How To Boot From A USB Flash Drive
For starters this is still a new science and many people have had good luck with at least one of these methods and others have not. Note that flash drives are often also called thumb drives, keychain drives, pendrives, etc.
A FEW THINGS YOU NEED TO CONSIDER IN ADVANCE.
1. The [...]
Oh No Robots! The Scounge of Spyware!
Have you been experiencing issues with spyware? Your system seems to be slowing? Or just unexplainable circumstances?
Why bother paying someone 60$ to take 5 minutes and clean up your computer when you can do it yourself?
1) Lets Take a Look at some Symptoms
If you notice that you have new toolbars on your system, You Might [...]
Firefox Extentions: What Extentions Are Actually Useful?
Mozilla Firefox has recently taken the Internet Browser war to the extreme. With flexibility and security, it is gaining in the market of internet users out there. Compared to Internet Explorer… anything is better than that. And one of Firefox’s best known features is its wide use of Extensions, or plug-ins that enable [...]
Mozilla releases the first candidate for Firefox RC1
In a mind-twisting sort of way, Mozilla’s has released it’s first candidate for version 2.0 RC1. Perhaps that means Firefox 2.0 RC1 RC1. Or Firefox 2.0 RC1 RC. In any event, the race between Microsoft and Mozilla to be the first to release a new browser is tightening up.
Firefox 2.0 features upgraded icons and tabs, [...]
New Browsers from Microsoft and Mozilla
The race is over and it’s a tie. The two heavyweights in the web browser business have both released new versions of their products. Internet Explorer 7 is available via Windows Update as an optional download and The Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox 2.0 can be found at Mozilla’s web site.
Firefox’s new features appear to be primarily [...]
Download Windows Vista RC1
Join the Windows Vista testing rollercoaster! All you need is a Microsoft Passport (your Hotmail address will work perfectly!) The web site is here. Be sure to take a look at the minimum system requirements via the link that is on the Microsoft web page. Also, be aware that some of your current software, particularly [...]
Windows XP and the great Prefetch Myth
About once a year, several tech sites trot out the story that deleting the files in your prefetch directory will speed up your Windows XP system. There is a good reason that they’re there – and deleting them may actually slow down your system!
The prefetch directory is a subdirectory of the windows directory on your [...]
Microsoft Officially Announces Vista Pricing
Microsoft has announced pricing for the five (whew) different versions of Windows Vista. Starting at what seems to be an affordable hundred smackers for the “Basic” upgrade, the cost zooms up to $399 for the full “Ultimate” edition. Here’s the nitty gritty:
Windows Vista Home Basic: $99 upgrade, $199 full
Windows Vista Home Premium: $159 upgrade, $239 [...]
One Day Only: WinRAR is Free
WinRAR, the shareware compression program, has been selected as the the Shareware Industry Awards Foundation “Best Utility of the Year” for 2006. To celebrate, RARLab is offering everyone a free single-user license of version 3.51 of WinRAR on Sunday, July 30, from from 00:00 to 24:00 CDT. Head over to their web site and fill [...]
Microsoft Ending Support for Windows 98
I got out of the Navy about a month after Windows 95 was released. A few months later, I was hard at work for Micron Electronics, supporting computers over the phone. Or, as one of the guys on the line said, “Welcome to hell.”
Two years worth of 12 hour days later, Windows 98 was released. [...]