In the IT industry, we constantly struggle to keep up the with the latest and greatest technology. The software and hardware world changes almost overnight. This is my latest find in the software world so I thought it was worthy of sharing on the blog.

The Microsoft Narator is one of those programs that seem to turn on all by itself; and once it does, it seems impossible to turn off. I have had to research this several times in order to turn off this annoying feature.

Here is how it's done.

Try this: go to Control Panel -> Ease of Access -> Ease of Access Center -> Explore all Settings -> Use the computer without a display. Uncheck the checkbox by Turn on Narrator and click Save.

I hope this helps some.

Good Luck,

Vernon Harris
AVS Technologies Incorporated

This document is meant to explain how to setup the 5 static IP addresses that are assigned by AT&T for business customers that purchase a block of IP Addresses. Here is a link to an XPS file that also contains pictures. http://www.avscomputer.com/staticip.xps

It took several calls to AT&T customer service to find someone that could help me set the static address into the Motorola router. This is what we got that worked.
Step 1. Login the router using the assigned IP Address of the router, which is 192.168.1.254 by default. Check to make sure you are in the expert mode.

I have run into this nagging problem serveral times over the years and each time it has cost me several minutes of wasted time and energy chasing a problem that I should remember the answer; but for some reason can't. No need to recreate the wheel here so I will just list the site that I used the last time I had to search for the remedy to this problem.

Here is the link: http://www.uwec.edu/help/Outlook07/CAL-permissions.htm

Hopefully, the University of Winsconsin-EAU Claire won't mind us linking back to their site.

Every so often a company will come along and invent something that makes our computer lives a little easier. Sunbelt Software has created the latest software that accomplishes this and then some.

We use the Vipre Rescue tool everyday to clean computer systems that other anitvirus and spyware programs cannot remove. The Vipre Rescue program is a scan line utilty that can run in the safe mode or within Windows as a stand alone command line utility.

Usually, when it comes to new technology; I am not easily impressed. Vtech, " I'M IMPRESSED"!

I have finally found a wireless phone system that does everthing that I would want in a cordless phone system. This is an unsolicited product endorsement for the Vtech DS6322-4 Cordless Phone system. This phone would be good if it only gave a good signal to most of my house, but I have yet to find any dead spots using this phone.

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Vernon Harris
President
AVS Technologies Incorporated