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With the increased number of virus outbreaks lately, I wanted to find out what shares were open on my network. After some digging, I found a free tool from SysInternals that can give you a detailed report of all the shares and printers across your network. It is called ShareEnum, and you can download it […]
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I came across a cool site, it is called Ninite: http://ninite.com/ It has been a huge time saver for me. I had a dozen or so machines I had to setup for a friend over the weekend. Using this utility I cut down my time by creating one setup file with most of the applications […]
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As promised, IntelliAdmin Enterprise Remote Control Beta 1 is now available for download. For those of you in a hurry, here are bookmarks that will allow you to jump to the information you want Description Instructions Pricing Download Links Bug Reports Description What is it? It is a remote administration solution that allows you to […]
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Back in 2007, I wrote an article about an error that you get in Outlook when you have too many attachments of the same name: Even Outlook 2010 has this problem. In the article, I walk you through deleting these files by hand. It is not an easy thing to do. You need to open […]
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One of the problems with a stand alone remote control product like ours, is that many times it is difficult to get to the machine you are trying to control. Why is that? If every machine that you needed to support was sitting on your local network, it would be simple to reach them all. […]
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If you have ever had to reload your system, then you know the pain of trying to find all of your drivers. I ran across a free tool called “Driver Backup” It allows you to backup all of your current drivers, and it will even generate a special install script that you can run to […]
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I got a question from Mark last week: “Steve, I was wondering if you could add a plugin to Network Administrator that would disable control panel access. I know it is not the best way to keep people out, but it would save me a lot of headaches” Actually, I have gotten a few requests […]
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Even with the huge amount of space that I have, I am always running out. When that happens I start digging. Usually I wait through this: If you have more than just a few folders, it can be a huge waste of time. I ran across a free tool from Microsoft called “Disk Usage” You […]
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I was not a big fan of the new start menu in Windows 7, and Vista. Especially since Microsoft made it impossible to switch back. Over time I grew to like it. What about those users who aren’t on the computer every day? Many of them have a hard enough time just getting the computer […]
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A friend of mine forgot his password for his Windows 7 computer, and needed to get back into it. I remembered years ago when I was working as a contractor, there was a little Linux utility that would allow you to boot from a floppy and reset windows passwords Lucky for him, that utility is […]
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