Got an interesting from a friend out of a while back. In her e-mail she asked: My dad, who is 67 and knows nothing about a computer – nothing – is trying to operate my late mother’s Dell, so that he can use the internet. The problem is, Mom had put so many content blocks on it with parental controls … Read more
Here’s a quick and simple “How To” for you. I had this question posed by a client the other day and it made me think. This Client is a fan of FireFox. It is his default browser and tries his best to NEVER use Internet Explorer. But, as is the case with most things, the more you try to keep … Read more
Windows 7 …. Bacon Edition! Coming to a Frying Pan near You! You know you want it! 🙂
I dropped to a command prompt today on my Windows 7 machine to telnet into my Cisco Router and found, that once Again the Microsoft telnet client is not installed. It seems that, as with Windows vista, the Microsoft Telnet client is not installed by default. But luckily it’s pretty easy to install, just follow these simple steps: Click the … Read more
Windows 7 & Windows 2000 – Error 86 when mapping drives. One of my upgrades this week to Windows 7 was from a Windows XP laptop. Following the steps I outlined in my previous post the initial process was a breeze! No problems at all!! Simple, some would say, and as everything else goes as soon as “they” said it … Read more
Windows 7 seems to be a hit! Since it’s release on October 22, I’ve installed it in one form or another MANY, times probably twelve in the last 6 days. The first couple of upgrades concerned me slightly because of the indefinite answer on whether or not you could do a clean install from the upgrade disk. I had a … Read more
When Vista came on the scene one of the new features I thought was pretty cool was the new Snipping tool. It’s a really useful little utility and for the most part it’s great. In Windows 7, the tool is still there (no improvements that I can see). But, one of the things about this little utility that bothered me … Read more