I'm using Windows 7 RC. I usually move the entire 'My Documents' to another partition so that I can easily reinstall Windows. How do I do this in Windows 7? [more inside]
posted by edbyford on Oct 13, 2009 - 8 answers

How to make Active Directory and SQL server synchronize User accounts/passwords. [more inside]
posted by bleucube on Jul 16, 2009 - 6 answers

What mischief is this LiveJournal bot up to? [more inside]
posted by anonymisc on Apr 12, 2009 - 6 answers

[WinXP] How can I create a separate user account that is completely separate from the main admin account? I.e. doesnt share the same programs, settings, etc [more inside]
posted by Jimmeh on Mar 17, 2009 - 4 answers

Performing community work for a elderly care facility. They are interested in hosting a "facebook" for their 100+ residents. Plenty of computers around. Need help choosing an open source package. [more inside]
posted by bleucube on Feb 7, 2009 - 4 answers

Help me making an inflammatory, filter-friendly but ultimately cute/funny Xbox Live gamertag. [more inside]
posted by Franklin76 on Feb 2, 2009 - 27 answers

What application/platform should I use to create a YouTube type portal (focusing on user-generated content) that allows site users to search for content (videos as well as other file types) and upload their own content? [more inside]
posted by jurczyk on Oct 24, 2008 - 6 answers

My company recently switched from a standard POP mail server to having GMail as our MX server and hosting all our business accounts. Overall the benefits are quite positive, but I'm having some usage issues that bug me. Can you help me use gmail better? Specific questions inside. [more inside]
posted by arniec on Aug 28, 2008 - 16 answers

I am trying to educate and convince my company of the value of incorporating Human Factors Engineering (aka Human Systems Integration or User Experience) and User Centered Design into their software engineering processes and the software lifecycle. [more inside]
posted by Vegheadb4 on Jul 7, 2008 - 6 answers

What are the challenges that independent filmmakers + people working in the industry (actors, crew, etc) face today? What tools do you use currently for the different stages of your production? What do you like about them, what do you wish for? [more inside]
posted by seeminglee on Jul 4, 2008 - 3 answers

There is someone with or using my name at one of the Yahoo services to access Asian porn sites. [more inside]
posted by mrleec on May 15, 2008 - 24 answers

In Vista, how do I turn off the user login/passwords every time the computer goes to screensaver? [more inside]
posted by YoungAmerican on May 10, 2008 - 4 answers

Are there resources available that provide information about the intuitiveness of various user interface elements to various demographics? [more inside]
posted by OrlandoFurioso on Apr 15, 2008 - 6 answers

Fast user switching on a Mac with a custom keyboard layout [more inside]
posted by dance on Mar 24, 2008 - 9 answers

Apple Cinema Display cords vs. Office Chair I: Chair won in TKO. Help me win the rematch! The end user ran over the DC plug of her Cinema Display monitor. How can I fix this? [more inside]
posted by joemax on Mar 13, 2008 - 5 answers

How do I make my limited user account and administrator account look identical, ie have the same tray and desktop icons, identical start menus, program settings, My Documents folder, etc. The only difference I want is for the limited user account to have limited privileges. Running XP SP1 home. Thanks.
posted by bbranden1 on Feb 22, 2008 - 11 answers

Very average PC user here. The MS Excel document I use everyday has become huge over time. One sheet with 6 columns going down more than 4000 lines. It weighs 7,6 Mbyte. Too much? [more inside]
posted by amusem on Dec 11, 2007 - 10 answers

How do I pass this password in the correct form to MySQL? [more inside]
posted by Tuwa on Sep 29, 2007 - 12 answers

"Drive by downloads": Looking for a program or technique to prevent them, other than creating a limited user account in Windows XP. [more inside]
posted by bbranden1 on Aug 8, 2007 - 7 answers

I want to have a visual map of how people navigate the web around a particular topic. I am willing to pay for this. For example, around the term "mortgages" I'd like to know all the ways people search and / or navigate to mortgage sites: e.g., some come from search sites, some referred from finance sites, some navigate directly to Citibank, etc. Any advice?
posted by mtstover on Jul 2, 2007 - 4 answers

Windows XP Pro randomly being locked by unknown users. Is my computer being hijacked? [more inside]
posted by bristolcat on Jun 21, 2007 - 28 answers

Really simple windows 2000 server question: How do I add a network user to the local admin group? [more inside]
posted by fvox13 on Jun 21, 2007 - 6 answers

Attention, Wordpress folks: I am looking for suggestions on how to let specific users write new posts only in specific categories. [more inside]
posted by danwalker on Jun 19, 2007 - 2 answers

How to develop graphical user interface programs via opensource software? [more inside]
posted by jjsonp on Jun 11, 2007 - 14 answers

Good, free solutions for implementing super-easy userland image- and mp3-upload capability into a Wordpress-based blog project? [more inside]
posted by cortex on Jun 2, 2007 - 1 answer

I bought a used macbook (osx 10.4.8). The previous owner is still set as the admin. I cannot add another account without their password. Putting in the install disks also requires a password. How can I delete the previous user and create a new account for myself?
posted by LavishingUndertone on May 4, 2007 - 16 answers

How can I find which computer in the domain a user is logged on to?
posted by kc0dxh on Apr 13, 2007 - 8 answers

Can I get an RSS feed of the User Friendly comic that includes only cartoons, and has them inline in the feed? [more inside]
posted by bkudria on Apr 8, 2007 - 2 answers

How do I remove an inappropriate user review from Alexa.com? For instance, this page: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?q=&url=theonion.com Reviews appear to be stored at Amazon.com, but I can find no way to formally request a review be removed (even if it is blatantly obscene).
posted by phonepimpster on Mar 21, 2007 - 1 answer

What's my best option for a multiple-user blog? [more inside]
posted by apetpsychic on Mar 15, 2007 - 13 answers

How do I figure out what user/usage monitoring software is running on my work laptop? [more inside]
posted by orthogonality on Dec 11, 2006 - 17 answers

Windows 2000 just decided that I'm a new user for some reason. Exciting. How can I revert back to my old account? [more inside]
posted by selfnoise on Nov 30, 2006 - 6 answers

I'm looking for books dealing with usability for web and software applications. Not so much books that focus on coding or theory, but instead books that primarily relate to usability methods and the execution of usability studies [more inside]
posted by |n$eCur3 on Sep 27, 2006 - 12 answers

I'm asking for advice on which web applications you would recommend to a person wanting to start their own web-page. I am new to web-page design and want to get up and running on a simple web-page relatively quickly and easily. I'm not afraid of trying to create some of my own design as I know a little HTML and the bare basics of web design - CSS etc -- it's just I haven't used it in real life yet. My e-mail provider (runbox) provides free web-site hosting and I needed to buy a domain name which I did. I want to start my own web page for personal use on items such as pictures, surveys or polls, blogs, discussions etc. My domain provider uses the following applications and I'm asking for advice on which applications a new user, relatively green on the tech side, should use. See below for the list of supplied web applications (if that is what you call them). [more inside]
posted by orlin on Sep 26, 2006 - 11 answers

I'm a newly-Switched Mac user with a few questions about setting up different...uh, users? Accounts? Profiles? (I'm not sure what they're really called; I think this might be part of my problem) [more inside]
posted by Ian A.T. on Aug 27, 2006 - 8 answers

Is there a phpBB mod that allows the admin to customise the content of the email users get upon signing up?
posted by By The Grace of God on Apr 12, 2006 - 3 answers

OSX Filter: Moving a user account to a different machine... [more inside]
posted by omnidrew on Jul 13, 2005 - 11 answers

How do I fix a DNS problem if I am not the network administrator? [Inside for more, please] [more inside]
posted by willpie on Dec 2, 2004 - 6 answers

Has anyone ever read any books, etc. about human-computer interaction or user interface design that were particularly worthwhile? [more inside]
posted by jeb on Jul 29, 2004 - 20 answers

Getting eBay to cancel someone else's auction. Anyone had any luck doing that? In the past, I've tried to get eBay to shut down bootleggers of items that I was trying to sell legitimate copies of (they devalue my sale). Never had any luck.

Today, I was notified that someone is selling a bootleg release of a band I'm affiliated with as if it's a legit release. Unfortunately the auction ends in less than 20 hours so I'm doubting eBay will do squat about it in time but I'd like to be prepared for the next time this happens. eBay's official means of reporting bootlegs is, put simply, useless. (They don't write you back, they don't kill the auction, your email just flies into the ether.) Anyone with any inside dope on doing this effectively?
posted by dobbs on Jun 24, 2004 - 15 answers

I've been assigned to develop a plan to convert everything on my unsupported Novell 3.12 server to a shiny new Windows box. Is there any way to get SYSCON to spit out a list of users in a particular group? I don't want to have to transcribe all this crap by hand (one of the groups in question has 300+ users). [more inside]
posted by Irontom on Jun 22, 2004 - 4 answers