From the category archives:
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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We all have been there. It is 4:55 and you want to get out of work…But you want to make sure your system is shutdown for the night. You dutifully close all of your applications and start shutting down 5 minutes later it *finally* powers off It happens to more machines that it should. I […]
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A while back we published an article about disabling USB drives. It included a little program that would make the registry change for you. We took it one step further this week. We just released our free remote USB disabler. It only disables storage devices. USB Mice, keyboards, scanners will still work fine when this […]
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We have just put the finishing touches on the new version of Remote Reboot. It is a free utility that lets you reboot, shutdown, or logoff machines remotely. The update we made in this version was some better support for older NT4 machines, and the ability to force a logoff on a remote machine We […]
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I keep reading articles like this. They are totally off base. Steve Jobs and Apple have done a great job of fooling everyone. Matt Hartley of OSWeekly makes the argument that it would be a great idea for Apple to allow OSX on PCs – just for good publicity. He goes on to say that […]
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