What is the Windows Registry?
The Registry is a centralized, hierarchical database that stores all application settings in standardized form. The registry was introduced with Windows 3.1 and Windows NT, replacing the less advanced mechanism of INI files.
In addition to setting for high level user-installed applications and programs, the Registry contains settings for low level components and devices of the Windows Operating System (OS).
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Sysinternals website provides utilities, tools, and technical resources to monitor, diagnose, troubleshoot and manage Windows systems and applications. It is a live service that allows execution of its tools directly from the web without manually searching and downloading them, but just entering the path into Windows explorer. Several freeware tools to administer computers running on Microsoft Windows Operating system are featured in this article.
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Managing Group Policies with Command Line Tools
When it comes to the utilization of Group Policy in MS Windows XP, it means to characterize client and PC settings for the assemblies of clients and PCs. In this process, we conceive an exact desktop setting for a specific assembly of clients and PCs by utilizing the Microsoft Management Console’s – MMC Group Policy snap-in.
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What is WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation)?
Each and every organization nowadays wants to keep checking and monitoring each and every activity of its staff, users, or resources. Hence, they are adopting various types of methods, gadgets, applications, and techniques to perform their jobs with huge reliability and accuracy.
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An Introduction to Performance Monitoring – Why Is It Important?
All Operating Systems tend to monitor all their resources on a regular basis. In any system, the processes are considered to be the primary resource owners, and therefore, most of the performance monitoring is carried out at process-level.
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The Best 10 Tips for Windows Vista Operating System
Windows Vista Operating System is one of the most highly-rated Operating Systems used in most computers. It has several features which make it a more comfortable platform to work with. Some of the isolated features of this Operating System include:
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Comprehension of Different Windows Firewall
What is Windows firewall – Its History and Evolution?
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Windows 2008 New Feature – Read-Only Domain Controllers (RODC)
When we talk about the Windows 2008’s new feature, ‘Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC)’, it’s the latest kind of domain manager in the said Window. The major reason for it is for advance protection in agency divisions. The following are some of the main points that describe the functionality of this new feature added to windows 2008:
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Types of partitioning
Most of us have bought computers or some might had. When a computer is new it is usually very important that the hard disk of that computer is partitioned. What is partitioning? It is the act or process of dividing a computer’s hard disk space into pieces or parts. These parts are known as the Logical Partitions.
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