Microsoft briefly went all nostalgic on us! They have a nice article on the history of Windows available at this link: A history of Windows <— Click the Linky…
Category: Microsoft
How to Recover an unsaved Microsoft Office 2010 file
Microsoft Office has a fantastic feature built in where it can recover unsaved new documents. Now in order to use this feature, you will need to have Save Auto…
Enable hidden Administrator account in Windows 7
Microsoft disabled the Administrator account in Windows 7 by default for security reasons. It is nice to have this enabled as a backup if your main user profile becomes…
Disable UAC (User Access Controls) in Windows Vista
Those annoying “are you sure you want to do this?” popup windows on Windows Vista can be disabled. However, not as easily as other version of Windows. Here…
Toshiba Laptop with Windows 8.1 loses keyboard and mouse – FIX
This weekend I worked on a Toshiba laptop with Windows 8.1 that had received some updates then rebooted. The keyboard and mouse both failed to work after the reboot….
Internal Error 2502 and 2503 installing or uninstalling programs in Windows 8
Yep, that is one long title for this post. I had a need to uninstall a Cisco VPN client from Windows 8.1. Attempting to do so resulted in a…
DOS FDISK /MBR
If you are here chances are you already know about the FDISK command ..or else you wouldn’t have DOS installed anyway. FDISK is used to setup a partition to…
Virtualizing for DOS
Right. I mentioned you can run DOS by virtualization… so… what are you waiting for? Get cracking!! This is the point where I need to mention a few programs…