Well, you’ve come to the right place. We’ll change it so in two clicks you can power off your computer.

First off, you’ll notice that the power button currently is brown and when you hover your mouse over it, it tells you that it will put your PC to sleep.

Now, let’s change it:

Click Start and then click in the Search/Run box. Now type POWER OPTIONS like in the picture below and hit ENTER:

The following screen will come up:

Click the “Change Plan Settings” link under the power plan that you have selected.

The following screen will come up. Now click the third option down “Change Advanced Power Settings”

 This is the last screen.

Click the + next to “Power buttons and lid”. Now click the + next to “Start menu power button”. Now click the word “Sleep” or “Hibernate” and it will turn into a dropdown list like below. Click on “Shutdown” then click ‘OK’ at the bottom of the window.

You can confirm that the change worked by hovering your mouse over the Start menu power button. It will now be red in color and will say that it closes all programs and turns off your computer!

 Please leave a comment below! Did this work for you? Have any questions?

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On the ISA server I created two new rules to open the correct ports.

First firewall rule:

I created a Server publishing rule for the inbound connections below, specifying the sftp server IP as the destination:

1. Port 21 TCP
2. Port 990 TCP
3. Port 28000 – 30000 (for PASV traffic)

Second firewall rule:

I created an access rule for the outbound connections below, allowing traffic from the Internal network to the External network:

1. Port 20 TCP
2. Port 989 TCP

Next, make sure to go to the SFTP server and on the SERVERS tab, choose the SITE OPTIONS tab on the right. Check the box for “Assign PASV mode IP Address”. Since you’re behind the ISA firewall which performs NAT translation, you should enter the external address of the SFTP server. The port range is by default 28000 – 30000 (which I left). Note that if you change this entry, the firewall entry (#3 on the first rule above) needs to match whatever you change it to.

Now, if you’ve done your other setup chores already like generating the SSL certificate, etc on the server already, then you should be able to connect. You’ll be prompted on your client to accept the certificate. After you choose “accept” the connection should be established and you’re in business.

Please let me know if this brief how-to helped you by leaving a comment below!

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Here’s the catch: the file you *thought* you deleted, is still actually there until your computer decides to actually overwrite that space. You could potentially have data you deleted months ago still sitting on your hard drive and easily retrievable.

This of course, can be troubling in situations where you are selling your old computer or have very sensitive information you very much want to stay deleted.

There are plenty of companies out there that sell software products that will wipe out that “ghost” data so that it cannot be retrieved. Their products do work, but are not necessary. Microsoft has included in Windows a wonderful little program called Cipher.exe.

When you use this program for the purpose of wiping deleted data, it is absolutely harmless to the data that has NOT been deleted. You need not fear that it will wipe out your good data.

Cipher.exe wipe deleted data in three passes to make it unrecoverable.

What Cipher.exe does is create a text file on your hard drive and starts writing zeros to that file. It will keep on filling up that file with zeros until it fills up all of the empty space on the drive or folder that you’ve specified. As soon as it completes this, it delete’s the file that it’s just made, then creates a new file and starts filling it up with ones. It then will keep writing ones to the file until it fills the drive or folder completely (and thereby overwriting all previously deleted data).

Just as before, when the drive is full, the file is deleted. Lastly, Cipher.exe creates a third file and starts writing random numbers to the file until the drive is filled for a third time. Once the drive is full, the file is deleted and your empty drive space has been wiped. It will be nearly impossible for anyone to retrieve deleted data from your drive after this process has been completed.

The command to run follows:

The Cipher.exe command must be run in a Command (DOS) window. Open a Command window by clicking Start | Run, then type in the Run box: CMD.

cipher /w:driveletter:foldername

So, if you wanted to wipe all deleted data from your C: drive while leaving all of your other data in tact, you would type the following command:

Cipher /w:c:

If you wanted to wipe all of the deleted data in a specific folder like C:temp, the command would be:

Cipher /w:c:temp

Keep in mind that the bigger your hard drive is and the more empty space you have on it, the longer cipher will take to run. Cipher can easily run for several hours. You may consider running it at night before you leave the office or just before bed, if you’re at home so that it can run overnight.

This is what the cipher.exe command will look like while running

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