Category: Windows

How to update original device drivers on windows os

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windows device drivers

Device drivers are very essential software that keeps hardware functioning properly. In windows 10 we can update drivers from the original supplier of the hardware or from Microsoft. Unauthentic updates may lead to system crash and malware installation unknowingly.There are two ways of updating drivers either by windows itself or by using third-party software. There are many third-party software available for doing that but in real life, verifying the authenticity of such software is not an easy task. So updating software from the windows itself is a very good idea.…

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How to install IIS on windows 10

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install iis

IIS is a web server runs on windows platform used for hosting websites that use the .NET framework. It is also capable of hosting CGI applications e.g. Django with FastCGI. Learn how to install IIS on Windows 10 here. To install IIS on windows 10 you need to turn it on from Windows Features on Demand. Windows Features is a feature that allows administrators to add or remove features and roles of windows on demand. These feature packages are either in the system already or windows downloads it on demand…

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Remotely enable remote desktop services on windows

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enable remote desktop

In this post I will explain how we can enable Microsoft remote desktop on a Windows computer remotely without having physical access to that computer. Before I start, I want to introduce a powerful tool PS Tools of Microsoft created by Sysinternals. By using these tools we can remotely execute commands and processes on a remote computer.We can do it in LAN as well as on the internet also. For downloading and then how to use this tool. First have a look at this post. Executing commands on Remote Computer.…

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Execute commands on remote computer running windows os

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execute commands on remote computer

PS Tools are very powerful tools from SysInternals and very useful when we don’t have physical access to a server or computer. “Psexec” uses TCP port 445 with SMB ( Server Message Block ) protocol. The benefit of using this tool is that the port is by default open in windows so we don’t need to access that machine physically to open port in firewall. It’s very useful to execute commands on remote computer. To download PS Tools follow this link :- PS Tools After downloading extract the files, open…

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