Hello again,
Recently I had a need to schedule a monthly defrag on all of the client machines in one of the networks that I manage. As usual, finding an efficient way of centrally deploying such a task is much easier than going to each machine and manually creating the task. I accomplished this by editing [...]
As Microsoft Goes, competing in the Browser Industry has been a battle. After all of the exploits and holes that have been discovered and exploited over the years, many users have switched to alternative browsers such as FireFox. To combat this trend, MS released IE (Internet Explorer) 7 – Which enhanced security and added many [...]
Firstly, I would like to say hello again. I have not posted in quite a while as I have been preoccupied with the holidays and the end of the tax year and beginning of the new year.
Now that we have that out of the way, I have seen a lot of people wondering how to [...]
Recently, a new vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer 7, affecting Windows XP, Server 2003/2008 and Windows Vista. Known as the “Internet Explorer XML Zero-Day”, it has already been seen in the wild in China. The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to take control of a users PC after successful exploitation. The exploit occurs [...]
Before I even begin, I would like to give credit where it is due. I used this article to guide me through the installation but I added a few steps along the way including how to do the installation from an External USB Hard Drive as opposed to an External DVD or USB Thumb Drive [...]
As many Windows Vista users know, Vista can be a real resource hog. This could not be more true on machines that are a few years old or upgraded to Vista from XP. As a Vista user, I have figured out a few ways to alleviate some of the slow down. Most of these methods [...]
Some of the hype that has surronded Windows Vista is the new User Interface named Aero. While Aero is nice, I prefer my Ubuntu box with Beryl. I found a great video demonstrating the capabilities of each. I am for Ubuntu! I have a very simulay setup on my Ubuntu laptop (ThinkPad T60 – Ubunto [...]
After working with Windows XP and computers in general for years now, I have seen my fare share of issues at boot time but this is one of my favorites. I am not going to go into full detail in this article, you can find a link to the actual Microsoft article at the bottom [...]
These days, there are more and more people surfing the Internet and as you may expect, there are more and more threats to personal information and computer operation. That is why I am writing this short guide to Safe Computing. These are basic guidelines that you can use to reduce the threat of virus, spy-ware [...]
