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Viewpoints on Vista
Saturday, October 21st, 2006 | Tech News | Comments Off
Paul Thurrott has written an interesting article looking back to the early days of Vista's (longhorn) development. You can read about the 1st two articles here. It is worth a read to see how much optimistic Gates and the Windows folk were back in 2001. Vista today looks nothing like the idealistic view of Longhorn they had dreamed up. I can't wait for the rest of Paul's history comes out.
John Dvorak's latest PCMag article brings up some serious concerns for the possible inclusion of Windows Genuine Advantage in the retail release of Vista. John has been writing on technology for a very long time and I enjoy his articles immensly and his blog is on my daily list of reading.
Windows Defender & WSUS
Thursday, September 14th, 2006 | Tech Help | Comments Off
I have installed Windows Defender on a few of the corporate laptops and noticed that they were not getting definition updates. I tried reinstalling the product but was unable to get it to update. Google turned up some leads but none of them worked for me. On a whim I went to check out WSUS server to see if the updates were available there. In the Sync Options area, under Products I saw what I wanted to see. Windows Defender updates are pushed through MS Update and since we use WSUS instead of MS Update the laptops were not getting updated. I few clicks and a sync later our Windows Defender installs are now getting up to date definitions.
Show me your Rootkit
Thursday, August 31st, 2006 | Tech Help | Comments Off
Rootkits are becoming more of a problem everyday. Sophos has released a free program that will detect a rootkits presense and remove it.
What is a rootkit?
The term rootkit is used to define a Trojan (or technology) used to hide the presence of a malicious object (process, file, registry key, network port) from the computer user or administrator.
Computer Fundamentals 100
Thursday, August 31st, 2006 | Tech Help | Comments Off
Welcome to the first of many guides to technology I will be writing. For my first guide, lets call it Computer Fundamentals 100, I will give you my top 5 tips for a new or prospective computer owner, specifically Windows users.
1. A computer is nothing to be afraid of. So, go ahead and explore the file system. Aside from deleting any files located in c:\windows, or c:\program files, there isn't to much that can go wrong by going into My Computer and taking a look around, Trial & error work for you as a small child, why not as an adult. › Continue reading