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, [...]
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 [...]
MJ writes to us that her machine runs updates around lunch time and she keeps getting the prompt do you want to restart now?
Not only is it annoying – sometimes she clicks yes by accident and her whole world comes crashing down. (See the fix for this at the bottom of the post – not [...]
March 25, 2009 - 12:05 am
Tags: How To, windows
Posted in How To, Questions | 8 comments
If you have a hard drive of unknown origins there are times when you just can’t format it using the normal methods like an OS’s installer or Windows built in Disk Configuration Utility. NTFS’s good old security tries to do you dirty as well. It can be a real pain in the ass.
But AtA has [...]
Hey Kiddies,
Commodore 64 here with a quick how-to for Photoshop. Have you ever downloaded an image you’d like to use on your website but it was sandwiched on top of some ghastly color which totally doesn’t fit with your “flow”? Well here is a quick, no-frills, way to a transparent image that you can set [...]
I picked this question for the Question of the day for tomorrow. Post your answers in the comments. Can someone help Susie from California? She says she is blond and lost her password. I think she is trying to get at her husbands browsing history… Whatever she needs AskTheAdmin’s help and that is what she is going to get…
June 19, 2007 - 7:23 pm
Are you kidding me? that is horrible your Susie gives us women administators a bad name.
Cold boot enter bios and reset the password. dont let it get to windows boot screen.
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June 19, 2007 - 7:34 pm
I’m pretty sure she needs to either remove the cmos battery for a few seconds, or needs to use the cmos reset jumper on the motherboard to clear cmos and get rid of the password.
To michele…If there is a bios password she will not be able to get in there to change the password.
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June 19, 2007 - 7:37 pm
Wow we are very pleased with your skill and speed el di pablo…
Any interest in a guest blogging spot?
Hit me up at info at mistercomputerhead dot com
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June 19, 2007 - 8:04 pm
IBM Thinkpads have the ability to yank out the bios battery. Cold booting to the bios wont matter, you need to disconnect the battery.
Go to http://www.ibm.com/support and find your machine type, hint: it’s on the bottom of the laptop, and try to find battery removal instructions.
Might take a bit of searching, don’t get frustrated, but the information is there.
Best of luck.
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June 19, 2007 - 8:20 pm
Slothman that is the best advice of all. Both points.
Google is the admins best friend (right up there with the command line!)
And Dont get fustrated. Walk away count to ten smoke drink do something productive… whatever just dont let yourself get to the point you are pulling your hair out your head becuase you will do more damage then good.
Its better to take a fiver or sleep on it if its an option which we all know sometimes its not.
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June 19, 2007 - 8:28 pm
A’ight Slothman then next questions up…
And Michele i just went back and read your comment… and whoooah
Please we arent looking to jump down peoples throats especially with the wrong answer. We have a laid back enviroment here where we all want to help out. So participate but dont jump down any elses throat. Remember there are no dumb questions, just people who dont know how to google.
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June 19, 2007 - 8:53 pm
I got the instruction to get the battery out and have reset the password. Google and Asktheadmin are great. thanxxx
btw the blonde comment was suposed to be a joke
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June 19, 2007 - 8:59 pm
Case Closed Point El Di Pablo! Sorry Susie didnt thank you. But we do!
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January 10, 2009 - 1:15 pm
hi
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good luck
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