Normally, I have seen people using remote desktop connection utility provided by windows in my office lots of times while giving a presentation.
Sometimes there is a need to transfer files from the remote computer to the local computer in the middle of the presentation, but as due to the default settings of remote desktop connection utility it does not allow transferring of files in between the local and the remote computer.
How Configure Remote Desktop Connection Utility for File Transfer
After a long time a good proxy software has forced me to write about proxy related stuff, this one is called UltraSurf which is best tunnelling software I have used till now.
Previously I had written about JAP which is again a good tunnelling software to access blocked sites but has some connectivity issues some times when connecting to proxy servers and little bit slow at the same time.
Ultrasurf is a easy to use proxy software, as there is no need to install it, just double click the program exe to start it and it auto configures the Internet Explorer and start it also with a home page as google search in Japanese language.
Additional Proxy Tricks: Proxy Tips & Tricks
What you can do with Ultrasurf
1. You can access any website form your office ,college or from anywhere you want irrespective of the security policy and blocking method.
Have you ever wanted the same wallpaper that you have seen on your friend’s computer but your friend may not want to give you that wallpaper 🙁
Do you know that windows caches and stores the current desktop wallpaper at a specific location for the current user logged in.
In order to get the wall paper go to the location path given below.
It happens some times when you remove some particular program like yahoo messenger ,gtalk from system startup. But when you restart your system these programs get loaded again.
When you open msconfig will see a new entry for yahoo messenger in the startup tab.This happens because there is a option being checked in yahoo messenger which says automatically adds yahoo messenger to system startup when ever you run yahoo messenger.(as shown in the image below)
Removal of Yahoo messenger from startup , follow the steps given below
As per experience and user reviews which I have read till now ,UAC (User Account Control) has been the most annoying feature which got bundled automatically with windows vista.
But some times there are cases when you may want UAC to enabled for one user but at the same time disabled for another user.
So , you can explicitly enable UAC for the specific user by following the procedure below.
This is little bit of windows hacking when you say you want to shutdown a remote computer on your LAN network, if you are doing it for FUN then its ok.
But let me tell you, this may also cause some potential data loss at the remote computer.
Requirement: You must have administrator rights in order to remotely shutdown a computer.
There are so many times when you see the download window and save to disk window in firefox popping up when ever you download a new file through firefox.
You can simply set the preference in firefox to change the behaviour of both the windows. Go to File Menu>>Tools>>Options–General Tab (see the image below)
When it comes to IT security and privacy almost all companies dealing with computers take it very seriously and implement various types of security rules in outlook.
As a result of these rules you may not be able to send binaries(.exe files) and any ActiveX files (.swf files) via email through outlook.
One of my friend want to send a small size .swf flash file which was a flash game via email with outlook express but the company firewall does not allow him to send a ActiveX file via email because of security policy.