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Microsoft released its final version of Windows Defender on Tuesday (Formerly known as Microsoft Antispyware). The last release was beta 2 in February. Since then about 30 million people have downloaded it. It is a well polished product, and so far it has been great at removing most of the spyware that I have encountered. […]
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I admit it. I still have a hotmail account. I have had a hotmail account since they started way back in the day – before Microsoft had anything to do with it. They were one of the first web based free email sites on the internet. For quite some time now I have been happily […]
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Hotmail is one of the biggest free email providers on the internet. They were around way before gmail was even a thought in anyone’s head. The one thing I notice is that when people start to use Microsoft Outlook they really miss its features when they use web based email. Other free email providers like […]
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I have many friends who are getting notifications like this from Microsoft: Many times I would shake my head when they bought their machines from a corner computer store – that had photo-copied licenses keys included with the machine. It was pretty obvious that the serial numbers were pirated. With the Genuine Advantage push by […]
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When service pack 2 came out for Windows XP, I was surprised with the following message when trying to launch applications from the desktop: It is the result of Microsoft trying to protect users from malicious programs. The message will appear for any shortcut or executable that is hosted on a network share. The maddening […]
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We just polished off a new version of IntelliAdmin Lan Edition. If you have never tried it before it’s a program that lets you remote control computers across your network. Download Trial The big feature of this product is that it can control machines on your LAN – without installing a thing. Usually when you […]
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Stopping and starting services within windows is quite easy. From the command line you can simply type: net stop to stop a service or net start to start a service Or even easier, open the service manager by clicking on start, run and then type ‘services.msc’ and click OK A complete list of services is […]
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It always happens to me. I am working as fast as I can to get something done for the day. I start to print. Behold – Windows has the genius to tell me that yes. YES! It is printing. Um. Yes I did know that it was printing – since I started the print job. […]
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The Windows XP Welcome screen. Pretty pictures for each user account. What a nice thought on Microsoft’s part. The only trouble is – I want to create an administrator account, and not have others tempted to try getting into it while they are on my computer. When windows XP is not joined to a domain, […]
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Yesterday I posted an article about improving boot times. My first tip was about deleting the prefetch folder, and modifying the prefetch registry key to improve boot time. Over and over I have seen posted on the net how this is a myth. In fact – at this moment an article is on the front […]
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