The Techfiles
Easily change DNS servers with DNS Jumper
Things have been quiet here as of late, mainly due to the holidays, but with the new year under-way it’s time to get back into full swing. A few posts ago I wrote about Google’s attempt to speed up the browsing experience by providing public DNS servers from their vast infrastructure. I detailed how to [...]
Recovering software raid arrays in Windows with Raid 2 Raid
RAID is generally a complicated piece of technology that has become more mainstream thanks to it’s inclusion in a lot of consumer-based motherboards. On the surface, RAID is a method of disk redundancy and potential performance gains that involves combining a bunch of hard drives together, presenting one large file system to the operating system. [...]
Verify your Windows security state with Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
Whether we all want to admit it or not, we are all systems administrators. It is each of ours responsibility to ensure that the computer under our direct control is secure – the anti-virus is up to date and all the latest software patches are applied. Whether you are a single computer user, the resident [...]
Simplify software installing with Ninite
Probably the only negative to purchasing a new computer is installing the multitude of applications that you require in order to get things done – whatever that entails. Likewise, a fresh install of Windows exhibits the same annoyance. Having recently performed a clean install of Windows 7, I’ve faced the same problem.
Most PC users likely [...]
Expand shortened URLs to the real address
URL shortening services became wildly popular a few years back. Users could take a long and complicated website link and pass it to a service like Tiny URL that would condense the link and essentially make it portable. The short address could then be passed more easily through email and forums where a longer address [...]
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