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
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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
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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 [...]
Hit or Miss? Do you guys want more tips like this or other stuff?
June 18, 2007 - 5:31 pm
That’s a great tip, I use it all the time.
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June 18, 2007 - 11:50 pm
Also a great little freeware proggie for windows called MWSnap, with all kinds of very easily accessible features.
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June 19, 2007 - 9:38 am
And also, if you’re running OS X:
Command-Shift-4 does the same thing, and also saves the image to your desktop for easy attachment to e-mails. For windows with rounded borders, the little bits of desktop that would be visible at the corners is automatically removed.
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October 30, 2007 - 12:33 pm
I remember that Alt-PrintScreen works in Windows 3.1 too. Anyone remember that?
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October 30, 2007 - 1:53 pm
There was a print screen button on my keyboard – on my 8088? I dont think so but I am going to look! Thanks Ray!
You are truly old skool :)
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October 30, 2007 - 4:43 pm
The CEO (or your admin) probably won’t appreciate a lot of shots like this because the files are too big.
Instead – Do the Alt-Print Screen thing then…
1. Click Start, All Programs, Accessories, Paint
2. In Paintbrush, click Edit, Paste
3. Once your picture is displayed, click File, Save As
4. Type a file name (eg: C:\temp\Picture.jpg) and set the Save as Type box to read JPEG (*.JPG;*.JPEG;*.JPE;*.JFIF)
If you attach your file to email then, it will be a lot smaller.
The difference is about 2.25MB versus 197K for a 1024×768 screen.
Paintbrush versions earlier than XP (2000?) won’t let you save as JPEG, so if you’re using an older version of windows, consider getting a freeware paint program.
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October 30, 2007 - 6:47 pm
@Gavin I have been pasting directly into outlook 2007 and the emails are under 300k. Hmmm maybe there is some sort of built in compression
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October 30, 2007 - 7:56 pm
I know about the built in stuff, but I personally like Irfanview. It’s a free image viewer with all kinds of extra goodies built in, including quite a few ways to grab screenshots.
You can have whole desktop, foreground window or foreground window client area only. It will leave out the mouse cursor if you want, you can have it capture on a user definable hotkey or after a given number of seconds. You can save to a specific location or bring it up in the Irfanview window so you can hand crop, resize, rotate, futz with the colours etc. before saving.
And that’s only a bit of what it can do.
Shane
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Chris Reply:
March 21st, 2009 at 5:26 am
Screenhunter 5.0 (what I use) sounds similar… the main thing I like is that it also has an option to just capture a rectangle that you draw on the screen. No editing options in the free version tho :(
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AskTheAdmin Reply:
March 21st, 2009 at 7:47 am
I will have to check it out. Sounds like you have lots of tools in your kit Chris. If you ever want to write for AtA reviewing progies like this let me know.
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Chris Reply:
March 21st, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Certainly! I’m pretty busy during the school year between my day job and trying to run my blog and a few sites, but I’d love to contribute during vacations and such.
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Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com Reply:
March 22nd, 2009 at 6:08 am
That’s great Chris. Send me an email to info at asktheadmin dot com and we will take it from there.
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October 30, 2007 - 8:23 pm
Sorry, 8088 can’t run Windows 3.1, so you can’t try the difference between PrintScreen and Alt-PrintScreen on that.
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October 30, 2007 - 8:26 pm
For delivering the information on the screenshot, I’ll prefer saving the file as GIF instead of JPG, which JPG is designed for photos with continuous change of colour.
I’ve tried that at work before and the result is quite good.
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October 30, 2007 - 11:27 pm
Thanks everyone that is some good stuff
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November 20, 2007 - 4:44 pm
What a perfect tip! Simple, no extra software to add. Brilliant!
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March 21, 2009 - 2:27 pm
Try Snippy:
http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/
It runs right from the exe and is free.
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