Advise How Much Fun are You Having on the Job? Imagine that you are talking with your boss, or a possible employer, or friend, family member, or even a complete stranger about what you do for a living. You discuss where you work, how you work, what your duties are, and other things of
Advise Upgrading to Windows Server 2012 R2 from 2012 RTM Running SharePoint 2013 These are some of my own notes on upgrading Sharepoint Server 2013 from the server running Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2012 R2. I know this will help others that made the same mistakes that I did. I'm grateful to have the ability
Advise Good Documentation in Help Desk Tickets, or Lack Of... I work in a somewhat large I.T. environment where work and responsibilities are distributed amongst each team. There are teams for development, server, network, help desk, and so forth.
Advise A List of How-To’s for Windows 8 on the Spiceworks Community Now that Windows 8 has been officially released, there are plenty of how-to articles on the Accessing “God Mode” Using Windows 8 on a non-touch device Shortcuts and Hot-Keys System Management Tools built into Windows 8 (for IT Pros) and more http://community.spiceworks.
Advise It’s all about making your job better, faster, and easier to do Even in this economy, there are so many people that just like to complain about everything. They complain and they don’t even try to make things better for their situation. They don’t try to get out of the rut they may be
Advise A Learning Lesson for those I.T. Technicians… This post is intended to be a very cold, hard, lesson for all I.T. technicians. First, read the two scenarios listed below. See if you can find the problems with each of these stories… Scenario #1: A customer calls the help desk because
Advise Does your local PC technician know what they are doing? I thought of this question just yesterday due to a conversation I had but I thought that I would go ahead and try to post something about it tonight. So, you have a problem with your computer and you go ahead and call up
Advise Improve your internet surfing speed with Google Public DNS **The instructions in this post are for your home computer(s) only. If your computer is owned by a business or is managed by a Systems Administrator or I.T. department, then I do NOT recommend changing your DNS settings on your computer. Please
Advise Cable modems and Y-Splitters Over the years, I have slowly learned that your common 3-way cable coax splitters and cable modems just do not mix well. See that picture to the right? That is a common 3-way cable splitter. In fact, this is the exact model that you
Advise Joe’s process for cleaning up malware in Windows I felt like sharing my actual process for cleaning up malware on a computer, so here it is. This process will work for 90% of the viruses and malware that affects Microsoft Windows. Sadly, there are still occasions when I still need to wipe
Advise How to set up your printer so that you can print to it without cables The Question: How do you make a printer wireless? Is it even possible? Or do I need to buy a new printer? I just went from PC to laptop. My Answer: Ah, yes. Wireless. It is nice to have wireless freedom with a laptop
Advise Does the e-mail address that you use at work or school actually belong to you? Don’t you love it when these thoughts of the day just pop up! The essence of what I am actually trying to ask here is: Does the email account or email address that was given to you at school, work, or in an
Advise Is your Anti-virus app slowing down your computer? I received a call from a customer the other day where they were complaining that their computer was running extremely slow. The customer would start typing in a document and there would be an extreme delay. It would take several moments for the computer
Advise Does your internet connection drop out from time to time? Here is an explanation of why it happens… I was sitting at my desk last night doing my college homework and listening to streaming music (yay for Spotify I connected my desktop PC directly to the modem and reset it. After doing an ipconfig /renew from the command line, I had Internet
Advise Difficult to find Information about the Windows 8 Developer Preview It has taken me a while to find bits and pieces of information about the Windows 8 Dev Preview that was released last week. Some info such as removing the Metro UI and how long the Developer Preview will remain activated is not easy
Advise A great Office Suite to enjoy for free, LibreOffice One of the most important pieces of software on a computer is some type of office suite. Some of the most popular office suites are Microsoft Office, Apple iWork, Corel Office, and maybe even IBM Lotus. The downside to all of these office suites
Advise Having computer issues? Step 1 - Reboot your computer. One of the last things that goes through my mind when fixing computer software issues (such as Windows or Microsoft Office not acting nicely) is if the user rebooted the computer before they called me. Since an issue is already This should really be
Advise Don’t know the default password for your router? Search www.Default-Password.info! One of the things that I need to do from time to time is to fix a networking issue on a wireless router, or find what a network printer’s IP address is from DHCP, and find other critical network info. One of the
Advise Virus, Spyware, & Malware Removal Guides at BleepingComputer.com One of the things that is a complete waste of time is fixing computers that have been infected with malware and\or viruses. Luckily, there are several different guides on how to remove malware fast and efficiently on ! These guides have helped me fix
Advise Microsoft Outlook giving you issues? Here Are A Few Things to Try…. Today, I would like to share some tips for troubleshooting issues with Microsoft Outlook. These tips will resolve 95% of all issues a person is having with Outlook. This article talks about issues with the Outlook offline cache, corrupt email signatures, and how to
Advise Where can I find training information on how to work with Microsoft Office applications? If you are used to using Office 2003, and you upgrade to Office 2007 or Office 2010, you will notice a big visual change. If you need help figuring out how to use this new interface called the “Ribbon”, look no further than the
Administrative Tools Convert MP4 video to DVD with Windows Live Essentials What is MP4 video? Right now it is a popular mobile video format that is compatible with iPod, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Zune, and Windows Phone devices. It is a format designed to have a low bitrate but maintain high quality video on mobile devices.
Advise How to move a Windows 7 installation to a different hard drive, or a larger hard drive I ran into a problem today where I only had 3GB left of storage space on my primary hard drive. Luckily, I had a spare 500GB drive that I could upgrade to. But I did not want to re-install Windows, deal with calling Microsoft
Advise Professional Associations and People Networking As an IT professional, you should make it a practice of attempting to increase your people network. Having a LinkedIn profile and joining virtual associations helps a little bit, but you need to do more. You need to meet people face to face. One
Advise Best Practices for Password Creation Over the past couple of months, I helped several friends and family members recover their account passwords for Hotmail, Yahoo, Facebook, Skype, and even a bank accounts. The reason? Someone was able to gain access to at least one of their account by guessing
