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One of the things I do all the time in XP, 2000, and 2003 is use the RunAs command. It comes in handy when you are running as a limited user, and need to fire up a process as an administrator. Here is the typical command line sequencec:> Runas /user:intelliadmin\administrator notepad.exeEnter the password for intelliadmin\administrator: […]
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I have an old friend that lives about a mile away from me. We went to elementary school together, and were best of friends until a little after high school…and we drifted as we got busy with our own lives. Well… He still remembers me plunking away on my Commodore 64 back in the day, […]
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I received many positive responses from my blog article about setting the default font in Microsoft Word. I received this question from a reader: Thanks for all the intelliAdmin posts – I enjoy your blog and find it very helpful. I have a question specifically about your post about setting the default Word font. Do […]
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The windows path completion is a great feature. It has been in variants of Unix forever. Here is how it works. You start typing a path at the command line: Then hit the Tab key and it finds the first folder that matches. Keep hitting tab and it will cycle through all of the matches. […]
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Recently I received an email from a reader asking: Steve – found your blog and tool for ms word 2007 compatibility. Do you have any suggestions for changing the default font that is used? The calibri font is the default in 2007, and it does not come with 2003. This can cause issues when a […]
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I have written in the past about the things I do not like about Vista, but the Windows UAC (User Account Control) prompt is not one of them. You may be surprised about that, since most people will list this as their #1 annoyance. I don’t because I know it is only temporary. Many people […]
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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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