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Need a remote? Just buy this usb dongle and use one of the 20 you have.   http://flirc.tv/

I use Dell Kbox for patch management, which I can’t afford for home at ~$3k a year. For home Secunia PSI is great. It scans the machine once a week and installs all the patches it can. Adobe products, java, 7zip etc seem to work really well. When you first install it there will be [...]

Just deployed a few apps with WPKG. I have to say I love it. Client checks in with server, if it needs software, it installs. If it needs to uninstall, it does. Super cool. This is going to save me so many months of repetion. I would say it is free, but my boss pays [...]

1st – High performance – 2194 2nd – Power Saver – 1097 3rd – Balanced – 2194 So you can see that the CPU clock speed drops more than 40% in power saver mode on my Dell Precision 6300. So if you have ever wondered why your computer was so slow when it is unplugged, [...]

Desktop Icon size To change it on Vista, rightclick on the desktop and hit view Now you can choose bigger, and classic for smaller. Isn’t that super duper? Now you can clutter your desktop up with a BILLION little useless icons that you will never use. OR you can have a few icons that are [...]

Group policy stuff has a tendency to work on your local non AD machine. For the full MS Vista list of Group Policy features, DOWNLOAD THIS!!!

Check your own machine name and user name Vista- Start >in the  start search box type COMMAND PROMPT At the command prompt type WHOAMI and hit return . It outputs computer\user

Restart explorer the quick easy way Hit start, then in a blank area (like in the pic on the black area below) hold control shift and right click. Choose exit explorer To start it again, use tip #10, control shift escape Then File>new task type in EXPLORER and hit enter. explorer will reload

Task manager shortcut in Vista Control + Alt +Esc Now you can kill off that bad process

Shortcut to lock desktop Windows button and L You should hit this every time you walk away from your desktop. otherwise I might plug my usb key into it, pull it out and walk off with the hash file that has all your passwords stored in it. Muhahahah.