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I don’t know about you, but those little bubbles that Microsoft displays to inform you about ‘important’ things are starting to drive me crazy. ‘You have unused icons on your desktop’ ‘You have updates waiting to be loaded’ ‘What the hell you looking down here for?’ etc etc I am just tired of it, and […]
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The system restore tool that is bundled within Windows XP is priceless. Numerous times I have helped myself or others get their system back to a working state by restoring to a previous image. To restore to a previous state just click on Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> System Restore […]
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Microsoft, in its attempt to battle the rootkit problem in the 64 bit version of windows, is requiring all drivers to be digitally signed. This single move will destroy the availability of any free device drivers. Individual developers are unlikely to obtain the $500 certificate needed to sign a driver. It does make things more […]
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Sometimes Windows gets so cloged up you just have to call it quits and reformat the entire hard drive. Starting from scratch is nice since you know all of the baddy spyware, trojans, and rootkits are not going to lurk in the background and come back to haunt you a few days later. The biggest […]
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Quietly, Microsoft changed the way its search feature within windows works. In windows 95, 98, ME, NT and 2000 you could search for text within any file on the system. Without notice XP, and 2003 now only search ‘registered’ file types. There are only a handful of these types. Microsoft does not make it clear […]
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Many times when I start working at a new customer I find a few copies of XP that have a pirated serial number, or the same number used over and over. Right from the start I make sure the customer purchases the proper licensing from Microsoft – It only takes one call from an angry […]
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Our remote control software, IntelliAdmin 2006, does not allow access to Windows XP machines that have been updated to SP2. This is because SP2 effectively disables file and printer sharing – a feature that IntelliAdmin uses to automatically install remote control software. Even if you are not using our program, a modified version of this […]
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How to enable file and printer sharing on XP SP2 If you haven’t figured out by now, we sell remote control software for windows. The cool part about it is that you do not even need to go to the remote computer and install an agent to control it. When Microsoft released Service Pack 2, […]
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For a long time now we have used DNS CNAME for our servers. CNAME stands for canonical name. It is an alias for another host name. In our case we have two servers. Their names have been changed to protect the innocent. Lets say they are called iserver1, and iserver2. We constantly replicate all of […]
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Looks like it is now common knowledge that there are two more vulnerabilities in the image preview feature of windows. It was posted here way before the major press had started to cover it. Turn off the image preview feature now – until Microsoft finds a good fix for this bug Check out our Windows […]
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