Archive for June, 2007

Windows XP Password Recovery – Without Additional Tools

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

Last night you decided to change your Windows XP administrator password. You thought a lot, to choose a good one. You change it several times, because you could not decide what was the best… You wake up in the morning and you realize the new password doesn’t work… You forgot the password…

Now you are at your friend’s house, browsing the Internet for a method to change the password without loosing any data.

You can take your Hard Disk out of your computer and install it into your friend’s system (which may have a Windows XP installed) – this is the answer. But you realize you cannot do this!!! Your guarantee period is not expired!

You can, as well, download some tools to help you hack your system. You can spend some money on this kind of software.

But, there is a method! Cheap… Easy….

You can use your original Windows XP CD (I assume you have the license key – you will need it)!

These are the steps:

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How To Compress Your Hard Drive

Friday, June 1st, 2007

A solution for stocking information on your hard disk drive when the information becomes larger than its capacity is using archiving applications. Those programs have the role to compress information to enlarge the stocking capacity of your computer drives. Once compressed, the information loses its real signification on the system processor level. This is the reason why you first need to decompress a compressed file before you use it – to view its original information.

The archiving applications can be classified like this:

- compress files – ARJ, RAR, WINRAR, WINZIP;

- compress hard disk – STACKER.

The compress is done following the steps:

- search a sequence that repeats in the file;

- the sequence is replaced with a symbol (like a shortcut);

- after scanning the whole file or hard disk an index of the used symbols is added.

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