Archive for the ‘windows’ Category

Learn Something New: Synchronizing with Internet Time

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Although I do all of my serious work on a laptop, it sits right beside a desktop that is really nothing more than a glorified radio and backup device. Every week, I synchronize my files between the two machines - this synchronization depends on date/time of files and if ...

Norton Crap Can Affect the Strangest Things

Monday, July 30th, 2007

This is one of those bizarre stories where one problem with your computer leads you down a rabbit hole. When you eventually come out the other side, you discover that the culprit was something completely asinine, like say, some piece of software that you uninstalled weeks ago! Context: Backing Up I ...

Backing Up Scheduled Tasks in Windows

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Have you ever wished you could back up your scheduled tasks in Windows? I've often wished for this, given how often I end up reformatting my machine and/or reinstalling Windows. I've always made do with making a list of the scheduled tasks in my Scheduled Tasks folder and ...

Forgive Me, It’s Been 18 Months Since My Last Reinstall

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

It's been 18 months since I last reformated the hard drive of my laptop (main work machine) and reinstalled Windows. Oh, it's going to be painful. I've just started the process tonight, but I did a lot of prep work, like figuring out what programs were going to be brought ...

How to Cut Down on Navigating/Typing to Get to Specific Folders

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Update: I absolutely hate working with Windows Live Writer and Blogger Beta. Why can't they play nice together. Tonight, my lovely post with all its screen shots refused to post. So, I sent the text to Blogger, and then saved all the clips as actual images, ...