The Multimonitor support in windows is great. It is perfect for development – one screen for debugging, the other for the application. Better yet it is nice to have one monitor for television in Media Center, and the other for work. Multiple monitor support has been there since Windows 2000, but Microsoft added some really […]
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I have the latest version of XP Tablet edition. The thing is…I never use the software keyboard that pops up on login. I only switch to use my pen when I want to scratch out an idea, or write a journal entry. I never use it while logging in so there is no need for […]
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Applications that are number intensive – such as Excel, Financial, or Banking software make heavy use of the numeric keypad. When you are crunching numbers you need to eek every bit of performance out of the computer that you can. I find that number crunchers have the numlock key on 24/7 – and they get […]
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Many times when using windows, your recent documents list gets loaded up with documents you don’t want people to see: You can tell windows to clear it every time you logoff. You will need to fire up regedit and browse to this key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Add a dword value named ClearRecentDocsOnExit and set it to 1 […]
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A Windows 2003 domain controller comes out of the box with numerous default settings. The 15 day password reminder is one of them, and can be really annoying. Who wants to spend the next two weeks clicking NO every time they login? Group policy can be used to change this to a more reasonable setting. […]
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Sometimes it can be hard to pick a secure password. Dictionary words, and pet names usually come to mind, but are not secure. A good password will have numbers, letters, and special characters. Windows XP has a hidden feature that will generate a password, and set it at the same time. Get to a command […]
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Sometimes when I have a kiosk, or demo machine I want the windows session to be generic as possible. This includes the name that is sprawled across the top of the start menu. Especially when I am making a video of a demo I don’t want my name all over it. Unfortunately Microsoft did not […]
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Another zero day flaw for word has been found in the wild. Microsoft has reported that they have seen it exploited in a very limited and targeted basis. It is a different flaw than the one reported last week that affects almost every version of Word. Microsoft has stated that in their initial investigation they […]
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Adobe announced today the release of Acrobat Reader 8. The release comes in at a whopping 27 MB. One of the most annoying ‘features’ of the previous versions is the broken automatic update. It usually pops up at the worst time…and many times locks up the application. Better yet, it can be so confusing that […]
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Dell announced a new line of their Poweredge servers, the Power Smart models 1950, and 2950 that are supposed to be 25% more power efficient than their standard counterparts. This follows their launch of the Optiplex power saving desktop computers back in September. The servers will only take up 40 watts of power compared to […]
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