Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, Windows 8 and more How Tos
Windows Vista / 7 /8 / 10 and Office 2007 through 2016 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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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. Read more…
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 Read more…
Wow, there is a lot of misinformation out there. Here is how I did slipstreamed Service Pack 1 into Windows 7 (and this should be the same process for Server 2008 R2). These instructions require you to have WAIK – Windows Automated Install Kit, which you can get HERE. PREWORK Read more…
Windows Server 2008, R2, SBS 2008, R2 and SBS 2011 do not install the indexing service by default so you end up with very slow searches and errors / alerts that look like: and your desktop searches from Windows 7 and Vista, of network shares will be very slow. You Read more…
New CPU’s have between 4MB and 8MB of Cache Memory on them and that is all that Windows 95 required to run (and you did not even need a CD rom): System requirements for installing Windows 95: 4 megabytes (MB) of memory (8 MB recommended) 386DX or higher processor (486 Read more…
If you look at your “DISK 0” in DISK MANAGEMENT on Windows 7 you will see a hidden 100MB NTFS partition. This partition is created early in Windows 7 installation process and it contains Boot Loader and system tools. The idea being that if the partition you are using for data Read more…
I recently completed a Lunch & Learn on how to EASILY take any number of still photos / graphics and add it to video clips to make a single video using just FREE Microsoft software. The primary tool is Windows Live Movie Maker 2011 and this course covers: preparation adding Read more…
Originally, this post was titled: “If you are planning on putting a couple of SSD drives in a RAID 1 (Mirror), don’t.” but after many more hours of calls to Intel and pages of reading I can safely say: “If you are planning on putting a couple of SSD drives Read more…