It might or might no be necessary to have a Linux Live Boot CD in with your diagnostic tools, but if you repair computers for a living, you really should have a way to boot into an OS if the hard drive has failed or if you want to troubleshoot a computer with the hard [...]
Norton Taking “User” Out of UAC
Norton UAC Tool
Norton has taken the “User” out of User Account Control by offering their own handy dandy UAC Tool that promises to make the world a better place by helping users cope with all of the extra mouse clicks involved in the Vista User Account Control security feature. Is it necessary? Maybe not. Will it [...]
Free Screen Capture Software
Gadwin PrintScreenÂ
We finally found an XP equivalent to the Snip Tool in Vista. Gadwin Printscreen is easy to install and offers some setup preferences that can help you quickly take screenshots of websites, photos and even your desktop. You no longer have to take the entire screen. In Gadwin Printscreen, you have the ability to [...]
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How to Avoid Phishing Scams
Phishing is an attack that attempts to trick a user into divulging personal information, such as bank username and passwords. This attack is typically initiated through email and will contain links to fraudulent websites that look exactly like the legitimate site. A user that is not aware of these schemes will believe they are on the real [...]
Geometry Wars Will Be the Death Of Me
We don’t normally latch onto viral videos on YouTube, but since I am familiar with this person and frequent the same website he does, I wanted to give him some props to help spread his great work. The song is from the recently released Geometry Wars 2 arcade title for the Xbox360. His name is [...]
IDE and SATA Hard Drive Docking Stations
Keeping a lot of data on multiple hard drives is a great idea, but it can also be an inconvenient and costly method of backup if you don’t plan ahead. You can buy expensive enclosures or physically open the PC case and plug in the drives, but we have been using different solutions that make [...]
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Best Way To Backup Your Data
Time and time again, we come across poor soles that have lost data because their hard drive has failed. Invariably, much of their data has not been backed up and the result is catastrophic. You can rewrite term papers and reinstall applications, but when you lose photos of your wedding or the movie of your [...]
Five Ways to Combat Spyware
Five Ways to Combat Spyware
If you want to ensure the performance of your computer comes to a screeching halt, all you have to do is ignore this column and within days your computer can become infected with some type of malware. Spyware and Viruses are often lumped into the category of malware, because there almost [...]
Free Registry Tools Downloads
The Windows registry is a directory that stores information about the Operating System, Software and Users for your computer. Whenever changes are made within Windows, these changes are reflected in the registry. Sometimes it is necessary to edit or tweak the registry to get rid of bits and pieces of old software that never completely [...]
Build Your Own Home Theater
The term “Home Theater” gets tossed around a lot these days. So much so that the lines between a TV connected to a couple of speakers and an actual theater have become blurred. I recently built a full-blown movie theater in our basement for less than $10,000. The cost was so high only because the [...]
Modify Your Hosts File to Block Malware
Malware is a huge problem.
By now, most of us know what spyware is and what it can do to your computer. If your PC is connected to the Internet, chances are you have some form of spyware. It attaches to your PC as you casually roam websites or download files. But you can be proactive [...]
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Top Things I learned in 2008
My friends, with 2008 coming to a screaching, grinding, twisting, fiery end, I just wanted to take a minute to recap some of the valuable things I learned in 2008. While some of you may already know these things, I suspect there are a few on our computer message boards that do not.
1. Antivirus2009 is [...]
Live Boot Operating System CDs
It might or might no be necessary to have a Linux Live Boot CD in with your diagnostic tools, but if you repair computers for a living, you really should have a way to boot into an OS if the hard drive has failed or if you want to troubleshoot a computer with the hard [...]
Free Screen Capture Software
Gadwin PrintScreenÂ
We finally found an XP equivalent to the Snip Tool in Vista. Gadwin Printscreen is easy to install and offers some setup preferences that can help you quickly take screenshots of websites, photos and even your desktop. You no longer have to take the entire screen. In Gadwin Printscreen, you have the ability to [...]
Norton Taking “User” Out of UAC
Norton UAC Tool
Norton has taken the “User” out of User Account Control by offering their own handy dandy UAC Tool that promises to make the world a better place by helping users cope with all of the extra mouse clicks involved in the Vista User Account Control security feature. Is it necessary? Maybe not. Will it [...]
Add Power Programs to Your Windows Start Menu
Give your Start menu the power it deserves.
The average user may not have any reason to access Disk Management or the Device Manager on a consistent basis. But for the people that like to tinker, adding power shortcuts to the Start Menu makes geeking-out much faster. The shortcuts we’ll be adding today are for Disk Management, [...]
Easily View Your System Information
For those of you who do not fear the black, murky depths of the command line, here’s a very useful tip for viewing your system information all in one convenient location. Just click Start, then Run and type cmd and hit OK. This will bring you to the command prompt. Next, type systeminfo.exe and hit enter.
This [...]
Free History Erase Program
For those concerned about privacy, Free History Eraser by Smart Soft is a quick little program that can delete history files each time you close your browser Window. This free application works great and not only removes your History, it clears the typed URLs and Auto Complete data, as well.
Download Free History Eraser here.
Windows Defender Doesn’t Suck
People, we’re here today to make an important announcement: Windows Defender doesn’t suck. Really. I feel the need to make that opening statement because it really did suck at one time. But as this spyware utility has matured, we have found that it really does do a pretty good job of removing infections while protecting [...]
Run CHKDSK From The Command Prompt
CHKDSK is a Windows command that can be used to repair errors on hard drives if the integrety of the file system is corrupt, or if there is a bad sector on the hard drive. You can launch this by navigating through several Windows or you can simply launch the command prompt and initiate the check.
Go [...]
Advanced Windows Care Personal Edition
Advanced Windows Care
Our download recommendation today is Advanced Windows Care Personal Edition. This free application does what a lot of different programs do, but it is all contained in a neat package that does it all with only a couple of clicks.
Advanced Windows Care Personal Edition helps rid your system of Spyware, registry errors, clears [...]
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- Live Boot Operating System CDs
- Free Screen Capture Software
- Norton Taking “User” Out of UAC
- Add Power Programs to Your Windows Start Menu
- Easily View Your System Information
- Free History Erase Program
- Windows Defender Doesn’t Suck
- Run CHKDSK From The Command Prompt
- Advanced Windows Care Personal Edition
- Use The Group Policy Editor to Tweak Windows
- DeepBurner Free CD / DVD Burning Software
- Geometry Wars Will Be the Death Of Me
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
- Is Blu-Ray Missing its Chance?
- List of Top Anti Spyware Downloads
- Spore | A “Burst” of Creativity
- FileZilla | Free Computer Software Download
- Modify Your Hosts File to Block Malware
- An “Incredible” Mistake
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