Since firstly introduced into Windows 3.1, the Windows Registry is now available in almost all versions of Windows operating system, like Microsoft Windows 98, Windows CE, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and more. It is regarded as a hierarchical database that is built to store and retrieve confidential information of [...]
What is Spyware?
Spyware is a general term used to describe Advertising Supported software or software that secretly downloads and installs itself into your computer posed as a hidden file accompany with other software such as freeware or shareware applications, audio files, email messages, instant messages, and direct file-sharing connections for tracking personal or sensitive information. [...]
The Windows Registry serves as a central hierarchical database-like repository which is used to store settings and options for Microsoft Windows 98, Windows CE, Windows NT, and Windows 2000. The Registry contains information that Windows continually references during operation, such as profiles for each user, the application profiles installed on the computer and the types [...]
To describe how to determine whether a computer is running a 32-bit Microsoft Windows operating system or a 64-bit Microsoft Windows operating system proves to be an important part of understanding Microsoft Windows. To determine whether your computer is running a 32-bit Windows operating system or a 64-bit Windows operating system, examine the system information. [...]
Have you ever mentioned the programs running in the background? They slow down the speed of launching your Windows and they were launched without accessing the Startup folder.
The function of this set is to launch the program automatically when the user logs on the PC. It is set to run at the background when the [...]
What are cookies?
A cookie (also called tracking cookie, browser cookie, and HTTP cookie) is designed to be a small piece of text stored on a user’s computer by a web browser. A cookie comprises of one or more name-value pairs containing bits of information such as user preferences, ID contents, phone numbers, the identifier for [...]
Hard drive plays an essential part in the computing of your system because it non-volatile storage device that stores digitally encoded data on rapidly rotating platters with magnetic surfaces. A hard drive which is filled with errors can bring malicious programs into your system and steal your personal information and some other important data. To [...]
A lot of program manufacturers intend to design their products to load automatically at Windows start up in order to make greater profits. Actually, this way could not raise their sales but only force the customers to use more time to load Windows. Sometimes unfortunately, Windows system may be shutdown without any error messages and [...]
Windows Registry is designed to be a central repository which is used to store options and settings for the Windows operating system to enhance each application running smoothly. It keeps the information of hardware, operating system software, most non-operating system software, and per-user settings for the system. Additionally, it serves as a prime target to [...]
Hidden Operating System Files are designed to be not seen directly by the users in order to protect the system from malicious programs and spywares or other viruses, but you can use a registry tweak for Windows that will force these hidden operating system files to be seen. Note that before you attempt this, you [...]
