Software: Ultimate Windows Tweaker

A web site called The Windows Club has created a tool they called Ultimate Windows Tweaker which in summary is a "TweakUI for Windows 7 & Vista". It basically is a GUI tool for modifying the operating system and internet explorer user interface settings

Originally TweakUI was an unsupported utility created byMicrosoft which was part a set of tools called PowerToys that allow you to modify to

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Software: Microsoft Mathematics (Free)

Tackle math and science problems quickly and easily, using Microsoft Mathematics from Microsoft Education Product Center. Here is an excerpt from their site about the product: "From basic math to precalculus, Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 can help you visualize and see mathematical concepts as you’ve never seen them before. This free downloadable tool includes step-by-step instructions and explains

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Software: Attack Surface Analyzer BETA

Microsoft releases new security tool for IT security professional: "Attack Surface Analyzer is developed by the Security Engineering group, building on the work of our Security Science team. It is the same tool used by Microsoft's internal product groups to catalogue changes made to operating system attack surface by the installation of new software.Attack Surface Analyzer takes a snapshot of

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GFI Malware Minute

Malware Minutes are short videos (1-2 minutes) that provide a weekly roundup of top stories from the GFI-Labs Blog, the GFI- Rogue Blog and anything else they think might be of interest.

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NASA - The Frontier Is Everywhere

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Amazing and unusual places in Google Earth

To download links to all the places in the video, you need the following .KML file. To download it, right-click, select Save Link As..., save it to your desktop, then double-click the file to open it with Google Earth.

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Teach Parents Tech

Google is offering a new service called "Teach Parents Tech" that allows you to send training videos to your less-tech-savvy family members. All you do is fill-out the form and select the training video you want to send them. There are several different videos available. When you choose send, the recipient will receive a link in an email to the content you selected for them.

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Networking: Enabling/Disabling Network Protocols

To view the available network protocols installed and active on the various network adapters installed on your computer, follow the instructions below:
Click the Start button, right-click Network, and then select Properties.
In the left pane click Change adapter settings link. This will display a list of all the network devices installed on the local computer.
Right-click any of the devices

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Web Site: Groupon

Groupon is a deal-of-the-day website that is localized for major geographic markets around the world. The deals generally range from 50 to 90 percent off on dining, events, attractions, and more.

The way the site works is it offers one "Groupon" per day in each of the markets it serves. If a certain number of people sign up for the offer, then the deal becomes available to all.

For more

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Troubleshooting: Account Lock Out Issues

If an account keeps getting locked out whether its on a local computer or a domain controller (depending on the type of network the machine is on).  There are some basic steps you can follow to try to troubleshoot the lockout issue. 

One of the first places to start is to search the event logs on the local computer or a domain controller for account lockout problems. 

Below is a list of common

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Command Line: Display File Attribute with WMIC

If you do any command line scripting occasionally you need to get some extended file attributes, such as version information from an .EXE file. The WMIC command line utility allows you to extract this information and whole lot more.  Over the next few weeks I hope to highlight some of it's power.

I have included some examples of how to use this command below.

Displays All Attributes of the

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