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Top 10 Excuses for Being Late or Missing Work

Post author:Adam Toth
Post published:February 19, 2013
Post category:Life Technology

Over the years working in IT, I’ve heard some great excuses for being late or not being able to come into the office.

Here are my top 10: (more…)

Office 2013 and SharePoint 2010 Compatibility Issue

Post author:Adam Toth
Post published:December 11, 2012
Post category:Technology

If you install Office 2013 on a machine that has, or plans to have SharePoint 2010 installed, SharePoint will not work. Before you tear your SharePoint installation apart, try removing…

Storify – My #SPC12 Thoughts

Post author:Adam Toth
Post published:November 21, 2012
Post category:ASP.NET SharePoint Technology

A collection of my tweets from #SPC12.

Playing Angry Birds Space on Windows 8 on the TouchSmart

Installing Windows 8 on an HP TouchSmart IQ800 Series

Post author:Adam Toth
Post published:November 3, 2012
Post category:Family Life Technology Touch Screen Computing TouchSmart

I have one of those first generation all-in-one HP Touchsmart computers (the IQ824 CTO to be exact) wall mounted in my kitchen, and I’ve been super happy with it, and gotten more use out of it than I ever could have imagined. It came installed with Windows Vista, and I upgraded it to Windows 7 when that came out and worked out a bunch of kinks. With the Windows 8 RTM, I decided to see if I could get some more mileage out of it and figure out if this Windows 8 touch experience could give it some new life.

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Windows 8, UAC, Visual Studio, and always Run as Administrator

Post author:Adam Toth
Post published:November 2, 2012
Post category:ASP.NET SharePoint Technology

One of the biggest kinks I’ve had to work out so far on Windows 8 is fighting with UAC. Since I do a lot of SharePoint 2010 development, I need to run Visual Studio as an Administrator in order for the SharePoint tools in Visual Studio to work properly. After using Windows 8, I quickly found out that you can’t completely disable UAC in Windows 8. (more…)