Windows
Spam Crusher
E-mail. It’s become an important part of life. You use it to communicate with friends and loved ones. You use it to do business with people around the world. Both adults and children use it to quickly exchange thoughts and ideas with their peers. And, unfortunately, some people use it to bombard you with “SPAM.” [...]
Clock Tray Skins Lite
We all know about that little clock that sits in our task bar when we use any current version of Windows. It sits there telling me and you the time, but offers no way to better itself. Sure, there are not many ways you can improve a clock – it usually does one thing and [...]
List Of Online Games
When the stresses of day-to-day work and life begin to be too much for you, you sometimes feel like you just need a change of pace to take your mind off of things. A lot of people do this by taking spur of the moment weekend trips to places both near and far away. Everyone [...]
Derailed By Bad Engineering
This seems to be the season of small things that can stop users dead in their tracks. Last week I wrote about a senior woman who had what I would consider a trivial issue, but it stopped her from doing what she wanted to do. This week I got another call – this time from [...]
Monitor Users' Use Of User Rights (XP)
Once you assign a user or group account specific user rights, you can monitor their privilege use by enabling auditing. For example, if you assign a user the right to Back up files and directories, you can monitor when the user performs any backups. This is done by enabling the Audit privilege use option within [...]
Update 0x800704DD Or 0×80240020 Errors
When you try to download and install updates from the Microsoft Windows Update Web site, from the Microsoft Update Web site, or from a Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server, you may receive one or more of the following error messages:
Three Free Months of Web Hosting
Imagine my surprise when we were contacted by a Web hosting company with a killer deal (from out of the blue, although the owners have been long-time Lockergnome fans). Yeah, the three free months of Web hosting is a pretty good deal, but I think in the underlying mechanism is where the true story sits: [...]
ProgramLaunch 3.1
Sure, we all use the start menu every single day. Don’t you ever wish that somebody would or could reinvent that process, though? It can’t be the only way of navigating through your programs and in turn using your computer. ProgramLaunch promises to turn process of using your start menu into ancient history.
TEXT-IMAGE.com
People are doing some pretty radical things with digital imaging these days. This has been a major topic of discussion for us lately, but with all of the tutorials, resources, examples, and tools, there’s definitely an abundance of stuff that needs to be talked about. Actually, one of the oldest tricks in the book doesn’t [...]
Give A User Ability To Back Up Files And Directories (2k/XP/2003)
Giving a user administrative privileges means that user now has full control over your computer. Normally when you are considering user rights and permissions, you should follow the principle of least privilege. This means only assign a user the minimal amount of rights and permissions for them to perform their required tasks. For example, if [...]
