Google Drive Filter Data

Using Google Drive for your office and wished that there was a way to filter items so that you can easily view specific categories. No big deal with Google Doc's as long as you learn this great tip.

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Cool Daily Tips

Every once in a while I discover these cool tips that everyone can use on a daily basis and if you learn them correctly they will save you time after a while. The trick is remember them. Give them and try and let me know how it changed your daily life?

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Fix a waking Computer

Tired of your computer always waking up from sleep mode. No problem as long you can narrow down what software is waking your computer up. The command prompt commands are easy to use and the is more information on what other items to check to see what's causing this ongoing wake up. Most of the time it's just Windows doing updates or some other type of software running a virus scan.

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Webcam Security

Recent studies show that hackers are able to download a program onto your computer and easily record you without your knowledge. If your concern on webcam security here are some tips. Disable your webcam when not in use via the control panel and it's that's too tedious then install this tiny webcam on and off utility to end secret recordings.

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Control Panel Instructions

Turn Your Webcam Off & On – The Windows Way

It’s quite a simple process to turn your webcam off and on in Windows, here’s how:

• Navigate to Device Manager – right click Computer or This PC (Windows 8/8.1) and select Manage:
• In the “Computer Management” window, click on Device Manager in the the left hand column:

• From the list of devices, locate “Imaging Devices” and expand that entry – you should see your webcam listed:

• Double click the webcam item to open its “Properties” window, select the Driver tab, and click the Disable button – then close out:

That’s all there is to it. To switch the webcam back ‘on’ again, just go through the same procedure except the button at the end will say “Enable”.

Chrome Tweaks

If your already using Chrome you should know that there are so many tweaks to the very handy OS that you'll be surprised. This is just the start and a beginning of more things to come, I hope.

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Tweaks
chrome://memory
chrome://chrome-urls
chrome://

Windows Screen Shots

Want to learn how to take easy screen shots on your computer without adding any additional software no problem as long as you do it like this.

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How do I take a screenshot?
		press		=	Windows captures the entire screen and copies it to the (invisible) clipboard.
Where can I find that key?
					Look for this group of keys at the upper right of your keyboard. Note: Print Screen (PrtScn) might have been abbreviated differently on your keyboard.
How do I take a screenshot of a single window?
hold down		and press		=	Windows captures only the currently active window and copies it to the clipboard.
I guess it’s in the clipboard now. How can I paste it into a document or something?
hold down		and press		=	Windows pastes the screenshot (that is in the clipboard) into a document or image you are currently editing.
Where should I paste it? I just need a (graphics) file.
Start “Paint” Paste Save
Can you show me in a video?
Is there a dedicated program for taking screenshots? How can I find?

Windows Resource Error

This is any annoying Windows Resource Error fix for computers that keep on failing to start a service. You'll be surprised on how easy it is to restore your computer to normalcy once your run this scan.

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First run System File Checker SFC
Then run the "net start trustedinstaller"

Fixing Network Connections

Windows 7 has it's good and it's bad and one thing that is fustrating is when you are already on a network and Window then refuses to recognize it. For those user's with this constant network connection problems were drivers are no longer accessible, try this.

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Fixed it. I fixed it by uninstalling the "File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks" on the network adaptor, reinstalling it and then restarting the computer. After the re-start things are now back to normal.

To uninstall the "File and Printer sharing for microsoft networks" in windows 7/Server 2008:

1. Go to Network and Sharing Center from the control panel.
2. Click change adaptor settings on the left hand side.
3. Right click the network adaptor (if you have more than one you may need to do this on all of them).
4. Select "Properties" from the list.
5. In the "This connection uses the following items:" select "File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks".
6. Click the "Uninstall" button.
7. Click "Yes" when the conformation box appears and wait for it to uninstall ("File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks" will disappear from the "This connection uses the following items:" box once uninstalled).
8. Click the "Install" button.
9. Select "Service" from the "Click the type of network feature you want to install:" box.
10. Select "File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks" from the "Network Service" box.
11. Click "OK" and it should install in less than a few seconds ("File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks" will reappear in the "This connection uses the following items:" box once installed).
12. Restart the computer and the problem should be fixed.

MAC Safe Mode

Every now and then I post MAC tips and here is a great MAC tip to go into safe mode. The only time I would suggest you go into safe mode is when your computer is having problems so you can do diagnostics.

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Step 1 - reboot computer
Step 2 - hold the shift key until the Apple logo appears
Step 3 - release the shift key after the Apple logo
Step 4 - login
Step 5 - when your all done reboot to go back to original computer settings.

Map Print Drivers via Win 7

Windows 7 has it's good days and bad days. I just still don't get it why Microsoft hasn't still fixed this problem. But when you try to map some print drivers on some computers you get that Windows cannot find the .inf files. In reality you may not ever be able to find these files and here's the simple fix to connecting the printer on your network.

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Install the printer driver with the provided downloaded pack.

Go to network and try to find the PC with the printer. You should see the printer. 

Go to Control Panel & Printers and click "Add printer". Choose "Local printer". DON'T choose "Local port", choose instead "Create new port". Click next and pops up, asking for a text. Write here \\server\Canon123. Be careful:

1. two backslashes (as written in the other window's address bar when you checked servers computer)
2. exact printer name (as seen when you checked servers computer's printer)
3. no backslash at the end

Click the OK's and Next's, the printer should work correctly afterwards.

Lock TaskbarT

Want to lock the Taskbar in Windows 8, no problem as long as you move your mouse to the bottom of the screen and click were the Tasbar usually lies and then left click on the mouse and choose properties. This should then open a window called Taskbar and Navigation properties. In that window just check lock the Taskbar and the Taskbar will no longer disappear when you hoover off into the middle of Windows.

Restore Previous Versions

Need to restore previous version from a folder that you recently deleted or altered a document. Well if you computer is setup already it should be as easy as easy as left clicking the folder and clicking on properties and viewing the Previous Version folder.
If the folder has not been activated, then it's probably a good time to do it now, just in case sometime in the future you need this tool.

Setup Previous Version
Control Panel -> System Icon -> System Protection link -> on C drive click on Configure button -> Select Restore System and previous versions of files and then click OK. It may take a while at first but if everything goes right then the next time you left click a folder and click properties and go to the previous version files. You should see other file folders only if a folder was modified before. If not then you'll just see one folder file

Change File Names

Want to change files names the easy way.

Try using the F2 command after you change the "file name" and then hit the tab button to goto the next name to change. This will save you time, when changing several file names.

Forgot your Windows Password

Here are some great tips for users who forgot their Windows passwords. It's not an easy task to do, but with proper patience and time. You can restore your Windows to original state.

Please note that this information is intended for educational purpose and not for mischief. Besides all this information is online for anyone to access for free.



Step 1:
 Use the Windows repair utility to reset your password. You'll will need your recovery disks. First boot from recovery disks. Then click repair your computer and choose command prompt. The c drive is not usually mounted and to mount it you need to find the current drive letter. In DOS type "bcdedit I find "osdevice" the command should end in partion= with a drive letter. This letter should be used instead of c. Then do the following type  (drive letter is in place of c)

 "copy c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe c:\ "
then type this below
"copy c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe"
when prompted type
"yes"

Step 2
 Change the password using the command prompt. Remove the installation disks as in step 1 and reboot the computer. On the login screen press Shift key five times in a row. By magic the command prompt appears. Now enter in the command prompt the following "net user " the name should be the account you want to change the password to. 
You must then restore access to the sethc.exe file we overwrote in Step 1. To do that click Start-Accessories, right click cmd prompt and choose Run as Administrator. This gives you the right to copy sethc.exe back into the system32 folder. Now enter the following command " copy c:\sethc.exe c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe" and then confirm to finish. 

Step 3 
 If all fails it's time to get the heavy duty password cracker from Ophcrack. Download it at http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net and burn the software to a disk and boot your computer to the software to crack the password. Your best bet is to do a deep scan to crack the password. With any luck your computer password should be that simple to crack.

IE Tricks

If your using IE to access the web, here are some cool tricks to help you speed up your searching practices while on the internet. If you can remember all of them, you will eventually speed up your browsing techniques.



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Select all words in the address bard
 ATL+D

Display list of addresses you have typed
 F4

When in the address bar, move the cursor to your left on next logical break
 CTRL+ Left Arrow

When in the address bar, move the cursor to your right on next logical break
 CTRL+ Right Arrow

Add www in the beginning and .com at the end of a web address
 CTRL + ENTER

Delete Browser History
 CTRL + SHIFT + DEL

Open an inPrivate Browsing Window
 CTRL + SHIFT + P

Open a new tab
 CTRL + T

Open specific tab number
 CTRL + 1-9

Return to home page
 CTRL + Home

Delete Files ready to burn

Many user's encounter this problem when they are trying to burn a CD or DvD. Which is that they can't delete the files ready to burn. Your fist step is to try to delete the files itself by using the Windows files utility. If that fails you can try to install a program called unlocker and it does a great job of releasing programs that are locked down by Windows utility. And if all fails your last resort is to go to the run command in Windows and type shell:cd burning. This will open up the burning Windows utility folder to delete the file by itself.

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Fix Chrome not Updating

I recently encountered a problem were for one reason or another Chrome was not updating. My response was to re-install Chrome. But this failed because the trick to fixing the auto update lied in the registry. If your having this similar problem this is how you fix the problem.

Go to the registry but make the following changes


Go to Registry Editor
Go to : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\
Double-click at the UpdateDefault or DefaultUpdate
And type 0 to 1
Exit Registry Editor and Go to your browser!
See! The Problem is solved!

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Slow DSL speeds info

Having slow DSL speeds this is what you should be looking for when your having slow DSL problems at home.

1. Check your computer

        -Reboot by turning your computer and modem/router off and then back on again. Simply rebooting solves most connection problems.

2. Check your web browser

        -Clear the cache (temporary internet files) in your web browser, clear the cookies in your web browser.

            http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB401539

            http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB401516

3. Check for electromagnetic interferences

        -Relocate the modem about 2 feet from anything electrical.

        -Make sure no speakers, cordless phone bases, subwoofers, or big screen TVs around the modem

        -Move, unplug or turn off any halogen, neon, and/or florescent lights nearby.

4. Check your connection

        -Make sure DSL line filters have been installed for all devices using the phone line.

        -Measure your connection speed at our speed test site. You can run speedtest using these websites: www.speakeasy.net orwww.speedtest.net. After running speedtest, compare the results you are getting with the level of service that you subscribed to. Below is the acceptable download and upload speed for each plan:

            - DSL Lite (up to 768)

              download speed: 224 Kbps down

              upload speed: 64 Kbps up

            - DSL Ultra (up to 1.5)

              download speed: 800 Kbps down

              upload speed: 128 Kbps up

            - DSL Xtreme (up to 3.0)

              download speed: 1.56 Mbps down

              upload speed: 256 Kbps up

            - DSL Xtreme 6.0 (up to 6.0)

              download speed: 3.04 Mbps down

              upload speed: 320 Kbps up

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Chromebook OS Troubleshooting

Recently purchased a Chromebook and now want to be able to troubleshoot it's basic problems. Well a few technicians have made it simple to figure out what's wrong and hopefully one day it will help you.
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Win 8 Update

Having a problem showing the Windows 8 update. Here's is what you need to do so that you can install the Windows 8.1 update on your computer.

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Type in the run command "wsreset.exe" and re-boot computer and now you should be able to do the Windows 8.1 update.