I came across a great article today from Cnet about a hidden feature in Windows 7 to enable a single access place for all the control panels in Windows 7. It appearently works in Vista as well, but I use 7 so I haven’t tested it in Vista. In order to enable this GodMode, create […]
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I was watching something rather funny today, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUawhjxLS2I&feature=player_embedded I will admit, it’s pretty geeky, but I am a geek, so I liked it. Today I was working on a clients computer with a strange problem. It had a 80GB hard disk, and very few applications installed on it but the disk was almost full. What was even stranger, was the data was being stored on the server. As this was a very old Windows XP machine, I thought […] During this Thanksgiving week, I was having a discussion with a friend of mine on the future of software and pricing. Somehow, during the conversation, a website came up I had not seen before, called Giveaway of the Day, at http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ . It is rather interesting, as it allows you to download full versions of […] The latest hotfix package from Microsoft of Office 2007 set of core packages. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976730 Today I installed an application on my HTC phone which is running Windows Mobile 6.1; in order to use the application correctly, I needed to use Internet Explorer as my broswer. My phone comes default with Internet Explorer and Oprah browser installed, however Oprah is the default browser. After searching all over the phone to […] I had to do an upgrade of Windows Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Enterprise today. While I made the attempt to upgrade this OS, I got an error message that you can’t do this type of upgrade. I am not saying that the Microsoft license legally allows this, but in this perticular case the original […] Today I was working on a really nasty virus that got onto a Windows XP machine, bypassing the Symantec Anti-Virus program and installing a root kit as well. Once installed, it owned the machine, blocking any removal tools from running in safe mode or regular mode. What a nightmare. My thought was to use a […] Today we had a client that had files that were stored on the CSC cache because of sync issues, and they needed to be recovered. I had previously used the CSC tool, but as the last time I used it, you had to call Microsoft to get an updated version. After doing some searching, I […] I was reading about the new feature in Windows 7 called Easy Connect, which is part of remote assistance. A good way to test your home router, is by using this tool from Microsoft, at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/using/tools/igd/default.mspx Pretty cool! |
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