Clear Your Router Congestion To Get Maximum Speed By Your ISP

Your ISP may promise you 2-5 MB Internet access and above, but some times we get a speed much lesser than promised becouse our  router may prone to congestion. Generally Routers can congested if their incoming packet buffers get full. When this happens, the router drops packets, and bandwidth suffers. In addition, streaming media such as videos may drop packets, and the
video may stop in between frequently, or you may not be able to view it all.
Windows Vista and Window 7 includes a lesser known tool called Explicit Congestion Notifcation (ECN) that may help for this kind of problem.

Caution: This tool is turned off by default because most of the routers does not support it.Turning on this feature for an unsupported router may even create worse problems.
However, there is a way to find out if your router supports ECN and then to turn on ECN from the
command line.

Follow the following steps:

1.      Run the Internet Connectivity Evaluation Tool :Make sure you’re logged in to Windows as an administrator. Then go to www.microsoft.com/windows/using/tools/igd/default.mspx and agree to the terms.
2.     Install ActiveX Control:When you agree, on the page that appears, Microsoft will attempt to install an ActiveX control. Your Internet Explorer security settings will most likely block the attempt. The Information Bar will light up yellow. Click it, and from the menu that appears ,select Install ActiveX Control.
3.     Start Testing:Follow the prompts for installing the software. A new web page will appear. Click Start Test. After several minutes of testing, you’ll see a results screen.

If your router supports it then your are ready to turn on ECN.
first run an elevated command prompt(Administrative privilege) by typing cmd at the Search box and
pressing Ctrl-Shift-Enter.
At command Line: netsh interface tcp set global ecncapability=enabled

To turn this feature off: netsh interface tcp set global ecncapability=disabled

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Reset non-administrator account passwords

Here is another simple way through which you can reset the password of any non-administrator accounts. The only requirement for this is that you need to have administrator privileges. Here is a step-by-step instruction to accomplish this task.
1. Open the command prompt (Start->Run->type cmd->Enter)
2. Now type net user and hit Enter
3. Now the system will show you a list of user accounts on the computer. Say for example you need to reset the password of the account by name Joker, then do as follows
4. Type net user Joker * and hit Enter. Now the system will ask you to enter the new password for the account. That’s it. Now you’ve successfully reset the password for John without knowing his old password.
So in this way you can reset the password of any Windows account at times when you forget it so that you need not re-install your OS for any reason.
There are also some other tools such as PClogin now,Ophcrack ,Backtrack, Offline NT Password & Reg Editor .
They are used when even administrator does not remember his/her password.
Some of these tools are available at free of cost and user need to burn them on cd before he/she can use it.
These are Live Os with Linux based kernal.
After burning simply boot with the cd  and follow the instruction and you are done................................

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Trick to use Window 7 without activation

Generally we can use Windows 7 and Vista for 120 days without activation. This is actually possible using the slmgr -rearm command which will extend the grace period from 30 days to 120 days. However in this post here a small trick using which it is possible to use Windows 7 without activation for approximately an year!

Follow the procedure
1. “Start Menu -> All Programs -> Accessories” . Right click on “Command Prompt” and select “Run as Administrator“. If you are not the administrator then you are prompted to enter the password, or else you can proceed to step-2.
2. Now type the following command and hit enter

slmgr -rearm

3. You will be prompted to restart the computer. Once restarted the trial period will be once again reset to 30 days. This command can only be used up to 3 times by which you can extend the trial period to 120 days without activation.
4. Now comes the actual trick by which you can extend the trial period for another 240 days. Open Registry Editor (type regedit in “Run” and hit Enter) and navigate to the following location

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SoftwareProtectionPlatform

5. In right-side pane, change value of SkipRearm to 1. 6. Now you will be able to use the slmgr -rearm command for another 8 times so that you can skip activation process for another 240 days. So you will get 120 + 240 = 360 days of free Windows 7 usage.

Enjoy........................................................

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Test the strength of your Antivirus

This file is a fake virus, which simulates a virus. This string
is provided by EICAR for distribution as the EICAR Standard
Anti-Virus Test File. The file is a legitimate DOS program and
produces sensible  results when  it  runs  (it prints the message
“EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!”)
Paste the following text into Notepad and save the text file to
your desktop:
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
as Antivirustest.text.
You should see a threat found message. It mean your antivirus
works !!!!

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