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Windows Client: Win 7 & 8…  // Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, Windows 8 and more How Tos

SOLVED: How to Work With a Different Language In Windows and Office

Windows Vista / 7 /8 and Office 2007/2010 have the capacity to work in languages other than English to accommodate your customers needs. Sometimes, just writing THANK YOU in a clients/vendors local language will show you appreciate them and may advance our relationship.  Other times we need more precise translations and more serious options. There are at ...

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VIDEO: Windows 8 User Interface by Microsoft

This Windows 8 video previews / leaks the personalized tiles START screen, thumbs touch / thumbs type ergonmic keyboard At June 1, 2011 — in the D9 Conference, Microsoft demonstrated the next generation of Windows, internally code-named “Windows 8,” for the first time. A Windows 8-based PC is really a new kind of device, one ...

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Windows 8 Looks Impressive But May Be Too Different For Businesses To Embrace

6/3/2011 6:00:00 AMBy: Tony  Bradley …Microsoft held its first major unveiling of what’s in  store with Windows 8 at the D9 conference this week. Windows 8 looks bold.  It looks slick. It looks impressively innovative. But, it also looks like it  will be a major battle to convince business users to embrace it. To be ...

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10 Rules For Being a Great IT Contractor Or Employee

It doesn’t matter how you are paid; staff, contractor, agency… you customer will look to you for reliability and that means you need to be more than good, you need to be great. These are the rules I live by and judge others by.  It you want to be a quality IT IS ICT Computer ...

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How to Deploy The Current Version of Adobe Flash using Group Policy in Active Directory

This one is easy: Download the correct version of  flash from Adobes offline flash installer site http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/fp_distribution3.html Copy the .MSI to a location on the network which all PC’s can see Start GROUP POLICY MANAGMENT CONSOLE and right click on the appropriate OU (or the domain root) and select CREATE A GPO IN THIS DOMAIN AND ...

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How To Deploy Oracle/Sun Java Silently In a Corporate Environment with Group Policy in Active Directory OR Using a Script

After watching THIS video explaining that in 2010, Java was the most exploited product, I decided we need to update our Java to the current version. We came up with two ways to deploy Java; one through a group policy (GP) in Active Directory (AD), two, through a script with minimal user interaction. PREWORK: Download the ...

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Everything I Know About Windows Remote Assistance, Easy Assist and PNRP (Peer Name Resolution Protocol)

I was trying to set up the Windows Remote Assistance tool (built into Windows 7) so that I could remotely control a users desktop and they could watch what I was doing.  I got this to function in about 2 minutes at my house but could not get it to function on an corporate network.  ...

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SOLVED: Fatal Error C0000034 During Service Pack 1 Install on Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2

If you see the error C34 (below) on Win7 when installing SP1 there is no need to panic: What you need to do is tell Windows to install Service Pack 1 by itself and what that means, is you need to tell it NOT to install other updates at the same time as SP1.  Fortunately ...

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Free Security Software – Updated This Week – AntiVirus, RootKit Cleaner

Kaspersky TDSSKiller 2.5.0.0 was updated this week and is a popular free tool that will enable you to detect and remove an installed rootkit. Complements your existing security software. Talking of security software, Comodo Internet Security 5.4 was updated this week, along with Comodo Firewall 5.4 and Comodo Antivirus 5.4. SUPERAntiSpyware 4.52 Free was updated, ...

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SOLVED: How to Slipstream / Inject IE9 Internet Explorer 9 Into an Existing .WIM or RTM Version of Windows 7

Unlike SP1 for Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9 is relatively easy to add to an offline image through command line: Please ignor the line wrap on some of these commands.  It is is bold, it is all one statement. Download your version OS’s Version of IE 9 HERE. Create a folder named c:\temp\ie9 Create a folder ...

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