I am not in the business or writing ultra simple computer advice to ultra novices, but every once in a while I pay attention when some hack comes along doing just that, if only for amusement. Of course I mean a hack as in a novice (who either mistakenly thinks he is, or just pretends to be) an expert; one who provides a low quality product to a consumer who is slightly more clueless than...
Windows 7 and above. Well, that’s the short of it. Check this lifehacker article for the rundown: Hidden Windows 7 Tool Troubleshoots Sleep Mode Problems Although, I have one small issue with the term “hidden” that I see misused all too often. Just because you didn’t notice it, or there isn’t a GUI, or it’s not pinned to your start menu, doesn’t make it hidden; it just means that it isn’t painfully obvious, and maybe...
While visiting another forum I noticed some rather long-winded or 3rd party utility based suggestions to keep malware from replicating via flash drives. I was then reminded of a very old and lost blog entry I should repost. Malware can spread to flash drives in several different ways from an infected system, but you really only need to worry that it can leave the flash drive otherwise the presence of malware files on the flash...
So you’ve wiped your laptop, installed Windows 7, or whatever… but you forgot to backup your MS SBA company file. That’s easy to do since it only reminds you to back up the file when OPENING it, NOT while closing it when it makes the most sense (like, after you’ve made the changes, ahem… good one, MS) Well your last .sbb (backup file) is too old because you made numerous new customers and invoices and...
I am one of the MASSES who suffer from the WHS backup issue where WHS Connector puts my laptop back to sleep (which is probably caused by not getting an IP quick enough via wireless.) This means that when I turn on my laptop in the morning it goes RIGHT BACK INTO STANDBY until I power it off. Now with Windows 7, problem solved? Oh wait, yeah it’s not backing up! Actually, it’s not even...
It seems a little of everything is in Windows 7. It is a jack of all trades, but as usual no matter how hard they try, Windows 7 is a master of NONE. Start > Search > system repair disc will bring up a utility to burn a custom WinPE type environment meant for fixin’ probs. It appears though that you have to load any custom hard disk controller drivers each time you boot up...
PSR.EXE aka “Problem Steps Recorder” is a sweet Win7 addition for those of us who don’t know exactly what our client (or our mother) is doing to produce that whacky problem. Enter PSR. Click Start > Run (or ahem, the search box will do) and “PSR” no quotes, of course. Hit the Start recording button, reproduce steps, user can optionally make comments embedded in the MHT at any point, then stop recording and the user...
How to fix? Import from a backup, of course.. ugh, why would any respectable tech backup his own stuff? (like, my old blog, man… or this one for that matter!) Well I hear the rules may be in an original copy of the PST (Not a backup/exported PST) and that re-opening the original PST will do the job… but I can’t verify this. In my case, it’s an OST at stake. In my most recent...
WMS Idle ending program dialogs at windows shutdown… NOT the same old problem! I’ve been seeing this a lot lately on new system builds. All of the research I’ve done has pointed to it being an issue with MS Office/Outlook, some involving Communicator, many listing other similar errors on just about all 9x/NT versions of Windows and even Office dating back to Office 97! Service packs and updates do not seem to matter. None of...
Here’s a tech blog for other techies, primarily centered around the experiences and observations of a seasoned Windows tech. Sometimes you just gotta share what you learn, and that’s what this is all about. Have a strange problem? Maybe I have a strange solution! There’s a lot of that going around in the Windows world. There are tons of places to get help and tech solutions on the web, unfortunately many of them provide the...
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