Wow your friends! Terrify your enemies! Cause women to tremble and faint! It's all part of being an uber-geek, and any self respecting geek will tell you that it's all about the tools.
When you're fixing computers, you can bungle around with built-in windows apps like task manager and command shell all you want, but if you want to fix things FAST and RIGHT you've got to have a well-stocked USB flash drive. That's where the Technibble forums come in.
GAWD how I love these guys. First off, if you're trying to fix some crazy once-in-a-lifetime issue there are techs that watch those forums that make me look like a complete n00b (that's computer idiot, for you computer idiots). On top of that they've got this thing called "Repair tool of the week" which has made my life about 20x easier.
Take a look over at technibble.
Here's where you can find all of the "Repair tools of the week".
A few standouts:
Dial-A-Fix is like a swiss army knife for techs. It fixes all kinds of common windows problems. If you think you've got an issue you can safely just run all of the tasks in that sucker and a fair amount of the time your problem will be solved.
ATF Cleaner I've mentioned before, but it's the easiest way to clean out your crap and junk files.
FoxIt Reader and PDF Creator are free replacements for Adobe Acrobat. FoxIT Reader is also about 1/10th the size of Acrobat reader, faster, and just better in every way. PDF Creator is an excellent poor-mans alternative to shelling out $700 for Acrobat to create PDF documents.
Enjoy, thanks for reading, and see you next week(ish)!
Subscribe