This one’s a bit more esoteric.  Have you ever been using Remote Desktop to access a Windows machine and noticed that there is no ‘Shut Down’ button on the Start menu?  What if you needed to restart the machine remotely?  What if a co-worker was pissing you off, and you wanted to give him what-for?
Enter one [...]

This tech tip hails from the deep halls of my mind, a dark place filled with horrors and twisted imaginings.
Have you ever noticed that sometimes you install a program on your PC, and it launches some part of itself when you first boot? Apple’s Quicktime, for example, loads the ‘qttask.exe’ process, even if you [...]

After the long weekend, I bring you a new tech tip.
You’ve just purchased a new Windows-based computer.  It’s shiny, it’s new, it’s pretty.  You spent several hundred (or over a thousand) dollars on it, and you’ve just unwrapped it.  You turn it on, and there are a dozen or so icons already ont he desktop.  [...]