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Monthly Archives: January 2008

How to Tile Internet Explorer 7 Tabs in Thumbnail View

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How to Tile Internet Explorer 7 Tabs in Thumbnail View

Do you have too many open tabs open in IE7?  Do you want an easier way to view all your open tabs?  Try this!  How about pressing Ctrl+Q.  This will give you a nice tiled thumbnail view of all your open tabs.  It sure beats clicking random tabs to get back to your desired website.  It...
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Windows has blocked some startup programs

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Windows has blocked some startup programs

You might have noticed the message “Windows has blocked some startup programs” when using Windows Vista.  This is probably due to modifying startup programs using msconfig.  Normally, with other Windows versions, you would modify the msconfig, and after rebooting…a message box would appear on the screen saying something like “You have used System Configuration...
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Add to Quick Launch – Microsoft…..about freakin’ time

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Add to Quick Launch – Microsoft…..about freakin’ time

They have finally added the menu option Add to Quick Launch!  This makes life much simplier…..well…..at least it saves me a few seconds at work. If you are like me and prefer icons on your Quick Launch Toolbar rather than cluttering your desktop then you might appreciate this as well.  Here’s a picture of the...
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Cool Windows Vista Dilbert Gadget

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Cool Windows Vista Dilbert Gadget

I started off today facing reality, after my three-day weekend, and acknowledging I would have to return to work today.  I needed a pick me up and found this cool Windows Vista Gadget.  It’s a Dilbert gadget!  So instead of have having one of those little Dilbert calendars on your desk or having to...
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Where’s telnet in Microsoft Vista?

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You might be asking yourself….WTF happened to telnet in Microsoft Vista.  I felt the same way earlier today when trying to telnet into an smtp server.  Well apparently in this version of Windows it’s not installed by default.  In order to install it, you need to do the following: Start Control Panel Programs Turn...
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Restore Active Desktop Recovery Fix

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Restore Active Desktop Recovery Fix

Active desktop recovery is one of those errors you wish never existed.  It’s not a showstopper but definitely annoying.   I’ve run across this issue various times throughout computer tech career.  I’m not sure what causes this error but it could be virus or spyware related.  It could also be one of the weird Microsoft errors...
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Shadow Windows 2003 Console Session

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Did you know you could shadow the console session in Windows 2003 using RDP?  Well it’s possible!  There are far and better programs out there that allow you to do this but it’s possible with RDP.  Log into server you want to shadow and issue gpedit.msc from command prompt. Go to Computer Configuration Adminstrative...
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Force WSUS client to check WSUS Server

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Ever want to know how to force a WSUS client to check for updates?  Open the command prompt and type wuauclt /detectnow.  I came across this when I first started using WSUS over a year ago.  It sure beats waiting for some random time or for your group policy settings to kick in.  You...
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Windows 2003 SP2 Install Blues

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What an interesting day it was yesterday at work.  I installed Windows 2003 SP2 on a server, rebooted it, and guess what….BSOD.  It made my heart sink.  Out of the 6 years I’ve been doing this type of stuff for a living….this was the FIRST time I ever had a BSOD after a Windows...
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