Archive for January 2012

If you use online banking, you may have noticed when you get your password wrong that the error in response is pretty generic i.e. “Wrong user name or password.” These error messages are pretty unhelpful; however, this is by design. If someone tries to compromise your account, do you really want them knowing they got the user name right and now just need to tackle the password? Probably not. The harder we make it to get in to our accounts, the less chance we have of opportunists getting to places we don’t want them to be. With that said, this guide will show you how to disable user name display on the Windows logon screen, for additional security.

Note: To learn set a password for your (and all other accounts) on your PC, follow this guide.

Pictured above is similar to how your logon screen looks now. To hide user names, you’ll either need to use Group Policy or the Registry Editor. Group Policy is available only with Windows Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions. If you are using a Starter, Home, or Home Premium edition, please follow the Registry Editor method.

Disable User Name Display Using Windows Registry Editor

Note: If you are unfamiliar with making changes to the Windows Registry, please read this guide.

Click Start, type regedit, and press Enter to pen the Windows Registry Editor
Navigate to key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Modify (or add) DWORD DontDisplayLastUserName and set the value to 1
Log off to see changes

Note: To view user names again, follow steps 1-2 above and set the value to 0 in step 3.

Disable User Name Display Using Group Policy

Note: If you are unfamiliar with making changes via Group Policy, please read this guide.

Click Start, type local, and click Local Security Policy
In the left-hand pane, click on Local Policies > Security Options
In the right-hand pane, double-click Interactive Logon: Do Not Display Last User Name (or right click and select Properties)
Select Enabled and click OK
Log off to see changes

Note: To view user names again, follow steps 1-3 above and select Disabled in step 4.

Tag : Tips and Tricks, Window 7

Rainmeter 2.2 for windows 7

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RainMeter 2.2 For Windows7

Rainmeter displays customizable skins, like memory and battery power, RSS feeds ... Supported: 32bit and 64bit versions of Windows XP (SP2+), Vista, 7, and 8.
Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform. Through Rainmeter, you can enhance your Windows computer at home or work with skins.
Rainmeter is a handy app for tweaking your desktop.

Rainmeter is the ultimate desktop enhancement application. With over thousands of skins available, one can style their desktop as they want to. I generally use it to monitor my gmail account, browse through RSS feeds, quickly launch apps and save notes (which is snyc-ed with Kunal using Dropbox, so we can collaborate together on posts efficiently).

In this post, I'm sharing 18 Rainmeter skins (or themes) that I've used and think that they're the best available around:

Download

THEMES FOR RAINMETER

How to Install a Rainmeter theme?

Right-click and Extract the contents of the file (.zip or .rar)
Copy it to Rainmeter's Skins folders present at:
X:\Users\\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\
Open Rainmeter (or restart it if its already open). Right click on its tray icon and from the "Config" menu, choose your Skin/Theme.
Congrats you did it!

Omnimo

Any rainmeter themes list is incomplete without mentioning about Omnimo, the best theme ever made for it. Make your desktop go Metro!

Download: Omnimo 3.1 Skin for Rainmeter (34.3 MB)

WRMZ

Download: WRMZ Theme

Gaia ‘10

Download: Gaia 10 Skin (1.8 MB)

Speed

Download: Speed Theme (2.9 MB)

Rising Reflection Interface

Download: Rising Reflection Interface Skin (8.7 MB)

Razor

Download: Razor Theme (2.9 MB)

Unity

Download: Unity Theme (11.6 MB)

Moxx

Download: Moxx Skin for rainmeter (3.9 MB)

i2 Bar

Download: i2 Bar Skin (1.2 MB)

HUD uTorrent

Download: HUD uTorrent Skin (0.3 MB)

Crowd

Download: Crowd Skin (8.5 MB)

NH Theme

Download: NH Theme (1.1 MB)

Tag : Window 7

Cool and Fresh Free Themes For Windows 7

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Its been a long since Windows 7 was launched, and the craziest part of it is “Themes”. In windows 7, not only the Desktop Aero has been improved, but also many new features in themes has driven Win7 users really crazy. Below I have shared a list of cool Windows 7 theme pack…

LIST OF SITES GIVING FREE WINDOW 7 THEMES
Official Microsoft Themes:

These themes are released by Microsoft for free. Just click on the download button and a file with extension .themepack will be downloaded. Open it with the default program and it will be listed under the Personalization menu.
Home Page: Click Here;

Free Windows7 themes and styles by Technospot.net: