Posts tagged computer tips
An oldie but a goodie! Experts Exchange for More FREE (and paid) tips
Mar 29th
I love using Experts Exchange: an online forum to find technical information that is usually buried elsewhere. I have never purchased a login from them and have a free account. If you search they will sometimes give you an answer without paying, but as soon as you click a link BANG pay up.
Check out this site:
http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2005/12/how-to-get-free-technical-support-for.html
All the content is good but the last comment did it for me. Use Google to search for your query and then view the cached page from google! Voila! Free information galore.
Thanks GeeksAreSexy!
They certainly are…
-=AskTheAdmiN=-
Dude can you help me with my wifi connection
Mar 21st
Our question today comes from Terrence:
Welcome to the blog-o-sphere dude can you help me with my wifi connection? It keeps dropping my access point and connecting to another one and then i can not get to my printer or files. it is windows xp home service pack 2.
Terrence it’s easy: you need to hover your mouse over the wifi icon near the time.
Click “view available wireless networks.”
Then click “change order of prefered networks”
Then click “remove” on any you dont want to connect to and uncheck the box that says “connect to non prefered networks.”
Its checked by default!
Good Luck!
_TheWifiAdmiN_
Clean install workaround for Vista upgrade discovered
Mar 18th
Thanks Gizmodo!
Well, it looks like those hoping to do a clean install of Windows Vista with an upgrade-only edition of the OS may not be entirely out of luck after all, although they’ll still have to jump through a few hoops to get it done. According to Daily Tech, you can get around that pesky requirement to have Windows XP or Windows 2000 already installed on your PC by instead using the upgrade DVD to first install a 30-day trial version of Vista –that’s done simply by not entering the product key when prompted to do so during the installation. Once you’ve got the trial version of Vista up and running, you simply start the installation process all over again from within Vista, this time entering the product key when prompted. After that’s done, you should be staring at cleanly-installed, fully-functioning version of Vista, not once having set foot in Windows XP or 2000. As Daily Tech points out, this seems to suggest that any Vista upgrade DVD can function as a full retail copy of Vista, although it would also seem to be something that Microsoft could put the kibosh on pretty quickly, so you may not want to lose sight of that copy of your old OS just yet.
–TheAdmin–
How to remote control a machine without opening ports vs. opening ports
Sep 27th
So you want to remote control your machine or your friend’s machine over the network or the internet?
If you have no control over the network where the machine is located that you want to control, you will need to use a service like gotomeeting.com. This will allow you to remote control a machine via port 80, but you will need to install some software and have someone on the other end to accept.
If you can open port 3389 tcp on your firewall inbound or you are on the same network as the computer you want to control, then you can use Microsoft’s remote desktop client. All you need to do is right click on my computer on the computer you want to connect to. Then you choose remote on the top tab and make sure the check box is selected next to “allow users to connect remotely to this machine.” Administrator should be enabled by default but feel free to add whatever users you would like.
Now go to start, run and type MSTSC.exe (Windows XP) and this will open the remote desktop connection box. Now if the machine is on your network you can type in either its name or local ip address. If it is on the internet you will need to know its external IP address. this can be found by going to www.whatismyip.com from the machine you want to connect to.
After you make the connection it is as if you are sitting right in front of the machine. Amazing!
_TheRemoteAdmin_
How to reset your (or someone else’s) password on most Windows Operating Systems.
Sep 27th
This is an oldie and a goodie. Using NT Offline Password and Registry Editor from http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/. This small boot floppy or cd is fantastic and I have been using it for many years to reset peoples forgotten local passwords on laptops and even to gain admin access of Windows XP.
After you create your Boot Floppy or Boot CD you are ready to restart your machine with the disk in the drive. If your machine does not automatically boot to the disk you may need to adjust your BIOS settings (if you can).
For most users you can hit the enter key for the defaults… Password Reset… Edit user data and passwords…
Now you will have a list of users to change… If you select the default it is the administrator. Change the password to * this will blank it out. Save your changes then reboot.
Log into windows with the administrator account and a blank password! If you see the home logon screen with no icon for the administrator simply click control alt delete and type in your credentials!
Voila!
_ThePasswordCrackingAdmin_
