One of my personal favorites among the new features that Windows 7 came with was the introduction of some awesome and long awaited keyboard shortcuts. I personally use them as much as I can to save time, and I recommend the practice of using keyboard shortcuts to others too.
This article talks about 15 really cool keyboards shortcuts that are specific to Windows 7. I can bet that you don’t know all of them. Check them out, some of them will surprise you for sure.
Roughly one month prior to the release of Windows 7, Microsoft debuted its consumer antivirus and antispyware solution, Microsoft Security Essentials. This solution does not include a firewall which is understandable since Windows 7 does include one. Microsoft has a sketchy past with previous firewall incarnations that either left systems open for attack or did not provide the customization options that existed in commercial solutions. In this review I will take a closer look at the capabilities of Microsoft Security Essentials and the Windows 7 firewall. I will try to determine if the software giant has managed to stroll into the desktop security space as a solid contender.
Download Microsoft Security Essentials here.
Microsoft Security Essentials is a very small download at just under 7 MB. The installation is rather uneventful, a simple Next, Next, Next, Finish straight forward approach. Thankfully a restart is not required for Microsoft Security Essentials to begin protecting your system. Immediately after installation you are presented with an option to do an initial scan and update of virus and spyware definitions. On my system the scan took less than 15 minutes to complete.
Windows 7 uses a feature called homegroup, which enhances the workgroup feature in order to make home networking easier for all Windows 7 computers. However, this feature doesn’t work on Linux or older version of Windows. In order to connect your Linux computers to Windows 7 computers and share files and folders, you need to make a series of settings. First, it is to change the workgroup, so that all computers belong to one workgroup. In this tutorial I will demonstrate how to configure and change the workgroup on an Ubuntu PC.
Samba is a package for Unix systems that provides support for cross-platform files and printers sharing, and is needed for Ubuntu to access shared resources on a Windows network. In this case, you’ll need to add your Ubuntu PC to a workgroup in order to connect to a Windows network. To install Samba, access your terminal application from your main panel in Applications > Accessories > Terminal.
In your terminal, you’ll need to install the “samba” and “smbfs” packages, by typing the following command:
sudo apt-get install samba smbfs
There are tons of applications out there that do the same thing, view another computer and I have tested alot of them some have pros and cons but I have decided to stick with Single Click VNC because of how little it requires the user on the other end to do.
**Yes this supports clients of XP, Vista, and Win7 because of a trick I made for disabling Aero**
UltraVNC Single Click is a small, standalone server you can email, host it on your website, or simply place in your public drop box folder; that can be run in – you guessed it – a single click. Here’s how to set up a Single Click VNC server that will let you remote control someone’s computer over the internet with no configuration on their part.
Warning: This tutorial requires some comfort with networking concepts and VNC. If you need some help along the way feel free to contact me and I can walk you through it and help you out.
In a normal VNC server/viewer setup, the viewer contacts the VNC server to log in and remote control it. With SingleClick Ultra VNC, the opposite happens: the server is pre-configured to contact a viewer at a specified IP address, as shown:
