I was working in a lab yesterday that uses mandatory profiles. The computers autologon so they were coming up right away with this error: "The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded." After that it would return to the "Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete keys to login message." Manually logging into the computer with that same account got the same error … [Read more...]

Here's a confession. I was doing something dumb for quite a while and I didn't even try to improve it for a while, satisfied with the mediocre workaround I had made myself. I was drawing arrows in Paint.NET by connecting 3 lines. It wasn't a horrible thing to do but it was more work and lower quality than I could have gotten by better understanding the software. … [Read more...]

New printers around my organization mean different default settings than what people are used to. On the Mac side, I had to look into saving Presets and changing the default behavior to make people happy. Duplexing (printing on both sides) by default seems like a great way to save paper but many people don't care for it or it doesn't work for professional printing. The copiers … [Read more...]

Ever received or generated a spreadsheet of data that would be a lot more useful if it was sorted how you needed it? With previous versions of Excel or if you choose the wrong options in your configuration, it is easy to sort a single column but break the correlation between the data in that column and the rest of the entries in each row. Here's how to sort the spreadsheet by a … [Read more...]

I consider Google Chrome's background auto-update feature one of its best capabilities. The fact that the updates include Adobe Flash is just icing on the cake. Even with Flash up-to-date, you might not always want Flash object to run by default. Either for security reasons, page load performance, or you just find them annoying most of the time. Using Chrome's built-in … [Read more...]