the items that you need.

It will show you he list of all items in right click new submenu, you can easily remove any entry just by right clicking and then select to disable that item or simply press F7 to disable and F8 to enable it again in right click menu. [ as shown in the image below ]

Download ShellMenuNew

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Remove Broken or Corrupted Windows Live Messenger Installation With Windows Live Messenger Uninstaller

Rohit — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:30:00 +0000

Trouble:

Sometimes you may encounter problems in uninstalling old version of live messenger when you might want to upgrade it to the newer version or you just want to get rid off your computer. But when you try to remove it with the usual Configuration – Add/Remove software steps, it might not even appear in the list, while the setup of the WLM says it is all ready installed.

Here is a free tool which lets you fix this issue, we had previously reviewed some other similar tools like Windows Live Messenger Uninstaller like Zap Messenger and WLMUninstaller

Fix:

This tool does remove a broken Windows Live Messenger installation. It really uses only the windows installer [msiexec.exe] to do the job combined with the CLSID of the installation that uniquely identifies the WLM version.

If this tool finds an windows live messenger installation, it will give you the uninstall command that you can use to manually remove it. You can also press RUN and it will run the uninstallation command automatically for you.

Download Windows Live Messenger Uninstaller

[ Source BlogsDNA and blog.eddsn.com ]

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How To Reset Your Password on Windows with the Help of a CD/DVD or USB Flash Drive

Rohit — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:30:00 +0000

We have shared several ways of Resetting Windows password using bootable discs etc as seen below:

In this article we share another tool which can work from USB drive to Reset You Windows Password.

Many times we face this problem when we forget or lost Windows password or somebody had changed the password of our system. In such a situation either we have to install windows again or find a solution to reset the password so that we can log into Windows easily. In this post, I will show you how you can reset the password on Windows easily with the help of your Flash Drive without reformatting or reinstalling your system.. In this post I will use a Flash Drive of 2 GB.

Below are the steps to reset Windows password using bootable USB Flash Drive:

Step1. Download a free demo version of Windows Password Key 8.0

http://www.lostwindowspassword.com/downloads/Windows_Password_Key_Demo.exe

Step2. Run the downloaded file to install Windows Password Key 8.0. You can install Windows Password Key 8.0 on any PC you have access to.

Step3.Windows Start menu – From your Microsoft Windows Start Programs menu, select Windows Password Key | Windows Password Key 8.0.exe. . Windows Password Key 8.0 will be launched automatically.

Step4. Create a bootable USB Flash Drive

4.1 You can click "Browse" to browse Windows Password Key 8.0 image file. The file is usually located as the default.

4.2 Select "USB Flash Drive" and insert your USB into a USB port on the computer, specify the USB Flash Drive from the pull-down list.

4.3 Click "burn" button.

4.4 Windows Password Key extracts the ISO image and copies the necessary files on a USB Flash Drive

4.5: Put in your newly created USB Flash Drive and remove your Windows password:

1. Insert newly created USB Flash Drive and reboot your computer.

2. It’s necessary to change your computer’s setup to make it boot from the USB Flash Drive.

a. pres ‘F2‘ or ‘Delete‘ or "F10" to enter your BIOS setup.

b. Looking for a tab or menu relating to booting in the BIOS setup software’s opening screen. In this example, it’s simply called "BOOT," and can be accessed by using the tab and/or arrow keys to highlight the word "BOOT" on the menu bar. Once there, hit enter, and you’ll see a submenu that’s specific to how the PC boots.

c. Using the tab and/or arrow keys,select "Hard Disk Drives", and hit "Enter".

d. Select the "1st Drive", hit "Enter".

e. Select the "USB: your USB brand", in the example it is "USB: Kingston DTG(2G)", and hit "Enter" to Set the USB Flash drive as the first bootable option.

f. When you’re done with the BIOS setup program, using the tab and/or arrow keys to navigate to the EXIT menu, select the option for saving the changes you just made, and then reboot. (In many BIOSes, a special key–often the F10 key–will save, exit, and reboot in one step.) . When your computer restarts, it will boot from the USB flash drive.

3. When the USB Flash Drive boots, you’ll see Windows Password Key 8.0 initializing (see screen shot below). If so, you can continue to the next step.

4. Choose the Windows installation to be processed:

5. Choose the user whose password you want to reset by typing it’s number and pressing ‘ENTER’.

6. Type ‘y’ followed by ‘ENTER’ to reset the password.

7. After you confirm the resetting of the password. Windows Password Key 8.0 asks: ‘Reset password for another account? (y/n)’. Type ‘y’ to reset password for another account, or ‘n’ if you are finished and want to exit. Remove the Windows Password Key 8.0 bootable CD/DVD and restart your PC. Now you are able to log into your computer without a password!

This is a guest article contributed by Mark. For more information about using a Windows Password Key 8.0 bootable USB Flash Drive

to reset windows password, Please visit:

http://www.lostwindowspassword.com/how_it_works/how_it_works_usb.htm

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Stop & Disable Experience/Assessment Index Tool – WinSAT.exe In Windows 7 and Windows Vista

Rohit — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:32:05 +0000

Trouble:

This problem has been faced by a one of our reader who just upgraded to Windows 7 from Windows Vista, and from day one he started noticing a program called WinSAT.exe which keeps running in the background from time to time automatically. There is no easy way to disable this Experience/Assessment Index Tool in windows 7 as it is not associated with any service, rather it is integrated as scheduled task which runs automatically from task scheduler.

What is WinSAT.exe ?

WinSAT.exe (System Assessment Tool) integrated in windows runs a series of tests and then rates your computer on a scale ranging from 1 through 5. WinSAT.exe actually rates several subsets of your computer system, including processor, memory, primary hard disk, graphics, and gaming graphics.

Lets find out how to stop WinSAT.exe and prevent it from running automatically in future.

Fix:

Follow the procedure below to disable this process from running.

1. Open Control Panel >> Administrative Tools

2. Double click Task Scheduler

3. Browse to Microsoft\Windows\Maintenance, and Disable the task named "WinSAT"

[ as shown in the image below ]

4. Right click and select disable for WinSAT task in task scheduler.

If the above procedure does not solve the purpose, let us know through comments.

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