InterWorks Wins Dell Partner of the Year
As humble as we are about our awesomeness, InterWorks has been bestowed with another award: Dell Partner of the Year for the South Central Region. For a company that deal mostly with small/medium business, this recognition means a great deal to us — proving once again that InterWorks offers the best in I.T. services and […]
Getting a Service Tag From a Command Prompt
The Problem: You need a service tag quick, fast, and in a hurry. You’re armed with nothing but a command prompt. The Solution: Open up that command prompt, and type in “wmic systemenclosure get serialnumber” — that’s the magic spell that will provide you with your service tag. If you have an HP Server […]
New Licensing for Quickbooks 2011
Quickbooks 2011 has a new twist in it’s licensing. Apparently, Intuit has deided not to offer a 5 seat license for the 2011 Pro version of Quickbooks. You are only allowed THREE seats. One thing to be wary of, the box says “Up to 3 users”, which means you are buying only a SINGLE LICENSE, […]
How to Open Up Two Excel Documents Side by side
Have you ever had to look at two excel documents at the same time? By default it will open the excel documents in different tabs in the same window. It can get pretty annoying if you really need to see both at the same time. Luckily, there is a little trick you can do so […]
Tips from the techy volume 2
Alright Bloggees, in honor of this short month, I have also provided a short blog: Have you ever noticed your new Windows 7 computer (or old Windows Vista one) waking up from sleep mode on its own? As strange as this sounds, it is also very possible. Here’s a tip that should fix this […]
How to Block or Blacklist websites using McAfee WebWasher
Note: The instructions below were attained with using a McAfee Web Gateway v6.8.7 build 7612 For those of you using McAfee Webwashers as one of your levels of web filtering and security, you may or may not have realized that white listing websites that the WW is blocking access too is pretty cut and […]
How to Fix Microsoft Update Not Installing Updates or Failed Updates in Microsoft Windows XP
Overview When installing Microsoft Updates in the XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows 2000 operating systems, a 0x800A01AE error might appear. There are also times when once an update is downloaded it won’t install properly, and the update screen shows that the update has failed. Even after rebooting the system and re-applying the Windows Update, […]
Adobe CS3 Bonjour Service Creates Invalid 0.0.0.0 Gateway
On Windows 7 machines with Adobe CS3 installed, you may notice a loss of Internet connectivity. This may be caused by a bad default gateway (0.0.0.0), which can be seen when running ipconfig /all in a command prompt: Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0 (There may be an additional gateway listed […]
Customize the Windows 7 Login/Logon Background
Overview This article outlines the steps required to change the background image of a computer when you are trying to log into it. Using these steps you can display an image behind the log in screen as a reminder to the users. This background can be found under C:WindowsSystem32oobebackground.bmp and is shown in the screenshot below. Default […]
What do TV Personalities Earn?
Nathan Yau at Flowing Data posted some interesting data from TV Guide. TV’s Top Earners includes compensation data for some of of the highest paid actors and personalities on television. Pay for actors (comedy and drama) is expressed on a per episode basis, so we created a parameter control that gives you the ability to […]
