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
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 [...]
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
Posted in How To | 4 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 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 [...]
August 23, 2008 - 11:29 am
I think the Alt + Space Bar is a great tool! Thank you for showing us that. The only problem I’m having is with the M to move the window. I get the Move crossbar, but it does nothing. No matter where I placed it on the window or the portion of the toolbar I could see (I used my IE window), it wouldn’t move. I didn’t want to resize the window; I wanted to move it, but it wouldn’t work. Any ideas? I ended up having to change my screen resolution to something really large to get at the top of the IE window so I could drag it back down (which is another solution you could write about, I suppose).
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Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com Reply:
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:50 am
You can use the keyboard arrow keys or the mouse once you activate the move cross hairs.
Thanks for the tip!
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Joe N. Reply:
November 23rd, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Thank you it was driving me crazy but you saved me….worked like a charm.
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Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com Reply:
November 25th, 2008 at 5:17 am
Glad to help Joe! Thanks for reading.
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October 3, 2008 - 5:28 am
Right-clicking app on taskbar (if it is present there) also gives same menu.
Unfortunately some windows simply lack that part at all – getting them on screen is way more tricky. :)
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October 14, 2008 - 1:38 pm
I am in a program (Legal files) which has other windows inside it. One of those windows has moved so that I cannot see it’s top taskbar to move it back. When I do Alt and Spacebar, the menu pops up in the upper left corner of the actual not program, and not the hidden window.
help?
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December 5, 2008 - 7:10 pm
what if the window is completely off the screen?
my IM window moved somehow and it shows up on the taskbar. it will maximize but when i restore it it just dissappears again
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January 13, 2009 - 9:04 am
I was working in word and must have hit something. Now when I maximize my word document it won’t maximize the whole screen. There is about two inches at the top showing my desktop and the bottom part of Word where the drawing tools is can’t be seen. Any words of wisdom?
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NinjaAdmin Reply:
January 13th, 2009 at 10:38 am
What version of word are you using?
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March 17, 2010 - 3:38 pm
2 things:
(1) Sometimes the window is way, way off the screen and a lot of holding down an arrow key is required. If the Alt-Space, menu appears in the top right (for example) press the Down arrow for a while, press Enter and do again. If the Alt-Space, menu is still top right do again and again and again until it moves to the bottom. Then go up (and maybe down again) until the menu appears at the right. Then just press the left arrow until the window appears (you can’t miss this one). Mine took minutes.
(2) There is no such thing as “suppose to”. The words are “supposed to”. This comes from illiterate people who only hear english but don’t read it or even speak it correctly. Pet peeve of mine. That and “could of” (it’s “could’ve” people for “could of” as in I could’ve screamed when I read it). Come on people, let’s support the language.
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Karl Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com Reply:
March 17th, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Thanks for the comment John but where did you see the words “suppose to” in this article?
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