How can I identify my mainboard without opening the case?
I’ll keep this short and sweet. If you’re re-installing your OS, and need to know the motherboard model number, to grab the drivers online, check out CPU-Z. It beats opening your PC case and trying to find that tiny number hidden amongst the cables and drives :).
Is this the new I-Pad killer? Lenovo Ideapad Hybrid – Why didn’t Apple think of this?
February 15, 2010 - 9:33 am
Tags: hardware, hybrid, lenovo, review, tablet, touchscreen, windows
Posted in General, Reviews | 1 comment
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 [...]
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. ————————————— 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
November 27, 2007 - 2:57 pm
I use http://www.ma-config.com/StartDetection-1-1.html
The firt time you go on this site, you have to install an ActiveX. After that, the site scan your computer and display all your devices (mainboard infos too).
Very useful ;)
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November 27, 2007 - 3:13 pm
Great this is just what i needed!!!!
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November 27, 2007 - 9:57 am
I use The “>http://www.ma-config.com/StartDetection-1-1.html
The “>The “>http://www.ma-config.com/StartDetection-1-1.html
The firt time you go on this site, you have to install an ActiveX. After that, the site scan your computer and display all your devices (mainboard infos too).
Very useful ;)
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November 27, 2007 - 9:57 am
I use The “>http://www.ma-config.com/StartDetection-1-1.html
The “>The “>http://www.ma-config.com/StartDetection-1-1.html
The firt time you go on this site, you have to install an ActiveX. After that, the site scan your computer and display all your devices (mainboard infos too).
Very useful ;)
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November 27, 2007 - 10:13 am
Great this is just what i needed!!!!
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November 27, 2007 - 4:30 pm
Astroman, while it may be useful, I am always weary of installing ActiveX controls onto a business machine. At least with CPU-Z I can run it from my USB key, or from a network share and not have to worry about removing the ActiveX afterwards. Another thing to remember is that many mainboards have integrated NICs, so you might not be able to browse the internet until you’ve actually installed the drivers.
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November 27, 2007 - 9:56 pm
im with Phil if I dont have to install it thats great
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November 27, 2007 - 4:56 pm
im with Phil if I dont have to install it thats great
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