Spending some time at my parent’s house this evening. It’s been good to relax with my brothers all in town celebrating Mother’s Day and having dinner together. Normally I’m over here for computer support. Today while I was here I’m following up on an issue from last time.

Dad’s got some weird stuff going on with his computer. Odd, random shut-downs, no-Internet connections will work, and it won’t recognize USB drives anymore. It’s been getting slower and slower, so I’m suggesting a complete wipe of the hard drive and refresh of the system to factory specs. This may seem extreme, but …read more

The b5 Tech Channel is having a little them post series and I thought of something that might be pretty interesting to share with everyone and we’ll get some responses back in the comments as well.
What’s in your Start Menu?
You’ve got the ability to pin a program you use frequently to your Start Menu so it’s readily available as soon as you need it right? The question is, what did you pin up there? Are you the type of person that keeps it simple and sparse, or do you load everything up there?
As you can see from my screen …read more

I’ve been thankful lately to be working from multiple monitors at home and at the office. One little snag I’m experiencing though with getting work done is that I frequently find myself moving to the bottom of the secondary monitor’s screen to switch to another application, or open a new application.
The problem is that the Start Menu and task bar is located at the bottom of the other screen. It would be nice if the task bar could duplicate itself on both screens if you wanted it to function that way.
Anyone else think that would be helpful?