http://www.allogro.com Business Networking Specialists Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:18:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In January 2006, we changed our company's legal name from Acanthus Technology to Acorn IT Group and established the Allogro™ Business Networking Specialists division to serve our clients' IT needs. We have maintained our old web site, but have not updated it in a long time. We are in the process ... http://www.allogro.com/main/2008/04/08/52/ In this article: Introduction, Prerequisites, How my file system is structured, Creating the repositories, Linking to the repositories, Recap, Common problems and fixes, Maintaining your repositories, Using this technique with ZenPhoto and other CMS systems, Additional resources, Comments and feedback Introduction WordPress is a wonderful blogging platform and, in certain situations, a ... http://www.allogro.com/main/2008/03/09/51/ Background After every restart, the icons in my Quick Launch toolbar in Windows Vista were rearranged into alphabetical order. The toolbar itself was resized, taking up most of the Taskbar. It didn't matter how many times I carefully moved the icons around, nor did it matter if I logged off and ... http://www.allogro.com/main/2008/01/29/50/ The new Microsoft motto seems to be "make everything useful at least one extra step more difficult". This certainly has been true for all but the most commonly used features with Office 2007's Ribbon interface. It's also true with many of the control panels in Windows Vista. One control panel I ... http://www.allogro.com/main/2007/05/26/4/ Special thanks to Andre De Costa's Teching It Easy blog for this useful information. I do not know why the developers at Microsoft felt the need to move already somewhat obscure and hidden features to even more obscure locations in Windows Vista. Maybe they figure that it's helpful to techs to ... http://www.allogro.com/main/2007/05/12/5/ Summary Threat Level: Critical Zero-Day Vulnerability This threat is currently active and spreading in the wild. Most Windows-based computers, even if fully up-to-date with all the official Microsoft patches, are vulnerable right now unless certain actions are taken to protect yourself (see below). What it does: Various websites, including advertising sites that generate ... http://www.allogro.com/main/2006/09/22/6/ It seems people swap cell phones, smart phones, and PDAs about as frequently as they change their smoke detector batteries. These miniaturized devices hold a large amount of personal data inside their tiny silicon brains. So what happens to all that data when you trade in your cellular phone for ... http://www.allogro.com/main/2006/09/10/7/ RAID is a method of storing data on multiple hard disks. Through the “magic” of the disk array, all of the individual disks appear as a single disk to the operating system. Large arrays can be split into smaller logical disks, that can be any size up to the total ... http://www.allogro.com/main/2006/08/30/8/ A client asked: Do I need a surge protector? If the power goes out sometime, what happens w/ the computer? A surge protector is very important for protecting computers and other electronic equipment from damaging electrical spikes and surges. Fortunately this client already had one. Read the rest of the ... http://www.allogro.com/main/2006/08/30/9/ It doesn’t happen very often, but when it does, it’s really annoying. Your Windows Desktop refreshes (often after a program crashes), and all the icons on your Desktop and in the Start Menu have been reset to generic icons that all look alike. Sometimes it’s a temporary thing, and restarting ... http://www.allogro.com/main/2006/08/30/10/ Running Windows Disk Cleanup on a regular basis is really a great idea to keep your computer running lean and efficient. The only problem is, if you are like me, I’d almost rather visit my dentist than wait for the utility to complete its scan. It turns out that about ... http://www.allogro.com/main/2006/08/30/11/ FWIW there are a lot of acronyms out there, especially on AIM, YIM, MSN, and IRC. I am FAQ about what these things mean. It would be nice to tell people to RTM, but AFAIK there aren't very many comprehensive lists available (BICBW). So, here is a list of many ... http://www.allogro.com/main/2006/08/30/12/ Symptoms: Every time you open Outlook Express or Outlook you are asked to re-enter your password even though the Save Password box is checked (or grayed out). Problem: Generally this is caused by a problem in the Registry with the Protected Storage System Provider key. Resolution: Follow the steps below to fix ... http://www.allogro.com/main/2006/08/30/13/ My thanks go to Brett for his comments posted on Ed Bott's blog about Dell's hidden restore partitions. I originally posted this message in the comments, but it was too long and got cut off midway. Here is the complete message, including some interesting utilities and tools I found within the ... http://www.allogro.com/main/2006/05/23/14/ Preventive Maintenance Helps Safeguard Data Most of our clients find the information stored on the hard disk is much more important than the hardware that stores the data. Taking steps to protect this information makes sense. That is what preventive maintenance is all about. Preventive Maintenance Improves Security Regular virus and spyware scanning ... http://www.allogro.com/main/2006/05/09/15/ Allogro is pleased to introduce its newly redesigned Web site. This new site offers all the latest features savvy Internet users have come to expect in a site (including new RSS enabled news feeds ) while maintaining a simple-to-use interface. We hope you like it! We are using a customized version ... http://www.allogro.com/main/2006/01/25/16/ Problem: After some unrelated changes are made to IIS 6.0, Exchange's Outlook Web Access (OWA) acts differently. The normal login page is replaced by a login dialog box. After logging in, OWA displays all the mailboxes in a browseable directory format instead of the normal OWA content. You can select ... http://www.allogro.com/main/2005/12/29/17/