Note that this problem doesn’t exist in the Home editions of Windows. kick off the Local Users and Groups administration panel by typing in lusrmgr.msc into the start menu search box. On this screen you’ll find the “Password never expires” checkbox. Just double-check the box is checked and you won’t be forced to change your password anymore.

All you have to do is take a peek inside your access log files. First you’ll need to locate your apache logfile, which is normally called access_log or access.log. The location for this file will vary greatly based on distribution and your hosting provider. Here’s a couple of places to start, but you might have to look around.

Instead of using the Google Talk client embedded in Gmail, why not use it in your sidebar instead? Thanks to the gTalk sidebar extension, we can do just that. Once you roll out the extension, you’ll need to add the button to the toolbar. Just keep in mind that if you terminate the sidebar, it will terminate the client as well. This extension is also extremely useful for sending somebody a quick email....

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU Add a 32-bit DWORD value called NoAUAsDefaultShutdownOption with a value of 1. No reboot should be necessary. You shouldn’t have to restart anything, as the changes will happen immediately. There’s also a registry file to uninstall the hack.

The flags in cpuinfo simply mean that your processor supports it. 32-bit VT is not enabled by default under VMware server.

This is also a perfect way to copy your error messages when you areasking for help on our forum. This tip should work in Windows Vista or XP or 2003.

In prior versions of Windows before Vista, you could always open control panel items by passing control.exe the name of the *.cpl file that represented the item you were trying to open. For instance, if you wanted to kick off the display properties you could trigger the command “control.exe desk.cpl”. In Windows Vista, there’s a new syntax for opening control panel items - you’ve got the option to use the /name switch to pass the friendly name to control....

But what if you want to disable all these extra keys? You’ll need to log on and back off for the changes to take effect. To enable: Unzip the file and then double-tap on the RestoreWinKeys.reg file to re-enable all the shortcut keys. verify that you log off and back on in order for this change to take effect. You could also restart explorer.exe through task manager if you wanted.

Windows Mobility Center is a fairly useful tool for those of us using Windows 7 or Vista on a laptop computer, but might not be for everybody, especially since it takes over the Win+X keyboard shortcut. If you would rather disable Windows Mobility Center, all it takes is a single registry tweak.Manual Registry TweakOpen up regedit.exe through the start menu search box and then navigate to the following key, creating it if it doesn’t exist:...

TheTab Mix Plusextension has a gem of a feature buried deep within the controls: The ability to turn the Ctrl+Tab key from a direct tab switch into a popup menu that works similarly to the Windows Alt+Tab feature. It’ll pop up a tiny dialog window that gives you a list of your tabs, and then on release of the keys will switch to that tab. I’ve been using this for a while, but I only realized it’s one of those things I can’t live without when I actually had to go without it for a few minutes earlier… To turn on this setting, open up Tab Mix Plus Options, tap on Events and then the Tab Features tab....

Adding this to the menu couldn’t be simpler - there’s only a single registry key to add. Now when you right-select a file, you’ll see a new option called Encrypt. you’ve got the option to also choose just the file as the default. The right-click option will also now change to Decrypt. Definitely much simpler… makes me wonder why this wasn’t a built-in option.Download AddEncryptionMenu.zip Registry Hack

What, no file names? Now choose the Customize tab, and then choose Pictures and Videos as the folder key in. Here we are, now we’ve got file names again… You could also reverse this tip if you want to hide filenames in a folder.

Now what’s that floppy drive doing there? Uninstall Tweak To disable this tweak, simply remove the NoDrives registry key entirely. Note that this also works on Windows XP.