From today’s WinXPNews. How to use the Cipher command to wipe data from your disk As you probably know, when you delete files off your Windows XP or Windows Vista computer, those files aren’t actually gone. The only thing that happens is that the “pointer” to the deleted files is removed and the space on…
I’m beginning to understand why so many people in work in litigation support sing the praises of IrFanView every chance they get. I had always considered the program as an image viewer with some other tools, but I didn’t realize just what awesome batch processing features it has. Today I was using the batch rename…
After almost 10 years in IT, I should know this. But I was provided another example of it this week. We have been using Trial Director version 4.5 for awhile now. It’s a nice package, it helps collect all your documents and present them electronically at trial, it integrates nicely with Summation so you can…
If you’re not in Ohio, maybe you haven’t paid much attention to the happenings of a certain intern and a stolen backup tape, so let me fill you in: – News reports a backup tape was stolen from an intern, working for the state’s, car. It is believed the tape has personal information, including SSN’s…
Remember that big honking new machine I have at work? Well we needed to find something to copy 14GB of data to DVD today, and I noticed that the Roxio Creator Plus -Dell Edition that came with it actually had an option to do disc spanning, so I clicked it. Then I went and added…
In case you ever run into a laptop like the one I did today, where you had to reload applications, the Internet activation of Office 2003 failed and you couldn’t get the phone activation information to come up. From KB article 875452: SYMPTOMSThe Microsoft Office 2003 Activation Wizard disappears when you use the telephone option…