The other day I noticed some of the computers I was working on were reporting the wrong time for their last boot. I thought that was odd. I knew for sure they had been shut down the night before. But Windows was saying they had not been rebooted for almost a month. So after doing Continue Reading »
There are times when you really need to get back some deleted files. Like a while back when I had a lady at work come to me in distress. She had a bunch of family pictures on a USB drive and had somehow deleted them. I could tell by her face those pictures meant a Continue Reading »
One of the best things about computers is the ability to customize them to your needs. And there are a lot of useful programs that can make using a computer more enjoyable. Here is a list of some of my favorites! VLC Player This is the best media player I have ever used! It will Continue Reading »
I heard from a sysadmin friend of mine that they have disabled windows script host on all their workstations to protect them from malware that exploits local scrips. This sounded interesting to me so I wanted to check it out. The Windows script host is responsible for running local scrips on your computer including JScript Continue Reading »
There are lots of backup solutions out there but a lot of them seem to be overly complicated to me. A lot of the software we have now days seems to be overly complicated but that is a rant for another time. That is why I started using a simple robocopy script to do most Continue Reading »
