Dell, HP, Toshiba, Samsung (‘da big boys) are no longer shipping PC’s and laptops with Microsoft Windows 8 stickers. Smaller companies are still using Win8 Certificate of Authenticity (COA) stickers which contain the CD Key you need for resinstalls. Sooooo the question is, how are Dell, HP, Samsung… doing this, […]
I have found that if you try to install Server 2012 on a system with MORE than one hard disk that it will put the SYSTEM PARTITION on one disk and the load the operating system on the disk it is told to. This is not good for a few […]
I was going to write an article on all the crazy Windows performance improvement myths and then I found a great article which I have taken snippets from below (and provide a link to the full article below). The bottom line is this, Microsoft has a lot of massively intelligent […]
Media Center is an awesome app the Microsoft is stripping from the default install of Windows 8. Windows Media Center is not preinstalled in Windows 8 Release Preview. If you want to use Windows Media Center, you need to add it by following these steps: Swipe in from the right […]
Do you need the default username or password for a router, firewall, switch… Below is a list of default passwords I found and cleaned up. If you know of any other default passwords, please add a comment containing that information at the end of this post. Vendor Model Version Access […]
There are several ways to find out what model your motherboard is: Reboot and read the POST screens Reboot and enter the BIOS Look for a sticker or label on the ourside of the case. Dell put “service tag” numbers on all their machines and you can references those on […]
UPDATED: November 2016 If you are confused by SAN, NAS, DAS, iSCSI, FC… and want a simple explanation, then this is the post for you! INTERNAL STORAGE = Disks in the Box The classic. A bunch of disks inside a standard (usually Windows) server, configured in whatever RAID you want. […]
Seagate does not sell a 3TB external drive (as of December 2010) but I needed one. The only other drive today is Western Digitals 3TB but it is slower, and I am not a fan of Western Digital… oh ya, and the Seagate 3TB EXTERNAL was $40 LESS expensive that […]
In addition to several new features like the Social Media pane in Outlook and the use of the fantastic new “Ribbon” on all programs, Office 2010 brought us two completely new versions which are completely free! Office 2010 Starter Edition – FREE: Starter includes only Word and Excel and they […]
NEW HARDWARE & SOFTWARE We sell and support all of the ‘Tier 1’ and ‘Tier 2’ brands. Toshiba, HP, Dell, Samsung, Logitech, Lenovo, Intel, AMD, Colubris, AOC, Kingston, Microsoft, Symantec, Kaspersky, McAfee… HARDWARE REPAIR AND UPGRADE We will […]
HARDWARE & SOFTWARE We have found that most customers are tired of the excuses from ICT vendors… “… it’s the softwares fault” “…it’s Dell’s fault”. Fault is not important when you are having problems… getting it fixed is. We typically take end to end responsibily for anything that plugs into […]