Updated May 22, 2017 If you're getting a message at the bottom of Word 2007, Word 2010, or other products in the Office suite whenever you try to change the document saying "This modifications is not allowed because the selection is locked.", this article should answer your question 'why' and tell you how to make your document editable again. There are four possible … [Read more...]
Remove Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration
Very rarely is it a good idea to remove built-in security measures, but the Internet Explorer Enhanced Security provided with Server 2003 and Server 2008 is too annoying and interacts with the file system too much for my liking. This is particularly an annoyance if you use the Server OS's as a workstation. You'll end up getting warning messages like the following when you try … [Read more...]
Windows Installer Wrapper Wizard and a Better Firefox 3 Enterprise Deployment
Building off of the previous successful article, Make a .msi from Firefox 3 setup.exe for Enterprise Deployment, I have come up with an even better way to deploy Mozilla Firefox 3 via Group Policy and .msi installation. This article will provide a step-by-step guide to accomplish this, tested and proven working with Firefox 3.0.4. Whereas the previous article allowed Firefox … [Read more...]
Simple Tip: How to Rename Your Computer
It is best practice to name your computer something descriptive and unique. If the name is not unique amongst the computers on its network, you will get a NetBIOS Naming error and likely will not be able to connect to network resources from either machine. In order to rename your computer, you need to go to the System Properties. To get there, either right-click on My Computer … [Read more...]
Improving Vista
There are two legitimate complaints that I hear frequently regarding Vista. I say legitimate because I think a lot of people have bought into the herd mentality that Vista is bad without ever: A) Trying it out for themselves B) Giving it a shot for a decent length of time C) Recalling how bad Windows XP was at first (Wireless networking wasn't even reliable or mainstream usable … [Read more...]