Can I Open The Task Manager Without A Mouse?
You sure can! If you find yourself mouse-less You can pull up the task manager in any Windows version 2000 or better with…
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- Check out this Extended Task Manager for Windows.
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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.
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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 [...]
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 which [...]
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 what [...]
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 now, [...]
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 sequence. [...]
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 mixed [...]
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 hate [...]
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 me [...]
Can I disable the RESTART option after completing windows update? Is there any way to cancel a Reboot?
March 26, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: Question, Tips, Troubleshooting, windows
Posted in Windows Mobile | 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 – not [...]
I cant format my hard drive that has strange partitions on it help!
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 [...]
October 16, 2007 - 2:49 am
or open it the hard way:
1. press the windows key on the keyboard
2. go to “Run” using the arrow keys
3.type “taskmgr” (without the quotes) and hit enter.
:-)
-AG
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October 16, 2007 - 9:12 am
How come I didnt know that???
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October 16, 2007 - 10:16 am
Oh… My… God…
*smacks himself seven times*
-And just so people know, it works in Vista.
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February 9, 2008 - 1:17 pm
I open it using control+shift+delete
what’s the problem with it????
doesn’t it works when you don’t have a mouse?
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February 9, 2008 - 3:06 pm
Better yet, lose the lame Task Manager and pickup System Internals Process Explorer. Then under options check “replace task manager”.
Then when you use the ctrl-shift-esc shortcut Process Explorer opens.
I just detest task manager. It might have been nice on Windows 95 but you think they could have made some improvements since then. System Internals is now owned by Microsoft.
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February 13, 2008 - 3:39 am
You wrote “Windows version 2000 or better”, i think it should be “Windows version 2000 or better & Vista” :P
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