Run as Admin without Prompt Every Time
In Windows 7 (and I believe Vista) if a program needs to be run as though the administrator was logged in your are prompted every time whither you wish to continue. You cannot disable this feature but there is a work around.
It involves creating a scheduled task to run the application with highest privileges then creating a shortcut to run the task
Create the Scheduled Task Item
Open up Task Scheduler through the start menu search box ( just type task and select ‘Task Scheduler’), and then, when Task Sceduler is open, click the “Create Task” link on the right hand menu.
The first thing you need to do is give the task a short, simple name, preferably without any spaces in it. Then check the box for “Run with highest privileges” (very important)
Now switch to the Actions tab, click the New button, and then browse down to the application that you are trying to start.
Close out of the dialogs by clicking the OK button, which should create the new task in the list. You can right-click on it and choose “Run” at this point, simply to make sure that it launches the application the way you were expecting.
Create the Shortcut to Start the Task
We need to add a command that will run the scheduled task, passing in the name of the task that we used. Right-click an empty spot on your Desktop and select New > Shortcut. In the Create Shortcut window enter the following text: C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe /run /tn “TaskName” Where “TaskName” is the name of the task you chose above. Note: Include the quotation marks around the TaskName or it will fail to run the task. Click Next and then enter a name for the shortcut. When done, click Finish.
Whenever you want to run the specified program, simply double-click on the shortcut you’ve created without requiring prompts or complete Administrator access.
You can also further customize the shortcut with an icon or other settings if you wish. To change the icon check the properties of the shortcut created by the program (the one which prompts you to proceed as administrator). Click ‘Change Icon’ to establish the location of the icon file (usually the program itself) and copy thid to the the properties of the new shortcut.
Windows 7 – Disable and Clear Taskbar Jump History
Computer Business Services has recently started installing Windows 7 on it’s computers. We have come across a number of quirks, problems and differencences fom Vista and XP systems.
I’ve never been a fan of history always being displayed especially on a computer used for business so I was not happy when recent application file history appeared with a right mouse click of the minimised application in the task-bar. Here is a Windows 7 tip that tells you how to disable the Taskbar Application jump history from appearing;
- Right-Click a clear area of the task-bar and then Click Properties.
- In the dialog box that appears Click the Start Menu tab, and then Uncheck the box for’ Store and display recently opened items in the Start menu and the taskbar’.
- Once you Click ‘Apply’ ALL jump list recent history will be erased.
It’s as simple as that when you know how. This is a Windows 7 tip supplied by Computer Business Services.
Do You Still Have Too Much Spam?
Do you feel that you are still receiving too much spam?
The first action to take is to review your spam filtering.
Let Your Mail Provider do the Work
A large number of people still have their main spam filter operating on their PC in conjuction with their mail client, eg. Outlook. This is now not usually the best approach. Most Mail Providers (usually your website hosting company) can apply a spam filter and virus check any mail attachments before the mail ever reaches you. Each day you will receive a single email detailing any spam which has been detected and quaranteened. There is usually enough info there for you to assess if it is indeed spam. If you see a mail which has been wrongly classed as spam you can retrieve it into your normal mail box.
White Lists and Black Lists
In conjuction with the above you should be be able to create ‘White Lists’ and ‘Black Lists’. If the spam system incorrectly traps a ligitimate email you simply enter the senders email address in the ‘White List’ and it will never be treated as spam again. Similarly if you consistantly receive spam from the same sender you can add their email address to the ‘Black List’ which will ensure it is always blocked. Note, seasoned spammers continually change their ‘email’ address so this can have limited effect. Your Mail Server Host uses additional advanced techniques to detect spam.
How to Set This Up
So, log on to your ISP account and go to your email settings. Note that you may not be able to adjust these settings from your web-mail console where you can view/collect your mail. You may have to log on to your general hosting account.
Important Tip – Unsubscribe
Try unsubscribing if you are given the option. Check the bottom of a spam email and if there is an option to un-susbscribe try it. Although many spam email sources use somewhat questionable means to obtain your email address many of them also realise that if you are not interested you will simply block it so do provide a ligitimate means of unsubscribing. (it is often said that by doing this you are confirming a ligitimate email address but seasoned spammers don’t care about this they will keep bombarding you anyway so always best to try and unsubscribe if you can).
Further Steps to Minimise Spam
In addition there are a number of steps you can take to minimise spam going forward;
- Only give out your personal business email address to clients and people you wish to contact. Eg your.name@mycompany.co.uk
- Have a seperate general email address for your company. Eg info or enquiries@mycompany.co.uk
- You need to decide whither you put your personal or general email address on your personal business card
- Have a non-personal email address which you use to subscribe to websites etc. Eg isubs1@mycompany.co.uk
- Have a 2nd non-personal email address which you give to sources that you may have misgivings about but you still want give them an address, perhaps a mailing list that you have not heard of before but looks interesting. Eg isubs2@mycompany.co.uk
- If possible keep a note of what people/organisations/websites you give out the email to on a spreadsheet. You can also combine this with a note of associated website password and user names.
In practice you arrange to have all the mail addresses re-directed to your main email address (but the sender will never know this). Why do this? If spam becocomes a problem on a partivular address you can cancel it without affecting the others. It also lets you know which address has been passed to the spammers. Note – sometimes websites get hacked for the sole purpose of ‘stealing’ the subscriber list so your email address may not have been deliberately passed on
If you want to find out more or need any help with the above contact Computer Business Services who will be only too happy to advise.
Problems With E-mail And Microsoft Outlook
A common problem for Small Businesses is configuring e-mail and making the best use of Microsoft Outlook.
There are a number of ways of configuring Outlook to fetch your mail. If you have multiple mail addresses, perhaps used by different people, how best to work together?
And the biggest confusion of all, Outlook’s attempt to automatically archive your mail. In many cases it is best to disable Outlook’s automatic archiving. Archiving can be switched on for individual folders as required.
A then there’s spam. You don’t have to put up with high levels of spam. This can reduced this to a trickle rather than a deluge.
Tip: Create your own Archive folders, for for each quarter, year or whatever is approprite for you and drag your older files as a group into the appropriate.
Tip: If there is more than one person dealing with emails arriving to multiple email addresses a good solution is to designate one of the PCs as the master and use synchronising software to duplicate the incoming email to the other PCs. Mail can be sent from any of the PCs. Sent mail from any one of the PCs are atomatically transferred to the other computers.
Have You Lost Control Of Your Own Website?
You have a legal right to have control of your own personal or company website.
If any of the following apply, you have lost control of your own Website;
- the content of your website been static for some time and you are not able to have it updated
- you have to pay every time you want a simple change to your website in addition a monthly and/or yearly or charge
- you cannot update the content of your own website
We regularly ‘rescue’ websites for our clients. Once rescued they can update their own website (or we will make simple changes free).
If you think your website needs to be rescued don’t delay, contact us now and we will start the process.
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Are You Fed UP with a Slow PC?
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