Software and hardware from Microsoft Inc. Including all operating systems (XP, Vista, 7, etc.)
Beth got a Zune last year and when she bought it we decided that we wanted to personalize it with some laser etching. The easiest way we found to get this done was to order a Zune Originals device instead of trying to laser etch it through a third part company. They also have...
Read more →I have never done this before but I thought I would take a swing and making some predictions at what I think is going to happen this year with technology. Computers: 1. Smaller, faster, better. Duh. That is obvious but I think there will be some big improvements in “alternate” input for computers. Apple...
Read more →I was inspired by download squads post on getting a hard drive organized and I thought I would post how I keep all my many computers organized. I hope to follow this up with a couple other posts about how I keep my cloud life organized and how I keep my media files organized...
Read more →Sometimes when a user logs into their vista machine they are greeted with a temporary user profile. This is caused from a few different things but the main causes are 1. The computer cannot authenticate the user on the domain (usually because it did not get a respond from the domain controller). Or the...
Read more →I posted this on my work’s wiki but I wanted to post it here so I can remember how to do it for later. If you have your external display plugged into your laptop push Win+X to bring up the Windows Mobility Center. Then click on the Connect display button. This will bring up...
Read more →I use remote assistance on a almost daily basis at my work. It is a built in tool in Windows that allows me to remotely control a users computer without kicking them off of the machine (like remote desktop does). One thing it did not do was let me take control if the user...
Read more →So I thought I would clean out a few more pinned articles in my bloglines before I went to bed. By a few, I mean 9. Lets just get started with this. The first one is real simple. This is how you can easily disable Aero before running a program. In many cases you...
Read more →I haven’t fully tested this for Vista yet but it has the Le but de casino en ligne. same key as XP so I am assuming it works the same. This is very similar to the setting up a default wallpaper but you use the SCRNSAVE.EXE key instead of Wallpaper. Browse the registry to...
Read more →Open up the registry and browse to: HKEY_USERS.DefaultControl PanelDesktop edit the Wallpaper key to point to where ever you have your wallpaper stored (eg. c:windowswallpaper.bmp). The file needs to be a .bmp to show up but that is all you should need to do. After a restart the background will show up behind the...
Read more →I don’t really like filling up my website with posts about every tool I find. But every once and a while my RSS feeds fills up with “pinned” items for me to remember and check out when I get time. Well, it has filled up again and I am going to throw a bunch...
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