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This could be something already commonly known among experienced Windows Vista users, but there are still a fair amount of users who are unaware of it.
User Account Control (UAC) is a feature introduced in Windows Vista to improve the security of Windows by limiting applications to standard user privileges until an administrator authorizes an increase [...]

There are a couple of applications that may fail to start and complaint because its port is being used by a different application. This is a quick and dirty way of knowing which application is responsible for tying up a port on a Windows box.

As promised, for those who are on UltraVNC, securing your VNC over Internet is very easy with a DMS plugin available for encryption. There are currently 3 encryption plugins for UltraVNC, namely MSRC4, ARC4 and AESV2. I’ll demonstrate how to use the MSRC4 plugin as this is well documented on the UltraVNC forum and it’s [...]

Continuing CK’s article on VNC where he left off, here’s the VNC-over-Internet remote administration version of the guide. The first part of the tutorial is the setting-up of VNC-over-internet and the second part deals with hardening your VNC in regards to security best-practices. This article is gonna be a long one, so take a deep [...]

If you have visited Microsoft’s Windows Update site since a couple of months back, you probably would’ve noticed a fairly large sign encouraging you to install Microsoft Update. After installing and using it for quite some time (and subsequently disabling it recently), here’s my (short) write up on it.

These few months, I had been suffering an annoying problem whereby whenever I startup my company notebook, I had to wait for around 10 minutes due to a system process called “svchost.exe” that took away all the CPU time, and because of that I couldn’t do anything until the process “cool down” by itself
Clueless [...]

Microsoft’s flagship product - Windows Vista and productivity suite Office 2007 were officially launched in Malaysia at Lowyat Plaza today. It was pretty grand and in fact the atmosphere was greater than I expected.
If you want to see more, I’ve posted some footage here, hope you guys enjoy it :)

Got my new rig in the last day of Jan 2007, together with a copy of OEM Windows Vista Home Premium edition. As promised, I’m writing a review of the OS.
While this review is obviously not as complete or professional as other articles that you could find elsewhere, it gives you my very own and [...]

The general availability (GA) of Windows Vista is just around the corner, reviews/articles/rumors/screenshots have been posted in a lot of tech-oriented sites, developers are getting themselves ready, and some Microsoft fanboys just can’t wait for this first major OS release since the good-ol Windows XP.
However, Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, doesn’t look particularly impressed [...]

The only way to ensure that deleted files, as well as files that you encrypt with EFS, are safe from recovery is to use a secure delete application. There are numerous softwares to securely delete sensitive files off your hard drive. In this tutorial we will be using SDelete (by previously sysinternal) which can be [...]