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 [...]

Today I had to figure out what domain groups a user was a part of.  I had to find out if a particular user was part of a specific domain group or not, so that I could verify if that group was part of the server’s local administrators group. And if it wasn’t, then I [...]

When you delete files in Windows XP, they go to the recycling bin. So are they really deleted? No, technically they are just moved. It’s kind of like a get me out of jail free card. So if you accidentally deleted a file that you needed, you can get it back. Of course, once you [...]

There have been times where you will install a program, and it will work for days, weeks, without problems. The one day when you need to get into it, you get a pop up that says “A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a [...]

By default Microsoft Windows hides many of its critical files from the user. One particular folder includes the user’s application data. There are times when you need to access these folders to access particular files or make backups. WINDOWS XP & WINDOWS 2003 1. Goto my computer. 2. Select the Tools menu and click Folder [...]

The Outlook autocomplete file is that the file the holds the addresses that appear when you start typing away an email address in the To: field. Many times you may compose an email address that is not part of your address book. So this is what that autocomplete file populates- the list of all those [...]

You probably noticed when you start up your machine, you get a bunch of programs that start that slow down your system. This could be like AIM, Real Audio, Quicktime, Windows media player, etc. You can prevent these from starting up by following these simple steps. 1) Click Start 2) Click run 3) Type in [...]