Guide To create Strong windows Password

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Password is used by every computer and Internet user for protecting their valuable data and information from unauthorized access. Everyone tried to create strong password which is hard to crack with software to by human. Even though we create strong password but still a password cracker program easily crack our password, isn't it ? So what is the meaning of strong password and how we can create a approx unbreakable password ? In this post I will focus on these two points.

What is a strong password: As per Microsoft recommendation for windows password, a strong password must have following characteristics:

1. The length of password must be at least eight characters.
2. A complete word should not present in the password.
3. It should not contain any name related to you. (like your username, real name or company name)
4. If you are changing your password then it must be totally different from previous password .
5. A strong password must contain uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers and special symbols.

Any password which is following these five rules will be a strong password and this type of passwords are very difficult to be broken. A password which contains uppercase, lowercase, numbers and special symbols can be a weak password like sampatrik2U! because it contain username and a complete word. You can correct it by writing it in this way $amp@trik2 U!. Including space in password and replace some letters with special symbols is make it very strong.

Always create a password which very easy to remember for you because losing password means losing access of your computer. So you can pick a phrase that is meaningful  for your password like my brother arun's birthday is 11 may 1987. Using this phrase you can create your password Mbabi11/may 87 or you can make it more strong by replacing some letters with special symbols like Mb@b!11 05 87.

I hope this post will guide you to create very strong password which are very easy to remember. But always remember that never create a password which you can't remember. But in case you forget your password then use advanced third party password recovery software to recover it.

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Recover Password of Protected Excel Wordbook by Using Password Revealer

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To improve security in MS Excel and protect your workbooks from unnecessary modification by unauthorized users, Microsoft has introduced advanced password-protection. You can secure your whole workbook or some specific elements in your workbook by applying a password. Only authenticated users will have the right to make changes to the workbook or its individual elements. You can apply two different types of passwords to an Excel workbook: 'Password To Open' and 'Password To Modify'.

The 'Password To Open' feature can be used to prevent the illicit or unwanted users from opening the Excel workbook. This feature uses any of the standard encryption methods to secure data in the file. You can do this via Save As>>Tools>>Security Options and an existing one Main Menu>>Tools>>Options>>Security. Additionally, if you want to keep other users from changing the structure of your Excel workbook, you can use the 'Password To Modify' feature. With this feature, you can define a guideline for others and then, they need to follow this guideline for modifying the content or formatting of your workbook. To do so, go to Tools and choose Protect Document or Unprotect Document.

However, if there are a hell lot of passwords, there is always a high risk of losing these passwords. These passwords will keep on clogging up your brain and consequently, you forget them when trying to unlock your password-protected Excel workbooks. At this stage, you need to take help of professional MS Excel password recovery software.

Let me tell you my example. I joined at a new office last week. The person who left the organization had protected some of his Excel files. He didn't tell the passwords to anyone. However, I had to use those files in order to start my work. But, I found out that I cannot even open some of the important files. I immediately narrated the whole situation to my Team Lead and he recommended me to contact the system administration department. I contacted them and told them this problem. To recover Excel password, they installed a password recovery software on my computer and it was all over in just a few clicks. All the passwords were saved in the text document at a specified location in my system.

An efficient Excel password recovery software can easily recover both: 'password to open' and 'password to modify' set to your Excel workbook. These software use Brute-Force attack mechanism to give you the recovered password with 100% accuracy. The software which I used provided me various options to narrow down the Excel password search. 

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How to use Safe Mode option to reset windows 7 admin password

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Did you lost windows 7 administrator password? Are you worried about the next step to get the solution to reset it?

Here it comes, yes you can reset Windows 7 password your own through various available methods to reset your lost password. Windows 7 creates a default build-in administrator at the time of windows 7 installation. This default administrator doesn't have any password. In the password loss situation, you can assign password to default administrator and access your computer. Follow the steps written below for complete procedure.

1. Start computer press F8 key while it is booting. It will show you black screen with few options select "Safe Mode with Command Prompt" option with arrow keys and hit Enter. Now computer will start loading safe mode and at the end command prompt will visible.

2. Now with the help of this command prompt you can reset administrator password. Type “net user” command and hit Enter it will show list of all users.

3. Now type net user xyz 123456 to reset the password of the user xyz to 123456 (in place of XYZ you need write the name of user for which you want to change password and write your desire password in place of 123456) and press Enter.
4. A message “the command completed successfully” will appear that means your password has been successfully reset.

5. Now restart your computer and login with username: xyz and password: 123456. you can access your computer and reset other accounts password control panel.

This is the easiest way to reset lost windows 7 password. But it will work when you are able to start computer in safe mode. If safe mode could not be loaded then you need to try some other method to reset windows 7 password. You can use third party windows 7 password recovery software to recover lost windows password.

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How to Confugure Windows Live Mail 2011 For Your Email Account

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For a new user its quite difficult to configure windows live mail 2011 with email account. But setting windows live mail is very easy, you just need to follow proper steps. Here I am going to explain how to configure windows live? How incoming and outgoing server setting can be configure in windows live mail.

Steps to configure windows live mail: Start windows live mail

1. Click on “Add an email account” which is listed on left hand.

2. In Add an email account write email account in lower-case letters, write the password of that email account (same password which you use to login in that email account). Check Remember password check box write display name.

3. After filling all fields click on Next button.

4. In next windows

• Write POP3 in “My incoming Mail server”
• Write pop.yourdomain.com in Incoming server.
• Do not check “This server require a secure connection”.
• Write your username (First part of your email ID) in login box.
• In next box type outgoing server name.
• Now check “my outgoing server require authentication”.

5. Now click on Next and your email address will configure with windows live mail.

If you follow these steps then you can successfully configure windows live mail with your email. But for any reason you are not able to configure then you are free to contact me or write to me..

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Easy And Fast Method To Recover Lost Instant Messenger Password

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Chat messengers provide us an environment to carry out a direct real-time text based communication with one or more people over a network, such as Internet. Nowadays, as the technology is evolving at a much higher pace, we now have the option to make a live voice or video calling through these chat messengers. Hence, a person who has an account on any of the chat messengers can easily chat with far away friends and family connections. Therefore, every single account has a unique ID and password, generally created by user through some simple steps. This login information is required to authenticate the user account. However, sometimes you may lose or forget the password of your chat messenger account. This situation marks the need of professional Instant Messenger password recovery software.

Consider a practical case. Suppose, you applied a long and complicated password to your Google Talk chat messenger. After two or three days, when you tried to access your Google Talk account, it threw an error that restricted you from logging in as you were typing an incorrect password. Alas! You realized that if you were unable to recall the password, you would lose all your important address book contacts and other information. You used all the alternative solutions like security question, alternative email address provided by Google, but this did not bring any luck to you. Your problem was solved when you searched over the Internet for IM password recovery software. Under this category, you found out a range of third-party tools. In order to select one, you must go through their user reviews.

These software are able to recover your lost or forgotten Messenger password correctly within seconds. Some of the excellent utilities under this category display the preview of all the recovered Messengers passwords along with the recovered user names and domain names. Again, I will suggest you not to rely on any of these IM password recovery software. First, try to run the demo version of these software that could be easily downloaded from their corresponding website.

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Why Excel Unable To Save Or Open Password Protected xlsx Files

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Excel files (basically .xlsx) have very strong security features. It will not allow saving, opening or making changes, if user doesn’t have sufficient permissions. In case users don’t have owner permission and trying to open password-protected excel file then they will get an error message "Excel cannot open this file. The encryption type used is not available, contact the author of the files. More encryption types are available using the High Encryption Pack". When unauthorized users are trying to save password-protected excel file then they might receive follow error "Excel is unable to encrypt your file. Please contact your system administrator to resolve this problem. Do you wish to remove encryption and try again?". This problem will exist irrespective to location of excel file. Even in safe mode and no one can access this file.

Reason for These Error Messages: Unauthorized access of a password-protected excel file is the main cause of these error messages. If any user without having proper permission try to access strongly protected excel file, MS excel will not allow access for that user because of security reasons.

Solution: Provide owner permission for the user which is unable to access password-protected excel file (.xlsx) is the simple solution of above error message. Follow the steps written below to provide owner permission.

1. Locate the file which has this issue.
2. Right click on it and select Properties.
3. Now click on Owner tab. In owner tab you can find current owner of that file. Now click on Edit and add that user’s username.
4. You can add group of users by clicking on other user or groups in Owner tab. Now add all username of all users to which you want to provide access. If you type "Administrators" you will give ownership to all the users that are administrators on your computer.
5. Now click on Check Names.
6. Press OK if everything is perfectly added.

Now try to open that file which is giving error message. I am sure that your problem has been resolved and you are able to open, modify and save that file.

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Best Way To Avoid Outlook, Outlook Express Password Loss Situation

Each one of us want to keep our vital information/data protective whether it may be a data that is contained in a system or a data that is contained in the messaging application. For the same reason, all the e-mail applications provide you an opportunity to protect the data contained within them with the help of a password. Many of us found the task to remember password quite difficult. Losing a password of your e-mail accounts and other applications is a common behavior. The problem of forgetting a password cannot be permanently solved because it is a part of our mind to forget the things after a small amount of time. Forgetting passwords can lead to serious problem also. Well, in such cases, a third party Mail password recovery software.

Discussed is a case of one of my close friends. He always apply a password that contains a large number of characters in it. He has number of e-mail accounts. Well, for the security point of view, applying a long password proves beneficial as well as harmful. Let us see how it is beneficial and harmful. Long password takes quite big time to crack whereas many times it becomes quite difficult to remember as well. Same is the case happens with him. He lost or forget password of his e-mail account. Due to the lost password of his e-mail account, he fail to access the data of his e-mail account.

His number of attempts to recall the password ends with no successful result.

In all such situations in which you have lost or forgotten a password of your e-mail account, it is good to opt for a third party stellar phoenix mail Password recovery tool. Before going for a third party tool, do not forget to use all the inbuilt measures to recover your lost password back.

For your information, a lots of software are available in the market that is used to recover password of e-mail clients, such as Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Live, Incredimail, Mozilla Thunderbird, Netscape Communicator, and more within a small amount of time. A high-end scanning algorithms are employed by such software. It is a good solution to get back the password. It is advisable to select a software carefully. Many times, fake statements have been made for the promotion of the product. Such software are available in both demo and full versions. Through these tools, you can save the recovered e-mail password in the form of a text file.

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