A new option in Windows Server 2008 is Server Core. It provides a minimal environment for running a subset of the server roles, AD, DNS, DHCP, File & Print. It can reduce the servicing requirements and the attack surface for those server roles. http...

If you go down to Start and type CMD in the search box (not from the RUN line) and hit CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER, it will open the command prompt in Admin mode. Thanks Randy Rands for that one…

When you have multiple tabs open in Internet Explorer, type CTRL+1, CTRL+2, etc. This will move that tab to the front.

With sizes reaching 160GB, SATA II “no spinnie” hard drives will start showing up this fall in new computers and devices. http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/solid_state-drives/