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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

How to Change My Documents Parth on Windows XP

"My documents" is the very famous file saving location in the Computer. When we click on save command on most software will give you the chance to save file on My documents directly. But normal My Documents directory is not a safe place to save your important document because it is on the same partition with Windows Operating System files. it means if we reinstall the windows on computer all files in My Documents will be deleted. Because by default My Documents is on the same partition with the Operating System.

What is the actual location of my Documents?

Can you guess it? Some time you can see the My Documents icon on desktop. It is in the Start Menu also. But the actual location is a different Place.

How we can know the actual location of My Documents?

Now we will see how to check the the actual location of My Documents. Its simple.

Right Click on My Documents then Select Properties.




















Now go to Target tab of the Properties window and see tha Target folder location. Actual My Documents location will display there.




















The Location is C:\Documents and Settings\admin\My Documents

Note: admin = your log on user name. I have log into Computer using "Admin" User Account now. If you log into computer using Student User account. My document path will display as C:\
Documents and Settings\Student\My Documents.

Change My Documents in to safe Place.

According to my PC My Operating System is on C: Drive. So it is not safe to keep My documents on C: Drive. Now I am going to move My Documents into D: Drive. To do so now in target folder location I type the new location as D:\My Documents and click Ok button.




















Now it will asked to create a Folder for My Documents. Click on Yes Button











Now again it will asked to confirm to move My Documents Files from C: to D:. Click on Yes Button Again. After confirl It will start to move All My Documents File to D Drive.










After File Moving Complete. My Documents No longer available in C: Drive. Now your My Documents is a safe location to save important files. For more secure your important files, please keep backup those files in to another disk such as a pen Drive or CD.

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Saturday, July 10, 2010

Are you Secure with Internet? Are your informations safe in your PC? This is a very Important. You have to think yourself..

Billion/trillion of computers are connected to Internet. Most people are using Internet for their day to day work. Sometime they use lot of PCs to access Internet. Can you ensure that you and your information are secure? Most people have no idea about this. Lot of Internet users have no idea about this matter although this is a very important Matter. There are lot of hackers, Spyware & virus are waiting to steal your information and to damage your privacy information. Sometime users lost their information and privacy by them self because they don't have proper knowledge in this matter. All Internet & PC users must follow good practices to secure their information. So I am going to give basic knowledge how to secure your privacy and information while you are using Internet. These are few tips to follow easily;

  1. Don't log into your accounts (E-mail, Bank) or Enter credit card information using computer which don't have proper Anti Virus Guard and Firewall. Although it is your personal PC don't use it with Internet without proper Anti Virus and Firewall protection)
  2. Don't use simple and guessable password for any account. It mean don't use birthday, phone number, fathers name, wife names etc as password.
  3. When you create a password use letter, Numbers and at least one special character for it. Then it will difficult to hack your password.
  4. Don't log into your accounts (E-mail, Bank, Credit Card) using unsecured common computer such as Internet cafe Computers etc.
  5. Don't save your password any computer other than your personal computer which you use. (Personally I recommend you should not save your password on your PC also)
  6. Every time you going to finish your work don't forget to sign out all account you use and clear Internet history and cookies.
  7. Try to change your all account passwords at least once a month.
  8. Don't forgot Security questions & answer when you enter create E-mail and some other accounts. This will helpful to recover your account if you forgot or if you unable to access your account.
  9. If you have been asked a e-mail address when you create an account you must enter a valid accessible E-mail address. This is very helpful for recover your account same as security question.
  10. Don't write your password anywhere others can access. Don't forget to keep your password secure.
To make sure that your PC and Information are secure you have to Install a Proper Anti Virus & Firewall software. If you installed a Internet Security software for your PC most of time Firewall also include in that software. That is not enough you must ensure that your security software are up-to-date and they are running properly in your PC. Additionally you should not install any unknown software into your PC without knowing it.

Hope you get some knowledge about how to protect your information and privacy when you use Computer and Internet. If you have more questions about this please post here.

Good Luck!


Friday, July 9, 2010

How to Create Administrator and Limited User Accounts on Windows XP

There are two main type of account are available in Windows. Those are Administrative Account and Limited user Account. There are some other user account types also available with windows such as Guest, Backup Operator, HelpServicesgroup, Network configuration operators, Power Users etc. Here We are going to talk about main two types call Administrator & Limited User.

How to Create an Administrator User Account.

1. Log in to Computer with an Administrator account.

2. Go to Start --> Control Panel -->

















3. Double Click on user Account.





4. Now you will see the User Accounts window. Click on Create a new account.












5. Now type a name for new account and click next. Now select the account type as Computer administrator and click on create account button.















6. Congratulations! Now your Administrative Account was Created successfully.


How to Create a Limited User Account.

First follow above steps 1 to 4 respectively.

5. Now type a name for new account and click next. Now select the account type as Limited and click on create account button.















6. Congratulations! Now your Limited user Account was Created successfully.

If you have any problem please post here.

How to Protect Your Children / Students from Unwanted & Bad Websites. How to Block All Unwanted Web Sites

How to Protect Your Children / Students from Unwanted & Bad Websites? How to Block All Unwanted Web Sites? This is a main problem that parents are having when their children are work with Internet. Parents are unable to keep eye on child every time when thy use Internet. So Parent must have to take permanent Action to prevent children from unwanted and bad web sites.
How Parents Can Block Unwanted and Bad Website for Children?

Parents can lot of action to do this. There are many ways. What are they? There are two main things parents can do.

  1. Parents can some software to block unwanted web site.
  2. Parents can get the support from Internet Service Provider (ISP) Support to do this.

Now I am going to talk another thing which parents can do to block bad website in simple way. This you can so easily although you don't have proper knowledge about computer. Now will see how to do this.

First log in to Computer using a administrator account. Then go to My Computer --> C: Drive --> Windows --> system32 --> drivers --> etc folder. Now double click on "host" file and open it with Note pad.

Now you can see the host file as below. Bottom of the file it will show an IP Address and mention as localhost.

Now we will see how to block a website by this host file. Its a simple. you have to type same IP address and type the URL you want to block under localhost as below picture. after type all block URL by adding to host file save the file and close. Now try to visit block website using your browser. You can see now those web sites are not accessible.

In the 2nd picture I have block facebook & yahoo web sites as example. Now if I try to visit facebook.com for yahoo.com web site browser will say unable to connect. Hope you understand how to block unwanted & bad web site using host file in your computer.

Fore more security you can do below good practices.

Don't allowed child to log on computer with administrator rights. To learn how to create a Limited user account please Click Here.
Check the history of your child activity when you have a time.
Check the CD/ DVD/ removable devices which your Child use when you have time.

If you have any problem please post here.

GOOD LUCK!