From the monthly archives:
Many times I need to run away from my computer quickly…but I do not want to leave my computer unlocked. So, yes, I am extremely lazy, well clumsy too. A few times when I am in a rush to CTRL-ALT-DEL I have knocked an entire bottle of water on to my keyboard. I know that […]
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Microsoft has just released Windows SteadyState. It is a free program that allows you to lock down a Windows installation, and make it suitable for use in a public environment. It is actually a major upgrade (So major they renamed it) from an older tool called the Microsoft® Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP. A […]
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I was using a friend’s system and I noticed that the system properties window had a logo, and contact information for the local computer shop. I knew right away there was no way they (The local store) had purchased any special version of Vista to do this, so I looked it up. You can set […]
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HP has said that it is taking pre-orders on Monday for its MediaSmart server. This is the first manufacturer to offer the new Windows Home Server operating system. MediaSmart will be shiped later this month. It is priced at US$599 with 500GB of storage, or $749 with a terabyte of disk space. A few months […]
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I don’t know if it is a bug in IE, or if my Nephews are playing a game with me. Suddenly over the weekend I started to get prompted for the parental controls password Hmm. I do not know the password…since I never set one. If I try to turn it off or modify it […]
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I was using Outlook 2003 over the last few weeks, and I started to notice that my terrible spelling and typos were getting past me. It seems that the auto-correct feature was simply not working After thinking about it I realized that I had installed Service pack 3 for office recently…so I did a search […]
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I was browsing through the utilities at www.sysinternals.com, and I came across this neat little utility: BGInfo.exe What does it do? It writes a bunch of current system stats such as memory, CPU, IP address, hostname, etc to the desktop bitmap. This can be a huge time saver when you are working on lots of […]
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