Tools for cleaning up the Windows registry

Tuesday, 20 March 2007 | Jason Slater

I often spend time cleaning up other peoples computers, and it often involves uninstalling useless applications, clearing out temporary files, running updates and virus checks and maintaining the registry.

The last one, maintaining the registry, is the most complicated beast … Read More

Looking for solutions to printer problems

Sunday, 18 March 2007 | Jason Slater

I was flicking through an old copy of PC Advisor yesterday and I found a readers letter that mentioned a site called fixyourownprinter.com.

I have had a good look around this site and it does seem very useful. You simply … Read More

Quick tip: Check your computer time synchronisation

Saturday, 17 March 2007 | Jason Slater

To quickly check the time synchronisation server configured on your Windows computer, you can use the command

net time /querysntp

Which will return the URL used for setting the system time – the default will usually point to time.windows.com

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Quick tip: Logging in as the Admin account

Thursday, 15 March 2007 | Jason Slater

When directly logging onto a user computer via the welcome screen, quite often the real Admin account is not displayed. You can get round this by pressing and holding Ctrl-Alt-Delete key combination twice. This actually reverts the welcome screen to the … Read More

Quick tip: Alt + Backspace restores field entry

Saturday, 3 February 2007 | Jason Slater

A useful tip I discovered by accident today. If you have mis-typed something into an input box you can press ALT + Backspace to put back whatever was there, ie undo the entry.

This makes me wonder what other useful … Read More