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 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 [...]
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 [...]
July 24, 2008 - 7:42 am
wouldn't the event log spell that out?
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July 24, 2008 - 8:06 am
if you go into a command prompt and type "systeminfo" towards the top of the information is actual update, not the date of last reboot, it'll display how long it has been!
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July 24, 2008 - 8:44 am
I tried both the "net statistics workstation" and the "systeminfo" commands, but the windows that came up only stayed there for about one second and then disappeared – certainly too fast for me to read! How do I get the window to stay?
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July 24, 2008 - 9:29 am
First go to the command prompt by going to start run and typing in CMD. Then at the dos prompt type in your “net statistics workstation” minus the quotes of course.
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July 24, 2008 - 9:34 am
Thanks CJ! this method takes about 30 seconds more than net statistics workstation. @Norcross – not in plain English! You would have to go decipher it.
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July 24, 2008 - 6:35 pm
I use bginfo on all my servers, that way I know which machine I'm logged into. It can tell you all kinds of good stuff about the machine at a glance. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/b...“> “>http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/b...
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July 24, 2008 - 6:35 pm
I use bginfo on all my servers, that way I know which machine I'm logged into. It can tell you all kinds of good stuff about the machine at a glance. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/b...“> “>http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/b...
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July 24, 2008 - 8:50 pm
Anybody know an equivalent Unix command for that?
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July 25, 2008 - 7:29 am
For *NIX try 'uptime', for the Win32 equivalent, go here (this is a Microsoft link) http://download.microsoft.com/download/winntsrv40...“> “>http://download.microsoft.com/download/winntsrv40... Try 'uptime /a' on your system to get a nice set of information.
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July 25, 2008 - 7:29 am
For *NIX try 'uptime', for the Win32 equivalent, go here (this is a Microsoft link) http://download.microsoft.com/download/winntsrv40...“> “>http://download.microsoft.com/download/winntsrv40... Try 'uptime /a' on your system to get a nice set of information.
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July 25, 2008 - 7:56 am
Many of the times listed in event logs are in the WMI time format (why they decided to use this format in the event logs I'll never know), here is a VBScript Function to convert them to a more easily readable format: <CODE> strDate = InputBox("Enter the WMI timestamp here") wscript.echo WMITimestampConvert(strDate) '#————————————————————————– '# FUNCTION…….: WMITimestampConvert() '# PURPOSE……..: Converts WMI Timestamps to a more friendly format. '# ARGUMENTS……: dtmInstallDate = The WMI timestamp to convert. '# EXAMPLE……..: strDate = InputBox("Enter the WMI timestamp here") '# wscript.echo WMITimestampConvert(strDate) '# REQUIREMENTS…: Tested on Win2k, XP, WS2003. Should work on Vista and '# WS2008. '# NOTES……….: In the example above, if you enter the WMI timestamp '# 20011120042924.000000+000 the script will return: '# 11/20/2001 4:29:24 AM (this is un UTC time, the offset '# would be different (unless you are in the UTC time '# zone). '#————————————————————————– Function WMITimestampConvert(dtmInstallDate) WMITimestampConvert = CDate(Mid(dtmInstallDate, 5, 2) & "/" &_ Mid(dtmInstallDate, 7, 2) & "/" & Left(dtmInstallDate, 4) &_ " " & Mid (dtmInstallDate, 9, 2) & ":" &_ Mid(dtmInstallDate, 11, 2) & ":" & Mid(dtmInstallDate, 13, 2)) End Function </CODE>
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July 29, 2008 - 6:20 am
That’s awesome Joe! Thanks!
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August 18, 2008 - 9:17 am
To check the uptime on my servers I use psinfo (from the PS Tools suite).
If you type psinfo \\servername , the output will display:(excerpt)
C:\PSTOOLS>psinfo \\servername
PsInfo v1.73 – Local and remote system information viewer
Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals – http://www.sysinternals.com
System information for \\servername
Uptime: 5 days 5 hours 19 minutes 42 seconds
Kernel version: Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Uniprocessor Free
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