PC Memoirs

In my last entry, I wrote about the password cracking abilities of Ophcrack. I tested it and it successfully found the password I was looking for. However, Ophcrack doesn’t guarantee to find every password on every system. If you wish to try another way of recovering your password, here is a list more password cracking programs: NT Password [...]

Have you ever forgotten your logon password and you couldn’t log on to Windows? Did you have to format the hard drive and reinstall Windows? Luckily there are other options you can try before using this last resort. In Windows Vista, there is a function called Create a password reset disk. It lets you create a small [...]

When you shut down Windows, the following error message appears: “Schtasks.exe – Application failed to initialize“ (0xC0000142). You can click OK or the message disappears by itself and the shutdown process continues. Schtasks.exe is a command line version of the Task Scheduler in Windows Vista. It lets you specify a schedule for the automated execution of commands. Besides the specified [...]

Let’s assume you have a PC or laptop with Windows Vista installed but you want to install Windows XP as well. Or you have XP and want to try Vista without losing XP. Before you start the installation, you should make sure that your computer can handle two operating systems. Most importantly, you need a hard [...]