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Introducing Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) 2.2

Posted by Rich On June - 14 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

29wwh2q Introducing Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) 2.2

Inside Microsoft, we maintain a repository of tools written by our engineers and technical staff. Many of the tools that are posted are very specific to Microsoft engineering— tools to help developers and testers better manage their project in our internal source control system, provide better visibility into our internal bug/issue tracking system, etc. Since these tools are very specific to the Microsoft environment, most of them don’t get released externally.

RDCMan is a central place where you can organize, group, and manage your various Remote Desktop connections.

Create a New User Account in Windows 7 [How To]

Posted by Rich On June - 14 - 20101 COMMENT

create account04 Create a New User Account in Windows 7 [How To] So you have your brand new Windows 7 PC and you’re ready to rock. Did you know that if you create separate user accounts, your whole family and friends can have access to their own personalized desktop, files, and opened programs?

Learn, in this guide, how to create a new user account in Windows 7.

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LockThis! – Password Protect Single Applications

Posted by Thomas On June - 13 - 20108 COMMENTS

A few weeks back you got to read about a small utility that allows you to lock your keyboard and mouse when leaving your computer on (Read here). And a while back, I told you about Predator which allows you to lock your Computer using a USB Flash Drive (Read Here). This time I\’m bringing you a way to lock single applications, so that you can leave your computer on for others to use, and at the same time protect running applications from tampering or accidental shut-down.

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WINNERS of the Driver Magician Competition

Posted by Thomas On June - 13 - 20104 COMMENTS

Did you read about Driver Magician v.3.5 the other day ?

Micael Lee, the brain behind Driver Magician offered 10 licenses to be given away to our readers, in return for your valuable input. Competition has now ended and the winners have been picked acordingly. Thank you for all contributions

Driver Magician offers a professional solution for device drivers backup, restoration, update and removal in Windows operating system.

Read on to see who the lucky 10 are

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Change the Background and Text Colour in Explorer on the Fly [How To]

Posted by Stu On June - 12 - 20106 COMMENTS

1023 13 256x256x32 Change the Background and Text Colour in Explorer on the Fly [How To] Have you ever wanted to change the background in Windows Explorer? How about the colour of the text? If so, then this Windows Explorer shell extension is a must-have.

AveFolderBG integrates into the Folder Properties dialog box in Windows 7 which means no added bloat on start-up per se and no standalone applications to run to get the job done.

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Use Scheduled Tasks and Audit Features to Control a Folder [How To]

Posted by Angel Luis On June - 11 - 20106 COMMENTS

Padlocked Use Scheduled Tasks and Audit Features to Control a Folder [How To] Imagine that you have a shared folder but you want to know if someone changes something. You, for sure, have heard about auditing files before and may never had a chance to take advantage of this feature. Here you will find a way to do it.

With Windows 7 we can control when a folder has changed and show a message to us.

I know this post can be a little complex, but believe me, the best way to control your computer is knowing how works.

So, why not start from the beginning?

Press WinKey + R, type gpedit.msc, and press Enter.

Go to Local Computer Policy, Computer Configuration, Windows Settings, Security Settings, Local policies, Audit Policy.

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