class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/google_authenticator.jpg" alt="Google authenticator" />Most savvy Internet users probably have at one at least Google account – mainly because Google, for good or bad, crosses paths with so many other websites that it’s hard to avoid not using the services and apps it has to offer. If you use your Google sign-in ID for multiple websites, and/or sign into Google Mail from public or shared computers, you should definitely make sure the account is secure. To better protect your account, Google offers a 2-step verification process designed for your Gmail account. If you haven’t already been requested to use it, here is how it works.

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Google says this optional verification procedure is designed to “protect your account even it’s stolen or cracked.” To get started, follow the instructions href="http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=1056283&topic=1056285">here, or sign into your Google account > Settings page, and under Security, click “Using 2-Step verification”. It is best to start the process on a computer you use on a regular basis so that you can also authenticate that computer as part of the process. The verification will be remembered on your computer for 30 days. You will also need a landline or mobile phone to receive a text message or phone call for the verification code.

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If you’re a Android, BlackBerry, or iPhone user, you can also download a Google Authenticator app which saves you the trouble of doing the authentication process by computer and SMS message. For extra measure, Google also advises that you print backup verification codes in case your phone is lost or stolen.

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class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ChangeDefaultPassword01.png" alt="how to password protect computer" border="0" />Protecting your computer with a password should be common practice, especially if many people potentially have physical access to it. Windows provides several levels on which you can set passwords to lock your user account. This article will introduce you to all common options and hopefully one will work for you.

Before we even start with password protecting your computer, please make sure you understand how to create a strong password. Here are a few articles to help you out:

• title="5 Free Password Generators For Nearly Unhackable Passwords" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-websites-to-generate-a-safe-and-strong-password/">5 Free Password Generators For Nearly Unhackable Passwords
• title="How To Create A Good Password That You Will Not Forget" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/create-strong-password-forget/">How To Create A Good Password That You Will Not Forget
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If you believe you have a reasonably good password, you may want to title="Put Your Passwords Through The Crack Test With These Five Password Strength Tools" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/put-passwords-crack-test-password-strength-tools/">put it through the crack test.

Set Windows User Account / Logon Password

Now I admit setting a Windows password is not very creative, but this is a method worth mentioning nevertheless. Why? Not only will this password be required when the computer is booted, you can also protect an active session in many different ways.

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To set an account password in Windows 7, go to your User Accounts via the Control Panel and ‘change’ your password. Moreover, you should make sure a password is set to title="3 Default Passwords You Must Change & Why" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-default-passwords-change/">protect your Administrator account.

Note that a Windows logon password is a very weak defense since it is rather easy to crack, as outlined in these articles:

• title="3 Ways to Reset Forgotten Windows Administrator Password" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-ways-to-reset-the-forgotten-windows-administrator-password/">3 Ways to Reset Forgotten Windows Administrator Password
• title="5 Tips To Reset The Administrator Password in Windows XP" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-tips-to-help-you-reset-a-forgotten-windows-xp-password/">5 Tips To Reset The Administrator Password in Windows XP

Lock Active Session

Clicking the [Windows]+[L] keyboard shortcut will lock your active Windows session. To get back to your desktop requires the Windows password.

For a more ‘transparent’ desktop lock, check out title="ClearLock" href="http://www.swanrivercomputers.com/programs/clearlock">ClearLock, which was reviewed in title="ClearLock – A Cool Transparent Desktop Lock For Windows" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/clearlock-cool-transparent-desktop-lock-windows/">this article.

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Enable Wakeup Password

Do you use Hibernate or Sleep? Enable a password on wakeup in your title="Windows 7 Power Options And Sleep Modes Explained" href="Windows 7 Power Options And Sleep Modes Explained">Power Plan’s advanced power settings.

Search and open > Power Plan from the Windows 7 start menu, then click > Change plan settings on your present Power Plan, click > Change advanced power settings in the bottom left. Expand the first item within the Power Options advanced settings and select > Yes. Click > OK and > Save changes.

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Enable Screen Saver Password

To set a password when returning to the desktop from the screensaver, right-click your desktop and select > Personalize. Click on > Screen Saver in the bottom right. In the Screen Saver Settings check the box next to > On resume, display login screen. Click > Apply or > OK to save changes.

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Password-Free Lock Options

If you’re not keen on using passwords, but do want to lock your computer, have a look at these alternative methods:

• title="Two Unique Ways To Log Into Your Windows Computer Without Typing A Password" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/unique-ways-log-windows-computer-typing-password/">Two Unique Ways To Log Into Your Windows Computer Without Typing A Password
• title="Lock Your Computer with Bluetooth Proximity Lock Utility" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/lock-windows-computer-bluetooth-proximity-lock-utility/">Lock Your Computer with Bluetooth Proximity Lock Utility
• title="3 Ways To Lock Your Keyboard & Mouse And Keep Your Computer Safe From Unwanted Guests [Windows]" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-ways-lock-keyboard-mouse-computer-safe-unwanted-guests-windows/">3 Ways To Lock Your Keyboard & Mouse And Keep Your Computer Safe From Unwanted Guests

Conclusion

There are many ways and places to set passwords. They will certainly keep the average user from accessing your computer and getting hold of your data. However, as mentioned above, it’s possible to hack, crack, or circumvent passwords and often this is an easy task for an experienced user. The following articles highlight this dilemma:

• title="Ophcrack – A Password Hack Tool to Crack Almost Any Windows Password" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/hack-windows-passwords-with-ophcrack/">Ophcrack – A Password Hack Tool to Crack Almost Any Windows Password
• title="How To View Passwords Hidden Behind Asterisk Characters" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-recover-passwords-from-asterisk-characters/">How To View Passwords Hidden Behind Asterisk Characters
• title="6 Free Password Recovery Tools for Windows" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-free-password-recovery-tools-for-windows/">6 Free Password Recovery Tools for Windows

Rather than depending on a single password, be sure to secure your data in many different ways and consider to title="TrueCrypt" href="http://www.truecrypt.org/">encrypt your confidential and sensitive data.

Do you even bother settings standard Windows passwords? Do you use any alternative or creative methods of securing your computer?

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class="align-left" style="border: 0px none; margin-left: 20px; margin-top: 5px; float: right;" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/2011-02-03_1804.png" alt="someone else accessing my facebook account" width="250" height="184" />What’s the number one issue people have with Facebook? That’s right, privacy. Ever since there’s been a Facebook, people have been voicing their privacy concerns about it, and we’ve been there every step of the way. Over the past year, we’ve given you 16 steps ( href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/8-steps-to-regain-control-of-your-facebook-privacy-part-1/">8 here, href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/8-more-steps-to-regain-control-of-your-facebook-privacy/">8 there) to regain control of your Facebook privacy, taught you how to href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/secure-facebook-settings-easy/">secure your settings, given you href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/protect-privacy-facebook/">tips to protect your privacy, introduced you to apps like href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/control-facebook-privacy-privacydefender/">PrivacyDefender, and shown you how to tweak your href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/handle-facebook-places-security-settings/">Facebook Places security settings. And after all that, we finally broke down and wrote an href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/download-unofficial-facebook-privacy-guide/">Unofficial Facebook Privacy Guide.

So what’s the problem now? Nothing, technically. In fact, Facebook has recently given us a way to see if someone else has been accessing our Facebook accounts (without our permission). Is that something you’d be interested in? Follow me.

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What Does This Mean For Me?

Have you ever suspected that someone else was logging into your Facebook account? It’s not a good feeling, mostly because it would drive you crazy if you were unable to prove it. Whether you have an easy password to guess (like the word “password”) or you accidentally left your login information saved on a public computer somewhere, it would be reassuring to be able to check whether or not anyone has been signing in under your name.

Sure, you could always change your password, but lets face it, you aren’t going to do that unless you absolutely have to – unless your password really is the word “password”, in which you should change it immediately (I’m serious). I don’t blame you, but there has to be another way of uncovering suspicious activity on your account.

The feature I’m about to show you is a nice little security setting built into Facebook that will help you quickly detect if anybody else has been secretly logging into and using your Facebook account.

Where Are These Security Features?

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There’s a good chance you know exactly where I’m taking you, but your settings should look a little different this time since the last time you’ve visited.

On your My Account page, scroll down to where it says Account Security and click the change link.

Now you should see a list of all computers (and mobile devices) that have logged into your Facebook account, their location, and when this happened. Rather than an IP address, it displays the approximate geographic location of the device, which is based on the device’s IP.

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If you come across an unknown or suspicious device in your list, just click “end activity” on the device and you will automatically be logged out of that machine.

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Also, if you would like to add an extra layer of protection on your account, you can enable email/SMS alerts for when someone else tries to log into your account from a previously unknown computer or mobile phone. Features like one-time passwords and secure browsing using the HTTPS protocol are also at your disposal.

Would you like to see all of these advanced security features in action? Check out this YouTube video if you’re seeking further explanation:

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Conclusion

I think this is a pretty solid move by Facebook. If you didn’t know these security features were there you may be pleased to find the added level of security that’s there for you to enable. One interesting aspect of this is what you do if you confirm a suspicious machine has been logging into your account and you think it’s someone you know? I’ll leave the creativity up to you, but you could theoretically let it slide, enable alerts, and then catch them in the act the next time it happens. Or something like that.

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class="align-left" style="border: 0px none; margin-left: 20px; margin-top: 5px; float: right;" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/YPulse.jpg" alt="facebook on yahoo" width="300" height="48" />Whether or not you’ve heard the news, if you have a Yahoo account then you’ve probably noticed subtle differences in many of the screens where your contacts and your status updates are managed.

In December 2009, Yahoo Mail was integrated with Facebook. These days, if you’re a Yahoo user, you’ll discover connections to Facebook all throughout Yahoo. This goes beyond simple share buttons. You can now import all of your Facebook contact information and birthdays into your Yahoo contacts list, you can update your status from your Yahoo status box, and you can even import your profile picture from Facebook.

id="more-57104"> /> In this article, I’m going to show you the four areas of Yahoo where you’ll notice the clearest integration with Facebook and how you can make use of those connections.

Accessing Facebook From Yahoo Mail

Yahoo Mail was the very first area of Yahoo that become integrated with your Facebook account. You can be certain the purpose for doing this was so that Yahoo users could import all of their Facebook contacts into their Yahoo contact list.

The first thing you’ll notice once you’ve signed into your Facebook account from Yahoo, is that when you access your Ymail main page, the center pane shows all of the latest status updates from both Yahoo and Facebook.

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The display defaults to use both, but if you want, you can click on the Facebook tab and only see all of your friends Facebook status updates. By default, your Yahoo and Facebook contact lists are separate. Yahoo apparently respects your privacy enough not to automatically import all of your Facebook contact details into your Yahoo contact list. However, you can do this by clicking on “Contacts” inside Yahoo Mail.

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Clicking on “Get Started” will walk you through the process of bringing in all of the data from your Facebook contacts and integrating them into your Yahoo contact list. Once you’ve “plugged in” your Facebook account, your contact information on Yahoo will remain updated with all of the latest contact information.

Another cool integration between Facebook and Yahoo Mail is that whenever you receive an email message from a contact that Yahoo recognizes as one of your Facebook friends, you’ll see a little “F” Facebook icon on the corner of their profile image.

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If you click that icon, it’ll whisk you immediately to that person’s Facebook page.

Other Yahoo Integration With Facebook

Since December 2009, Yahoo has been hard at work integrating Facebook features into the rest of the website as well. So long as you’ve enabled the Facebook connection with your Yahoo account, you’ll discover Facebook access almost anywhere.

One very convenient integration I noticed was from the main Yahoo page. So long as you’re logged in, under “My Favorites” you’ll find “Facebook” listed. If you click on the “Quickview” link, a minimized view of Facebook pops up within your main Yahoo page.

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The coolest thing about this is that you can immediately check out your Facebook page straight from your Yahoo main page, without going to a different website or opening a new window. The quickview screen works just as though you’re at the Facebook site itself. Click on any of the tabs at the top and the content will change within the quickview screen.

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Now, if you’ve ever used any of the social network desktop or online apps that integrate all of your social networks like class="vt-p" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/twitterers-you-should-be-using-seesmic-desktop/">Seesmic or class="vt-p" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-reasons-digsbys-a-must-have-im-client/">Digsby, you’ll see that Yahoo is actually attempting to accomplish the same goal. If you click on the “Have something to share?” link on your main Yahoo page, you’ll see that under the dropdown box, you can choose to distribute your status update to your Facebook account by selecting the box.

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You’ll see this especially when you visit Yahoo Pulse. Here, it’s pretty obvious that Yahoo is really trying to become the central hub where Yahoo users access all of their social networks. In fact the Yahoo Pulse page mirrors the Facebook layout in a lot of ways, with the status update at the top, friend updates from your various networks in the center, and even friend connections and “applications” on the right, just like in Facebook.

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style="text-align: left;">As you can see from the screenshot above, Yahoo also offers the ability to plug into your Twitter account so you can send and receive updates from your Yahoo account as well.

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Yahoo Pulse is also where you’ll go into your profile to extract your Facebook photo for use as your Yahoo avatar. Finally – no more silly cartoon character for a profile!

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Here is a simple tutorial you can use to gain access to the SYSTEM account, which is basically a superadministrator account. With access to the SYSTEM account you can change Administrator passwords and using the Group Policy Editor you can lock the Administrator out of tasks completely. I have only tested this on Windows XP. There is no guarantee that this will work on any other operating system. Here is a step by step tutorial to gain access to the system account: 1. Click on Start, go to Run and type cmd.exe. 2. On the command prompt that opens, type “at (time) /interactive cmd.exe” (without quotes. the time field can be any time you want but I recommend 1-2 minutes into the future so that you do not have long to wait. For example, if the current time is 9:10 PM you would type “at 21:21 /interactive cmd.exe” without quotes into the command prompt. It must be done in 24 hour time, or else it will not work) 3. Wait for the new command prompt to open. When it does, press CRTL+ALT+DELETE. 4. In Task Manager, go to the Processes tab and end the explorer.exe process (the Windows shell). 5. Close out of Task Manager and exit the 1st command prompt you opened, being careful not to exit out of the new one. 6. In the new Command Prompt type “cd ..” without quotes. 7. In the Command Prompt type “explorer.exe” without quotes. 8. The Windows shell should start. It may set up your desktop and documents folders. When it is finished you will have access to the SYSTEM account. Have fun …

What is Windows XP Administrator Account Password?

Windows XP Operation system (both Professional and Home versions) have a “hidden” administrator account. Its default password is blank. In order to avoid serious security problems and protect your computer better, it is best to set a strong password for this account on your computer. To do that, follow these instructions:

  Turn off your computer completely. Wait 30 seconds, then restart it. When your computer manufacturer’s logo appears on the screen (Compaq, HP, Dell, etc.), start pressing the F8 key on your keyboard. If you’ve done this correctly, a text menu will appear. Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to select “Safe Mode,” then hit Enter.

  The next text menu will present you with an operating system selection. In most cases, you will only see “Microsoft Windows XP“. Make sure this is highlighted, then hit Enter.

  When Safe Mode has loaded, you should be presented with the Welcome screen. Select “Administrator.”  with your Mouse.

  While loading the Administrator account, you will be presented with a warning message. Click the OK button to running it safe mode.

  Open the Start menu, then click on Control Panel.

  In the Control Panel, double click the User Accounts icon.

  The User Accounts screen will list all user accounts that are present on your machine. Take note that you will likely have one for Administrator, and another one (that you named when setting up your computer initially). Select the Administrator user account.

  In the Administrator user account settings screen, click on the link for “Create a password.”

  In the password creation screen, fill out the requested blanks When you’re finished, hit the Create Password button.

  You may be asked if you want to make this account’s files private. Click either Yes or No (depending on your preference, I suggest No), then click Finish.

  You should be returned to the User Accounts window. Close window XP, then restart your computer normally (not need to press F8 now) .

NOTE: Make sure that you add account passwords on ALL of your computer’s accounts.

If you forgot Windows XP Login Password, Click here to find out how to reset it.

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This video is for educational purposes to demonstrate the need for strong passwords.

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E-mail has largely replaced letters and notes of previous centuries. Billions of e-mail messages circle the globe, which have greetings, news, jokes, even condolences every day. Windows 7 makes it easier. In case, you have not sent an email in past, this article might help you in composing and setup email rules sending your mail.

Follow these steps to Setup e-mail account:

1. Firstly, click Compose Mail in the upper-left area of the Gmail page. Now the Compose Mail form appears. The from field displays your Gmail address. Now press the Tab key on your keyboard or click in the field to move from one field to the next on any Web form, such as the Compose Mail form.

2. Now type an e-mail address you intend to write to in the To field. Now just the e-mail address and don’t type the person’s name here. Gmail may show e-mail addresses for you to use along with that person’s name if you have written other e-mail.

You can add a comma () after the first e-mail address and type another if you want to send the same e-mail to more than one person at a time. Now, you need to click Add Cc which stands for courtesy copy if you want to send this message to other recipients. Next, click Add Bcc which stands for blind courtesy copy if you want to add a recipient address that other recipients won’t see.

3. Now type a subject line which is something short but declarative in the Subject field.

4. Type your e-mail in the message area. Avoid using all capital letters, which some people may interpret as shouting. You don’t need to press Enter every time at the end of lines within a paragraph. The cursor automatically goes to the next line of the paragraph as your words reach the end of a line.

5. If you want to change the text writing, and then select the text you want to modify and click any of these tools in the toolbar which is above the message area:

• B changes the text bold (darker). If you want to remove the bold from selected text then click the B icon a second time.

• I changes text to italics and a second click to I icon removes italics from the selected text.

• To underline the selected text click U.

6. You can end your message with your name or initials and for this you can add signature to your e-mail and now click the Send button when you are ready with the e-mail message.

7. If you want to see the e-mail you have sent then click the Sent Mail link on the left or click the All Mail link for e-mail sent or received.

You can also compose an e-mail to send later. Gmail automatically saves your e-mail in the Drafts folder as you start writing a mail. You can also click the Save Now button to create a draft. After that you need to click on the Drafts link on the left and click on the e-mail you started earlier.