Windows

Updated Post with more new under the hood features of IE 8.
In the recent news it was announced that IE 8 Passes the ACID 2 test and will render in standard mode by default. The folks at Neowin have managed to uncover links to Internet Explorer 8 Download page and also a list of upcoming […]

George Ou who writes for the security column at ZDNET did an analysis of security for Mac OS and Windows using data from impartial Secunia. The Results maybe pretty surprising depending on what your views are regarding MAC Vs PC. I am personally not surprised but I certainly didn’t expect such a big difference. I […]

Microsoft has released FastCGI for IIS. Also did you know that PHP on IIS is about 10-15% faster than on Apache(Linux). Here a list of guides to installing Popular Open Source Php Applications on IIS. You can install IIS only If You have Windows XP Professional version. Here is a guide to installing WordPress on […]

The Window Live Messenger Team has launched a web based Messenger widget that can be embedded in blogs and website. This is similar to the widgets provided by meebome.com and plugoo.com. But unlike meebo and plugoo which are flash based this widget is javascript based. Using this widget even anonymous users who visit your blog […]

Microsoft’s Digital Rights Management System for music and video has been cracked, this allows people to strip their music and video free of the DRM restrictions and to allow unrestricted use of their music and video. This isn’t the first time it has been cracked (hacker have cracked it twice before). Just like how apple […]

Mary Jo Foley reports that her source in MS confirmed that Service pack for windows Vista will be out in the middle of july. Here’s what’s there in the Windows Vista Service pack 1.

Performance tweaks lessening the amount of time it takes to copy files and shut down Vista machines (Yeah, I know Microsoft said […]

Microsoft is getting on the the Web 2.0 Bandwagon slowly. They recently announced the Windows Live Folders and Windows Live Photo Gallery, both of which are in Closed Beta. I just realized that I was part of the Windows Live Folders Beta tester. I gave it a test run. The Live Folders is nothing ground […]

The Microsoft has claimed a number of times that there won’t be a Service Pack for Windows Vista. But we have seen evidence of it again and again. In the latest goof up at Redmond they published a beta version of Service pack 1 for Vista on Microsoft’s Official download site. Long Zheng was the […]

Shufflestorm has found a interesting thing in the latest version of Window live messenger 8.5 beta if you look at the properties for the build (Right click the Exe file and Select Properties then select the version tab), it has been named as WLSuite.exe. Another interesting fact is all the three products i.e. Windows Live […]

Sometimes a certain program that you installed might not have uninstalled properly and remains in the Add and remove Control Panel, Or you might not want anyone to see certain programs that have been installed on the system.
The Currently installed programs list in the Add or Remove Programs tool lists all of the Windows-compatible programs […]

It common for most windows users to forget their Administrator Password since during the install process only once the user is asked to give a password and a different user account is created. After a period of time the user might want to login as a administrator to troubleshoot windows and since he/she has not […]

This is provided only for educational purpose it is a simple way to Recover, Hack or Crack the Window XP Administrator Password. There are different Methods that I have outlined below.
Windows XP Privilege Escalation Exploit
(Before you continue Read the Updates at the bottom)
Here are the steps involved to Hack the Window XP Administrator Password .

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