Ramblings o' Techie

Thoughts, tips, tricks, and fixes for the IT person in you. I am an MCSE and support a wide variety of IT-related items at my job, including: Windows OS's, Exchange, Terminal Services, .NET, IIS, OS X, Microsoft Office, printers, phones, Linux, Adobe Creative Suites, and plenty of other hardware and software. Hopefully some of the solutions I find throughout the workday are useful to you as well

Friday, May 29, 2009

How to disassemble a Dell 2005FPW monitor

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First off, this is at your own risk. I'm not affiliated with Dell and figured this out on my own, with a little help from this guide . I...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Manually add .NET 2.0 or 1.0 Framework to IIS

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Normally ASP .NET 2.0 or 1.0 should be installed automatically for you with IIS, but there are instances when they are not. If that happens,...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Disable DHCP on a Cisco router or wireless access point

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If you already have a DHCP server setup, there's no need to leave DHCP enabled on your Cisco router or WAP. It can also lead to other is...
Friday, May 15, 2009

Create a virtual CD or DVD drive on your Windows computer

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First off, you need to know why a virtual CD or DVD drive would be useful. There are many reasons for this. It allows you to use disk images...
Friday, May 8, 2009

Find hosts by their MAC address

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I've been having an IP conflict issue on my network, and it happens to only affect my Exchange server of all things. In the event log it...
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Install .NET Framework 1.1 on Windows Vista

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I ran into an issue with running an old VB .NET application on my Vista computer today, and it was because I needed the .NET 1.1 runtime env...

Reset or recover admin password in Mac OS X

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This is a lot easier than you'd think, and is more simple on a Mac than a Windows machine. There are a few ways to do this, and I'll...
Monday, May 4, 2009

Set your homepage in IE, Firefox, Safari, or Chrome

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This may be old news, but I ran across someone on Yahoo! Answers asking how to set their home page. Of course they didn't list the brows...

Free Winzip and WinRAR alternative in 7zip

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7zip is a great, free software package that works well for compressing and decompressing many different compressed file types. This is speci...
Saturday, May 2, 2009

Find out what svchost.exe is running

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You've probably ran across a point in time where your computer is running really slow. You check the Task Manager and see that svchost.e...
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