We will announce new DVD releases from time to time when a movie is released that has a heavy slant on technology, or a heavy geek following. Coming next week is Ironman. For those who didn’t see it in theaters, it had great special effects and will look and sound fantastic in anyone’s Blu-Ray home [...]

We feel the need to occasionally publish something like this because we invariably still see these mistakes happening in the field. As technology continues to improve, it becomes more imprtant than ever to stick to the basics.  Below are some of the things you should do and some of the things you should not.
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Autoruns by SysInternals
Autoruns has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor and shows you what programs are configured to run at system bootup or login. It also shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys.
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Seinfeld. I mean c’mon, what’s up with this Seinfeld thing with Microsoft? Whaddayamean? Okay, it’s impossible to make a post sound like and old Seinfeld skit, but that’s what I was trying to do. Anyway, as most of us already know, Jerry Seinfeld is working with Bill Gates in some new Microsoft commercials to thwart [...]

Our recommended download today is SuperAntiSpyware. It is a thorough AntiSpyware scanner that detects spyware that most other products miss! SUPERAntiSpyware claims to remove ALL the Spyware, NOT just the easy ones! And from what we’ve seen so far, it does a pretty good job backing up that claim. They have a free version and [...]

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 [...]

 

Our download today is Ophcrack, a free password recovery utility that is absolutely essential for any user with multiple PCs or System Administrators that need to access computers where the password is either unknown or forgotten. You can download .iso files of this program for Xp or Vista and boot to them when you start [...]

What’s in your computer repair tool bag? Do not be fooled by those who tell you that you need the 5,000 piece high tech computer toolkit. Unless you’re building a computer chip by chip, you should customize your toolkit for fast, lightweight repair. We’ll going to list some of the most commonly used and essential [...]

I have an announcement to make about Microsoft. Drop your mouses, people! Do not leave, because this is important and could actually benefit you. I know you haven’t been happy with Vista–even if I don’t agree with most of your complaints–I understand your fear and uncertainty when it comes to Microsoft products. But their push [...]

With the incorporation of servers in homes and small offices becoming more common, it becomes more practical to keep folders in one location for all users. For instance, users can share a single My Documents folder on their Windows server (or a different hard drive) that has greater capacity than the C: drive in their PC. [...]