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Vista Won’t Sleep

My Vista was working fine on going to sleep. Then after installing a bunch of programs and changing a few things I found that the sleep would not work anymore. I thought it was a program. It turned out it was the Media Center I activated to with linking to my Xbox 360. […]

Enter Vista Zone

I recently upgraded my 5 year old P4 3GHz HT, 2 Gig, 320Gig Raid 1, FX5200 128meg PC (ya so old) to the following:

Core 2 Duo 3GHz (overclocked to 3.6)

4 GIG DDR2 (will probably bump to 8 since DDR2 is so cheap)

2 1 Terabyte […]

Internet Explorer Freezes On Startup

Had a client that had IE7 froze on startup. I started to see if it was an add-in that cause the problem. Under Accessories-System Tools is an Internet Explorer (No add-ons). It basically does what it says. IE7 opened fine after I did this so I figured it was a corrupted add-on. To […]

Vmware vs Virtual PC 2007 Network Speed

I have used VMware for several years and just love the product. When MS created Virtual PC 2007 I decided to give it a try. It is OK but its not as good. The only thing good is its free. I decided to try it out for a client that is running an […]

GMAIL For Home, OUTLOOK For Business

What got me started on this article is from a Digg article titled “Gmail Destroyed Outlook”. The other is a Windows Weekly podcast #92 where Leo and Paul discuss how Gmail is so better than Outlook. I agree with part of this. Outlook as a home user has its problems.

I […]

Autologon For XP

Here is a great site that explains how to implement autologon for XP PCs both in and out of a Domain. Also a few other tricks.

Autologon for XP

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Error 550.5.7.1 Unable to Relay

Had this error on our exchange server. Could send out new e-mail but could not reply or forward and e-mail.

There could be several reasons for the above error. I recently ran into a specific situation on an Exchange 2003 Server where the Exchange administrator had recently configured some security […]

Stop Windows XP Nagging about Updates You Already Updated

Stop nagging XP Update

The End Of Windows 3.X

Here is an article I just came across. MS has stopped its licenses of Windows 3.X as of THIS November. I thought it was dead along time ago. Who knew. I started on DOS and Windows 3.0 in College.

Say It Ain’t So: The Death of Windows 3.X

Background on XP Can’t Change

Found this on the Internet. Looked at a lot of fixes and this is the only one that helped me. If you can’t change the background screen on XP because everything is grayed out this. Suggest backing up the Registry first. Here is a great utility for this. Then try the following:

Make […]