How you can secure your blog with 100% security assured.

Providing Security to your blog is one of the
most important things you need to
do inorder not to fall a victim.
Producing content is essential,
and so is promoting it, but if
your
blog is not secure, you could lose
everything overnight (literally!).
In this email I will share some
security tips that you should
apply
in your blog.
1. Backup, Backup and Backup!
In security circles people always
say that if someone wants to
break
into your site, with enough time
and determination eventually he
will. In other words, no website
can be made 100% secure.
If that is the case, your first line
of defense are your backups.
With functional backups someone
could erase everything in your
server and you would be back
online in a matter of hours.
So remember to backup your
blog often (preferable daily), and
to
have backups in at least two
different physical locations (else
a
theft or fire could take both
your site and the backup...).
2. Change The "Admin" User
One of the most common
methods to break into a website
is the brute
force one. That is, the malicious
person will try to guess the
name
of the admin and, once he finds
that out, he will use scripts to
try
thousands of password
combinations with that user
name.
If the admin user in your blog is
called "admin", well, you just
facilitated things a lot.
Luckily changing that is quite
easy. Simply create a new user
for
your blog, and give it
"Administrator" privileges. Then
login with
that user, and delete the
"admin" user. If you have posts
published
with "admin" WordPress will ask
you if you want to move those
posts
under a new user.
3. Obscure Your WordPress
Version
Another common saying among
security geeks is "security
through
obscurity." This is related to the
fact that the fewer things a
malicious person knows about
your blog or server, the harder
it will
be to break into it.
By default WordPress broadcasts
to the world the version that you
are running, and this information
can be used against you,
because
hackers know the security holes
on each WordPress version.
Hiding that information is not
difficult though. First of all you
want to disable the "generator"
meta tag. You can do that by
adding
the following code to the
functions.php file of your theme:
function hide_wp_vers()
{
return '';
}
add_filter
('the_generator','hide_wp_vers');
There is another place where
hackers can find the version of
your
WordPress, and most people
forget to deal with that. It is
the
readme file that comes with all
WordPress installs. Simply access
your server via FTP to delete
that file.
4. Disable Folder Browsing
Another thing that you should
obscure in your site is the
content
of your folders. If people can
browser your folders, they will
be
able to collect a lot of
information, including what
plugins you are
running, what themes you have
installed and so on. Needless to
say
that such information can be
used to find security holes in
your
site.
If your web hosting is based on
Linux, you can easily disable
folder
browser with a .htaccess file
placed at the root of your
server.
Either create that file or open
the existing one and add the
following line:
Options -Indexes
That is it. If your hosting is not
based on Linux, you can still
protect the content of your
folders by uploading a blank
index.html
page inside each folder.
5. Always Update
WordPress is an open source
software, so its source code is
public,
and anyone can have access to
it. This means that hackers can
scrutinize the code looking for
security holes.
Sometimes they find them, but
the WordPress community usually
responds quickly and releases an
updated version protected
against
the new threats.
If you always run the latest
WordPress version, therefore,
you will
be minimizing the chances of
having problems.
Have a lovely day and wishing you the best in life.

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NIIT announces first nationwide TOEIC test

NIIT is one of the best IT school for Oracle programs, Java program, web-design etc. I'm currently schooling in NIIT running Web-design. NIIT is in 48 countries and Nigeria listed among the countries. In Nigeria, NIIT has branches through out the nation. You visit: http://www.niit.com and see things for yourself.

HOW TO OPEN A BLOG ACCOUNT AND MONETIZE IT/ADSENCE

Make money online with blogs. You can make money on your blog by signing-up for "Google Adsense". Ok let's start on how you can archive this goal. Before you create a blog account, you first need a gmail/google mail account
Steps to open a gmail account
How to open a gmail account.
Go to www.gmail.com Click on "create account" Fill the form with your informations
Then summit. 
Once your account is created, go to www.blogger.com
Sign in to blogger with your gmail username and password
Follow the instructions and create your blog.
Once you have created the blog site it is now time for you to monetize it.
To monetize your blog, Follow the following steps
Sign in to blogger
Click on monetize
This will take you to google adsense site
Then fill the form with your correct information (this is because it is where your payments will be sent to}
Once you are through with this, wait for 48hrs before the adverts will begin to show in your blog site. That is for google to review your account. Once your account is approved, your door is open to real money. If you need any help, you are free to drop comments or mail me.

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Create professional looking graphics, banners for your blog and website.

Are you a website designer, a blogger and have been looking for a new way to create professional banners, graphics, animations for your blog or site? Then this is the opportunity for you to explore all the hidden tools to create standard graphics online and transfer them to blog. Visit: => http://InstantBannerCreator.com . Subscribe to my post to get latest information on this blog.

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How You Can Make Money With Your Blog.

You can make money on the internet with blogging and webhosting if only you know some basic blog strategies.I'm laying more emphasis on how to make money with your blog today and things you need to know about google adsense, advertising programs, affiliate marketing and link exchange.

1)Google Adsense:
Earn money while displaying advertisements on your Website. When visitors click on these ads, Google pays you. Along with targeted advertising for your content pages, you can add a Google search box to your site and show targeted ads on search results pages.

2)BidVertiser:
This is one of the best advertising program that pays more than any other program. Place the BidVertiser text ads on your website and make money online by getting paid for every click. Sign-up @ www.bidvertiser.com to start your earning.

3) Adbrite: Earn money by selling ads on your website
and other advertising sites, drive free traffic to your blog.
Google Adsense Works best followed by Bidvertiser.

4) Join Articles. Example : article marketer
( to boost your search engine ranking)

4) Join Press Releases : PRWeb.com , Pressbox.co.uk

5) Earn money through different Affiliate praograms
.

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Make $8,795/month working part-time from home.

This is the biggest hidden fact i want to reveal to you. Don't just read this and dump it on your recycle bin because you have to act towards it if you want to make something meaningful in your life. You can make money online working from home directly to your bank account any where in the world. Visit: http://www.super7newsonline.com/income_report.html and click on: makes $8,795/month working part-time from home or you can go directly to this site and sign-up. Visit: https://www.exclusivecashsecrets.com/c/BDY454LK/Default.aspx?itm=RDCA22&vn=mac138299&&s1=144071&s2=1281150&s3=&clickid=09_0_19f00e45-1062-4de6-aec8-ade37817066d and sign-up for a start. Good luck guys.

Make big Money through your Website.

Applying for adsense is very simple. It is like applying for an email account.
1. Go to Google AdSense Site.
2. When the Google Adsense Page opens, click on the button which says Click Here to Apply.
3. Fill in the url (link) of your website, your name and other details.
4. Once you click on submit you will receive an email saying your blog /site is being processed.
5. Google will evaluate your website and then approve your blog / site for displaying Google Ads. (Good content is important to get the approval)
6. Once your blog / site is approved, Google will send you a code.
7. Add it to your blog or website. If you have created a blog with http://www.blogger.com/ , go to settings ---> Templates ---> and on the top menu you will see AdSense. Click on it and choose the type of AdSense format you want. You can immediately see a preview of how your ads will look.
8. You need to add the Google AdSense code only once. Then automatically it will display ads on all your blog posts. Make many small posts rather than one long post. Each post will have a block of ads.
9. Remember this: You MUST NEVER click on your own ads. Google will ban your AdSense account if you do so. When you visit your friends websites, if you like any of the information in the ads displayed on their site, you can click on them. But You MUST NOT click on your own ads even if you find the topic interesting.

18) Why keyword density is important ?The keyword density tool is useful for helping webmasters and SEOs achieve their optimum keyword density for a set of key terms.
Keyword density is important because search engines use this information to categorize a site's theme, and to determine which terms the site is relevant to. The perfect keyword density will help achieve higher search engine positions. Keyword density needs to be balanced correctly (too low and you will not get the optimum benefit, too high and your page might get flagged for “keyword spamming”)

How you can customize/design your Facebook profile pages with free Facebook layouts.

Customizing facebook layout simply means; the way in which you design or beautify your facebook profile or facebook page to meet your desired look. With this layouts, you can change the colors of text, frame, links, pop-up colors and many more on your profile and there are over 100 layouts to choose from depending on the layout that suite your mind. Customize your facebook profile or page today by Visiting: http://www.pagerage.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=direct&utm_campaign=us-&gclid=CIDWne6clKQCFdhA2godpQ0oHA

Get free sony VAIO or APPLE MacBook Pro(Laptop).

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How to get free Payoneer Mastercard

Mastercard From
Payoneer
By: Benny Priyatna
Firstly Whats is Payoneer ?
With booming Internet access
and major improvements to
collaborative work tools,
employers around the world are
finding it much easier to
outsource work than it used to
be a few years back. However,
payment, particularly for firms
whose workers live in many
different countries, remains a
complex task.
The Payoneers MasterCard
Prepaid Reloadable Debit Card
can be use to buy goods and
services or withdraw money
anywhere in the world where
MasterCard Debit cards are
accepted, this includes websites,
ATMs and shops. As you can see,
the cards offered by Payoneer
are not credit cards as you
cannot spend more than what
you already have on your card.
So How To Get A Payoneer Card
For Free ?
Payoneer card is FREE! Payoneer
has partnered with many online
businesses to offer them the
possibility to make mass payouts
easier, faster and more
convenient for them and those
who will receive them. If you are
not already making money from
one of Payoneers many
partners, you will have to start
by signing up with one of them.
Well Lets start Now
1. Click here to visit FriendFinder
website
2. Click Join Now Button
3. Fill The first FriendFinder
registration forms
4. Proceed with next registration
forms
After you finish, check your email
and click the actvation link to
activate your FriendFinder
accounts. Now go to FriendFinder
website and login, complete your
profile there, also upload your
photos immidiately, so the
FriendFinder staff can verify
your accounts before you can
get the Free Payoneer
Mastercards.
Second Steps
Now its time you signups to the
FriendFinder Affiliate programs to
get your cards.
1. Click here to go to
FriendFinder Affiliate programs
website
Important Choose Option I Per
Member Payout and Click Affiliate
Signup Button..
2. Then fill the affiliate
registration forms :
Then the affiliate agreement will
show, check the check box it
means that youre agree to their
affiliate agreement, now click
submit.
Once your affiliate accounts
active go to friendfinder website
and login.
3. Now select the Account
Information Menu. Youll see your
affiliate account information.
Find the line : Here is your
account information. Click here
to update your information.
Follow the Click here Link
Next Find The line > Payoneer:
Signup to be paid by Prepaid
MasterCard.
You will be directed to a
FriendFinder page hosted by
Payoneer, where you can sign up
for a card.
Click the link Signup to be paid
by Prepaid MasterCard.
You will be taken to the
Payoneer ,
Next Click the button Get Your
Prepaid MasterCard Now.
Click the Start Here > Cardholder
Details. Then fill out the
registration form.
Next proceed with the Step II >
Card Account Information
Once youve finished proceed with
the Step III > Registration
Verification.
Finally, click Finish to end the
whole registration process.
Remember and important : You
must fill the forms with your
true indentity both for
Friendfinder and Payoneer
registration to make your
account approve and to get the
Payoneer Mastercards sent to
your home address. It will take
few days to get your account
approve, once you approve the
Payoneer Mastercards will be
sent to you and will arrive
usually for 1 or 2 weeks.
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How to stop hackers from hacking your wireless service using McAfee

You can Use McAfee Authentication in XP Wireless Router, LAN Network as a hindrance to hackers from hacking your service, private datas/documents and other vital informations. I want to inform you that hackers are major threat and cause tremendous damage to your computer or even steal personal informations if not properly get rid-off. In this guide, i'm going to explain how you are going to add two simple things to your wireless home network that can stop virtually all external hackers. computers Running a home network WPA (wireless router WPA) and a wireless network adapter for each computer using wireless Basic knowledge of routers Wireless Vulnerability Scanner. In the case of wireless internet, each computer will need a wireless network adapter with an antenna instead of a cable plug. Follow the equipment instructions for installation and then use the Windows home office network setup wizard. Throw away your WEP router. It is a well- known fact that a router using the older technology called WEP security type can easily be hacked in less than 10 minutes, no matter how strong the password is set. Do not use any router unless it provides the latest WPA security type.
Invest in a WPA router and network adapter. Most experts agree that the newer technology called WPA or WPA2 are the optimum choices to ensure the highest level of security for your wireless network. Be sure to get a WPA network adapter for each computer that you are going to have hooked up to the wireless network. Two of the best brands are LinkSys and D-Link. After you have installed your new WPA router and network adapter and performed the Windows home office network setup wizard, you will need to configure your router using the admin tool and instructions provided by the manufacturer. As part of the wireless setup, be sure to select the WPA security type. You will also be asked to set a password or security key. Use a hack-proof password for your wireless security key. This means it must be at least 10- digits, alpha-numeric, and totally random. There are no exceptions to this rule. It is a well-known fact that using this type of password would take 1 ,000 computers 500 years to break the code and hack into your computer. Use letters and numbers and make sure not to use words in the dictionary or even made up words. Example: dL7k945 fjP To recap, use a WPA router and the strongest alpha-numeric password. Finally, wireless home networking is no longer a mystery. If you do these two simple things, you can sleep easy at night knowing that your wireless home network is protected from external intruders. Forget the myths you may have heard about using MAC filtering, bluetooth or positioning your router in the center of your home. See the resources at the end of this article of more information. This keeps virtually all hackers out of your wireless home network, but does not address internet hackers that can break into your computer while you are browsing the web . Certain websites or emails can infect your computer with a virus, and other spyware can steal your personal informations. Therefore, it is imperative that you get a good anti-virus/ firewall software to protect your computer while you are using the internet . The top brands include McAfee, Norton, and Panda Security.

How To Remove Password from PDF, E-BOOKS That Are Passworded.

Have you ever been given e-books or pdf document that are passworded? This ebooks are secured with the Autor's password which will be given to you if only you pay for it.
 Now for you to be able to have access to this kind of ebooks or pdf documents without Autor's password, you will need a brute force attack program that will try millions of passwords on the zip file until it obtain the correct one(password). You can simply download this powerful zip tool by visiting Google. Then simply search for: "hack password protected zip file program" you can choose from the listed sites to download it. But i prefer you to visit: www.topshareware.com/Atomic-Zip- Password-Cracker-download- 37591.htm

Buy & send money online and withdraw to your bank account.

FasteCash is a payment solution system with the vision to make e-commerce a workable reality in the Nigerian community. The URL of the website is http://www.FasteCash.com. It makes online transaction possible and easy by helping customers and recipients to transfer fund in real time for a product/service. Money can also be sent to friends and relatives either as a gift or for other reasons through the online service.
The parties involve in an online business, transaction or deal must have FasteCash accounts to carry out such a transaction. Every FasteCash account user receives instant notification in his/her email box for any online transaction that is being carried out. You can sign up for FasteCash account for free, using your email address and a specially and personally chosen User name. Your email and User name are unique because nobody else has them except you.  
How to sign up for an account?
To sign up for FasteCash account, visit the website by typing http://www.FasteCash.com into your web browser or click here to sign up. Click on “Register” link at the top navigation bar.
Once you are registered, you can fund most online business account that are available to your account.
You can later upgrade to either FasteCash Premium Account or FasteCash Classic Account. 
What I mean by account upgrading is
A process of getting other types of FasteCash online account.
Every newly opened account is tagged FasteCash Normal account. But there are other two accounts which are Premium Account and Classic Account.
So the process of moving from Normal Account type to Premium or Classic Account or from Premium Account to Classic Account is known as upgrading.You may want to consider upgrading for its numerous benefit.
How to Upgrade To Premium or Classic Accountin Fastecash.
To upgrade to a Premium or Classic account, login into your FasteCash account, locate and click on the Upgrade link on the left side menu list of your account. Choose the type of account you want to upgrade to (either Premium or Classic), then follow the instructions to complete the process.
You must have up to N5,500.00 or N11,000 in your account to upgrade to Premium or Classic Account respectively.  
The benefits/merits of Upgrading to other FasteCash Online Accounts?
When you are a FasteCash Normal Account user, you can only buy, send money online to others through your account and withdraw money from your Fastecash Account to your local bank account. If you take a step further and upgrade to a Premium Account, you will enjoy all the services above plus you can sell goods and services and receive money from your websites (online sales). Get all necessary informations by visit: www.fastecash.com.

HOW TO HACK WIRELESS NETWORK WEP KEY

Hack a wifi wireless internet connection using free hacking software. If you have a laptop that has wireless internet connection, then you can take this golden peace of information. I want to assure you that; with Aircrack you can hack any wireless network on earth. Obtain a copy of the Aircracks software package. This software consists of four different utilities. Together, these four utilities are all that you'll need to hack into any wireless network . Use Airodump to collect data packets that the network sends out. If you had obtained a copy of Kismet software in Step 1 , this program will also collect packets for you. The network will sometimes use the same IV ( Initialization Vector) more than once, known as a collision, so by analyzing several thousand packets, you can identify what these repeated vectors are. Continue collecting data packets from the wireless network. The system will periodically send out what is known as an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) in one of these packets. This is essentially a check to see if the connection is still online. It contains the encryption key that is needed to gain access to the system. However, you will need to collect a large number of data packets before you are lucky enough to capture this one. Open the Aircrack utility and use it to scan the data packets that you have captured. The Aircrack utility will scan these files until it finds the ARP packet with the encryption key. It will then work with the Airdecap program to decrypt the contents of the packet and gain access to the wireless network.
With this procedures followed correctly, you can browse free without worries.

HOW TO STOP COMPUTER'S THAT AUTOMATICALLY RESTARTS.

I want to tell you that with one little idear about computer you can fix most common errors that may occur as computer system is concerne. With this little procedure i'm going to show you will not only solve your problem but can fetch you money by correcting other computer systems that has this particular problem for people.

PROCEDURE:
Right click on My Computer and select properties. Click Advanced tab. Click Settings under Startup and Recovery. Under System Failure uncheck Automatically Restart. Click OK. This will not solve your problem, but will instead give you a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death). At which point Windows will give you a vague error, at which point we can trace your problem. If you still get the system rebooting and there is no BSOD then it's likely that your processor is overheating or your PSU is faulty. Try checking the system health in the BIOS for the processor or system temperature. You'd like it to be less than 50 d Celcius, anything over 75 d is running dangerous. Situations like these can be very hard to find the issue. It could be a bad power supply, bad ram, power cord, motherboard, loose screws, or incompatible software. My recommendation is to backup and start over, or go back. This will save time and money. If this fails you can do this in another way, another PC will be need to create this linux CD. http://lifehacker.com/software/top/geek-to- live--rescue-files-with-a-boot-cd-192982.php . You can contact me if you need any assistance.

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You can make more money on you blog by shrinking your blog.
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How to Format a Hard Drive With Windows XP

If you want to format a hard drive while using or installing Windows XP, you've come to the right place. This can be very useful for clearing everything off a secondary drive or when installing a fresh copy of Windows. Formatting a computer hard drive is simple and can help eliminate viruses, storage issues and other hard-to-resolve problems.

• 1
When you format a computer hard drive you will lose everything that is on the drive. Therefore, it is very important to back up anything you might want later. Additionally, if you are going to be formatting and installing XP you need to make sure you have the discs for any applications or third party hardware you use since you will need to re-install your programs and drivers after re-installing Windows.
• 2
Take a moment to think of anything that you have on the computer that you wouldn't want to lose. Generally, you probably want everything in your My Documents folder, and you also want to save things like your favorites or bookmarks from your Web browser. Remember that each user on the computer has his or her own My Documents folder, Desktop items and Favorites/Bookmarks.
• 3
Save everything to a CD, DVD or a hard drive that you won't be formatting.
Formatting a Secondary Hard Drive
• 1
Right-Click on the "My Computer" icon either on your desktop or in the Start Menu and select "Manage."
• 2
A new window titled "Computer Management" comes up. Select "Storage" from the left hand side by clicking it once, then select "Disk Management(local)" from the right side by double-clicking it.
• 3
Now in the lower part of the main frame (right side) of the window you should see a nice visual of all your hard drives. Each line is a different drive. Each box on a line (with a colored bar at the top and a size displayed in MB or GB) is a partition on the drive. Partitions are separations of space on a drive. Unless you are doing something specific that requires multiple partitions, you only want one partition per drive.
• 4
First you must delete any existing partitions on the drive you are going to format. Do this by right-clicking on the partition's box and selecting "Delete Partition..." Since you already know that you will be deleting everything on the drive, and have already backed everything up, you can safely say yes to any warning the computer presents you with.
• 5

If there are multiple partitions make sure you have saved everything off them since they might each have different drive letters (i.e. "D:" or "F:"). Then repeat the above step for each of them. If you only want to format one partition that is OK and you can continue to the next step without deleting the other partitions.
• 6
The box for the drive to be formatted should now have a black bar at the top of it and should say "Unallocated" under its size (see picture). Right click on it and select "New Partition..." The New Partition Wizard comes up.
• 7
In the New Partition Wizard click next. On the next page make sure "Primary Partition" is selected and click next. Now make the size equal to the maximum (it should already be set to it), and click next again. On the next page the computer will automatically choose the first available drive letter for the new drive. However, if you like you can choose another drive letter from the drop-down menu, and then click next.
• 8
Finally the New Partition Wizard asks if you would like to format the new partition and if so what format. Choose "NTFS" as it is faster and more secure. Leave the "Allocation unit size" as "Default." In the "Volume label" field enter whatever name you want the drive to have. Simple is better. Avoid using spaces. Lastly, if the drive is brand new and has never been used before check the "Perform a quick format" box. If the drive has been used before leave this box unchecked. Leave the "Enable file and folder compression" box unchecked and click next. Then on the next page click finish.
• 9
The wizard will now spend a little while formatting the drive. On old or large drives this may take a while. Do not close the "Computer Management" window until it finishes. You will know it is done when the word under the size of the drive changes from "Formatting" to "Healthy" and the name and drive letter you chose for the new drive show up. After it is finished you can proceed to use your newly formatted drive.
Formatting and Installing from the Windows XP CD.

•1 This section explains how to reformat a drive from the Windows XP installation CD. This can be used when installing a fresh copy of Windows onto a computer. Here it is especially important to backup all of your important information because upon formatting you will lose EVERYTHING that used to be on the drive. This includes all applications and device drivers, so you must back up everything you can.
•2 Insert your Windows XP installation disc into your CD drive (Home or Pro--it does not matter).
•3 Now as you computer boots a little more it will say "Press any key to boot from CD.." press a key to do so.
•4 The CD will load up a blue screen and then spend a while loading files it needs. When it is finished it will list a few options, mainly "Press ENTER to set up Windows XP." Press Enter or Return.
•5 Now you will be at a screen to select where to install Windows to. This is where you can delete old partitions and format drives. The box in the bottom half of the screen shows all your drives and the partitions that exist on them. Use the Up and Down arrow keys to highlight your "C:" partition and press the 'D' key (if all that shows up is "Unpartitioned space" and you have no C: or D: partitions, skip this step). On the next screen press the 'L' key to finalize deleting the partition.
•6 Now you are back on the screen to choose where to install Windows. The box on the lower half of the screen should no longer show a partition but simply have an entry "Unpartitioned space xxxxxMB." Select this with the arrow keys and press the 'C' key to create a partition on the drive. The next screen tells you the minimum and maximum sizes the partition can be and lets you pick the size. The default size is the maximum, but double check that the number entered is the maximum and hit enter.
•7 Now you will again be back at the choose where to install Windows screen. But this time you will have a partition that looks something like this "C: Partition1 [New (Raw)]xxxxxxMB." Highlight this entry and press enter.
•8 The next screen lets you choose which file system to format the drive with. Choose NTFS as it is faster and more secure. If the drive is brand new and has never been used before then use one of the options that ends in "(Quick)." Or, choose one of the lower down options. Use the arrow keys to select the proper one and press Enter or Return.
•9 From here you are all set and the installation of Windows will proceed starting with a format of your drive. This will take a while (over half an hour) so you can take a little break.

IMPORTANT WINDOWS XP HIDDEN APPS

To run hidden applications on your desktop or laptop, Click on START button, then Goto RUN and type the following executables below:

1) Character Map = charmap.exe (very useful for finding unusual characters)

2) Disk Cleanup = cleanmgr.exe

3) Clipboard Viewer = clipbrd.exe (views contents of Windows clipboard)

4) Dr Watson = drwtsn32.exe (Troubleshooting tool)


5) DirectX diagnosis = dxdiag.exe (Diagnose & test DirectX, video & sound cards)

6) Private character editor = eudcedit.exe (allows creation or modification of characters)

7) IExpress Wizard = iexpress.exe (Create self-extracting / self-installing package)

8) Microsoft Synchronization Manager = mobsync.exe (appears to allow synchronization of files on the network for when working offline. Apparently undocumented).

9) Windows Media Player 5.1 = mplay32.exe (Retro version of Media Player, very basic).

10) ODBC Data Source Administrator = odbcad32.exe (something to do with databases)

11) Object Packager = packager.exe (to do with packaging objects for insertion in files, appears to have comprehensive help files).

12) System Monitor = perfmon.exe (very useful, highly configurable tool, tells you everything you ever wanted to know about any aspect of PC performance, for uber-geeks only )

13) Program Manager = progman.exe (Legacy Windows 3.x desktop shell).

14) Remote Access phone book = rasphone.exe (documentation is virtually non-existant).

15) Registry Editor = regedt32.exe [also regedit.exe] (for hacking the Windows Registry).

16) Network shared folder wizard = shrpubw.exe (creates shared folders on network).

17) File siganture verification tool = sigverif.exe

18) Volume Contro = sndvol32.exe (I’ve included this for those people that lose it from the System Notification area).

19) System Configuration Editor = sysedit.exe (modify System.ini & Win.ini just like in Win98! ).

20) Syskey = syskey.exe (Secures XP Account database – use with care, it’s virtually undocumented but it appears to encrypt all passwords, I’m not sure of the full implications).

21) Microsoft Telnet Client = telnet.exe

22) Driver Verifier Manager = verifier.exe (seems to be a utility for monitoring the actions of drivers, might be useful for people having driver problems. Undocumented).

23) Windows for Workgroups Chat = winchat.exe (appears to be an old NT utility to allow chat sessions over a LAN, help files available).

24) System configuration = msconfig.exe (can use to control starup programs)

25) gpedit.msc used to manage group policies, and permissions.