How to Reset / Recover Forgotten Windows 7/Vista/XP/2003 Administrator Password

 Many times we face this problem when we or our friends forget Windows XP password and can't log into Windows. So here we are posting a few methods / utilities which can be used to recover Windows password:     1st Method: The first thing which you check if you forget login password. When we install Windows, it automatically creates an account ""Administrator"" and sets its password to blank. So if you have forget your user account password then try this:     Start system and when you see Windows Welcome screen / Login screen, press ctrl+alt+del keys twice and it'll show Classic Login box. Now type ""Administrator"" (without quotes) in Username and leave Password field blank. Now press Enter and you should...

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Repairing Database and Tables

MyISAM was the default storage engine for the MySQL. It is based on the older ISAM code but has many useful extensions. The major deficiency of MyISAM is the absence of transactions support. Versions of MySQL 5.5 and greater have switched to the InnoDB engine to ensure referential integrity constraints, and higher concurrency.Each MyISAM table is stored on disk in three files. The files have names that begin with the table name and have an extension to indicate the file type. MySQL uses a .frm file to store the definition of the table, but this file is not a part of the MyISAM engine; instead it is a part of the server. The data file has a .MYD (MYData) extension. The index file has a .MYI (MYIndex) extension. I will now show how to repair...

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Alarm function in Fedora

If you ever wondered how to set alarm or reminder in your fedora or any other red hat flavor Linux machine, here is your solution. You will need to install a package of kde which can be also used in gnome. kalarm is the name of the program. Take terminal. Login to root: $ su - Install the package kdepim. $ yum install kdepim-4.4.6-2.fc14 Now you can access kalarm from Applications --> Accessories --> kal...

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