From the monthly archives:

September 2007

Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC)

September 15, 2007

I have written in the past about the things I do not like about Vista, but the Windows UAC (User Account Control) prompt is not one of them. You may be surprised about that, since most people will list this as their #1 annoyance. I don’t because I know it is only temporary. Many people [...]

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Schedule a reboot in Windows 2003

September 13, 2007

There is always one application…yes one application that you use all the time, and can’t afford to have it down for one minute during the day. This same application is buggy and always has problems if it keeps running day after day. You need to reboot once in a while. Yes, and this means you [...]

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Download free hard drive imaging software

September 12, 2007

I ran across this a few weeks ago while trying to image one of my systems. If you have a Seagate, or a Maxtor hard drive you can download a free copy of Acronis True image. If you have not used it before. Acronis is an excellent imaging software for Windows. It blows Norton Ghost [...]

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Set default folder for attachments in Outlook 2003

September 11, 2007

I had a user ask me this week: “Steve, I always save my attachments in a download folder on my computer. Unfortunately Microsoft Outlook always defaults to ‘My Documents’, and I can’t see any way to change this. Do you have any idea how to change the default download folder?” This is correct. There is [...]

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FTP Files Automatically

September 11, 2007

I have a backup log that I create every night…on three different servers. They are all separated by many miles across the Internet. I wanted to find an easy way to send them all to one central location, but at the same time I did not want to have any extra software to do it. [...]

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Install Windows 2003 Recovery Console

September 7, 2007

Not sure if you have needed it before, but if you work with lots of 2003 Server machines you will find yourself using the recovery console at least once. It essentially is a command line prompt that allows you to perform tasks on a system that cannot boot. Getting to the recovery console is not [...]

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Get ready for Windows 2008

September 6, 2007

I have started to collect a list of links for information about Windows 2008. If you are thinking about deploying Windows 2008 on your network these may be helpful to you. -Windows 2008 Server Product information page: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=90853 This includes links to get access to the latest Beta of Windows 2008 -A document describing changes [...]

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Vulnerability in Virtual PC

September 5, 2007

I was looking at some of the latest security updates from Microsoft and I came across this one: MS07-049: Vulnerability in Virtual PC and Virtual Server that could allow privilege elevation Here is an excerpt of the KB article (Emphasis is mine): This important security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability. This is an elevation [...]

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Backup and Restore Outlook 2003 auto complete data

September 4, 2007

If you don’t know what I mean by “Auto complete” it is the feature in Outlook that finishes what you are typing. For example, when I am about to type out an address in the “To” field of an email it will show me a list of matches as I type: Unfortuantely these addresses are [...]

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