There is always one application…yes one application that you use all the time, and can’t afford to have it down for one minute during the day. This same application is buggy and always has problems if it keeps running day after day. You need to reboot once in a while. Yes, and this means you […]
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I ran across this a few weeks ago while trying to image one of my systems. If you have a Seagate, or a Maxtor hard drive you can download a free copy of Acronis True image. If you have not used it before. Acronis is an excellent imaging software for Windows. It blows Norton Ghost […]
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I had a user ask me this week: “Steve, I always save my attachments in a download folder on my computer. Unfortunately Microsoft Outlook always defaults to ‘My Documents’, and I can’t see any way to change this. Do you have any idea how to change the default download folder?” This is correct. There is […]
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I have a backup log that I create every night…on three different servers. They are all separated by many miles across the Internet. I wanted to find an easy way to send them all to one central location, but at the same time I did not want to have any extra software to do it. […]
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Not sure if you have needed it before, but if you work with lots of 2003 Server machines you will find yourself using the recovery console at least once. It essentially is a command line prompt that allows you to perform tasks on a system that cannot boot. Getting to the recovery console is not […]
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I have started to collect a list of links for information about Windows 2008. If you are thinking about deploying Windows 2008 on your network these may be helpful to you. -Windows 2008 Server Product information page: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=90853 This includes links to get access to the latest Beta of Windows 2008 -A document describing changes […]
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I was looking at some of the latest security updates from Microsoft and I came across this one: MS07-049: Vulnerability in Virtual PC and Virtual Server that could allow privilege elevation Here is an excerpt of the KB article (Emphasis is mine): This important security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability. This is an elevation […]
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If you don’t know what I mean by “Auto complete” it is the feature in Outlook that finishes what you are typing. For example, when I am about to type out an address in the “To” field of an email it will show me a list of matches as I type: Unfortuantely these addresses are […]
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I was working on a friend’s system last night I was having problems activating it. First of all the Windows Activation icon was totally missing, and second it never would pop up and ask me if I wanted to activate windows. If I looked into the event log I could see errors that windows needed […]
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I have been playing around with the open source utility TrueCrypt. What is it? It is encryption software that can: -Create a virtual disk within a file and mount it as an actual drive letter -Encrypt an entire hard disk partition or a storage device such as USB flash drive. -Provide encryption that is real […]
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