I find the "restart now/later" reminders so annoying that I've gotten into the habit of turning off the automatic updates service after installing updates. No service, no reminders.

I've always found a black background easier on the eyes, but there doesn't seem to be a good theme in the windows world where the black window background look good....

Hmm, that's actually something I've been thinking about myself recently.  I actually wrote on my blog about my own unusual behaviors (I See Tiny People), but I hadn't thought about...

I had a similar situation once, trying to create a text file that would match up to an existing Monarch template.  I was using Crystal Reports to export the final...

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I've tried that, but it didn't work for me. The various jobs didn't seem to be attached correctly any more. ...

For a complete server swap I've always just backed up and restored the msdb database to retain the DTS packages and all the job information. What's the benefit to...

If there's other processing you want to do with the duplicate records, like writing them to a text file, you could use a multiphase DTS package. However if you...

The 'Admin' login may be from an Access database with linked tables, since the default Access "account" is Admin with no password. I've noticed this same log in failure...