Protect your PC with Free Microsoft Security Essentials

azhar    windows     Microsoft Security Essentials, Protect your Windows PC

Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.

Microsoft Security Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple.

Microsoft Security Essentials runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that you are free to use your Windows-based PC the way you want—without interruptions or long computer wait times.

Key Features

To download Microsoft Security Essentials, Please use the link given below;

Microsoft Security Essentials

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Convert Text to Speech without Software

azhar    IT     Convert Text to Speech without any Software, Online Text to Speech Conversion, Text to Speech

A new free service has been introduced by iSpeech that converts text to speech without using a specific conversion software. Now anyone can listen to any text content with minimal effort, no software installation and no technical expertise required.

TEXT TO CONVERT

Simply cut and paste the text you wish to convert to speech into our text box and click convert text. Or, upload any supported document, website, blog, etc. and click convert file or the listen button.

READ WITH YOUR EARS

Sit back and listen. It’s that simple. iSpeech does all of the work for you. Now that your file is converted, it will auto-play. You can download it, podcast it or even embed it as an object on any webpage that supports html including: MySpace, Blogger, EBay, etc.

Go the under given link to convert the text to speech;

http://www.ispeech.org/free.text.to.speech.tts.software

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How to Secure a DHCP Server in Windows?

azhar    IT, windows     DHCP MAC Address Filtering, DHCP Security, Secure DHCP Server, Windows DHCP Server Security

As we all know, DHCP Servers are used to assign IP Addresses and other configuration information to client computers running almost any sort of operating system, ranging from regular desktop computers, through laptop computers, up to thin clients and mobile devices. All these require a DHCP server in order to get their TCP/IP configuration settings (unless you manually configure them). One of the major headaches around using DHCP servers was the fact that the moment a computer is connected to your network, it will ask for, and receive, an IP Address from any available DHCP. This will happen to both trusted and un-trusted computers, causing us, the administrators, a potential security risk.

DHCP Administrators would like to control access to their networks, by issuing IP addresses to known clients or denying the same to selected machines. This functionality may be added to the MS DHCP Server, by installing this package, thereby adding an additional lightweight layer of security on the network. This DHCP Server Callout DLL allows the administrator to filter incoming DHCP Requests to DHCP Server based on the MAC Address of the DHCP client. When a device or computer tries to connect to the network, it shall first try to obtain an IP address from the DHCP Server. DHCP Server Callout DLL checks if the MAC address of the machine is present in a known list of MAC addresses (, that has been configured by administrators). The client’s request to obtain an IP address or other configuration information (via DHCP), shall be forwarded or dropped based on the list configured by administrator.

You can download MAC address filtering from under given link;

  MAC Address Filtering (356.8 KiB, 270 hits)

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Block Unwanted Websites with OpenDNS

azhar    IT     Internet Access Control, OpenDNS, Phishing Protection, Web Content Filtering

Blocking specific websites with a content blocker in a network is a dream of any network administrator but that can block some very important and required websites too. For example if you have a video monitoring going on into your network and at the same time you want to block the youtube that can mess with your configuration. A very good solution for this kind of activities is given as under;

OpenDNS

What OpenDNS can do for you? Its really an important question, the answer of this question is given as under;

• An efficient way to control and monitor your internet usage
• Web content filtering – A better way to filter undesired contents – More than 50 Categories to choose from.
• Phishing protection – Keep your users safe from phishing
• Zero downtime network – A more reliable network for you
• Faster Internet – global routing technology makes your DNS requests route automatically
• No need to buy additional hardware
• Statistics – Detailed statistics empower you to understand your network traffic
• Customization – Your logo and message on the OpenDNS Guide and block pages help communicate your organization’s Internet policy

Configure OpenDNS according to your needs by going at the under given URL;

http://www.opendns.com/

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3 Quick Ways to Use Windows Remote Desktop

azhar    windows     mstsc full screen, RDC Commands, RDP Shortcut Keys, Remote Desktop Connection, Using RDC With Keyboard

Keyboard shortcut fans always look for valuable keyboard shortcuts of every program. The keyboard lovers may be annoyed when using Remote Desktop the Alt-tab (in full-screen mode) flips among windows within that remote desktop interface, when you may wish to instead use it to get back to your desktop applications. This means that you will first use the mouse and minimize the remote desktop connection and then go to your other desktop opened applications like, Outlook, Internet explorer, MP3 player and others. There is another very good solution to handle this situation precisely by using the keyboard shortcuts under given;

1. Ctrl+Alt+Break

   (switches Remote Desktop between full screen and windowed mode ). Once the remote desktop connection switched into windowed mode, then you can easily use the alt+tab to switch between the opened desktop applications. Again if you like to use the applications opened inside of the remote desktop connection use the same command to switched to full screen mode and use alt+tab to use those applications.

2. Alt+PageUp or Alt+PageDown

   Using the keyboard in remote desktop connection in windowed mode is a little tricky because it will behave like a normal windows application and will not allow the user to enter and use the application using the keyboard. So what you will do to use the remote desktop connection with keyboard in windowed mode, probably use the mouse, I would say NO!!. Check these commands, these will help you a lot to use the remote desktop connection in windowed mode Alt-PageUp or Alt-PageDown. Another very good question at this point that how we will go to start menu in windowed mode? the answer is given as under; Use the command alt-home.

3. Ctrl+Alt+End

   There are still others like Ctrl+Alt+End as an alternative to Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

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