Are Vista’s annoying ARE YOUR SURE prompts getting you down? Well turn them off!!
This goes against Microsoft’s Better judgment but these pop up boxes are killing me softly:
Turn these warnings off by going to the control panel and type USER ACCOUNT into the search field and you will see Turn UAC On/Off. That is the simple button that has been causing me to hate vista for the last few days or so as i was testing some new software on it.
Turn it off and then navigate over to control panel security center to turn off the annoying red X next to the time. This is alerting you that you have done something to compromise system security… yadi yadi yada…
Pick that last option and your red X goes away… Now obviously I don’t recommend you do this on everyone’s PC but from an ADMIN’s standpoint when I am making changes on my machines YES I AM SURE!… Its not like one of the settings is TERMINATE LIFE SUPPORT or something like that… Yes Hal I’m coming…
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Is this the new I-Pad killer? Lenovo Ideapad Hybrid – Why didn’t Apple think of this?
February 15, 2010 - 9:33 am
Tags: hardware, hybrid, lenovo, review, tablet, touchscreen, windows
Posted in General, Reviews | 1 comment
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 [...]
A Tale of Two Admins.
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. ————————————— 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 [...]
Hey Cheapskate, Burn ISOs for free on any Windows Platform!
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 [...]
How can I use Speech Recognition in Windows Vista?
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 [...]
I have hundres of files to rename help me Admin!
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 [...]
4 Simple Steps to Change Your Computer Sounds
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 [...]
What are Thumbs.db and .DS_Store files? Can I delete them? Do I need them and how can i make them stop coming back?
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 [...]
Windows Quick Tip: Set up keyboard shortcuts for your most used icons.
April 5, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: How To, Tips, windows shortcuts
Posted in How To | 5 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 [...]
Can I hide the Sceduled Tasks and Printers Folders in the Network view?
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 [...]
Last night Ubuntu saved my life – How I used Ubuntu to recover ALL my files…
March 30, 2009 - 4:41 am
Tags: backup, Troubleshooting, Ubuntu, windows
Posted in How To, Linux, Reviews | 8 comments
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 [...]
January 23, 2009 - 8:34 pm
For the past few month, when I start up the computer, I get a small window “Solution Center”, It says “The feature you are trying to use is on a CD Rom or removable disc that is not available. Insert the Solution Center disc and click OK.”
How do I get rid of this annoying thing
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Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com Reply:
January 25th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Can you give me some more information? SP? Installed software?
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