Archive for May, 2008
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Friday, May 30th, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed.Before attempting to remove a Trojan infection, you should first understand how a Trojan is able to infiltrate your computer and what damage it can do. Trojan’s aren’t true viruses, as they don’t replicate themselves. A Trojan is malware.
Malware is software that is [...]
Being Sick Is Punishment Enough
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008I haven’t felt well at all the past week. I’ve had varying degrees of dizzyness and fuzzy headed feeling along with a constant headache. I’m also finding it really hard to stare at a computer screen for over 30 minutes. My blog posts reflect this and rather than post sub-standard posts I’ll only post when [...]
Upgrade to XP Service Pack 3 Was a Good One
Sunday, May 25th, 2008I have successfully upgraded to XP Service Pack 3. It took me about 50 minutes to upgrade, including the downloading of the service pack and the rebooting required. So far, I have had no ill effects from the upgrade.
I haven’t noticed an increase in speed [some people had reported a 10% increase in speed - [...]
Windows Sysinternals Is a Useful Collection of Utilities
Friday, May 23rd, 2008I came across this handy Microsoft [shock, horror!] utilities website recently and thought it was very handy indeed.
There are many handy tools available from checking your internal system clock, monitoring DLL files in real-time [that has been at the top of my list of things to monitor, sort of, well ok not really, but I [...]
Another Free Program To Block Phorm
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008Another tool to block Phorm has been released for Windows computers. It’s called AntiPhorm Lite. The spiel from the website states:
“AntiPhorm Lite runs independently and silently in the background of your PC. It connects to the web and intelligently simulates natural surfing behaviour across thousands of customizable topics. This creates a background noise of false [...]
Hold On A Minute Before You Upgrade To Windows XP Service Pack 3
Saturday, May 17th, 2008Before you download and install Windows XP Service Pack 3, take a deep breath, think of a tranquil place in your mind and read on. Installing XP SP3 isn’t as easy as actually downloading it and installing it on your computer! No, that would just be too easy…
You may or may not have read about [...]
Easily End That File Extension Mystery
Thursday, May 15th, 2008Have you ever seen the image below when trying to open a file on your computer?
I have, many times. If you do come across a file with an extension that your computer doesn’t know how to open, then a handy website; http://www.dotwhat.net/ can help and advise.
You can choose to use the Windows built-in web service [...]
Tweak XP File Indexing To Speed Up Your Computer
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Here’s another handy little tweak that you can action that will speed up your computer. Windows XP keeps a record of all files on your hard disk[s] to try and improve searching speeds. The drawback to this is that your computer will be indexing all of the files. If you don’t use the search facility very [...]
Windows XP Is Pants Say PC Tools
Sunday, May 11th, 2008PC Tools recently conducted a security study of Microsoft’s operating systems and has admitted that XP is less secure than Vista [WTF!] and is even less secure than Windows 2000 [double WTF!].
The link for the findings is here. What amazes me is that XP is less secure than Windows 2000 when XP is supposed to [...]
Find Duplicate Files On Your Computer With Doublekiller
Friday, May 9th, 2008How many duplicate files are clogging up space on your computer? I know on my computer I had 1.2GB of duplicate files. Yeah, that’s a hell of a lot! How did I find this out and how do I find duplicate files from my computer I hear you [probably] ask?
I found this really handy program [...]
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