http://www.liutilities.com/articles Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:19:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Internet is a vast medium, and is used by millions of people worldwide, every single day. As such, there needs to be some common standards that are followed throughout the world, so that each country would not need to have different methods and rules for accessing the internet. There are ... http://www.liutilities.com/articles/internet-related-organizations/ If you surf the internet on a regular basis, then you must realize that your computer gets exposed to a variety of threats from the internet. Viruses, spyware, worms, and malware, everything is waiting to skim through your PC, scanning its contents and altering its components. Even more dangerous are ... http://www.liutilities.com/articles/types-of-attacks-computer-suffer-from-net/ A file extension does not always point to the same program. In fact, at times it is impossible to know which file will be opened by which application. Users of Macintosh computers have a distinct advantage over users of Windows in this area. In Macs, information about the application that ... http://www.liutilities.com/articles/file-extension-always-point-program/ Hiberfil.sys and Pagefile.sys are system files, both automatically created by Microsoft Windows operating system. The first file preserves the data present in RAM when you put your PC in hibernation mode. The second one is used by Windows as virtual memory. Hiberfil.sys is created by Windows if you keep Hibernation mode ... http://www.liutilities.com/articles/what-are-hiberfilsys-pagefilesys/ If you work with a Windows PC, you must have come across error messages (in the form of small message boxes) from time to time. When you click on the “OK” button on these message boxes, those simply disappear. However, if you wish to view these error messages again in ... http://www.liutilities.com/articles/what-is-windows-event-viewer/ Have you ever received a file with no extension from someone? These files can be a royal pain in the neck if you don’t know which program was used to create it. Users of Macintosh computers have a real advantage over Windows users here. In Mac, information about the software ... http://www.liutilities.com/articles/how-to-handle-files-with-no-extensions/ If you are transmitting files over the internet of to another user on a removable drive, security for the data should be your first concern. Password protection is nice to have, but it can be quite a setback if you or the recipient of the file forgets the password. Besides, ... http://www.liutilities.com/articles/password-protect-files-on-windows/ New CD/DVD drives can burn data at lightning fast speeds and can probably copy data from optical discs with startling quickness, but these sure can make a lot of noise. While the crackles and whirs of a noisy drive can be easily tolerated when burning an important backup disc, it ... http://www.liutilities.com/articles/silence-noisy-cd-dvd-drives/ The name “Malware” applies to a lot of different types of malicious software. A malware can have various undesirable effects, such as slowing down your PC, sending unsolicited e-mails to everyone in your address book, etc. What’s more, malwares can tap into critical system resources and shut down your PC ... http://www.liutilities.com/articles/the-evolution-of-malware/ You can take quite a few seconds off your boot up time in Windows® XP by automating the Windows log on process. Windows XP can store your login information in the registry, so that you do not have to type it every time you boot your PC. Be aware of ... http://www.liutilities.com/articles/how-to-remove-windows-login-screen/ Microsoft Cabinet (CAB) files are widely used in Microsoft Windows operating system, and also on various software installations designed for Windows operating system. These files are compressed using a specific compression technology designed by Microsoft, and are usually part of self extracting installation archives. When the archive is run, the ... http://www.liutilities.com/articles/extract-files-from-microsoft-cabinet-cab-files/ If you have ever purchased music from the iTunes store, you must have noticed that the files are in M4P format (with an extension of .m4p). These files are protected using the “Fairplay” DRM protection developed by Apple Computers, Inc. You cannot play these files using any other player, like ... http://www.liutilities.com/articles/play-m4p-files-windows-media-player/ In the good old days of DOS, backing up your whole hard drive was a simple task. All you had to do was to insert a floppy disk into your disk drive and run the command “format /s” at the command prompt. The data files could be backed up by ... http://www.liutilities.com/articles/backup-whole-hard-drive/ A boot disk can save you in case your PC refuses to boot up one fine morning. You can boot your PC using the disk and try to fix the problems, either by formatting the hard disk, or by running a System Restore (in case of Windows XP). System administrators ... http://www.liutilities.com/articles/create-cd-rom-boot-disk/ DAT files can be mighty confusing to deal with. For one thing, these files are data files. As such, these can contain many types of data. You can have DAT files containing binary data, as in PC games, software packages and system files. These can be video files as well. ... http://www.liutilities.com/articles/how-do-i-open-dat-file/