Can Macintosh computer join Active Directory? The answer is yes. Before joining a Mac OS X machine to the Active Directory, you need to know the domain of your Active Directory Server and your login credential.

To join/bind your Macintosh machine to Active Directory, just follow below steps:-

• Log into the Apple computer you want to join to the domain. You must be logged into an account with Administrator access.
• Open the Directory Utility, which is located in:
  10.5 (Leopard): /Applications/Utilities
  10.6 (Snow Leopard): /System/Library/CoreServices

• click the padlock and enter your password to unlock the Directory Utility.
• Click the checkmark next to Active Directory to enable Active Directory support. After that, highlight Active Directory and click on the Pencil icon at the bottom of the directory list to configure the Active Directory connection.
• Enter the name of your Active Directory domain and the computer name you wish to bind your machine as. Just leave the directory forest set to “Automatic”

• Click Bind…and enter the name and password of a domain administrator when prompted.

• Now your machine will be bound to the Active Directory domain without any error.
• Click Apply in the Directory Utility to save your changes.

If you facing join Active Directory domain from you Mac, please leave your comment.

Sysinternals Antivirus is a rogue program. These malware application try to sell you their software by making you think that you PC is infected by the malware. Sysinternals Antivirus is installed through the use of Trojans that display fake security alerts and pop-ups on the computer. While running, Sysinternals Antivirus will scan your computer it detect harmless of Windows system files as malware but will not allow you to remove them until you purchase the program.

Below is the print screen about this program

How to remove Sysinternals Antivirus?

One of the free anti malware software called Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware can detect and remove this rogue application.

• Download Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware to your desktop.
• Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the on screen instruction to install the program.
• At the end, be sure a check-mark is placed next to the following:
  • Update Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware
  • Launch Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware
• Then click Finish.
• Once the program has loaded, select Perform quick scan, then click Scan.
• When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.
• Be sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected. Reboot your computer if prompted.
• When completed, a log will open in Notepad. The rogue application should now be gone.

To run php application, most of user will used Apache + PHP + MySQL as their program platform. Most of the beginner user like to setup LAMP on Windows to develop or run the php application. To setup LAMP on Windows, is a bit complicated. But there is asoftware called AppServ to allow us to setup LAMP just in 1 minute.   AppServ is a software with  full-featured of Apache, MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin.

Below are the simple step to setup AppServ:-

• Click HERE to download AppServ. (You can choose version that you want from http://www.appservnetwork.com)
• Double Click appserv-win32-x.x.x.exe to install AppServ on your computer.
• Just follow the on screen instruction to install it. (Accept the User Agreement->Select Path to install)
  
• After that, just select Components to install and click Next. ( AppServ default package components it’s checked all package.)

• Now you need to configure the Apache and MySQL
• Click Finished to start the Appserv

This morning, my customer called me regarding his laptop issue. He told me that his laptop hang and force to restart the laptop. After restarting and attempting to open Outlook he got the following error message:  ”Cannot start Microsoft Office outlook. Cannot open the outlook window”

I tried to google this problem, there are few solution from Microsoft’s site. But it didn’t work for me.

At the end, i found a simple solution to solve this problem. How to do that?

• Click on Start button ->run
• then type outlook.exe /resetnavpane

This solution should be able to solve your problem. If you have any other solution, please give me some comment

My HR Department have one desktop PC, one MacBook and iMac connected on HR network. There is a printer connected via USB to the iMac machine. They want me to help them setting it up to be shared with Mac machines and Windows Machine. So i have to figure out how to do the printer sharing. But sharing the printer from the iMac to Windows machines was significantly more difficult.
To make your Windows Machine communicate with your Apple Machines, you need to have Bonjour protocol. You have to install Bonjour for Windows to you Windows Machines , you can share your printer with them in the same way you’d share it with Mac OS X users.

Below are some simple steps to share printer with Windows users:-

On the Mac (the one that the USB printer that you want to share is connected to):

1. Go to System Preferences and open Print & Fax.
2. Check to see if your printer is installed (ie.HP1020).
3. Go to the Sharing preferences panel to ensure Printer Sharing and Windows Sharing are both turned on.

On the Windows PC:

1. Click HERE to download Bonjour for Windows.
2. Install Bonjour.
3. Follow the steps for setting up Bonjour.

Once you have found your shared printer on the network and it asks you to specify the driver, go with the Generic Postscript.

Click on Finish to add the printer.

I tried to print from my Windows machine, it work for me. Hope this post will help you

Hardware manufacturers always release new versions of their drivers to fix bugs, increase performance, increase stability on your computer, or add new features. When these drivers are released it is recommended that you upgrade your driver to take advantage of these new enhancements.

DriverEasy is a freeware allow us to scan, detect and download drivers. DriverEasy allow us to keep existing hardware driver up to date and download driver for unknown device. DriverEasy have huge Hardware Driver Database which allow us to scan more than 1,000,000 of  hardware driver.

Just click HERE to download DriverEasy to scan your computer hardware driver.

Once downloaded, just double click and follow the on screen instruction to install it.

A) After that just run DriverEasy program, then click the Scan Now button to scan your computer hardware

B) When the DriverEasy scanning your computer hardware, it will auto-detect your computer hardware automatically.

Avira just release Avira AntiVir, version 10. Avira AntiVir Personal is a free version of Avira anti-virus product which provides basic anti-virus and anti-spyware protection against dangerous viruses, worms, Trojans, malware, spyware and costly dialers.

I downloaded  the  Avira AntiVir Personal to run on my Windows 7 machine. i realize there is an annoying feature which will always pops up advertisement screen to persuade users to upgrade to paid premium edition of Avira product

This pop-up ads, of free edition of Avira Anti-Virus product displayed whenever auto-updater runs to update the anti-virus signature database. 

This annoying feature can be disable, just follow the following step to disable it:

• Click Start ->Run-> Type secpol.msc, or alternatively, go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Local Security Policy.
• Click on Software Restriction Policy-> Right click on it and click on create new restriction policies
• Right Click on Additional Rules and select New Path Rule
• Enter the full path to avnotify.exe in the Path: text box or click on Browse button to locate the avnotify.exe exectable (C:\Program Files\(Avira)\AntiVir Desktop\ and double-click avnotify.exe)
• Set the Security level drop-down menu as Disallowed.
• Click OK and Apply the settings. The Avira Antivirus Notification is now disabled. You’ll never see that notifier again.

To try this Free Anti Virus, just click HERE to download Avira AntiVir Personal

Windows XP/Vista/7
Run ipconfig/all from a Command Prompt window.

• click Start, then Run, then type cmd in the text box.

• Type in ipconfig/all in the Command Prompt Windows and press enter

You should get something like this

Your MAC Address is listed under ‘Physical Address’ as a series of 6 groups of two digits, letters and numbers, separated by dashes, such as in the image below. Make sure you get the physical address of the correct network adapter – usually there are several listed.

Linux

On Linux systems, you must login as root user first before you find the Mac Address

• Launch your terminal
• Type the following command to become root user

[ahkwai@techkaki ~]$ su -
Password:

• Then, type ifconfig. Example:-


MAC OS X

Choose “System Preferences...” from the Apple menu. Then select “Network.” Double-click on “Airport” or “Built-in Ethernet” depending on how you access the Internet or your network.

For ‘Built-in Ethernet’, select the Ethernet tab.  Read the MAC address labeled ‘Ethernet ID:’.

In Windows 7, all the  “special” icons like Computer, User or Control Panel  is not show on desktop by default.  and they are now missing, you might want to know how to add them back.

There are two different ways you can add the icon back

1st Method

To put the Computer icon on the desktop, click the Start button, and then right-click on “Computer”.

Beside Computer icon, we can apply the same method on User’s Files icon and Control Panel icon

Computer icon

Control Panel icon

2nd Method

Go to Control Panel -> Personalize (or right-click on the desktop and select Personalize), and then choose the link for “Change Desktop Icons” on the left-hand side.

Once you click on Change desktop icons link,  Desktop Icons Setting panel will be pop up. Now you can chose the icons you want to show on the desktop by checking the box next to the name.

Windows 7 available in 32- or 64-bit version. You have to make a decision to go for 32-bit or 64-bit before you upgrade from XP or Vista to Windows 7 and I recommend you going for 64-bit. The 64-bit systems handle data and memory more efficiently than 32-bit systems.

To find out which version your computer is using, just follow the following steps: