When service pack 2 came out for Windows XP, I was surprised with the following message when trying to launch applications from the desktop: It is the result of Microsoft trying to protect users from malicious programs. The message will appear for any shortcut or executable that is hosted on a network share. The maddening […]
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We just polished off a new version of IntelliAdmin Lan Edition. If you have never tried it before it’s a program that lets you remote control computers across your network. Download Trial The big feature of this product is that it can control machines on your LAN – without installing a thing. Usually when you […]
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Stopping and starting services within windows is quite easy. From the command line you can simply type: net stop to stop a service or net start to start a service Or even easier, open the service manager by clicking on start, run and then type ‘services.msc’ and click OK A complete list of services is […]
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It always happens to me. I am working as fast as I can to get something done for the day. I start to print. Behold – Windows has the genius to tell me that yes. YES! It is printing. Um. Yes I did know that it was printing – since I started the print job. […]
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The Windows XP Welcome screen. Pretty pictures for each user account. What a nice thought on Microsoft’s part. The only trouble is – I want to create an administrator account, and not have others tempted to try getting into it while they are on my computer. When windows XP is not joined to a domain, […]
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Yesterday I posted an article about improving boot times. My first tip was about deleting the prefetch folder, and modifying the prefetch registry key to improve boot time. Over and over I have seen posted on the net how this is a myth. In fact – at this moment an article is on the front […]
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Most of us have had a brand new computer at one time. It’s a great feeling. You boot up windows and within 30 seconds you are surfing the net, checking your email, or playing your favorite game. 10 months down the road things aren’t so nice anymore. You power up your computer and it seems […]
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As Promised we have created two more free utlities. The first one is our CD Rom disabler. It allows you to enable or disable CD Rom devices on any Windows 2000/XP/2003 machines You can download it from here For those of you who want to remotely disable or enable CD rom devices on your network […]
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Yesterday we had a nice article about disabling your floppy drive. We just released another application along that same vein. Remote Floppy Disabler. It is a good companion to our USB disabler, and Remote USB Disabler programs. Just like all of the previous utilities it does not require any install, DLL, or .net runtimes. Download […]
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We had a popular article a while back on disabling USB drives. We have had a request for doing the same with floppy drives. There is a simple registry change that will keep the floppy drivers from starting when the system boots. If you want to change it yourself As always – back your system […]
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