I am pretty sure you’ve done this at some point in your professional life too, you checked the “Remember Password” checkbox when creating a network share. This, of course, saves you the hassle and the time to enter the password each time you accessed that network share, but what if your domain/network account password changes? As it turns out, there is no user friendly navigation shortcut to the “Windows Key Manager” (or if there is, I could not find it). That being said, there is a handy Command you can run under a Command Prompt as follows: rundll32.exe keym... [More]

I’ve been using Windows Live Writer (WLW) to write my blog articles since my blog platform has supported it, and I have installed as one of those “must have” tools on 2 of my PCs, my laptop and my main desktop. If you do not use Windows Live Writer, then stop reading this post and go download your copy, set it up, then by all means come back and finish reading. The problem I have had, has been the fact that the two instances of WLW on each of my PCs know nothing about the other. If I start writing a draft blog post on my laptop, I cannot go and finish it from my main ... [More]

I have heard so much about Vista's quirks lately, especially from disgruntled co-workers and friends who had decided to take the early plunge! Their daily comments on Vista range from "G" all the way up to "R" rating, as allegedly the productivity has, since their upgrade, fallen to an all time low. Then, yesterday, I hear this bit of news! The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) bans Windows Vista. NIST is now considering a Linux + Google Apps alternative. This is a bold move, and one that I do not particularly agree with; Perharps topic for anoth... [More]