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 solution is available.” [Read More]

There are dozens of ways your machines can get infected by spyware, bogging down your machine tremendously. There are even ones that will hijack your browser, prevent you from going to certain sites such as anti-spyware sites, or redirect any links you click to a particular page. The trickiest ones to new users are those fake pop ups that state your machine is infected and can only be removed by purchasing “AWESOME ANTI VIRUS SOFTWARE” or enter a name there. [Read More]

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. [Read More]

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 email addresses. The problem is, if you’re reinstalling your operating system or migrating to another machine, you want to ensure you copy this file. [Read More]

We all know Microsoft Outlook only allows a single Microsoft Exchange account per windows profile.  Of course, you can add additional mailboxes to an account, but that requires additional work and then you have to manually open the calendar. You can also open a mailbox through your existing running Outlook, IF, and only IF your user has permissions to access that mailbox. There may be reasons on why you would like to run outlook with another exchange account for reasons such as; setting up a moderated account, helping a user archive or even migrate mail from another source. Maybe you are a system administrator and need to do some snooping. [Read More]

There are TONS of FTP clients you can choose to use. In the late 90′s almost everyone had a copy of CuteFTP. There are still alot of popular ones out there, both commercial and free. I’m not the one to dish out $40 for a copy of something I can get for free, so I stuck with open source. [Read More]

Here are some GREAT tools to monitor your enterprise network. You probably have heard about many of these, but there are a few that may be new to you. I’ll have a write up with detailed review later on. [Read More]

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. [Read More]

So you try to create a new user in AD for Exchange and specified an email address, only to find that the address was taken.
Then you remember, oh, you gave that address for someone else.. but you forgot who. [Read More]

Unbuntu Netbook Remix is a simple, quick way to get Ubuntu on your netbook. And yes, it is optimized for netbooks. I have Ubuntu 9.10 on my ASUS EEE 1000. Took me about 20 minutes or less to get it up and going. Verizon aircard works like a charm with it too. [Read More]