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There have been a number of machines that I tried to boot with the Acronis True Image Rescue CD only to find that the booting would hang. What you need to do is press F11 when you are taken to the screen which gives you the screen selection of boot to windows or acronis. A [...]

I’m sure there have been many times where you wanted to insert a line in an excel spreadsheet. In Word you were used to using shift+enter to give you a once space line. For excel it is different. Use ALT + ENTER

The infamous blue screen of death (BSOD) is what appears when you turn on your computer. Immediately you suspect a hard drive failure or data loss. This is not necessarily true. Remember, a BSOD is given by windows. So it must have at least read the hard drive to get the BSOD to show. So [...]

Sometimes you will  have a username for your ftp as user@domain.com. Now the problem with embedding this URL in a web site or email is that there are 2 @ symbols. For example, ftp://user@domain.com:password@ftp.domain.com. the fix? use the %40 which is the @ symbol replacement. So ftp://user%40domain.com:password@ftp.domain.com

This has been going on for months. January to be exact. A server running Windows Server Datacenter 2003 x64 edition, A Dell PowerEdge 2950. Dell has NO clue why this is happening. i’ve called them probably on an average of once a week and each time they say it’s been escalated. Anyone else having this [...]