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Windows Domain network Time Sync Command

If your computer is on a domain and the time is a little off, there’s a short command that I learned today. This can be helpful and saves time of having to create a group policy object. Open a command window and type, “w32tm /resync”. Minus the quotes of course. Your workstation will look to […]

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Office 2007 compatability how-to

If you’ve purchased a copy of Microsoft’s Office 2007, your default format for documents is XML based and will not be compatible with older versions of Office. The doc, xls and ppt formats for saving documents is being phased out for an XML based format that makes for smaller files, faster load times, searchability and […]

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Vista and system performance

I’m learning how well my Core2Duo runs Vista. It does so surprisingly well. If you’re a power user, don’t get a video card with only 128 megabytes of Vram. Opting for the GeForce 7300 with 128 was a bad idea because slideshows and playing videos in “rolodex” app switching mode make the system slow to […]

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Vista User Access Control

The Vista User Access Control (UAC) is an awesome feature that keeps you safe and secure as you make changes to the system. UAC was implemented to make sure that you knew what you were doing before making changes. For example, the UAC may prevent you from installing an application unless you reenter your admin […]

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iTunes and Vista

If you’re having issues installing iTunes 7.0.2 on any version of Vista, I found this great link that outlines the steps to take that make this a much easier process. Check it out.

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Acrobat and Vista

You’ve setup your system with Vista and you’re installing all of those much needed apps and as Adobe Reader 8 installs, you receive an error saying something about a temp file being full. No worries. Right click the Adobe installer (assuming you chose to save to disk and not run the file when you downloaded […]

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DTT is running Vista

Wow! Microsoft Vista is the best OS ever created but we’ll have to see what Apple has in store for its next generation OS (10.5). For now, this is the best operating system I have ever used. As I test, break and fix this OS I hope to be able to document my findings here […]

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Bill Gates on The Daily Show [UPDATED]

Bill Gates is a guest on The Daily Show this evening. Images after the jump. Just click “Full Story”

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Microsoft finally begins marketing Vista [UPDATE 2x]

While watching Comedy Central tonight, I finally began to see advertisements for Vista. Microsoft is wasting tons of money by trying to be unique and “Viral”. They have 2 minute ads at every commercial break featuring an old guy talking about “IAP” which is a school for intellectual individuals. The end links to http://clearification.com with […]

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Vista: Why nobody cares

A tidbit featured in Time Online pretty much says it all.

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