When the Active Directory (AD) domain controller is unavailable to authenticate and validate user account, whether because the client computer is not connected to the domain’s network, or the domain controller is down, user still can log on to the computer as the user’s logon information is cached, allowing access to network resources that do not require domain validation.
User-agent string is a characteristic identification string submitted to and used by web server to identify and determine client’s application type, operating system, software vendor, or software revision. Sometimes, there is a need to change or spoof user agent string that been supplied by the web browser to the remote server in order to access restricted content pages or request specific web pages for different […]
By default, Microsoft has configured Windows 7 to enable and turn on background services when needed. However, some of these background processes are not always in use or required. When they are constantly running, they will consume a large amount of resources and slow down the system’s performance. One of these background processes that many users have highlighted is the wmpnetwk.exe file. The “wmpnetwk.exe” is […]
Most web browser does not have capability to allow user to change the user-agent string directly without the help of add-on, extension or plug-in, with the notably exception of Apple Safari web browser. User-agent string is transmitted to web server to make known the browser’s application type, operating system, software vendor, or software revision.
Instead of releasing standard theme packs for Windows 7, Microsoft has recently released its Windows Experience Pack for Windows 7 and Windows Live Messenger users to customize and create an alter-ego of themselves in a specific destination such as a beach, mountain, safari or city, with a customized avatar for that destination to become part of Windows 7 theme and Windows Live Messenger.
Platinum Guard is a powerful utility software that helps to remove unwanted temporary files and unused junk files from system to ensure best PC performance. Platinum guard also can recover disk space and protect the privacy. Apart from that, Platinum Guard is also equipped with functions such as Mozilla Firefox SQLite database vacuuming, uncompressing of compressed old files and two-click intensive computer cleaner to deep […]
Windows 7 allows user calibrates the display through “Display color Calibration” in order to adjust that colors shown on screen so that the colors are represented accurately on the monitor, be it a LCD, OLED or CRT. For example, to fix Windows 7 Photo Gallery yellow tinted display issue. After calibrating the display, Windows 7 will generate an ICC file, named CalibratedDisplayProfile-0.icc.
Have you upgrade your Firefox browser to Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate 2 which has been released by Mozilla developers on 17 January 2010? If you not yet done then you can skip it by upgrade its to Firefox 3.6 final release. The Firefox 3.6 is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform which has been under development since early 2009. The Firefox 3.6 web […]
Google Chrome, unlikely any other web browsers, does not detect RSS feed (or Atom feed or any other type of feed) on websites. Hence, Google Chrome (Chromium) users cannot preview or subscribe to a RSS feed easily, where as in other web browsers, such as IE, Firefox, Safari or Opera, browser auto-detects any feeds available, and users can easy view the feed and subscribe to […]
Genuine and activated Windows 7 may sometimes been detected as “pirated”, illegal, rogue or not genuine, despite the operating system has been fully paid for, or has been able to used and fully activated all the while. The symptom is that immediately after log on, the following Windows Activation window will be displayed: Windows is not genuine Your computer might not be running a counterfeit […]
You may occasionally need to capture some relevant screens for some reasons such as to prepare a tutorial or capture some images. Most people generally will press the Print Screen key and paste it on image editor and crop the screen accordingly to the size and portion required. If you do not like to go through these processes and want to keep things simpler and […]
Accidentally deleting photos or formatting a camera’s memory cards/memory sticks without having a backup can be a truly painful experience. You will feel very frustrated when this happens especially if the deleted photos are important or meaningful to you. In the event that this happens, for Mac users only, the free photo recovery program, Exif Untrasher, can probably help you recover your loss and give […]
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