Security Center in Windows is responsible for monitoring the number of components that are essential for the security of your system. These are: Antivirus protection, Automatic Updates, User Account Control (UAC) Status, Firewall and so on.
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Computer names are used easier identification of computers on a network. This is very important especially if you are using file sharing. Computer name must be unique for each computer. Computers in a network may also belong to different workgroups. A workgroup is a group of computers on your network that share common resources. As you may have noticed the default workgroup in Win XP is WORKGROUP. This name is assigned during installation of Windows, but you can easily change it by following the steps described below. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Maybe some of you know, that every network card has indicator lights that help you monitor your network activity and in some cases those lights may also be useful for detecting network problems. Unfortunately, the network card is located at the rear of the computer, making monitoring of these indicators a little uncomfortable, and if your computer is located on the inaccessible location (e.g. under the desk) it becomes almost impossible. [Read the rest of this entry...]
As you know installing Windows 7 or any other operating system is easy if your computer is equipped with an integrated optical drive, but most netbooks don’t include such a device and that’s why when it comes to netbooks, you have two options to install the operating system. The first is to use external (USB) CD/DVD drive and the second is to use USB Flash Drive. The external DVD drive will make installation a lot easier, but it’s also more expensive. On the other hand, using USB Flash Drive is cheaper but the main disadvantage here is the preparation of the device, which is related to the execution of many commands in the command prompt. Of course this increases the possibility of mistakes, which could be fatal for the proper setup of your flash drive. [Read the rest of this entry...]
This short guide will help you turn off the build-in firewall in Windows XP. Note that disabling firewall will make your computer more vulnerable to viruses, and therefore I recommend that you stop this feature for testing purposes only. [Read the rest of this entry...]
