Hello Boys and Girls,
It seems other companies aside from Apple are putting their thinking caps on and breaking all kinds of molds. There was a mold. Apple didn’t exactly break the mold for tablets, as shown in this nifty diagram. All they did was scale it up. An overgrown cellphone won’t last very long in [...]
October 15, 2009 - 3:59 am
Tags: How To, Tips, windows
Posted in Questions | 7 comments
Please follow this email chain between myself and our friend Karl AKA ATA.
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ME
Here’s the scenario….
Backed up info off old laptop to external HD.
During XP install I saw two identical drives…nuked the first partition and tried to install. XP said no. Nuked the 2nd one…XP allowed the install. JOY!!!
You know where this is going don’t you…..
Anywho…it [...]
August 4, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: Free, How To, review, Tips, windows
Posted in How To, Reviews | 7 comments
So you don’t want to dole out the big bucks for some fancy smancy cd/dvd authoring suite just to burn cd’s and disk images? Or how about you don’t want the bloat from said suite?
No it’s probably that you are just like me and a big cheapskate when it comes to buying software!
Either which [...]
July 14, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: How To, windows
Posted in How To, Questions | 4 comments
Have you ever wanted to talk to your computer? You know like “Music On” or “Kill Stupid Flanders!“
Well in Windows Vista, you can! And it is as easy as this:
Click the Start menu >> Click Control Panel >> Click Speech Recognition. >> Click Start Speech Recognition >> Now you can tell your computer what [...]
June 24, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: How To, Tips, windows
Posted in Admin's Arsenal, How To | 2 comments
Yes, we know you have taken a million digital photos over the last year, on your fancy shmancy new camera. And we also know the holiday season is almost upon us. Being the geek that you are, you could not just leave your pictures named digital_image_13456.jpg for your slide shows…
We just couldn’t have that now, [...]
May 26, 2009 - 6:41 am
Tags: lookup, startup, windows
Posted in How To, Questions | 2 comments
Tired of your standard Windows Startup and Shutdown tunes?
If you’re like me, you use your Windows-based computer almost every day. The startup and shutdown sounds have just gotten a little boring to be honest. Here are some simple steps to use your favorite voice, music excerpt, or sound for your computer’s start-up and shutdown sequence. [...]
April 13, 2009 - 1:31 am
Tags: Tips, windows
Posted in How To | 2 comments
James from Virginia wanted to know if it was safe to delete these Thumbs.db and .DS_Store files from his network. Check out our answer and step by step removal tips.
Running in a mixed Windows/Mac environment I find it annoying to deal with all the little artifacts the great OS’s leave behind. All of our mixed [...]
April 5, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: How To, Tips, windows shortcuts
Posted in How To | 4 comments
It’s very annoying and counter productive for your hands to leave the keyboard as you use your mouse to click, click, clickity click click away at something.
Join the ranks of power users to add keyboard shortcuts for every computer task you do. Yup Any Task!
Built into Windows is the ability to let you assign a [...]
April 2, 2009 - 12:01 am
Tags: How To, windows
Posted in How To, Questions, Security | 1 comment
By default your windows XP machine shows the Printers and Faxes share along with the Scheduled Tasks folder. You can make use of the scheduled tasks folder like this or use a remote printer share to quickly install a remote printer.
Some people like this, most people don’t use it and a few people REALLY hate [...]
Hello Boys and Girls,
Commodore 64 here to bring you another horror story from binary-land. Lord knows I’ve been through hell and back with computers. Overheating CPUs, which were fixed by the cold of the winter outside my apt; crashing hard drives which were fixed or accessed by various means; faulty power supplies, which had me [...]
I won’t go into the backstory on this, because it would take too long. Basically, the hard drive where Linux and Windows co-exist with a dual boot loader installed will not boot at the moment.
January 16, 2009 - 6:10 am
Unfortunately your method here is a “professional” method. Windows Home edition users are left in the cold here. I wish Microsoft would make one Edition with everything enabled at a reasonable price. That way everything can be done one way rather than requiring a different method depending on your particular flavor.
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Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com Reply:
January 16th, 2009 at 9:47 am
I am with you Credomane! But where are you at with the private files on XP home… Let us help you, help yourself.
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Credomane Reply:
January 16th, 2009 at 9:55 am
I personally don’t have this problem. Was just pointing it out. Wouldn’t have made the comment if I had checked the date of this entry in the first place. Going on 2 years….I simply clicked on the related posts to today’s entry because it caught my attention. I normally use my station (linux) when I run into this problem with users.
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Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com Reply:
January 16th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Gotcha. Well thanks for stopping by. We are always looking for other admins to write for us – let me know if you have any interest.
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Windows King Reply:
January 22nd, 2009 at 10:25 pm
In windows home just go into safe mode and you can take ownership of files there.
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Joe Reply:
January 23rd, 2009 at 9:24 am
Just what I needed thanks WK!
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