Software Informer

Posted at 10:31:07 AM in Other (4)

A plague of Software informer appsapps which can be found on Sofware Informer's web site seem to be appearing on PCs throughout my support realm. No one knows how these odd apps got installed on their PCs. (Note: Software informer appears to be a adware site. Meaning, they offer to track user input about software. However, the site is loaded with ads, some of which lead the visitor to believe that some links may give them more info, but is an ad which will generate revenue for the owners.)The...

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Written by Leonard Rogers on Wednesday, June 15, 2011 | Comments (0)

Undoing a botched cut and paste operation Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V

Posted at 4:22:40 PM in Other (4)

Everyone probably already knows this, but I just discovered it. I frequently high-light my material and copy it into the windows clipboard when I go to save my work. To do this, I press Ctrl-A to highlight everything, then Ctrl-C to copy. That way, if I lose the material when the save doesn't work, I can just paste it back in with Ctrl-V. If the program won't open again, I can paste my work into almost any other application and I can save it in that software. Doing this over and over often means...

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Written by Leonard Rogers on Thursday, February 24, 2011 | Comments (3)

slapbackguitar.com forums down :(

Posted at 2:04:51 PM in Other (4)

Getting a Unable to load the 'ThemeStrings.english-utf8' language file. error message when I try to access the forums on slapbackguitar.com.  This is the stable forums package being offered by the same guy that wrote bp blog.  Not a secure feeling.  I can't tell if it's a hack or an error in design.

Hope it's backup soon.

Written by Leonard Rogers on Thursday, February 10, 2011 | Comments (0)

Print Server Properties

Posted at 1:32:17 PM in Other (4)

In Microsoft Windows 7, the print server properties option doesn't show up on the options bar until you've selected a printer.  To access that option, you have to be in devices and printers, then highlight any printer and additional options will appear.

Written by Leonard Rogers on Saturday, January 29, 2011 | Comments (0)