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If you work at a company with a more than a few computers, you are probably familiar with Terminal Services or Remote Desktop Connections. This is a way to connect to computers (workstations/desktops/servers) from another computer and control them as if you are in front of them. With Windows XP, Vista, and 7, the consumer …
NetWrix is a company that makes utilities for comporate network management. Most of the utilities have to do with Active Directory. You may not have to worry about this if you just look after your computer at home, but if you do look after some computers on a network, then there might be some here …
One of the blogs I follow is the Workers’ Edge blog by Dennis O’Reiley of CNET News. Dennis offers “tips and tricks for the cubicle-dweller”. I don’t work in a cubicle, but I do appreciate some of the productivity software tips he gives. A couple of the most useful Outlook tips were: Remove the attachments …
I’m still a pretty big Windows XP fan. I like the look and feel of it, and it does what I need it to do with minimal interruption. However, that doesn’t mean it is perfect. Here is an older PC World article that shares a list of features that would be good to have: Some …
Recently at work we installed Windows 7 Professional on our first PC. The user has one piece of software that won’t run in Vista or 7, so we are using Windows XP Mode. I was logged in as administrator and had everything working fine, but when the other user logged in, the Windows XP Mode …
Once or twice a week when I’m at work I need to connect to my home computer to look something up. I have my router configured to let my RDP session in, but if my wife or children are using the computer, I end up kicking them off. If it’s my children, they don’t know …
I don’t do them much anymore, but over the years I’ve done quite a lot of software reviews. I’ve tried several different screen capture utilities with varying degrees of success. Sometimes I find myself using a computer that doesn’t have any such utility installed, so I use the old PrintScreen button to take a screenshot. …
What’s a bookmarklet? Well, the Bookmarklets.com home page describes them in this way: Bookmarklets are simple tools that extend the surf and search capabilities of Firefox and Explorer web browsers. Bookmarklets are free. Bookmarklets allow you to: * Modify the way you see someone else’s webpage. * Extract data from a webpage. * Search more …
I’ve had a draft for 21 months with these links in it, but never posted it… I know that people are moving away from Windows XP, skipping over Vista, and heading to Windows 7, but these are still some good links. You’ve probably had the opportunity to reinstall Windows on a computer and then go …
Jeff Alexander has some great instructions on how to setup a USB flash drive so that you can install Windows 7 from it. I wonder if the same instructions work for XP and/or Vista…?