Firstly I hope Everyone had a wonderful Christmas! Hope Santa was good to all.. Today, I'm making a note on windows XP auto logon. I've had need to use this a couple of time s before but always seem to forget just how to set it up. If you computer IS NOT part of a Domain, you can configure Windows XP to automate the logon process. Business computers generally have a domain and for those machines this option will not appear because a password must be given to access the local area … [Read more...]
Ready for Windows Vista?
Well, it's getting close... Windows Vista I mean. Microsoft has announced that it's newest operating System, Windows Vista, will be broadly available as a stand-alone product or preinstalled on new PCs on January 30, 2007. And, Windows Vista will be made available to Volume License customers later in the month of November 2006. So, I ask again... Are you ready? Many people, no doubt, will want to try and upgrade their existing systems to the new Operating System. Well, like when … [Read more...]
Screen Capture – the easy way
I've been asked several times lately to recommend a good screen capture program. There are some great capture programs out there... But, most of those asking only needed the most basic of the functions. And luckily Windows already has the function built in. That mysterious print screen button on your keyboard can now be of some use to you.. … [Read more...]
Internet Explorer: IE7
IE 7 has been officially released. Here are a few of the reported enhancements to the browser: Simplified User Experience: The Internet Explorer 7 frame is reorganized to make it noticeably simpler, more streamlined, and less cluttered with unnecessary items. This maximizes the area of the screen devoted to the webpages that you want to see and makes performing the most common browsing tasks easy. RSS Feeds: Automatically detects RSS feeds on sites by illuminating an icon on the toolbar. A … [Read more...]