heres a tour of the vipre installation setup and interface ... it should give you an idea of what to expect if you decide to take vipre for a spin. a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a......
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microsoft is offering free help for vista service pack 1 problems at this link. the site says free unlimited installation and compatibility support is available for windows vista but only for service pack 1 sp1. this support for sp1 is valid until march 18 2009. chat and email support is available only in the united states and canada. some issues may require more advanced support for which there i...
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i am nowhere near to filling up my 400 gb hard drive but others with video and music collections may need all the storage they can get. the pc doctor recommends a couple of 750 gb and 1 tb drives. note that these are internal drives.......
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hackers are now trying to lure people to fake apple store by using scammy emails websites in order to phish their credit card details take care out there ... via sunbelt blog......
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hey constant reader have you noticed something different about the sitea look closer ... see it now yep finally the pc doc blogs had a serious facelift.a this update is the first of several new features that we plan to roll out for the site. hopefully everything works but if you notice something thats misbehaving id appreciate it if you could drop me a line. big thanks to kathie for making this ha...
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theres a lot of software available to download for free or to buy but ill let you into a little secret a lot of it is junk. in fact id go as far as to say that a good 80 of the software thats available both free and commercial is not worth the bother of downloading and certainly not worth installing. since it can be difficult to separate out the good stuff from the not so good stuff i thought it ...
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ive just downloaded service pack 3 for windows xp via windows update and applied it to an aging notebook i have here. the process went smoothly indeed and took less than an hour from beginning to end and at the end of the installation everything seems to be working just fine this blog post is coming to you from that machine. heres the complete process from visiting windows update to completing th...
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finally after weeks of delays hold ups and then a week or so of burning in the server lives its alive still need to do a lot of setting up but at least all the hardware is working......
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i dont personally use kaspersky av but some of the systems here do run it. kaspersky makes a pretty good desktop av product but theres one aspect of the program that i really really hate. thatsthe screeching pig noise that the software makes when a threat is detected.i wouldnt mind so much if the sound only played when it detected malware because it wouldnt go off that often but its also triggered...
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between this site and hardware 2.0 over on zdnet i get a lot of email from readers. over the past week ive been keeping an eye on the email ive been receiving and ive categorized it into a few broad categories and i thought that it would be interesting to share them with you. also if you read on ill give you tips on how to best to get me to reply to you email by category emails claiming that im...
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if ed bott can get away with some friday cat blogging so can i this is puddle aka mr kitty. hes playing with one of his favorite things cat5 cabling he also loves boxes. hes grown a lot since we first got him.......
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i have a lot of email accounts that come into my outlook and i get a lot of email every day. a sideeffect of this is that i also get a lot of spam email. i hate spam really hate it finally ive found a way to make spam disappear ihatespam. over the years ive tried many solutions for the spam problem but found them all lacking. i dont mind a solution that allows the odd spam email to find its way i...
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after installing windows vista sp1 chances are that you will shortly afterwards be faced by system tray balloon asking you if you want to join the windows customer experience improvement program. clicking on this notifications displays the following dialog box this dialog might seem confusing because it seems as though it doesnt allow you the option of choosing i dont want to join the program at ...
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question how do i get vistas internet time synchronization to work to the best of my knowledge it never has and if i can get if fixed is there a way to change the interval from weekly to daily yes a lot of people seem to have this problem. it appears to come down to microsofts time server. the trick is to change the time server. ive covered this before and linked to a blog post by ed bott. as to ...
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this is no joke. the storm worm is taking advantage of april fools day to snare more victims. our friends at sunbelt software have provided some useful information. emails look like this subject test can be many and varied all fools day doh alls fool. doh aprils fool. gotcha gotcha all fool gotcha april fool happy all fools day. happy all fools day happy all fools happy april fools day. happy ap...
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as you might already know microsoft doesnt support the fingerprint reader on vista 64bit and based on the following email thati received from a microsoft spokesperson the other day its never going to be supported i wanted to let you know that after some investigating i learned microsoft will not be upgrading the fingerprint reader digital persona software to support 64bit because the fingerprint ...
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for testing out big web development changes such as the ones that are upcoming for this blog we and by we i mostly mean kathie make extensive use of a program called wos webserver on a stick. this allows us again i mean us in a loose fashion to create a small portable web server that makes it possible to test out web dev changes without the hassle of installing a lot of software on our systems an...
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it seems as if microsoft is impressed by the enormous critique they got for the delay regarding the release of vista sp1. there are reports that the english version of sp1 will be available for volume licensing customers at the end of week. later this month msdn and technet plus subscribers will be allowed installing this precious service pack. if you dont want to wait you can download it right no...
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a plugin for internet explorer not a microsoft plugin i should add its made by a company called aurigma that allows users to upload photos to facebook and myspace contains serious security vulnerabilities which put users at risk. to make matters worse hackers have published detail on how to make use of these vulnerabil ities. thi s is bad news. there are a lot of myspacefacebook users out there and...
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