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When you share your computer with other members of your family, where each member has a different user account, you may want to prevent others from accessing your account by repeated attempts of cracking your password. Here are some tips that will help you prevent other users from cracking your password and blocking the user account after multiple incorrect logins.

To be able to edit the account blocking policies, click ‘Start’ and type “Local” as the search term. Windows shows the search results directly in the start menu. Double click ‘Local security policies’ under ‘Programs’.

If you work with a user without administrator rights, right click ‘Local security policies’ and select the context command ‘Run as administrator’. You will then have to authorize the command by selelcting an Admin account and entering the password.

In the local security policies dialog, click the small triangle to the left near ‘Account Policies’ to open the structure below the entry. Then select ‘Account lockout policies’. On the right side of the tool, you will now find three points with which you can define the locking of an account in case of repeated incorrect password entry attempts. First double click ‘account lockout threshold’. Here define the number of permissible invalid login attempts. For instance, enter a 5 n the input field of the following dialog if Windows should block the account after 5 invalid login attempts. This prevents accidental lockouts when you mistype the password yourself. If you enter a zero, windows will never block the account. As soon as you enter a value under ‘Account lockout threshold’, Windows fills the remaining values that you can change.

The operating system understands the ‘Account lockout threshold’ as the time period during which Windows blocks an account. At the end of this period, the operating system removes the block. If you enter a zero in the ‘Account blocking period’, a computer administrator will have to explicitly remove the block.

Lastly you can also enter the “Reset account lockout after’. Here you can define how many minutes must pass in all before Windows resets the counter for unsuccessful login attempts after an invalid login attempt. This value must be smaller than or equal to the account blocking time. If you still do not define an ‘Account blocking period’ and leave the task of releasing a blocked account to the administrator, it can be done in ‘Computer Management’ under ‘Program Files’. Start the application by double clocking the entry under ‘Programs’.

Now open ‘Computer Management ->System -> Local user and groups’ under Computer Management in the tree structure on the left. Then double click the entry of the blocked user in the right hand pane. In the next dialog , remove the tick mark against ‘Account is blocked’ and confirm your action with OK. The user can now log in to the system again.

For private computer systems, an ‘Account lockout period” other than zero is recommended. If you exceed  the number of invalid login attempts for all accounts including the admin accounts and lock yourself out completely, you will have no way of accessing your computer again. At least one admin account should thus remain accessible at all times.

Earlier, people used to buy laptop for browsing internet or sending emails, but now the scope of a PC is wider. People buy laptops and PC especially for gaming. Gaming industry has started bringing more gaming options for PC users; features that exceed the limited use of computer thereby giving it a new character.

Game Booster 3 is free downloadable software that puts your PC or laptop in gaming zone on a single click. Once you are done with your gaming session, you can switch back your PC to normal mode with just one click. Apart from helping in gaming area, this booster software helps in analysing and diagnosing essential areas of your PC. Using Gaming Booster, you can add many gaming effects to your laptop. It stops unnecessary services, deactivates automatically updates and clears clip board. If you are not satisfied with the changes made by this software, you can restore all the changes to the initial state and it will not affect your computer in any way. Gaming booster will analyse all the essential areas of the system that affects gaming performance and saves all such reports that can be viewed later so that one can improve.

Gaming Booster has an option using which you can speed up the performance of games by defragmenting the folder where games are stored. This feature increases the loading speed of the games. There are some key features of Game Booster that has to be known by everyone computer user. Very first feature is slide to enter game mode. Using this feature you can close all the background running applications on your computer. This will help in increasing the loading speed of the game and will avoid all kinds of incompatibility that may occur due to background running applications. It detects unnecessary services running on the computer and closes them automatically. Game booster installs and updates all the gaming drivers automatically so that you can enjoy your gaming period without any drivers defect. It defragments folder containing game in order to increase the loading speed of the game. Game booster is fast, easy to use, secure and free to use.

Latest version of Game Booster that is Game Booster 3 has some important and enhanced features with it. Its diagnose function will report for any kind of error in games and also highlight the weakness to improve your gaming experience. Game Box has been redesigned that automatically shows available games on the computer with just one click. It has a new and easy to use interface. Game Booster 3 comes in 13 different languages (French, English, German, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Spanish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, and Danish) that make is usable worldwide. In order to use this game enhancing software, your system should have minimum of 300 MHz processor, at least 256 MB of RAM, 30 MB of free hard disk space and of course CD-ROM drive.

There are few features that have been added in Game Booster as per users demand. After checking out all the features of Game Booster software if you want to give a trial to it, download its trial version from the internet to check what it can do to enhance your gaming experience on your PC.

M-Files Professional is an easy to use document management software built by Motive Systems. The interface of this software is an exact clone of Windows Explorer except for the big M logo that is visible in the address bar and in the details pane. Motive systems deliberately designed the software as a lookalike of Windows explorer in the hope that users could find it easy to use and immediately begin working on it because of how familiar it is.  The main idea behind its design was to have employees in any organization to start using the document management software with minimal or no training while at the same time being productive at work.



Features of M-Files Professional

• M-Files Professional seamlessly integrates with the Windows Explorer operating system that you can access the document management program from within the local Windows Explorer window. All you need to do is click on the M-Files link in the Favorite Links window to display your M-Files document database.


• Although any user can see the M-Files link in the Favorite Links window, the system is very secure. Therefore, only users with specific permissions and access rights can have access to sensitive data that is stored in the database. M-Files Professional supports for a good security system, where in you can set up users and user groups with explicit permissions at the vault level, file level or the folder level. Security can be as broad or narrow as you want it to be.


• M-Files Professional features file check-in and check-out functions like any other document management software. The software also supports version control and automatically maintains a version history of all documents. It even logs every changes made along with the username of the person, the time when he/she last worked on a document and the comments made by the person on the changes made to the document.


• M-files Professional also features workflows. The workflow features makes it simple to run documents through formal processes and also helps to collaborate with other employees within the organization. You can assign users tasks to push documents through a particular workflow. Users can get email notifications about any new and modified documents in the workflow.


• M-Files Professional requires Microsoft SQL server as the backend for this document management software. The vaults that are created in the database are very flexible and customizable. You can also easily define and manage the relationships between documents and also define links between your database and other databases such as linking the accounting and billing system database with the customer relationship database.

M-Files professional are available in three versions, free, limited version and a professional full-featured version. The professional version can be downloaded for a trial period of 30 days for free. After 30 days you will need to purchase a license to use all the features and functions or else it will get reverted to the limited or free version.

Overall, M-Files Professional is an excellent document management product that is easy to use and is apt for converting your paper-based office to a paperless one. It is mainly targeted to large businesses. Because of its exorbitant price, small or home businesses cannot afford this software. But it is definitely a great choice for going paperless.