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 [...]
November 18, 2007 - 12:47 am
I noticed there is no search available at ATA… can you have a searchable database? That would be hugely helpful!
Anyway, about the disable restart tip.. Cool tip!
I know how to stop the restart pop up by manually going in to:
Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > Administrative Tools > Services, and shutting down the “Automatic Updates” service to prevent my computer from annoyingly reminding me (yeah, yeah).
But I didn’t know I could configur that!
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November 18, 2007 - 12:59 am
@Kedar – There is most definitely a search box for AtA. It is the uppermost left corner of the site next to the Blogger logo – this searches our site only.
Give it a go and you won’t be sorry… It will give you first hand access to all our articles in a searchable database.
Thanks for reading!
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November 18, 2007 - 1:53 am
Right! Sorry Karl.. I had missed that…
Good work ATA! Very cool!
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November 18, 2007 - 8:21 pm
“gpedit.msc” does not appear to be a file on my computer. Is there another way to access this setting?
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November 18, 2007 - 8:28 pm
@Steve – yes. goto start run type mmc.
then add a new console called group policy follow the steps above from there.
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March 27, 2009 - 1:02 am
Great tutorial!
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March 29, 2009 - 12:42 am
@Steve: If you still don’t have the ability to see the Group Policy Manager after Karl’s instructions, then you may have XP Home edition, which I don’t believes offers access to gpedit.msc
@MJ: The default option to install and reboot the computer is at 3am. So, if your computer asks you to begin rebooting around lunch time, it is possible that your IT person has set your computer to do this. If this is the case, then you will not be able to change this via Group Policy. However, Kedar’s response to stop the “Automatic Updates” service will still work as long as you are an administrator on your computer. However, if your IT person is the one who set your computer to do this, talk to him/her and ask them to help you out. I personally have set up different reboot policies for some people at work because they had legitimate reasons, and so your IT person may be able to do the same.
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Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com Reply:
March 29th, 2009 at 5:57 am
Spoken like a true admin Aakash! Where are you from?
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Aakash Shah Reply:
March 29th, 2009 at 6:20 am
Hey Karl! I’m from sunny (usually) California :)
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Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com Reply:
March 29th, 2009 at 8:19 am
Thanks for stopping by and giving your admin’s 2 cents :)
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