If you have ever downloaded any of the google products like picasa ,google screen saver etc, you may have googleupdater.exe running as a process in your system right now.
You can check by pressing "alt+ctrl+del" to open task manager and click the process tab.
What is googleupdater.exe?
GoogleUpdater.exe is a process which belongs to the Google.com’s range of Internet search facilities provided. This program is a non-essential , can be terminated unless suspected to be causing problems.
Do you know the fastest way to open a file location of any desktop shortcut? i.e the directory where that file is located.
The most simple method to do this is to right click on the shortcut and then select properties and click the open file location button.
But if you have noticed in vista this feature now comes integrated with windows vista itself(as shown in the image below).
If you have used vista, you may have seen option to eject the cd drives on the right click menu on the cd drive.
This feature of automatically eject the cd drives is a part of windows vista but not provided with windows XP, but this option can be enabled in windows XP using a simple freeware software called Eject CD, Download it from here.
What is Eject CD?
Eject CD is a useful, free and easy to use software. It helps you easily eject and insert the cd/dvd-rom drivers just by using the keyboard shortcuts or your mouse.
Are you annoyed by the restart prompt which appears every time you update windows.
In order to configure no auto reboot settings for windows XP Professional and Home your windows must have service pack2 installed.
But the to remove auto reboot for windows XP home and Professional are different.
For Windows XP Professional
1. Open Start >> Run and type gpedit.msc (group policy editor) and press Enter
2. Navigate to the following path
Local Computer Policy\Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\ Windows Components\Windows Update
3. Double click "No auto-restart for schedule Automatic Updates installations" and select to enable this setting.
4. Restart windows.
For Windows XP Home Edition
By default auto login feature got disabled in windows when ever you create any other account in windows XP other than default administrator acoount.
What is AutoLogon?
When a user got logged in windows XP without entering username and password. Don’t you think this could be more convenient when logging to windows?
Note: When you turn on autologon in Windows XP becomes more convenient, but turning this setting on can pose a security risk, but still if you want to do it.
Let’s see how you turn this setting on.
There are some process in windows which keep on running in the background eating some share of system resources and degrading the system performance.
One of those process may be wlloginproxy.exe which is one of the process which is not useful to any user.
What is Wlloginproxy.exe?
The process WLLoginProxy.exe belongs to the software Microsoft® Windows Live Login Helper or WLLoginProxy.exe by Microsoft Corporation (www.microsoft.com).
May be you are very much annoyed by UAC but still does not want UAC to be turned off in your user account in vista but want to perform some task without user account control elevation prompts.
You can do these tasks by using default build in administrator account but you will have to enable it first.
Follow the procedure below to enable default admin account in Vista
1. Click Start, and then type cmd in the Start Search box.
2. In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator.
There are lots of process in windows which keeps on running in the background using some share of windows resources all the time.
These process are most of the time are not use full to all of us, one of those process is wmpnscfg.exe
What is wmpnscfg.exe?
wmpnscfg.exe is used to alert users when a new media device is found on the network. When wmpnscfg is notified that a new media device is available on the network, it displays a popup in the system tray that informs the user about the availability of the new device.
How To Disable or Stop WMPNCFG.EXE service ?