Works as Systems Admin in Siskin Technologies, India. Corporate trainer on Microsoft and Cisco platform. Specialized in Virtualization Technology. LAN Consultant for some local organizations.
The presentation or the looks of the text on-screen or in print can be described and beautified by different types of fonts. Fonts are a collection of alphanumeric characters and symbols. They describ…
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Hard disk drives are the most important storage devices that store and retrieve data as per users’ needs. Unlike other storage mediums, such as CDs/DVDs, etc., the HDDs consist of ‘Platters’. The plat…
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As the name suggests a User Group is a pool of user accounts sharing the same security rights. They are sometimes also referred to as Security Groups. It is inconvenient to assign a same set of privil…
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When users log on to Microsoft Windows using their credentials, they are assigned with access tokens that specify the level of privileges they would get while accessing the objects and resources that …
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Security of any object or a user account in a computer can be considered complete only when it contains a set of credentials that are comprised of two entities, namely Username and Password. In almost…
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Windows Media Player has been in existence since the release of the very first Graphical User Interface operating system by Microsoft. Every time a new version of Microsoft Windows is released, Window…
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In Microsoft Windows operating systems, the drive letters of partitions play an important role when identifying the volumes. In earlier days, when the floppy disks were used as the removable medias, t…
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In Microsoft Windows-based operating systems, multiple user accounts are created by the administrators so that a single computer can be shared by many users. When a user account is created in the Wind…
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Something about Built-In Administrator Account With the release of NTFS oriented Microsoft-based operating systems, the concept of administrator and standard user accounts was also introduced. An Admi…
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Remote Desktop is a feature that was introduced with the release of Microsoft Windows 2000 but was not much recognized and used by the administrators in most corporate environments. The reason behind …
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Passwords are the most important aspects of Windows-based or non-Windows-based operating systems. In production environments, where security is a major concern, network administrators always protect t…
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Quota Management feature is integrated in almost all Microsoft-based operating systems that support NTFS file system. With the help of this feature, administrators can restrict users from consuming di…
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Disk Operating System or DOS was the very first operating system that Microsoft introduced. It was a Command Line Interface or CLI-based operating system which required users to type in the commands i…
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System rating is the measurement calculated by the operating systems in order to let the users know about the quality of hardware devices that are installed in the computers. System rating also allows…
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Recent programs are the applications that Microsoft Windows 7 displays in the start menu. The applications are displayed because they have been accessed by the users quite frequently. In other words, …
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Taskbar buttons are the small icons that are automatically displayed in the taskbar when their respective applications are initialized. In previous versions of Microsoft Windows, the taskbar buttons a…
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Right from the very first GUI-based operating system released by Microsoft, i.e. Windows 95, the installation process of the OS also installs some built-in games. Some of the most played built-in game…
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MMC stands for Microsoft Management Console that works as a container for single or multiple snap-ins. Snap-ins provide configuration options that are not generally available to the users even through…
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Although it sounds awkward, but many times professional singers and even home users might want to listen to their own voices while recording. In previous operating systems, this configuration was a te…
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When administrators enable Remote Desktop feature on Windows operating systems, by default Windows allows only the administrators of the computers to establish remote desktop sessions to the computers…
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Disk quota is the feature that was introduced with the release of Microsoft Windows 2000 and is now carried forward to all the latest versions of Microsoft operating systems. Disk quota allows adminis…
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Run command prompt is a place from where users can initiate most system integrated programs. For example, if users want to open Notepad they just need to type ‘Notepad’ in the Run command prompt and p…
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In Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP, as soon as the operating systems were installed, all the drives were automatically administratively shared and the shares were kept hidden by adding a $ at the end of…
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In today’s digital world it is likely that users have cell phones with built-in cameras. Gone are the days when people used to purchase cameras that were manually operated and required cartridge…
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Something about Microphones Microphones are the devices that many home users use to record their voices and save them in their computer systems. Many professionals also use microphones to record their…
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