The Weekly Windows Freebie: File Recovery Programs
Wednesday April 29, 2009
Scenario: You just dumped your Recycle Bin of a 1000 files; unfortunately, you now realize you needed one of those files. What do you do? That depends. Windows Help is ... Read More
Microsoft Backstrokes to XP Mode – Finally
Monday April 27, 2009
Microsoft announced on Friday that Windows 7 will have a new feature: an XP Mode that emulates that operating system for existing XP applications. Businesses have long baulked at ... Read More
The Weekly Windows Freebie: PrimoPDF
Wednesday April 22, 2009
This is a handy little piece of freeware that allows you to creating Acrobat PDF documents from any program. You install it, open the program you want to print from, ... Read More
Windows 7 RC Hits the Bricks May 5th
Monday April 20, 2009
If you'd like to see Windows 7 before its final, you may be in luck. Word on the street is (not really, Microsoft leaked the news) that Windows 7 RC ... Read More
Microsoft Auto-Pushing IE8 to Desktops
Friday April 17, 2009
Soon Microsoft will try to update your Internet Browser to Internet Explorer 8. If you have Automatic Updates enabled, you will probably not even notice until its done. If you ... Read More
The Weekly Windows Freebie: Windows Search 4.0
Wednesday April 15, 2009
If you are like me, you have hundreds, perhaps thousands of files and emails on your computer. The question is: “How the heck do I find what I am looking ... Read More
3 Degrees of Kevin Bacon
Monday April 13, 2009
What do disgruntled Vista users have in common? The majority of them heard the negative stuff from someone else – from their friends, business associates and the media, before they ... Read More
Windows Dominates Netbooks
Thursday April 9, 2009
The latest stats are out on Microsoft’s market share of Netbooks; you know those little laptops powered by an “Atom” processor and Windows XP. It now claims 96 percent of ... Read More
The Weekly Windows Freebie: Windows Defender
Wednesday April 8, 2009
Defender is a free product from Microsoft that protects Windows computers from Adware and Spyware. It operates quickly (5 minute scan on my PC), uses little system resources and ... Read More
Just Too Sexy For Microsoft
Monday April 6, 2009
The latest round of advertising by Microsoft amuses me: Apple computers are too cool, too sexy, too expensive for the average Joe. Really. What a surprise. I wouldn’t even know ... Read More
More Cowbell Please
Thursday April 2, 2009
April 1st came and went. Yawn. So much for the plethora of media attention, self included, that highlighted the nasty things viruses can do. What now? Well, how about more ... Read More
The Windows Weekly Freebie: OneCare Safety Scanner
Wednesday April 1, 2009
NOTE: Be sure to also read the below blog titled "Don't be an April Fool", about detecting and removing the Conficker virus from Windows computers.
Today’s freebie is called OneCare Safety ... Read More