All things related to Microsoft’s Windows operating system.
If you set up a user account in Windows and you want to allow the user account to have a blank password you may find it a little difficult. In order to accomplish this you probably need to change a couple settings in Windows. The error message you probably got is: The password does...
Read more →I installed the latest Windows 7 RC because I wanted to try it out and I needed to do something with my media computer. When I first went to log in I saw the login screen background and thought it was great! Unfortunately, you can’t set that picture as a background within Windows 7...
Read more →I just made that up. UBCD is a great tool for tracking down hardware and software problems with non-Apple computers. To be honest I am not sure if it works on Apple computers but I assume most of the tools would not work even if it boots on the hardware. UBUD is my abbreviation...
Read more →With a new MediaSmart server I was excited to get the TwonkyMedia server up and running to be able to stream all my music and videos over to my PS3. I have some experience with Twonky from my Buffalo NAS and it was the best DLNA server I have ever used. I was a...
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...
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