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View Full Path to Document in Word

by Jacki Moody | May 11, 2015 | Microsoft Office, Word

Today I had a lot of Word documents open and wasn’t sure if some had come from email or locally on my computer. I started doing my standard File/Save As to see where the file was located, then decided there must be a better way. Initially I wanted to display...

Change Chrome Omnibox Default Search Engine back to Google when Grayed Out

by Jacki Moody | May 7, 2015 | Windows

Your default search engine can get changed in Chrome by malicious code or well-meaning administrators. When this occurs, the option to change your search engine is grayed-out. In the example below, the administrator used Active Directory Group Policy to change the...

PowerShell: Get Active Directory Username and Email Address of All Group Members

by Jacki Moody | Apr 21, 2015 | Active Directory, PowerShell

I was recently asked to provide the username and email address of our Active Directory users in a specific group. This seemed an easy task on the surface. I ran this code on a small group and worked flawlessly. Get-ADGroupMember -identity ‘groupname’ |...

Function Key Lock on Surface or Surface Pro Keyboard

by Jacki Moody | Apr 20, 2015 | Windows

The keyboard for the Surface or Surface Pro has Surface functions mapped to the function keys. On the “surface” this is a nice feature, but it can be annoying when you want to use your function keys as normal function keys. By default, you have to hold...

Windows 8.1 Boot to Desktop

by Jacki Moody | Apr 15, 2015 | Windows

Windows 8.1 introduced the ability for you to boot straight to the desktop instead of the start menu. To turn this on, go to the desktop, right click the taskbar and select properties. Select the “Navigation” tab, then check, “When I sign in...

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