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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 2:41 PM

How To: Open All Office Applications in 0.5 Seconds!

Did you ever wish you could defrag your workstation in 3 seconds?  Have you ever accidentally opened ALL the applications in your start menu *not really* ?  What about jump up and down with 24 running hard drives in your hand?  The boys
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Monday, March 02, 2009 4:09 PM

Tips: ‘Group Policy Preferences’ are a Better Alternative to Logon Scripts

One great new feature in Windows Server 2008 is a feature called Group Policy Preferences .  Unlike Policies , Preferences are not enforced.  Before this feature was introduced, IT administrators would have to often write a whole bunch of logon
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 5:55 PM

How To Upgrade Windows XP to Windows 7 In-place

There has been a lot of noise about the fact that Microsoft is not providing an in-place upgrade for Windows XP users to Windows 7.  This is ironic considering that during the Vista launch, I got laughed at every presentation for actually recommending
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Saturday, February 21, 2009 8:01 AM

How To: Join the Civil Disobedience Movement Against IE6

On Friday, I wrote about how some of the top sites in Norway decided to notify users that they were using a legacy browser and suggesting that people upgrade to the latest version of IE or try alternative browsers. They accomplished this task by putting
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Monday, January 26, 2009 7:23 PM

How To: Capture Perfect Screenshots

I was reading the an article about the IE8 Blocker Toolkit and when reading the comments, someone was flaming about how bad the screenshots were because of the rough edges. I personally use the OneNote 2007 Screen Grabber that allows me to capture any
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Friday, January 16, 2009 4:47 PM

How To: Deploy Office Compatibility Pack with an MSI package

KB 952273 The Office Compatibility Pack has been available for a long time as a free EXE download, but some IT administrators needed to deploy the pack centrally via MSI and AD.  The natural question for these people was, “where is the MSI download?”
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Friday, May 02, 2008 5:58 PM

How To: Fix Outlook Data Corruption

So I had a weird morning today. My computer woke up from sleep a little grumpy, definitely not the typical experience which is usually smooth as a baby’s bottom. Anyway, I fire up outlook and I’m greeted with an error that says Outlook can’t launch because
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Monday, April 07, 2008 4:29 PM

Did You Know: You Can Tab “Backwards” with Shift+Tab?

This is a very useful tip that most people who use Windows don’t know about.  In fact this tip is also useful on other operating systems.  I’ve found in my travels that only the 733|- keyboard users out there regularly use this shortcut. 
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 6:05 PM

Create Hollywood Quality Music Videos Cheap

It's been a really hectic month for me this last March, hence the utter lack of regular blog posts. For this I apologize. Even though I'm was on vacation at my home in Dallas, Texas, I wanted to let everyone know about a really cool site called Animoto
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:24 PM

How To: Create a Vista SP1 Image Using ImageX.exe and WIM Files

My colleague James O'Neill has a really simple step by step blog post on how to use the new deployment tools that come with Vista to create an SP1 Vista image.  He makes it sound so easy!  * it actually is*  The coolest part of the entire
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 3:29 PM

How To: Use Google Calendar With Outlook

Before joining the workforce, I never ever used calendaring software.  I didn't have a smartphone, and PDAs without internet access were a horrible value proposition for me.  I think life would have been a little different if I had Google Calendar
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 6:40 PM

Did You Know: Vista Also Has A 'Run' Command?

While I continue to write part 2 of " Death to the Start Menu ," I wanted to give a few more tips around Vista because with the holiday shopping season, I couldn't tell you how many corrections and demos I had to give around Vista.  I never
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Sunday, December 30, 2007 11:00 PM

Did You Know: Live Photo Gallery Does Panoramic Auto-Stitching?

My cousin decided to get a new place and needed to post pictures of their apartment on Craigslist.  I suggested they try panoramic pics of their place to show the size of the apartment.  Being a lazy person, he didn't care, so I did it for him,
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Thursday, December 27, 2007 9:38 PM

Christmas Webcasts: Clearing Your Inbox of Unread Junk - Step 2

This tip covers how to discover what is eating up all of your inbox quota/disk space via "folder size" window. Also the webcast will show you how to clean out hidden folders that may not show up in Outlook due to sync corruption. Finally, learn about
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007 8:20 PM

Christmas Webcast Bugs

I just wanted everyone to know that I've recently become aware of some audio glitches in my first two Christmas webcasts and I am trying to debug/resolve them.  If you try to get through some of the glitches, it eventually disappears.  The message
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