If you are the IT Administrator for a small or medium-sized business, you probably should have a tool that can monitor the event logs across your network. Usually, when something goes wrong, we look at the event log to figure out what the problem is. But it’s always better to be more proactive and monitor [...]

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Earlier I wrote a post on how to configure a router for remote desktop, which went through the steps of logging into your wireless router and forwarding the appropriate ports. I tried to go into as much detail as possible, but setting up port forwarding is still too technical for some people. So if you [...]

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If you are a computer geek like me, you probably don’t like it very much when other people use your computer, right? I don’t either! I especially hate it when people try to download software, install programs, or connect up their devices without asking. There may come a point where you would want to find [...]

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I sometimes write about freeware programs that I think would benefit an IT Professional, especially to help speed up their PCs. It’s funny how most IT pros have computers that run extremely slow. It’s not that the hardware is old or out-of-date, it’s simply the fact that we install crap loads of software onto our [...]

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I’ve written a fair amount of code in my IT career and released a good number of Windows programs also. A good tool to create Windows installer packages was always key. Each program would have a different set of needs, such as scripts, DLLs, security settings, etc, so one tool to create any type of [...]

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Have you ever needed to open, edit, or modify a Microsoft Access database file (MDB), but you didn’t have Microsoft Access on your computer? Microsoft has programs to view Word documents, Excels spreadsheets, and Powerpoint files without having the original software installed, however, they do not have this option for MS Access! Who knows why, [...]

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During my IT career so far, there have been several occasions where we had to implement some kind of file system monitoring software in order to track employees who were trying to access confidential data without authorization. Windows has a built in feature whereby you can audit file access or file modifications, but it’s a [...]

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In an Active Directory environment, the first thing you want to turn on is complex passwords in Group Policy. Most users, if not forced to, would use their names or three-letter words for their passwords! Not very secure! Active Directory has a group policy setting called Passwords must meet complexity requirements, which makes all user [...]

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Have you ever gone to the Task Manager in Windows and clicked on the Process tab only to see that svchost.exe is taking up 100% of your CPU? Well, unfortunately that doesn’t help you figure out which program in Windows is actually using up all that processing power. In Windows, there are many processes, like [...]

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If you have your own small business, you’ve probably realized the benefits of free software by now! Yes, it’s nice to get a little technical support by buying software from big companies like Microsoft and Adobe, etc, but sometimes price trumps everything. Frankly, buying Adobe Acrobat for all employees in our company so that they [...]

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