If you use Windows, you know about balloons. Every day I get at least one telling me to take a shower or to fall asleep on the edge of a cliff. (my computer hates me) Luckily, I’m the sadist in the relationship. Here is a little registry edit to remove those annoying pop up balloons…
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We have all been there. The user just changed their password and now they can’t remember it. Alzheimer’s Disease is an epidemic where I work. Anyway here is a useful method for recovering a user account password on a Windows 2000/2003 domain.
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We have all been there. Its late at night and you are beat from a day of answering questions and solving problems for your coworkers. All you want to do is watch T.V. and goto bed. Then the phone rings and it is either a family member or friend who just blew up their computer downloading the latest holiday screen saver which wiped out something they need ASAP. For your sake I hope it was a cocktail recipe. Anyway, instead of trying to teach them where the My Computer icon is or the intricacies of regedit over the phone, wouldn’t be easier to take control of their system remotely and just fix it yourself. That way you can get back to your Bay Watch rerun faster. Read on for the definitive guide to remote controlling your PC.
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Here’s a time saving tip for ya… If you are copying a bunch of files in Windows XP and do not want to overwrite any of them, you are usually stuck pressing no, no, no, for every file. The next time you are given the options you […]
You could go around to every PC in your network and delete the local printer that way. Hopefully you don’t have over 10,000 PC’s across the globe cause otherwise you’re about to blow your budget for the remainder of the year. Luckily for you, I found a little script that can run in command line or be written in a bigger script (if you know how) to delete those printers and maybe if you’re lucky, the company will give you a raise for saving them a lot of time and money. (I wouldn’t hold your breath)
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Lets start this post out with a big SIGH. OK, now that’s out of the way, Microsoft has now bought Danger Inc. who manufactures the wildly popular Sidekick mobile phone sold by T-mobile. I have to say that a few years ago I bought a sidekick and thought it was a really cool […]
Lets face it. Some of us are just more visual then others. For example, no matter how many times I write long articles explaining how to do something for my mother she just can’t seem to understand it. Wouldn’t it just be easier to show her? Enter freesceencast.com. Freescreencast.com allows you to quickly and easily […]
I just bought a 17 inch MacBook Pro. The reason I went with the Mac is because apple hardware is the only hardware that can run all three of the major operating system out of the box. In my day to day life I support Linux, Windows, and OSX systems. Even though I have to support three operating systems, I like to try to use the same software stack on each system, to make my life easier. So below is my top five applications that are the same on each OS.
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Here is one to file away in you upcoming cool gadgets file. TvCompass has introduced a Wifi enabled Home Theater Remote control. The Windows CE based device boasts a color screen, wifi capability, built in browser and can control about two dozen devices simultaneously.
The days of entering multiple device codes into your universal […]
Speculation and a leak from Microsoft just a couple weeks ago pointed towards a new M$ operating system to be released sometime in 2009. The new OS currently named Windows 7 has been in the planning stages since the release of Vista. What does this say to the people who unwisely went scurrying to the […]