Category: Windows
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Spyware making your life sad? Try some of these tips
Anti Spyware Software: Use more than one, use them regularly. Adaware – http://Lavasoft.de download the VX2 plugin for it also. Ewido: – http://www.google.com (free mode is more than good enough) Microsoft Anti* Beta http://www.microsoft.com Spybot: http://security.kolla.de Hijack This is another useful tool to see if you have anything that should not be there. Tips: Avoid…
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Remove nasty Windows XP limitation on concurrent connections – SpeedGuide.net :: News :: Windows XP SP2
SpeedGuide.net :: News :: Windows XP SP2 If you ever run into the limitations that microsoft Windows XP imposes on the number of TCP/IP connections that are not in the established state you might find this guide useful, as it will enable you to remove this horrible limitation that microsoft have placed inside Windows XP…
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Videora iPod Converter – iPod Video Converter
Videora iPod Converter – iPod Video Converter Need a method to convert various formats into a compatible version for the Video iPod? I am currently testing the above product. Looks like it works. UPDATE: This has not been update/convert WMV to MP4. Nero Recode 2 however is able to convert it from WMV -> Nero…
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Microsoft’s Security Suite
Reading the current information available on the web that seem to indicate that Microsoft will soon be charging for Anti-Spyware and Anti-Virus software, all I can say is that I am beyond very dissapointed. SpyWare is a direct result of bugs in Microsoft Windows and the software shipped with it (Internet Explorer). This is not…
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Vista, Intel IDF and the Mac OS X Intel transition.
While reading my atomic magazine which arrived earlier in the week (which happens to have as its main feature set articles on Windows Vista/Longhorn there was a coverage of the Intel Developer Forum going into details about up and coming chipsets specifically the i945 express chipset which features onboard graphics compatible with the Vistas Windows…
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Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 – Problems
It seems that Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 is having some issues with mscorsvw taking up 100% cpu usage – none of the currently available fixes to the problem seem to work – in fact I have no idea why its having suck problems :(. If you have the same error as below, please sign…
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Adding TCP/IP network printers automatically in windows
If you wish to add network printers (TCP/IP Printers) in Windows XP, I have found that the following works really well. This us especially useful if you have a lot of machines to maintain and you dont want to add them in by hand Step 1: Create the ports Before you start adding printer drivers…
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Yet another: Warning over unpatched IE bug | The Register
Warning over unpatched IE bug | The Register It looks like internet explorer has yet another bug. No fix available for it, so may I suggest that in the interim you switch to something like firefox or one of the other browsers that dont seem to have as many bugs (and when they are found…
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WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) trouble completeing downloads using BITS
If you like me found that your WSUS server was not downloading all update files successfully and had some issues sorting it out. A google or three might return a result like below 1. ?%programfiles%\Update Services\tools\osql\osql.exe? -S servername\WSUS -E -b -n ?Q ?USE SUSDB update tbConfigurationC set BitsDownloadPriorityForeground=1? (note: substitute your WSUS server name for…
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Record companies just don’t get it, computer and software companies don’t care.
The Register is running a piece that indicates that Sony-BMG and EMI will begin rolling out copy protected Compact Discs (Music) to unsuspecting customers. *YAY* (not) What these companies need to understand is that people don’t really want to steal music – they want music to be accessible and easy to use – thus the…