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Access Multiple Computers on a LAN (or VM) via Remote Desktop Connection

PLEASE READ THE COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE YOU START. One of the best features of Windows (XP Professional, Vista and Windows 7, 8, 10) is the Remote Desktop Connection feature. This feature allows you to connect to another computer as if you are using that computer.  Some examples would be: In some cases you may have

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Shutting down a computer that appears unresponsive

Sometimes Microsoft Windows will do something crazy and you can no longer get the Start > Shutdown process to work.  Most will push and hold the power button until the system halts, then restart.  There may be two other things you can do: Hope this is helpful. Comments are welcomed below from registered users.  You

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Clean Up the Startup Folder with Autoruns Tool

Malware sometimes likes to invade the startup folder and other locations on infected systems. Seems that these are the hardest things to find and get rid of when trying to clean up spyware/malware/ infections. Autoruns can help with that. It looks through all possible locations where applications can be listed to automatically start when Windows

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Some Basic Troubleshooting Tips for the PC/Networking

Here are some fundamental PC Troubleshooting Tips.  We cant cover everything here, but if something below helps, great! PC Won’t Boot Into Windows Try “Safe Mode” FirstWhen your PC just won’t boot into Windows at all, you’ll probably want to start off with Safe Mode—use the F8 key right when the system starts up to

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Our First Experiences with Windows SharePoint 2007

As those of you close to us know, we have been big fans of Microsoft’s SharePoint concept since initial release several years ago.  We have, in fact, recommended it to every small/medium business owner that will listen to us!  The entire CellStream back office became converted to this online database system.  Was it perfect –

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Removing unused Device Drivers

When you install a device driver on a Windows machine, the operating system loads that driver each time the computer boots regardless of whether the device is present—unless you specifically uninstall the driver. This means that drivers from devices that you have long since removed from your system may be wasting valuable system resources. Follow

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Faster Booting by cleaning out Windows Pre-Fetch Folder

One of Microsoft’s big selling points for Windows XP was that it loads applications much faster than its predecessors. To accomplish this feat, Windows XP uses what is called the “Prefetch technique,” in which the operating system gathers information about each program that you launch and stores that information in the \Windows\Prefetch folder. Then on

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