Via Download Squad and Into Windows I came across a user modification that does two wonderful things: enables Remote Desktop for all Windows 7 versions and allows more than one Remote Desktop connection to any Windows PC.

For those users running Windows 7 Starter or Home versions you don’t have an option to enable Remote Desktop.  Any for all users of Remote Desktop you can’t run more than one connection to a PC.
Via this package you can enable remote desktop and allow multiple Remote Desktop sessions to the same PC.  This …

While trying to de-clutter my office I can across some software that wasn’t in use anymore.  I decided to gather it together and liquidate on eBay.  All was fine except for two discs that had seen some action and were scratched.  I copied the contents to a hard drive to make sure they could be read but didn’t want to go through the hassle of installing them just to be sure.
While perusing completed sales to find good starting prices I came across mention of a program called CDCheck.

It will verify …

Eventually every PC user comes to the point when they try to save something on their PC and there isn’t enough space.  We all react the same way: what’s filled my hard drive?  It seemed for a while gargantuan hard drives with 1 to 2 TB were the norm and we could never fill that space, but now SSDs are the hot item and most of us can only afford something 40 to 120 GB.  Or you store everything on a server and only run the operating system and applications …

I’m in the process of upgrading my PC.  After swapping out a Gigabyte for a P55A-UD3P motherboard I left everything else as is and ran the system for a few days.  All components were working properly so I was ready for the final phase of removing my RAID 0 array and replacing it with an OCZ Agility SSD.
My system was off so I flipped the switch on the power supply, removed the two Raptor hard drives and installed the OCZ SSD.  Turning the system back on gave me no …

I was browsing a forum and noticed a mention of an icon site I had never heard of: Icon Finder.  I was looking to add nice RSS and Twitter icons since even though eBabble offers these feeds there are few takers.  The site is amazing and offers a ridiculously large selection.

I was looking for free icons that had the same look: once I found the RSS icon I liked I checked it’s icon set out and located the matching Twitter icon.  These are for non commercial use under Creative Commons …

I’ve upgraded my main PC and wanted a good inexpensive socket 1156 motherboard for overclocking an Intel i5-75o processor.  Every possible site and magazine pointed to one motherboard: the Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2.  It really is a great motherboard with everything most users could want: easy overclocking, micro ATX form factor, seven SATA 3.0 headers, lots of USB ports, well laid out, two PCI-E x16 slots, two PCI slots, four RAM slots, 7.1 audio, gigabit Ethernet, even floppy and PATA headers.

I set up my new system in an Antec P182 case, Corsair …

AVG produces a great anti-virus product and makes a free version available; it’s highly recommended.  Recently they released AVG Rescue CD and it’s just as it sounds: a bootable CD with AVG on it, ready to fix those virus issues on your FAT32 or NTFS formatted hard drives.  System requirements indicate it will only work with Windows 2000 and up but that includes server versions as well; nicely done AVG.
Like all great fixes available you need a second working computer or need to download and burn a copy every few …

I finally succumbed to tech lust and upgraded my main computer.  It’s been over three years and was still doing everything I needed but I wanted more.  With the great overclocking available with the Intel i5 and i7 series processors I needed a good CPU cooler.  I immediately started looking at the traditional heat sink and fan combo since water cooling was out of my depth: complicated and all encompassing tubes connected to pumps, reservoirs, radiators and water blocks.  At that point I remembered some reviews of an all in one water cooler …

Update 16-Mar-10.  Forfiles command line updated to show @file instead of @path; testing and working.
I needed a simple and free backup program for a single purpose PC that chugged along day in day out.  It ran Windows XP Professional and had a total used space of 8 GB on a 40 GB hard drive.  For convenience I installed a second 40 GB hard drive that would hold the backup files. Since it was always running the program would need to use the volume shadow service and be able to back …

Just finished the February 2010 issue of PC World.  They had an article called “The State Of Windows 7 Satisfaction” about early adopters of Windows 7 and their general feedback about installation and features.  Information was gathered from 615 people at www.technologizer.com.

Something really jumped out at me: 64% rated themselves as Windows experts and 41.3% had to resolve driver issues.  To me any Windows expert would search out, verify and download all drivers for a new operating system before installing it.  That was certainly the case when I installed the …