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How to upgrade Solarwinds ORION software

Solarwinds makes some excellent networking tools and their flagship product, ORION, is no exception. However, Solarwinds does not have the best skills when it comes to documentation. Last week, I was attempting to find out what the process is for upgrading ORION on one

Administrative Tools

Free PC Tool, Smart Defrag 2 for Windows

As you may or may not know, the standard\basic Windows defragmentation tool is not that amazing and it only does one job – defragment the hard drive(s). I have been trying out a different defrag tool and I am liking it quite a

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USB Boot Disk Edition #4 – Using the Windows USB DVD Download Tool

The from Microsoft is an incredibly useful piece of But this is not the only magic of this tool. Using the , any WinPE based image can be made into a bootable USB stick! This includes: Windows Vista Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server

Errors

Windows Live Essentials 2011 and Windows XP issues

I encountered a small problem with Windows Live Essentials and I wanted to make sure to share my experience with the world. If you are like me, I keep a copy of EVERY piece of software that I have ever downloaded. After launching the

Security

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 has been released

Yup, the time has come. Service Pack 1 has been released for both Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. It is available on Microsoft’s download site. It will be distributed through Windows Update as a mandatory update over time. But if you

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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.

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Create your own Media Center PC for free with XBMC

I have been a user of the XBOX Media Center since 2005 and it is a fantastic dashboard replacement and fully featured media center for the original XBOX. But since the original XBOX is no longer supported, the team decided to port the software

Free

Set up your own hobby IP-PBX phone system at home with Asterisk

I stumbled upon while looking for information on the awesome open- source phone system software. I don’t have a great deal of time to go over this right now, but here is a bit of info on straight from : “ is software that turns

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Enhance the Windows command line user experience with PowerCMD

Windows administrators are pretty familiar with the Windows command line, or CMD. But even with Windows 7, CMD has not changed much since the release of Windows NT 4. You cannot cut and paste easily to or from the command line, you can’t

Deployment

Encryption and Modification of core OS files at the same time just don’t mix

It has been a little while since my last blog entry – I think it has been a month or so… During that time, I have learned quite a bit more about the Windows desktop. In addition, I have been getting my feet wet with

Free

Windows 7 and Windows Vista features on Windows XP

After getting used to working with Windows 7 exclusively at home and at my old job, I have found it somewhat difficult to go back to using Windows XP Professional at my new job. Some of the new Windows 7 features are undeniably awesome

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Screenpresso – The Free Alternative for SnagIT and the Snipping Tool

There are a ton of reasons as to why one would need to take a screenshot of their computer screen. Maybe it could be for computer support reasons, or email a screenshot to a family member, or maybe you saw something cool on a

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Write your novel with Storybook

Writing story, novel, or non-fiction material is no easy task. For most, it takes months or years just to get thoughts and ideas written down on paper. Sometimes there is research involved and trying to incorporate that into the book is its own task.

Free

Create PDFs for Free

PDF is the most popular paperless document format on the net. Businesses, schools, and governments love the PDF format because it allows them to create a document that can be protected from editing and email it or post it to a web site for