January 5, 2010 - 10:51 am
Tags: General
Posted in Admin's Arsenal, How To, Questions | 19 comments
I know the feeling of your secure network being compromised by an end user… Passwords do fall into the wrong hands and then what do you do? Scenarios start running through my head and I make a mental list of all the passwords and system configs that need to be changed. These aren’t fun times [...]
January 3, 2010 - 12:52 am
Tags: General
Posted in Questions | 18 comments
You know the saying, “You can’t have too much RAM or too much storage.”
Well, there is at least one case where a lot of RAM can cause problems.
My current desktop had 1 Gig of RAM and I recently bought an additional 2 Gigs since the price was so low. (And of course I used [...]
October 26, 2009 - 6:30 am
Tags: General
Posted in How To | 9 comments
As avid Windows users you have seen how applications add right click menu options. For instance Mcafee antiVirus adds a shortcut to Scan For Threats in the selected folder or Resco’s options to encrypt or de-crypt a folder.
Now you want to add useful right click options for yourself and AtA is here to show you [...]
October 15, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: General
Posted in Admin's Arsenal, How To, Tips/Tricks | 5 comments
Everyone knows your friendly neighborhood admin is all about shortcut keys and uber productivity.
I don’t know how I never found this one before… Check it out you have your quick launch buttons displayed next to your start menu for easy access.
By default you have Show Desktop, IE and whatever other applications you installed. Now you [...]
August 11, 2009 - 12:52 am
Tags: General
Posted in How To, Reviews | 15 comments
We have used many different retail programs to recover accidentally or maliciously deleted files off of our PC, Digital Camera or Mobile device. We have tried a few free ones and they bring us back to the old saying… You get whatcha pay for! As such we never really covered the topic here on Ata, [...]
July 30, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: General
Posted in Reviews | 10 comments
We have reviewed Crucial Memory in the past here when we gave away a 2gb memory module to one of our readers. So we were happy to plug them again when Jenny from San Fransisco wrote us asking:
Yo Admin can you tell me what kind of memory is in my PC without me having to [...]
July 24, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: General
Posted in Admin's Arsenal, Free Download | 6 comments
Do you hate looking for and downloading drivers on every re-format?
Well if you can get to your desktop you should be able to run Double Driver and copy your drivers off your machine to a USB stick and then restore them right back into your fresh clean formatted system! We covered something a little while [...]
June 1, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: General
Posted in How To | No comments
So are you wondering why you would want to save your searches?
Think about it… How would you like the ability to dynamically find the items you need with a saved search? So the boss called and said – I need all the purchase orders less than a months old and tagged Smith?
How about Power Point [...]
April 16, 2009 - 7:56 am
Tags: General
Posted in How To, Questions | 5 comments
This morning we had a request for adding a “High Priority Folder”.
This would be a top level folder that shows up on your Windows desktop and in My Computer. Didn’t think you could do that? Well read on…
The folder we will be creating can not be removed – just like My Computer or My Documents. [...]
I had the pleasure of attempting to migrate a print server this weekend. I mean I had to figure out a quick and efficient way to install the 70 some odd printers on a new server. I was not going to be doing this manually that was for shit sure! I had some junior admins [...]
July 13, 2007 - 8:21 pm
I first saw Word 2007 over a year ago.
I swear to god I will never install it.
Word is in my opinion something that MS got right. Word 97 was PERFECT. Not too much, not too little…just right. 2000 was good, 2003 meh…{shrug}
2007, with the Ribbon…WASTE. All they have done is pissed off a user base and caused more help desk issues and training classes to be paid for….hmmmm…wonder why they did that again….
Corel’s Wordperfect on the other hand does it right. They don’t make mediocre software. The lastest Wordperfect adds new functionality all the time, yet retains the ability to reskin the application to act like ANY previous release of WP back to 5!!! Anyone remember the blue screened word where you essentially had to code your files??? Good times.
MS needs to allow for a reskin of Word to a more functional, user friendly interface then the ribbon.
Also…the ribbon takes up screen real estate….
Microsoft just simply does not get it. When they are putting lipstick on the pig, it does not justify a new release. Keep it simple, stupid.
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July 13, 2007 - 8:24 pm
I hate 2007 but our office is going to it nothing i can do but learn it. i installed it last week and the stupid ribbon sucks.
the links were exactly what i needed.
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July 13, 2007 - 8:31 pm
RTFM! ROTFL We used word 97 Mr Slothman since about 98. We just got 2007 it is awful. the license lets us use it with 2003 – backwards compatibility or something i think and we can install it on a laptop AND a desktop. what do you know about that.office97 for life/
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July 13, 2007 - 4:24 pm
I hate 2007 but our office is going to it nothing i can do but learn it. i installed it last week and the stupid ribbon sucks.
the links were exactly what i needed.
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July 13, 2007 - 4:31 pm
RTFM! ROTFL We used word 97 Mr Slothman since about 98. We just got 2007 it is awful. the license lets us use it with 2003 – backwards compatibility or something i think and we can install it on a laptop AND a desktop. what do you know about that.office97 for life/
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February 12, 2008 - 8:10 am
I absolutely abhor the horrible interface in Office 2007. I will never, ever use it, no matter what.
If Jesus came down from the heavens and commanded me to use it, I’d pee on him.
I use AbiWord now, and it is so much better.
What was Microsoft thinking with that horrible interface?
-Mike
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