Archive for the ‘Tips’ Category
Monday, September 8th, 2008
Best tip I have found in a long time
Follow these steps if you find your address bar missing from the taskbar, after you install XP SP3
1. create a new bar on the taskbar from the options still available (Links
for example)
2. drag it to the desktop to undock it (it will ...
Posted in Networking, Software, Tips, Windows | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Turns out Verizons DNS servers suck whether it is Fios or DSL. We have been having a flaky problem with one of the apps at a clients office, it turns out the application phones home. The problem is it wasn't able to complete the call, but most other net requests ...
Posted in Networking, Tips | No Comments »
Friday, May 9th, 2008
The verdict is in. Unless you have a brand new fresh clean install of Windows XP, proceed with caution. Even then you might want to stick to SP2. If for some twisted, sadistic reason you need to install SP3, I beg you to read the following web page first:
Installing Windows ...
Posted in Antivirus, Software, Tips, Windows | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
If you plan to leave the country and need to take a computer with you, buy a brand new one, and keep the files you need to work with, on a jump drive/key drive/thumb drive. Thumb Drives can be kept away from the computer and may not be searched if they are ...
Posted in Hardware, Security, Software, Tips, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Trinity Rescue Kit is my new favorite tool. It is doing wonders for that laptop I mentioned before. I just thought I'd link to them and give a shout out.
Posted in Antivirus, Hardware, Software, Tips, Uncategorized, linux | No Comments »
Monday, April 28th, 2008
This week on The PM Computers show, we cleaned out a laptop for a local business woman. it was filled with all sorts of malware like funwebproducts, mywaysearch, and minibug. i was lucky it didn't have anything serious like smitfraud or vundo. After I got all of this cleaned using ...
Posted in Security, Software, Tips | 1 Comment »
Friday, March 14th, 2008
Did you know that a standard USB Device side plug, can fit into an RJ-45/11 jack? This was the whole problem behind a recent case. We tried to fix this remotely, but with no luck. After checking the clients site, we found that they had plugged the USB cable into ...
Posted in Hardware, Misc, Tips | No Comments »
Monday, March 10th, 2008
Todays tip for fighting spam is spelling and language.
If there are a lot of mis-spellings in the email or instant message, it has a good chance of being spam.
If the message is in a language you don't normally speak, it might also be spam.
These are just two of the many ...
Posted in Security, Software, Tips | No Comments »