Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category


Top 10 humerous Reasons to Buy Vista

By pbash on Thursday, May 3rd, 2007 | No Comments

I hope you find some humor in this list. I am by no means saying you shouldn’t upgrade to Windows Vista, but rather pointing out issues that can occur during an upgrade along with some other humerous points. Enjoy! 10. Because you want to upgrade your hardware 9. So your already purchased applications wont work [...]

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Windows Vista Recovery Environment

By pbash on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007 | 1 Comment

Microsoft has added a new feature to the Windows arsenal. The new utility is the Recovery environment utility. This new utility has been added to aid a user in repair of the Windows Vista OS. This new utility is actually booted from the Vista DVD and has a few new utilities. Included in this new [...]

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Is your IT department ready for Vista roll out?

By pbash on Monday, April 30th, 2007 | No Comments

If you have ever had difficulties in rolling out a new operating system then Vista will be no different.Your organization may opt to wait for roll out. Windows Vista will be even more complicated to roll out. Of course any rollout will be easier by implementing group policies for a more centralized control of how [...]

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Windows Vista UAC

By pbash on Friday, April 27th, 2007 | 4 Comments

I have completed the new Microsoft Windows Vista course 5118A just this week. In review of my new training on Vista Microsoft has a new and very annoying utility internal to the operating system. The new utilitiy is the UAC or user account control. If you have recently purchased Windows vista you know just how [...]

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Backing Up the registry and using Sytem Restore

By pbash on Monday, April 16th, 2007 | 1 Comment

The registry contains extended information, settings and various other values for the Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP Operating System. Within the registry you can control a majority of the operating system as well as fix issues with Windows. However we only recommend users extensively experienced with the Windows registry edit [...]

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Avoiding and dealing with duplicate files

By pbash on Friday, April 13th, 2007 | 1 Comment

Recently I discovered an issue where I had duplicate files on my computer. These were mainly document files. Somewhere in the confusion I was updating the wrong documents. This caused me to lose some very important documentation. I had noticed that there were three different locations I was storing backups of the original documents. At [...]

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Protection errors

By pbash on Thursday, April 5th, 2007 | No Comments

These wonderful Windows protection errors occur when your computer attempts to activate or deactivate a virtual device driver or VxD. These messages indicate there is an issue with a hardware driver. This is usually an inability of the driver to load or unload. Typically the offending Vxd or driver module is noted in the error. [...]

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