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My new Media Server doesn’t come with everything to play all file types. If I didn’t want to play files in Windows Media Player or Media Center, that wouldn’t be a problem. I highly recommend the Video Lan Client (VLC) as it plays just about every file type you throw at it. There are times [...]

Fixing Windows Vista, Part 3: Top Troubleshooting Tools
(tags: microsoft windows vista troubleshooting)

Fixing Windows Vista, one machine at a time
(tags: windows vista fix)

Fixing Windows Vista, Part 2: Taming UAC
(tags: windows vista fix)

Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Memory Hacks
(tags: memory)

Last time I talked about the parts needed for the media server I built. I thought I would take a moment and show how I have the disks set up.
At left is a screen shot from the storage manager. I partitioned one of the 320GB hard drives into 2 partitions. The C: partition holds [...]

One nice thing about Windows Vista is that it has built in support for unzipping compressed files such as those with the .zip extension. It is nice until you have to unzip a file that contains lots of directories and small files.
Tonight I was updating the Wordpress software that runs this blog. I downloaded the [...]

In my house, we are using laptops more and more. All kinds of data on a single little laptop hard drives makes me nervous. Also, without some form of central storage it is hard to share files. What to do about it?
There are a myriad of options. I could buy a large USB drive that [...]