ShareBefore I begin this Tutorial a small introduction of System User for those who don’t know what is a system user. In Windows XP there are basically 4 users, differentiated based on their privileges, they are

System
Administrator
Limited User, and
Guest

System user has got the top privileges in all the users.
Whenever you open task-manager (CTRL+ALT+DEL) you get a long list of processes running on it.

As you can see that a lot of processes are running with user name System. Most System processes are required by the operating system, and cannot be …

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This is an old trick but still useful, may be it help someone save the hard-disk space. Hiberfil.sys is hibernation file that store whole Windows state, when hibernation in action. Its located in system drive (shortcut %systemdrive%) .
The size of file depends on total installed physical RAM, so it requires space in HDD as much your system RAM. But its too annoying we need to free space, so here is the solution.
Let’s do it-
1. Reduce size/Resize
Go to Run and type CMD and press Enter
POWERCFG -H -Size
Specifies the desired hiberfil.sys …

ShareInPrivate browsing this is most advanced feature of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8. What it does is it keeps your tracks clear, it provides you secure mode of surfing the web. InPrivate Browsing prevents Internet Explorer from storing data about a user’s browsing session. This includes cookies, temporary Internet files, history, and other data. No data is recorded, no cookies, no temporary files nothing is recorded or saved while you surf the web. Sounds very interesting Huh!

But for some people it is something that they don’t want, they want to keep …

ShareAnd no! I am not going to talk about some geeky command prompt method, this method is as easy as plug and play. Microsoft has recently released a utility to do the job.
Microsoft released a small utility to create Windows 7 bootable USB/DVD called “Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool”
We have cover a small How To on how to use it.

First Download and Install Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool.
Now when you launch it, it will ask for Widows 7 ISO file, here select the path where you have stored …

ShareIf you are Windows 7/VISTA user then you might have seen this screen a lot of time appearing in front of you

This screen comes in front of you whenever you open any executable file, it ask for your permission to execute that file, Ahh! for one instance it looks fine, that your OS seeks your permisssion to execute something, but when it happens evry often it looks wiered. I will tell you about tweaking UAC but not right now. Let first start with what is UAC?
Q.1 So what is UAC?
UAC …

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Today we will see how can we format our USB drives in NTFS Format. There are a lot of benifits of using NTFS format rather than default FAT format in Windows XP. For those who really understand what they get from NTFS here is the tutorial which will tell you how to format your USB/flash/pen drive in Windows XP.
Before …