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 [...]
Did you know that you can add or change the search engine that sits in your upper right corner of your fox browser?
A9
Ask.com
BBC News
Business.com
del.icio.us
ESPN
Expedia
Flickr
Hollywood
IMDB
LinkedIn
Live.com
Lonely Planet
MarketWatch
Merriam-Webster
Technorati
USA Today
Weather Channel
Wikipedia
Yahoo! Answers
Yahooligans
January 28, 2008 - 1:20 am
Try the Firefox Add-on, Add to Search Bar 1.7. Once installed, just right-click in a search field, choose the “Add to Search Bar” option from the context menu, and DONE.
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January 27, 2008 - 8:20 pm
Try the Firefox Add-on, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/36...“>REL=”nofollow”>Add “>https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/36...REL=”nofollow”>Add to Search Bar 1.7. Once installed, just right-click in a search field, choose the “Add to Search Bar” option from the context menu, and DONE.
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January 27, 2008 - 8:20 pm
Try the Firefox Add-on, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/36...“>REL=”nofollow”>Add “>https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/36...REL=”nofollow”>Add to Search Bar 1.7. Once installed, just right-click in a search field, choose the “Add to Search Bar” option from the context menu, and DONE.
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April 19, 2008 - 8:43 am
I added a search link for GoDaddy.com and TigerDirect, since I found myself using them more than a lot of other things. And obviously the Wikipedia one. That's a heavy one for me.
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April 20, 2008 - 11:24 pm
how about my search fund??
You will earn money while you searching.
read this :
http://www.indocontest.com/2008/04/16/how-to-make...“> “>http://www.indocontest.com/2008/04/16/how-to-make...
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April 20, 2008 - 11:24 pm
how about my search fund??
You will earn money while you searching.
read this :
http://www.indocontest.com/2008/04/16/how-to-make...“> “>http://www.indocontest.com/2008/04/16/how-to-make...
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April 21, 2008 - 6:55 am
Do you make that $25 a day spamming the shit out of sites like AtA?
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April 21, 2008 - 9:51 am
very not cool with the spam
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April 21, 2008 - 10:11 am
Easy There Killers!
I'm gone for a day and we are dragging spammers out and killing them eh?
Thanks for waiting for me! So IndoContest are we done spamming or do we need a ban?
Strike One
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January 4, 2009 - 9:48 am
Off topic but who is the girl? Wow!
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Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com Reply:
January 4th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Never off topic! That is the infamous Firefox girl. Google it! :)
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January 6, 2009 - 8:55 pm
People search helps us in many different ways. It helps to find the business people and background checks of the people.A background check can turn up information on credit history, previous address, marriages, criminal records and other information.
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