If you do not know what you do in the registry, you can damage your computer pretty good.Today we show you how to prevent users from accessing the registry and make changes to it.

Using Policy Editor Local Group

Note: This method uses Group Policy Editor which is not available in versions of Windows Home.

first type gpedit.msc in the Search box on the Start menu.

When Group Policy Editor opens, navigate to User Configuration \ Administrative Templates and select System. Under Setting in the right pane double-click Prevent access to registry editing tools. Continue Reading ->

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The improved taskbar — or Superbar, as it’s really called now — in Windows 7 offers loads of features which make getting at the files and folders you use frequently easier and faster. The four options I’ll cover here don’t require any additional software. They’re all possible using features built right in to your OS, you just might not have realized it yet!

Pin ‘em to your Explorer icon (pictured above)
The most obvious solution, and the one you’re most likely to have tried already. The Explorer icon sits on the Superbar by default, so every fresh Windows 7 desktop should have it. Pinning a folder is as simple as it gets: find a folder you want to add to the Explorer Jump List, click on it and hold your mouse button down, and drag it to the Explorer taskbar icon.

There’s another way to add items, too. Folders you use frequently automatically appear on the Jump List. Right-click the Explorer icon to display it, and then click the thumbtack icon to pin anything you’d like to show up at the list.

The Quick Launch toolbar Continue Reading ->

Are you looking for a quick and simple way to view the contents of the cache in Firefox? Then you will definitely want to see how easy it can be using the CacheViewer extension.

Note: CacheViewer is a front-end app for easily accessing and searching the memory cache.

Before

Viewing the cache in Firefox using “about:cache” provides some information about the contents but may not be the most efficient method available for some people.

CacheViewer in Action Continue Reading ->

Yes it is true. And it has happened as well. The Webcam spy case in the Lower Merion School District near Philadelphia has raised concern in this matter. The School had issued MacBook to its students and used this method to locate stolen/lost laptops. The school district admitted to activating the webcams 42 times over a 14 month period.
Most of the laptops were found to be misplaced in the class rooms instead. Snippets of the students as well as few teachers using them were recorded and used to identify which person currently had which laptop.

Is it really that simple to remotely activate a webcam? Sad truth is yes. All the new laptops now come with a built in webcam. And with correct software installed on the laptop, along with it connected to the internet, the webcam can be remotely turned on. This is bad news for people who are infected with remote camera Trojan/viruses. I don’t think there is any such Trojan out there yet, but I won’t be too sure. Won’t be long before people realize that they have been recorded while they were busy tapering away with on their laptops.

Here is Mike Perbix who talks about spying with laptop remote admin software If you want to know more.

Very disturbing piece of news indeed. Well I am glad that my webcam has a white bright LED that turns on when the webcam is on. At least I get to know if I am being watched or not.

Regards,
Kaiser2011