I wasn’t all that interested in Google’s new Desktop Search, but when even my wife’s grandmother starts asking about it, well what kind of a techie would I be if I couldn’t say whether it worked or not. So I installed it at work. It indexed my files in about 10 minutes, which is pretty…
In addition to tracking down mysteries of not getting virus def updates or Windows Update automatic downloads this week, I’ve also been working on a few other projects. The first thing I wanted to accomplish was using a trial edition of Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2004 to setup an NT Workstation install alongside my XP machine….
This may be the largest collection of Outlook/Exchange links in one place, anywhere. It’s certainly the largest I’ve ever seen…. As an update to yesterday’s post, I wound up just going to the Windows Update site and updating the XP machines here. There’s only a couple of them, that takes a lot less time than…
Well my users got notified that there were downloads available this morning sure enough. Unfortunately, nothing actually got downloaded, all of them had many dropped or abandoned download attempts in the Windows Update log. Looks like I’ll be spending a bunch of time figuring this one out… Meanwhile, I also had issue with them all…
Today should be the first time since I’ve updated the handful of XP machines in the office that automatic updates will come into play with Microsoft’s monthly security bulletins coming late yesterday. They’re set to notify the end user that new updates are avaialble. That setting was a guess at what would work best, if…
Don’t you just hate when you get in a panic about something and spend far too much time on it, only to discover that it was your own stupidity that caused the problem to begin with? I needed to move some stuff from my work PC over to my laptop to take home. The easiest…