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02 Mar 2012
Creating Hard Disk Drive Partitions in Microsoft Windows 8
What Are Disk Partitions or Volumes? Disk partitions or volumes are the small sections into which a complete hard disk drive is divided so that every section works as a separate disk. When the hard disk drive is used as the basic disk, these sections are technically known as disk partitions. When the hard disk
01 Mar 2012
Manage Desktop Wallpapers, Themes and Screen Savers in Microsoft Windows 8
Benefits of Desktop Wallpapers Microsoft Windows allows users to modify and change desktop backgrounds and can use built-in images to put them as wallpapers in order to decorate their desktop screens. Wallpapers provide better look to the Windows screens, hence allowing users to enjoy working on them. Users can not only use predefined images as
01 Mar 2012
Encrypt Files in Microsoft Windows 8
What Is Encrypting File System or EFS? Encrypting File System or EFS is a feature which was introduced with the release of Microsoft Windows 2000 and it allowed users to encrypt their documents with an encryption key that was generated using an algorithm. Encrypting File System is now carried forward and is integrated in almost
01 Mar 2012
Enable BitLocker in Microsoft Windows 8
What Is a BitLocker? BitLocker is a feature that was introduced with the release of Microsoft Windows Vista for the very first time and now has been carried forward to almost all Windows operating systems including Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Windows 8. With help of BitLocker administrators can encrypt
01 Mar 2012
Configure Microsoft Windows 8 to Allow BitLocker Encryption without TPM
What Is Trusted Platform Module or TPM? TPM is the hardware chip that is integrated in some motherboards and stores a part of key pair that is used to decrypt the volumes of hard disk drives that have been encrypted with BitLocker. Not all motherboards ship along with TPM and the ones that have the
01 Mar 2012
Compress Files and Folders in Microsoft Windows 8
What Is File Compression? File compression is a built-in feature integrated in Microsoft-based Windows operating systems and was first introduced with the release of Windows 2000. When contents of a computer are compressed they are displayed in blue color that represents that they have been compressed. When users store files on their computers they occupy
01 Mar 2012
Assign Data Decryption Agent for Encrypting File System in Microsoft Windows 8
What Is Data Decryption Agent or DDA? Data Decryption Agent is an account encryption keys of whom can be used to decrypt any file that has been encrypted by any other key. Normally when users encrypt files using their own credentials, they become Data Decryption Agent of their own files which means that their own
01 Mar 2012
Configuring EFS Data Recovery Agent in Microsoft Windows 8
What Is Data Recovery Agent? Data Recovery Agent is a user account that has been granted permissions to access all encrypted files even if the files have been encrypted using encryption key of another user account of the computer. Administrators must create and configure Data Recovery Agents before allowing users to encrypt their files. This
28 Feb 2012
Add Microsoft Windows 8 Computer to a Domain
What Is a Domain? A domain is a logical boundary or a logical empire that is ruled by one or more servers named as Domain Controllers. When any network operating system, for example Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008, is promoted to a domain controller by installing Active Directory Services (ADS) in Windows Server
28 Feb 2012
How to Create a Custom Power Plan in Microsoft Windows 8
Why Creating a Power Plan Is Helpful? When Microsoft Windows 8 operating systems is installed on a computer, by default the power plan which is configured for the OS is Balanced (recommended). This provides the optimum performance for the operating system and allows users to experience the best out of their computers with least power