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Windows 8 – Administrative Tools – Event Viewer
Windows has a habit of logging information whenever it faces some kind of issue. These logged data are called events. Events are logged in case of a system crash, a security issue, malfunctioning...
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Windows 8 – ODBC Data Sources
Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a generic medium to access data from a variety of database management systems (DBMS). An application using ODBC need not worry about the underlying DBMS from which...
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Windows 8 – Task Scheduler
Windows runs a lot of scheduled tasks in background. For example, it runs disk defragmentation at scheduled time, whenever possible, in order to keep the disk space in healthy state. Similarly, Windows...
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Windows 8 Administrative Tools – Performance Monitor
In case of a sluggish computer, you may want to check the performance of system’s components in order to find the culprit that is causing the slow performance. This tool, an MMC snap-in, helps you...
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Windows 8 – Administrative Tools – Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
Control Panel provides an applet to manage Windows Firewall settings. However, that applet just touches the tip of the iceberg. Windows Firewall contains a plethora of settings, all of which you can...
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Windows 8 – Administrative Tools – Resource Monitor
This tool is an extremely advanced Task Manager. Using Resource Monitor, you can monitor the impact of each process on your system – how much CPU and RAM it consumes, the extent of its hard disk...
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Windows 8 – Administrative Tools – iSCSI Initiator
iSCSI, abbreviation of Internet Small Computer System Interface, and interestingly pronounced like “eye-skuzee”, is a standard for network storage devices. iSCSI is used to link and maintain storage...
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Windows 8 – Administrative Tools – Computer Management
Computer Management, an MMC snap-in, is a one-stop management tool. Aptly named, it is a collection of several administrative tools used to manage your system. This tool includes several other tools...
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Windows 8 – Administrative Tools – Windows PowerShell ISE
Historically, the command-line support in Windows has always been considered laughable in spite of the scripting languages like VBScript and Jscript. These languages are not natively integrated into...
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Windows 8 – Administrative Tools – Component Services
If you are a normal user, then let me stop you right now. This topic is not more than a scribbling of black ink for you. Microsoft introduced Component Object Model (COM) technology in early 90s. The...
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