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It’s an Admin’s worst nightmare (well one of them).
A server’s system disk is quickly running out of space for no apparent reason. You know that when the system drive fills the server is going to shut down and you’re going to have a lot of unhappy users. You need to find out what [...]
I don’t know how useful this actually is but I thought I would share it with you guys anyway.
You seem to like useless information… Right??
This trick threw me for a loop. I was watching a junior admin install Windows Vista from a CD and he turned to me smirked and said
“Want to see something cool?”
I [...]
Hi boys and girls,
Do you remember when Ask The Admin covered a very interesting topic of Free Exchange services? For those who don’t, you can look here, here and sometimes here.
In a nutshell, this article talked about how me and my fiance’ had to plan our wedding and had tons of appointments flying in from [...]
So you have the same repetitive searches you run every day? How about you let Google run the searches for you and hit you with any new sites that have popped up since your last search? This is great for almost anything! All the PR companies we deal with use this habitually.
Just go to http://www.Google.com/Alerts [...]
Have you been a busy little bit-torrenter lately?
Do you have tons of ISO’s laying around? Trying to mount them in Vista like you were used to in XP and not having any luck?
Our reader Tom in Wisconsin is and this sounds like a job for dum dum dum (key theme music)… AskTheAdmin!
Well it turns out [...]
I get asked often how to bring up the security box (control alt + delete) in remote desktop and here is the answer:
To use Control + Alt + Delete in a Remote Desktop Connection terminal, use Ctrl + Alt + End instead.
I tested it and it worked beautifully on two XP machines, 1 2003 server [...]
MJ writes to us that her machine runs updates around lunch time and she keeps getting the prompt do you want to restart now?
Not only is it annoying – sometimes she clicks yes by accident and her whole world comes crashing down. (See the fix for this at the bottom of the post – not [...]
I have this user who just got upgraded to a new laptop. When he logged in for the first time and opened Outlook, he was shocked. He said the fonts were way to small (Apparently he is as blind as a bat, or just likes larger fonts). Anyway, he called me to fix it.
If you [...]
So you don’t want to dole out the big bucks for some fancy smancy cd/dvd authoring suite just to burn cd’s and disk images? Or how about you don’t want the bloat from said suite?
No it’s probably that you are just like me and a big cheapskate when it comes to buying software!
Either which [...]
Mary Ann writes to us that she misses the graphical WinIpCfg.exe that came with Windows 98 and ME. She wants to throw it on a memory stick for quick access to IP information and a GUI for editing those numbers – you know like back in the day.
No worries Mary Ann we have got an [...]
Good weekend kiddies,
Comodore64 back again to shed some light for any newly ordained Mac users that are carrying over from the M$ world. Since Mac is gaining a kind of strangle hold on the industry, I’m pretty sure there are a lot of guys like myself who have a PC for certain purposes and a [...]
So its late in the afternoon and you don’t have much work going on so you are all up on the net and then BAM!
You broke the Internet for everyone. You brought down the network. You seriously flucked something up. We all know it was something you did but what was it??? You got an [...]
Hey everyone! Scott here from AndroidGuys, doing a little guest blogging today for AskTheAdmin. Thanks to Karl and the other guys for allowing me the opportunity to reach out and talk with his audience.
A common concern with bloggers is where they show up on a Google search and there’s a good reason for [...]
Adam Pash covered this tiny app on LifeHacker a while back. This Resizeable goodness is ever so cleverly called resizeenable and it lets you resize system windows that you normally could not. You guys always seem to find what I am looking for before I’m looking for it! Thanks LifeHacker…
Some of you may wonder why [...]
From AtA’s earlier days:
Reader Elizabeth (who knew we had so many female readers!) wrote to us that she moved her Word document off the screen so she can only see the bottom half of it.
She didn’t save it and can not move or close it. We have all done this before, moving windows around willey [...]
Brought Back Up Top By Popular Demand…
Have you ever wanted to copy the path of a file located deep in your hard drive’s under belly (that you call a hard drive structure)? We are pretty sure you have one time or another, seeming that you are here at AskTheAdmin.com reading this article…
We previously covered how [...]
Hey Kidlings,Commodore 64 here with a quick how to in photoshop. Have you ever downloaded an image you’d like to use on your website but it was sandwiched on top of some ghastly color which totally doesnt fit with your “flow”? Well here is a quick, no-frills, way to a transparent image that you can [...]
If you are like us you have more than a handful of drive letters residing on your Windows machine. Now here is a time saving tip that will let you see ALL the drives you want properties in a single property window… Wow that’s a mouth full here check out this pic.
By highlighting the drives [...]
Hey boys and girls!
Have you ever been in a situation where you wished you could sync calendars with somebody who is seemingly unconnected? On top of that, you wished that somehow, by some magical force, those calendars can sync automatically, wirelessly and invisibly; involving no further effort beyond the initial configuration, and that this calendar [...]
Okay, I have been politely asked by Karl to bring a little bit of Mac/Apple love to this blog. While I think this may just be part of his devious plot to get a Apple Air for review, I have agreed to oblige. So here it is my first Ask the Admin’s [...]
So we heard about one way to get a slow computer up and running but it involved making the jump to Linux. Now lets say for arguments sake you can’t go the way of el di pablo and Push Ubuntu on your Woman?
We couldn’t get her to use that Pentium 3 with XP because [...]
James from Virginia wanted to know if it was safe to delete these Thumbs.db and .DS_Store files from his network. Check out our answer and step by step removal tips.
Running in a mixed Windows/Mac environment I find it annoying to deal with all the little artifacts the great OS’s leave behind. All of our [...]
Have you ever wanted to create a shortcut on your desktop to disable your screensaver or eject your cd-rom?
You have seen it done and now you have some use for it? Don’t fret young Admin! No need to muss and fuss here is a light weight program that needs no installation: Tooler.
It’s only 50kb [...]
So I get asked on a regular basis how many addresses can i get from a /24 subnet or what does 255.255.255.0 mean.
Let me break it down for you real quick like:
When you use 255.255.255.0 as your subnet you are limiting yourself to a network containing all the same ip’s except for the last number. [...]
So this question bounced around in my head for a bit last night. It seems Rafael wants Firefox 2 to open 3 tabs with different websites on launch. In essence dude wants 3 home pages concurrently. I’m with it… Wait theres more!
He wants to do it without an extension, plugin or other point of failure [...]
After a week out of the office at my Mac OsX server training I am totally swamped. Throw in holiday shopping, a new baby and AtA… Whoa boy!
So Sunday’s post will be a quick roundup and excerpts from my two newest posts on MakeUseOf and a couple of AtA faves.
I demoed and reviewed Mint.com. [...]
Yes, we know you have taken a million digital photos over the last year, on your fancy shmancy new camera. And we also know the holiday season is upon us. Being the geek that you are, you could not just leave your pictures named digital_image_13456.jpg for your slide shows… We just couldn’t have that now, [...]
If you are like reader Miguel and you want to reboot your Windows XP or Vista machine from a .bat file, here is the command to do it:
shutdown -r -f -t 0
LifeHacker showed you this command here advertising it as a fast shutdown command.
shutdown -f -t 0
Be warned – it forces apps to close even [...]
I have recently fallen in love with having outlook run batch files depending on what an email from me to me says.
They say necessity is the mother of all inventions and it is certainly true. I have been using a WM 6 device with no blackberry support and popping a pop3 account on the run. [...]
Craig was a little confused last night and very agitated. He wanted to know where his Run command was on his Vista Ultimate machine.
You know it used to be on the start menu in Xp. You can still bring it up by hitting Windows-R but, you want it back where it belongs – on your [...]
We get a lot of emails from people about why their new office 2007 files end in a X. People have sent in questions asking about why their files are in the archive format or formated for Mac OS X…
Microsoft has introduced new file types in 2007 (The X Stands for XML) if all you [...]
Jacob asked us if he could reference a whole cell range by label in excel. He continued on with how much easier it would make his life. Jacob today’s your lucky day because it looks like you can!
Thanks to LifeHacker for the answer to this one. You can reference a column by its header or [...]
So you have the same repetitive searches you run every day? How about you let Google run the searches for you and hit you with any new sites that have popped up since your last search? This is great for almost anything! All the PR companies we deal with use this habitually.
Just go to http://www.Google.com/Alerts [...]
Have you been a busy little bit-torrenter lately?
Do you have tons of ISO’s laying around? Trying to mount them in Vista like you were used to in XP and not having any luck?
Our reader Tom in Wisconsin is and this sounds like a job for dum dum dum (key theme music)… AskTheAdmin!
Well it turns out [...]
So, you have come to the right place to search for advice on what to get that geek in your life for the holiday season.
Read on, because we have compiled a list of what we salivate over bought ourselves want.
I don’t care if you are celebrating Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Festivus (for the [...]
I don’t know how useful this actually is but I thought I would share it with you guys anyway. You seem to like useless information… Right?? This one kind of threw me for a loop. I was watching a junior admin install Windows XP from a CD and he turned to me and said Want [...]
All of the sudden, XP will not communicate with the printer. Or any printer for that matter! I can see that there are a bunch of print jobs in the queue. When I try to cancel the print jobs, nothing happens. I’m stuck and need to print. HELP!
OK lets not freak out and [...]
Hi boys and girls,
Do you remember when Ask The Admin covered a very interesting topic of Free Exchange services? For those who don’t, you can look here, here and sometimes here.
In a nutshell, this article talked about how me and my fiance’ had to plan our wedding and had tons of appointments flying in from [...]
Adam Pash covered this tiny app on this wonderful Thanksgiving morning. It is called resizeenable and it lets you resize system windows that you normally could not. You guys always seem to find what I am looking for before I’m looking for it! Thanks LifeHacker…
Some of you may wonder why we are so anal-retentive that [...]
It’s very annoying and counter productive for your hands to leave the keyboard as you use your mouse to click, click, clickity click click away at something. Join the ranks of power users to add keyboard shortcuts for every computer task you do. Yup Any Task!
Built into Windows is the ability to let you assign [...]
Reader Joanne wrote to us that she moved her Word document off the screen so she can only see the bottom half of it. She didn’t save it and can not move or close it. We have all done this before, moving windows around willey nilley to see whats behind it or just for fun [...]
MJ writes to us that her machine runs updates around lunch time and she keeps getting the prompt do you want to restart now?
Not only is it annoying – sometimes she clicks yes by accident and her whole world comes crashing down. (See the fix for this at the bottom of the post – not [...]
I have this user who just got upgraded to a new laptop. When he logged in for the first time and opened Outlook, he was in for a shock. The fonts were extremely small (Apparently he is as blind as a bat, and likes larger fonts). Anyway, he called me to fix it.
If you run [...]
Hey Boys and Girls,
Throughout history, science has dissected the inner working of every race of man. We’ve disassembled soldiers, warriors, policemen, firemen, ninjas, samurais, and thanks to shows like Discovery’s “Dirty Jobs”, we’ve gotten an intimate look at their day to day. But what about the inner mind workings of today’s Nerd? We are today’s [...]
If you are like us you have more than a handful of drive letters residing on your Windows machine. Now here is a time saving tip that will let you see ALL the drives you want properties in a single property window… Wow that’s a mouth full here check out this pic.
By highlighting the drives [...]
So its late in the afternoon and you don’t have much work going on so you are all up on the net and then BAM!
You broke the Internet for everyone. You brought down the network. You seriously flucked something up. We all know it was something you did but what was it??? You got an [...]
Happy Tuesday Morning and here you go, another oldie but goodie. If you hate copying screen shots to your clipboard only to go crop out your desktop afterwards like we used then this tip is for you…
Who wants to send their task bar layered with AOL IM windows and Random Fire Fox Browser Pages on [...]
Good Weekend Ladies and Gents,
It looks like we will be doing a lot more Mac tips thanks to our free iMac. This quick mac tip can save you alot of time by giving you quick access to an ultra magnifier built right into OSX. It’s done, without any prior setting changes, by holding down the [...]
It’s an Admin’s worst nightmare (well one of them).
A server’s system disk is quickly running out of space for no apparent reason. You know that when the system drive fills the server is going to shut down and you’re going to have a lot of unhappy users. You need to find out what [...]
So you have the same repetitive searches you run every day? How about you let Google run the searches for you and hit you with any new sites that have popped up since your last search? This is great for almost anything!
Just go to http://www.Google.com/Alerts and sign up for an “Alert”. this is what will [...]
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