Alessandro Zanello

Often access to shared resources that require you to enter a user name and password and this is repeated for each subsequent access.

Sometimes it would be nice to speed up the operation or even to enter only the username and password is default.

For Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista and Windows 7 you can use the system utilities:

cmdkey

that allows you to maintain multiple combinations of usernames and passwords to shared resources on the network, keeping them encrypted in the Windows Registry. more »

How to open a hidden control panel in Windows 7

Windows 7 has a hidden feature called "God Mode"

The reason it is called so is easy to understand when you see it: it is a control panel from which you can change a ton of settings in Windows 7.

To create it, just create a new folder on your desktop, and then rename it as follows:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Just changed the name, the icon changes as follows:

Just let us double click it and it appears a significant number of options you can take:

It works in Windows 7 and Vista.

There are also other codes used in the same way:

• {00C6D95F-329C-81D7-409A-C46C66EA7F33} - (Default location)
• {0142e4d0-fb7a-11dc-ba4a-000ffe7ab428} - (biometric devices)
• {025A5937-4686-A844-A6BE-36FE4BEC8B6D} - (Power Save Settings)
• {05d7b0f4-2121-4Eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9} - (Settings icon and notifications in the taskbar)
• {1206F5F1-0569-412C-8FEC-3204630DFB70} - (credentials for automatic logon)
• {15eae92e-f17a-4431-9f28-805e482dafd4} - (Install a program from the network)
• {17cd9488-1228-4b2f-88ce-4298e93e0966} - (Set Default Programs)
• {1D2680C9-0E2A-469d-B787-065558BC7D43} - (Assembly)
• {1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87} - (Managing wireless networks)
• {208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D} - (Network)
• {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} - (Windows Explorer, folder "Computer")
• {2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D} - (Printers)
• {241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B} - (Connect to the desktop and network printers)
• {4026492F-2F69-46B8-B9BF-5654FC07E423} - (Windows Firewall)
• {78F3955E-3B90-4184-BD14-5397C15F1EFC} - (Computer Performance)

The characters preceding the "." Can be changed at will, so if you feel a bit 'too high-sounding names you can give it less "important" but more important (in fact for godmode usually means a mode of some games where the player's character is invulnerable to any damage).

Can not boot Windows Explorer is missing or Trash?

The solutions to these and other problems for a total of 50 common annoyances of Windows Vista and 7 are categorized under 5 assistants in the vertical bar of FixWin: Windows Explorer, Internet & Connectivity, Windows Media, System Tools, and additional solutions.

The author suggests to verify if you are missing some critical files (System File Checker Utility button), then create a restore point (button Create System Restore Point) and then apply each time a single solution and then restart the system and verify the results before proceeding with other changes, so as to be able to keep under control the outcome of the intervention.

The application is free and can be downloaded here in zip format.

Here instead you can see the screens of the application and see what implementing solutions, it should be noted that Windows Vista automatically recognizes 7 and shows only the options of interest.

More applications are loaded and the longer it takes to shut down Windows. This is especially true for applications that are installed as services, and start at computer startup and maybe wait for a timeout before allowing shutdown.

To speed up the shutdown of Windows might be an idea to open the registry editor and find the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control

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The default action of the shutdown button in Vista is "Hibernate", that's not good to almost anyone, because even © deviates from what is used to know you.

To make yes that the computer shuts down completely, as everyone expects, should give the command (from Win-E or from Start, Run):

powercfg.cpl, 1

Alternatively the Control Panel, Power Options \ Change combinations to energy savings \ Change advanced power settings.

Once in this screen to get to "Power buttons and lid"

From here you can choose the desired options for the case of battery and mains power:

• Operation power button - Changes the action of the physical power button
• Start menu power button - Changes the action of the button in the Start Menu

You can choose from StandBy, Shut down with or without confirmation or nothing as an option for the off button.

The various options available from the Start menu button is

• Switch User: If the computer is used by most people, you can establish a set of accounts, one for each computer user. Each account will have its own settings, their personal folders and so on, so that it can not interfere with the settings of other users. By choosing this option, you can quickly switch to another user;
• Shut Down: If you close the session, all the programs currently in use are closed and all activities are stopped. The computer, pear ², is not turned off, another user can access with their own data;
• Block: When you must drive away from the computer and want to maintain your privacy, you can prevent € ™ s computer access by other users who are not in possession of credentials. For this purpose, it is enough to press the lock button lock (computer) in the Start menu. The computer will be blocked immediately; to access it again, it will need to enter your password.
• Reboot the system: with this option you can restart the computer. Is useful in all cases in which you install software that requires a reboot, typically security or software updates that change the behavior of the operating system.
• Pause: we have already spoken of the suspended mode, the computer is shut down, but the memory remains powered and saved on your hard drive, then resume the work is extremely fast. Hard drives are stopped, ¬ thing like the fans, the monitor is turned off and only the memory remains powered.
• Hibernate: Is it a version of â € € œavanzataâ suspended mode: the data memory are saved to the hard drive to be recovered quickly. Save more energy than the suspended mode, but return to work is a poa € ™ more slowly.

You're running out of disk space because of your beloved OS, maybe Vista? Vista accumulate piles of temporary files, cached files and assorted junk in daily operations, especially browsing on the Internet. The free disk space is affected by this and continues to fall (have you ever wondered why are more and more capacious disks?) Unless you shall. Moreover, the existence of these files will degrade performance and increase the fragmentation of data on disk - and virtually no one I know ever does defragmentation with Defrag (right click on a disk drive and Properties, Tools, Defragment files on the volume).

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