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How to: Use bullets in Word
October 8th, 2011Need cheap poster prints?? Shortrunposters.com is you answer. 18X24 for $2.50
October 5th, 2011I got a promo email today from shortrunposters.com advertising their sale on 18 X 24 posters for only $2.50. A pretty good deal. I ordered 10 from them a while back and was very pleased with the quality.
Backups. You SHOULD do them, but do you?
September 30th, 2011I have a friend that I play ball with that had his hard drive crash. I went over and looked at it, heard the click of death, and knew I wasn’t going to be much help. He wound up sending his drive off for recovery to the tune of $750. That’s why it’s important to backup your hard drive. Whether you use one of the online backup tools like Carbonite, or have a USB drive by your machine and use SyncBack to back it up, you really should just do it.
Nine Common Myths and Misconceptions About Viruses, Examined and Debunked @ lifehacker.com
June 24th, 2010Lifehacker has a nice article about the myths and misconeptions about viruses. I especially like the one about the blue screen meaning you MUST have a virus. Take a look…
mal_tidies-12, random strange pages, sparrow.sys, redirecting google searches. Pulling my hair out!!
June 23rd, 2010This issue began with a user calling saying when they did a google search, occasionally they would get the page they clicked on. But more often, they would get 
redirected to a much different page, most times advertising. Normally, there will be outward signs something is going on. One of the common issues is with something like Antivirus 2009. It will throw up a legit looking scan window saying you are infected. You click OK, or even cancel, and it will infect you. Running Windows system restore will fix the problem most times, or a combination of system restore and Malwarebytes.
Not this time.
I began some google searches and came up with a few things to try. There is a tool that will reset your TCP/IP setting, that didn’t work either. I also read about a script in Firefox that could be causing issues, and since this person mainly uses Firefox, I gave the No Scrip addon for Firefox a try. That worked OK and I said try it for a bit and let me know. No go, Internet Explorer was having issue as well.
My next try was to just take the drive out and scan with an antivirus product and Malwarebytes on my desktop. Malwarebytes was running through the files and when it hit the WINDOWS\system32\drivers\sparrow.sys file, my antivirus program it threw up a screen saying the file was infected with the Mal_TIDIES-12 virus. Most information on this virus is pretty vague, but it doesn’t seem like a real well spread virus. I let the scan finish and nothing else was found. I put the drive back in the machine, and we have been working good for several days now. Sometimes you just have to take the drive out and scan it.
If you are looking for a product to view a drive, check this out: http://bit.ly/aEEOF0
It’s a Thermaltake SATA usb device that will take a laptop hard drive or desktop drive and connect to another desktop via USB. Works great for me, just make sure you do have a SATA drive, not an IDE one. If your machine is pretty new, you probably have a SATA drive.
Acrobat Reader won’t open?? Kill it!
June 22nd, 2010If Adobe Acrobt reader will not open and you have used it before on your machine,
there is a good chance there is still a process running that will not allow Acrobat to open correctly or at all. Go to your task manager, and take a look at the processes tab. It is where I go to immediately when I am having a program misbehave. Be careful what you kill, but in this case Acrobat is pretty obvious. Kill the process and try reloading Acrobat. I bet it works now…..
Iphone OS 4 is here!!
June 21st, 2010
Ask the IT guy
June 11th, 2010Ask away! Anything dealing with IT, and I will try to answer it. Just post a comment below and I will create a new post for it and answer it best I can. Can be gadgets, laptops, desktops, iphones, MP3 players, etc. You can comment using your Facebook account on the right, or log in using your Twitter account near the comment form. Depending on how many comments I get, it may take me a while, so have patience. Please pass it along to your friends, retweet it, like it, digg it, stumble it, just tell your friends!
Update to Adobe Flash 10.1 to address security issues
June 11th, 2010
Make sure you to to adobe.com and download the latest version, 10.1, of Flash to address some of the recent security issues. As an added bonus, it is said this version of Flash plays very nice with HD flash video.
If you are having trouble downloading, here is a link to the full downloadable version.
How to: Inserting or Embedding a PDF into Word
June 10th, 2010
It’s a pretty simple task to insert a PDF into a Word document so that the pdf file will go along with the document when you send it off via email. Follow the images and I will show you how. First, under the Insert Ribbon, click the Object button.
From there,
choose the Adobe Acrobt Document Object type, the click the Display as icon checkbox. This will have your pdf file embed in the Word document so it goes along with the file. Click OK
Choose the file you want to insert into the document, and you will get something that looks like this. Notice the Double-Click to Open Acrobat Document in the lower left. Send the file on, and the person you sent it to should be able to double-click the icon and the PDF file will open up in the program associated with .pdf files.
Check out the video below for a video demo:
