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A Tale of Two Admins.
about 2 years ago - 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!
about 2 years ago - 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…
I have hundres of files to rename help me Admin!
about 2 years ago - 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…
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?
about 2 years ago - 3 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.
about 2 years ago - 8 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 disable the RESTART option after completing windows update? Is there any way to cancel a Reboot?
about 2 years ago - 10 comments
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 –…
How to make a quick transparent image for your website using Photoshop – A quick How-To for beginners
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
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…
Windows Tip: Access The Windows Security Window In a Remote Desktop Connection (Control-Alt-Delete Doesn’t Work)
about 3 years ago - 3 comments
I get asked all the time how the hell do I bring up the security box (control + alt + delete) in a remote desktop session and here is the answer: To use Control + Alt + Delete in a Remote Desktop Connection terminal, use Ctrl + Alt + End instead. I tested it and…
Is there an easy way to copy a file or folder path in Vista?
about 3 years ago - 6 comments
Brought Back Up Top By Popular Demand… Have you ever wanted to copy the path of a file located deep in your hard drive’s under belly (that you call a hard drive structure)? We are pretty sure you have one time or another, seeming that you are here at AskTheAdmin.com reading this article… We previously…
How can I resize windows that are stubborn?
about 3 years ago - 3 comments
Adam Pash covered this tiny app on LifeHacker a while back. This Resizeable goodness is ever so cleverly called resizeenable and it lets you resize system windows that you normally could not. You guys always seem to find what I am looking for before I’m looking for it! Thanks LifeHacker… Some of you may wonder…

