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Tips, views, and thoughts of Mike Hall, Microsoft MVP 2005/6/7/8
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According to a report in 'The Register', a third of all Vista machines have been put back to XP. Read more here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/windows_xp_vista_7/ Personally, I think that home users are wrong in doing this unless, like...
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If you have attempted to install the latest round of Office updates via Windows Update, there is a very good chance of seeing this error code. There is a fix, but it is quite severe and may leave you with the task of creating new user accounts if your...
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.. with your Internet Service Provider is easy. All you have to do is call ISP support, and a 'technician' will walk you through the process. Whether you are using Windows Mail, Outlook Express, Outlook, Thunderbird, Entourage or whatever, calling...
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Version 8.0 Is NOT compatible with SpywareBlaster or Spybot 'immunize' features. The AVG people are well aware of this and sent this e-mail to a user in response to problems encountered, suggesting the following actions.. Dear Sir/Madam, According...
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Grisoft have released a new version of their Anti-Virus product. It has a new look icon and new look interface. Download the new version from.. http://free.grisoft.com/ Uninstall version 7.5 or whatever anti-virus solution you are presently using, and...
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.. happen because you thought that.. 1. your friend was right about having everything run in RAM, so you deleted the page file.. 2. you thought that you could recoup some badly needed and, in your opinion, wasted hard drive space, so you deleted it or...
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I now have conclusive proof that Vista is 'apparently' every bit as fast as XP.. For all of these tests, I followed exactly the same procedures each time. The installations are on individual drives in the same machine, not set up as dual boot...
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A judge has ok'ed the class action lawsuit against Microsoft regarding the 'marketing' stickers applied to the front of XP machines in the months leading up to the release of Vista. We hear that some 'big noises' within the Microsoft...
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For those of you who are suffering withdrawal since the Vista backroom boys took away the visual part of defragmentation, you can come out now. The nice people at Diskeeper Corporation have just what you need, and prices start from only $29.95 for the...
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You don't believe me? So go take a look for yourself.. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310560 It is a DIAGNOSTIC tool. It has never been officially designated an on/off switch, but it became common among Windows 9x users to use it as one. The problem...
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Preface The general idea behind backups is to create usable retrievable copies of data onto media that is then kept isolated from the computer system until such time as there is a necessity to retrieve any of them. The term 'backup' is also synonymous...
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Remember 'First Aid', 'RegClean', or 'CleanSweep', 'Norton System Doctor', or 'Nuts n Bolts'? If you were a Windows 9x tinkerer, you might. The idea behind them was to aid the computer user in case of problems,...
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Page files do not exist purely to use up valuable hard drive real estate. Windows is not the only OS to use a page file. The page file is not part of some underhand Microsoft scheme to force you to go out and buy a larger hard drive. The page file exists...
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Prologue Wait up. I hear voices in the wind. ".... I didn't know how to work the program... nobody told me I had to do it... I didn't have any blank CD/DVDs... my friend who is a computer expert told me that it was unnecessary.. I never read...
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The Delivery From the point where I knew that Vista RTM was on its way, I had a nerve wracking time in MS Connect. I had already downloaded Office 2007 earlier in the day, and was now pacing the floor, continually stopping at the screen to see if Vista...
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Your computer is acting up, and it's not always easy to tell. Some of the symptoms of a virus and/or Trojan are similar to what is seen as a hard drive sings its swan song. Question #1.. Was it always that way? Most computers when first supplied work...
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