Free Video Editing Tools
There are many video editing and audio editing tools out there. There are several free tools with Windows Movie Maker probably being one of the most popular ones. My daughters and I have used...
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Why everyone should have Chromecast
There have been many great inventions since the Internet became commonplace in the 90’s but in my opinion one of the best for my money has to be Google’s Chromecast. I just assume in...
Slow Printing with Easy Print
Easy Print is a new feature of a Windows 2008 Server R2 Terminal Server. You’ll see the term “terminal server” and “remote desktop services” referenced throughout this post. These are synonymous. Microsoft changed the...
Extend the life of your laptop with SSD
There are two kinds of people in this world. There’s the person who leases a car and turns it in every 2 –3 years for the next big thing and then there’s the person...
Create Windows 7 User Profile using RUNAS
You may find yourself in a tight spot where you need to create a Windows 7 user profile, for one reason or another, on a computer with limited network connectivity. A Windows 7 profile...
Home Folder not mapping
Ran into a weird issue the other day when migrating some users’ home folders from one Windows server to another. After moving the data, some users complained of their their home folder not mapping. ...
Chrome Extensions and Malware
Lately, there’s been a bit of a buzz surrounding Google’s Chrome browser and it’s browser add-ons also referred to as plugins or extensions. Recently several articles have surfaced with talk of how Chrome extensions...
Problem Step Recorder Windows 7
A really cool but seldom talked about feature in Windows 7 is the Problem Step Recorder. The way the tool works is it records your desktop session during the recording period which you start...
Part IV–Deploy Windows 8.1
Part IV – Cost benefit analysis, should you deploy Windows 8.1? Well, we’re here. It’s time to test and pilot a few devices. So far we’ve demo’d a few devices; a Dell Venue 11,...
Check Hard Disk Drive before it fails
When it comes to computers, the greatest fear is having your hard drive fail and losing all your data. Think about this for a moment. How devastated would you be if you lost all...
System Volume Information taking too much disk space
If all of a sudden you find yourself fighting a disk space issue on your server or servers where the System Volume Information is taking too much disk space on a particular partition, then...
Slow PC – 10 Steps to a healthy computer
I decided to update and edit this post because I still run into so many folks that give up on their computers which, in some cases, are only 2 – 3 years old because...