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 [...]
If you ever find yourself in a situation where you accidentally deleted the Show Desktop icon from your quick launch bar, or you had an end loser…errr…user do this, then this quick tip is for you.
October 9, 2007 - 5:14 pm
I haven’t used that icon in years. Not since I figured out that pressing
WindowKey + M
does the same thing.
That’s what I teach all my users too.
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October 9, 2007 - 8:50 pm
Thanks Gavin! Some end users need something to click on! But I will be posting that one for our more advanced users – very helpful.
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October 12, 2008 - 10:38 am
Are tips like these really necessary? I love this site, but am tired of seeing tips that can easily be found using a simple google search.
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El Di Pablo Reply:
October 12th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Well, if you think about it yes they are necessary. If nobody wrote these quick tips, how would you find them in Google?
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Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com Reply:
October 12th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
First of all thanks for reading.
Bill – what type of articles would you rather see on a website geared toward helping users with computer related issues?
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Bill Reply:
October 12th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
I’m an admin so maybe that’s why I don’t like these kind of tips as they seem so simple to me. I just think sometimes this site gets confused on whether or not it’s geared toward users or admins themselves. Over the past couple months it seems most articles are being directed more toward users so I have been checking this site with less frequency. You’re doing an awesome job with this site…I just think you should stick to one target audience, whether that be users or admins.
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Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com Reply:
October 13th, 2008 at 5:04 am
Hey Bill AtA started out as a site for users and it has slowly evolved into what it is today. A mix of both and about equal at that. We will be breaking it up into different feeds and categories in the coming month so you can get your admin side on from AtA and end users can still benefit from Q & A’s as well.
Hope you stick around and let me know what you want to see more of!
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December 22, 2009 - 1:38 pm
Dzieki za ciekawe informacje
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