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If you are a Windows Systems Administrator working in a Windows Active Directory environment and use roaming profiles, this article is for you. In this article we will show you how to delete roaming profiles on remote machines selectively (meaning only roaming profiles you choose and not the others). Microsoft has a free resource kit utility called delprof, which allows to delete cached roaming profiles on remote machines, it even lets you choose the deletion criteria based on the period since the roaming profile has not been used on that machine. However, delprof has a serious limitation, it does not let you choose an individual roaming profile or a list of roaming profile to be deleted. We will show you how to overcome this limitation.

In this article we will show you how to create free network diagrams online without using any custom software. You can use this tool to create other diagrams such as Org Charts, Sitemaps, Flowcharts etc. This tool is no replacement for complex Network Diagram software such as Microsoft Visio or Dia, but it will get you by in a jiffy. It is very easy and online, available to you for free from any machine and from anywhere on the internet. Once you get used to it, you can create complex drawings very easily. The tool even has an Export feature which will let you export your network diagrams and other drawings to other formats such as .png or .jpg. So lets get started!

How many times has it happened that you have deleted a file from your computer and repented after you deleted it from the recycling bin ? In our tutorial about data recovery today, we will show you how you can recover data from your hard drive, camera, Flash Drive, Zip drive, USB drives, SD Card, iphone or itouch using a free software. This software Restores files from removable media (SmartMedia, Secure Digital, Memory Stick, Digital cameras, Floppy disks, Jaz Disks, Sony Memory Sticks, Compact Flash cards, Smart Media Cards, Secure Digital Cards, etc.) and it has a very simple and easy to use point and click interface. It supports Supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, NTFS5 , NTFS + EFS file systems and recovers all types of files, office documents, images, video, music, email, anything. Best of all, it can be run just from a USB stick!

One of the most important pieces of software that needs to go on your computer is your anti virus and anti spyware software. There are a lot to choose from, each claiming superiority over the other. In this article we will walk you through on installing the free anti virus and anti spyware from Microsoft called Microsoft Security Essentials. This is a one stop PC protection against spyware and viruses and have gotten the best reviews recently and is very user friendly and very small on computer resources such as RAM and CPU consumption. Lets get started!

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install VMWare tools in Ubuntu Linux which is running as a virtualized desktop (virtual machine) on VMWare server. VMWare tools, as you might be knowing, greatly enhance your GUI (Graphic Users Interface) experience, when running a virtual machine on VMWare server. If you have VMWare tools installed, you do not need to do a ctrl+alt combination to get control of your mouse or keyboard, it simply glides in and out of your virtual machine without doing that. Our setup involved Ubuntu Linux 9.5 running as a virtual machine on VMWare server 2.0. There are more than one way of installing VMWare tools in a virtual machine, we are taking you through the simplest and easiest method. We assume that you have your Ubuntu virtual machine up and running and that you have your virtual machine console window open.