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.
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.
Now a days with the increasing use of portable drives various types of virus infect a large number of system very easily.
One of these common virus is "Hacked by Godzilla Virus" which normally spreads through portable drives etc.
My system got infected with this Hacked by Godzilla Virus and I repaired my system without the help of any antivirus software.
Lets first discuss the common symptoms of the Godzilla Virus.
If your system is infected by this virus you will see the this text "Hacked by Godzilla Virus" in the title at the top of the window of Internet explorer
Some other symptoms:
1. Task manager is disabled.
2. Regedit (Command for registry edit) is disabled.
3. Folder options got disappeared From windows explorer.
4. Double clicking on any of your system drive( c: ,d: etc) initiates a new instance of the virus.
So, you won’t be able to open any of your drive by double click rather you have to open then by right click >> explore.
5. msconfig command is disabled – this virus is not dependent on system startup but it disables the msconfig command used to modify the system startup programs.
Let’s see how you can remove Godzilla virus in 5 minutes.
There are many times when you would want to end a particular process in windows xp for any reason.
Most of the times you are able to end a process in a regular way just by closing the window associated with that program but some times it goes in a hang state called as Not Responding state in windows.
When you want to install latest version of windows live writer and downloaded the WLInstaller but the WLinstaller that you have downloaded is not running and displaying the message that it needs a critical update in order to download and install windows live writer.
If you have ever opened Task Manager you could have seen one of the process running all the time called cftmon.exe ,and even if you stop it or suspend the process it will get started again and again.
Even when you remove it from system startup by running msconfig command it will again kept running after the sytem restart.
What is actually ctfmon.exe ?
CTFMON.EXE is a file get installed with Office XP applications. It actually activates the Alternative User Input Text Input Processor and the Language Bar. The program monitors the active windows and provides text input service support for speech recognition, handwriting recognition, keyboard, translation, and other alternative user input technologies.
In case of windows vista to run cool aero glass effects it normally require a powerful graphic card or some good amount of video memory shared on the motherboard and in case of windows xp it is not even possible without some modified theme softwares like window blinds.
So, In order to enable transparency effects (aero effects) in win xp you will need a small freeware called glass2k ,this software is suported on all the windows system windows 2000 onwards.
Have you ever wanted, To create shortcuts for the most common actions like shutdown, hibernate or restart on your desktop, so that you could fire up all these commands just by clicking a shortcut placed on your desktop.
All the operations shutdown, restart are nothing but a simple execution command for the system exe called shutdown.exe but with different parameter.
But this is not the same case with hibernate as it is a suspended state off in case of windows xp and it has nothing to do with shutdown.exe