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How to Change Admin Password in Windows

Forgetting your password isn’t just embarrassing, it’s a show stopper for your productivity. Suddenly a wall goes up between you and all of your documents, and you’re powerless to access them. Things get even worse if you don’t have the password for any admin account on the computer, because logging in is almost entirely impossible. [...]

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How to Recover and Reset Password in windows 7/Vista/XP/2003/2K/NT

We tend to forget our Windows administrator login password. With no way to get into the system, you can’t even perform basic maintenance, let alone a thorough tune-up. Formatting is always an option, but we consider that a last resort. (Plus, guess who’s going to have to help reinstall all the programs lost after a [...]

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WordPress Blogs under Attack by a Computer Worm

All those WordPress blogs that are not updated to the latest version available are under a severe threat of being attacked by a computer worm sooner or later.
Only the self hosted WordPress blogs are under this attack and not the ones that are hosted at wordpress.com. The latest version available as of today is the [...]

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Solution to System Restore Does Nothing Problem

The problem was asked by one of our readers who wanted to fix the problem that whenever he wanted to restore the system with Windows XP System Restore, it does nothing when he click Next after selecting the desired date.

What happens when System Restore is not working?
System Restore is a great tool by default in [...]

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Encrypt USB Data Easily Using True Crypt

Want to transfer some secret information or files from ne computer to another using USB Pen Drive? Or got some important file that needs privacy? Solution is True Crypt.
If you also carry useful data daily from one place to another and are worried that what will happen if the USB drive gets lost, then this [...]

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Login to the XP Administrator account through Safe Mode

If you have forgotten your Administrator account password then there is no need to worry as there are several ways to login into the account.

Here are the two ways that you can use successfully:
1.    Change the password ( read http://techsalsa.com/break-or-reset-administrator-password-in-xp/ post of mine)
2.    Reveal the forgotten password ( read http://techsalsa.com/reveal-or-recover-xp-administrator-password-using-ophcrack/ post of mine)
But some of [...]

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Enable the Registry Editor, Task Manager and Folder Options Disabled by Virus

Virus attack is common these days and we often come across the problems like Disabled Folder Options or like Task Manager and Regedit disabled by Administrator. These problems are nothing but virus activities. The virus has infected our system and stopping us from accessing these options.

Pressing keys Ctrl+Alt+Del opens up a dialog saying that “Task [...]

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Reveal or Recover XP Administrator Password using Ophcrack

Forgot Administrator password? Or is that you just wished to access the system with Admin privileges, you can break into the system without even feeling the need to change the password. If you want to reset the password, refer to my earlier post “Break or Reset Administrator password in XP”.

Knowing XP or even Vista’s Administrator [...]

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Break or Reset Administrator password in XP

So if you have forgotten the password of your admin account in Windows XP or just want to break in the Admin account of your college or office, do not worry, you can easily do that. However, I recommend this trick only for your personal use. There are numerous ways available to do so but [...]

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