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Believe it or not, that headline is not a typo. John Coyne, Systems Engineer in the OEM Embedded Devices group at Microsoft, has posted a quick blog entry that broke the bad news: as of November 1, 2008, Microsoft will no longer allow OEMs to license windows for Workgroups 3.11 in the embedded channel. That's exactly 15 years after it shipped in November 1993! Poor OEMs have so much to put up with these days; first windows XP, and now this! windows for Workgroups 3.11 has of course been u... Read More
Use Error-checking to check your hard drives for errors From Checkdisk to Scandisk to Error-checking, windows has continually improved its hard drive checking and repair tools. Windows Vista includes a hard drive Error-checking tool that can help you find errors and fix them before they become big problems. To run Error-checking in Windows Vista, click start, click "Computer" then right-click on the hard drive you want to check and select "Properties". No... Read More
Today my laptop decided that I didn't have a DVD drive. I could see it plain as the nose on my face, but windows said otherwise. After a load of head scratching, some bad language and a lot of Googling I found the cause.......it was Nero Uninstalled Nero and Bingo!!! windows said "oh look, a DVD drive". Now how stupid is that? A programme that is meant to be used with a DVD drive makes it unuseable Computers must be the most contrary things on the planet. OK, rant over!! ane... Read More
Just Because a Site Runs an Ad Does Not Mean The Site Recommends the Product Windows All Versions This week a flash advertisement on USA Today was hacked and spread all kinds of badware to all kinds of users, who, trusting USA Today assumed that the ad was something endorsed by USA Today. It was not. The point of this tip is not to scare you out of you wits or teach you never to click on an advertisement, but to again remind you to use common sense, keep your... Read More
Third-party Firewalls Run Amok Windows XP and windows Vista More lately than ever before are we receiving emails from frustrated folks who want to protect their computers but are so confused by all the conflicting advice they receive, they install more security programs on their computers than they need and end up with a computer that's out-of-control and nearly impossible to use. So, what's the point? If every time you try to download something, install something, or... Read More
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