December, 2007 Archive
December 31, 2007 by
Jason
Should be noted that sometimes the Add / Remove Programs fails because the application / program has already been deleted or cant uninstall automatically from add / remove program, but the list of applications still displayed just does not reflect that. Let me show you how can i remove manually this program from my computer. Find the directory for the application and delete all the files in the directory. Delete the directory. Here are step by step how can i remove this program. ( Ex: folder name VIP ) Read More»
Posted in Software, Windows XP | 5 Comments »
December 31, 2007 by
Jason Nvidia Linux Display Driver version 169.07 was released yesterday. If you own a GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GTS 512 or 8800M graphics card, you should know that this driver offers support for them.
The highlists of this release are:
• Added CUDA driver to .run file.
• Improved modesetting support on Quadro/GeForce 8 series GPUs.
• Fixed several X rendering issues.
• Fixed problems scrolling ARGB X drawables in Qt.
• Improved support for interlaced DVI, HDMI, and HDTV modesetting. Read More»
Posted in Linux, Software | No Comments »
December 31, 2007 by
Jason 2007 has been a busy year when it comes to computer security, with all kinds of threats aiming to be deployed on people’s computers. Trojan horses, malware, viruses, spam and hack attacks, they have all joined their forces to break into our systems. Because of that, security companies from all over the world struggled to build new solutions or to update the existing ones, just to prove the consumers that, somewhere beyond these attacks, there’s someone who can protect them.
Many people think that installing an antivirus application is enough to protect the computer, but it has been proved several times that a simple Trojan horse can easily invade your system and access your sensitive information. All they need is a software vulnerability, which could be used for connecting to the computer and executing a malicious file. From this point, it’s all up to the attacker. Read More»
Posted in Computer, Software | 2 Comments »
December 30, 2007 by
Jason If you run a windows computer you’ll know like many others than after a while your system will in doubt start running slow. Most people will restart their computer to remove and idle processes. But if there’s a simpler way, why restart every time windows decides it doesn’t like you today?
1. Right click on an empty spot on your desktop and select New – Shortcut. Read More»
Posted in Computer, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 10 Comments »
December 30, 2007 by
Jason
In the Firefox settings there is an option to show the “windows and tabs from last time” when starting up the browser. This is handy for anyone who wants to close their browser, but retain any windows and tabs that were previously open for the next session.
Previously I never understood how this feature could be used to restore windows without the help of an extension. When I close Firefox I always use the red “X” in the upper-right corner of the window. Doing that, as expected, would only make Firefox remember the last window that I had open. Read More»
Posted in Firefox | No Comments »
December 30, 2007 by
Jason Securing Microsoft Office Word 2007 documents with Digital Signatures, When you receive a document that has been signed by someone you know, you are more likely to trust the contents than those of a document that has not been signed, or has been signed with an unfamiliar signature. Signing a document validates it to someone who recognizes your signature, now add the same degree of integrity to your documents in Microsoft Office Word 2007 thanks to the new Digital Signatures feature.
Here’s a video a found on youtube.com about Word 2007 Digital Signatures. Check it out. Read More»
Posted in Office | 1 Comment »
December 30, 2007 by
Jason You can use the command-line tool IPCONFIG to get network information such as your IP address and to perform other tasks for troubleshooting network issues.
However, if you prefer a graphical user interface over command lines, you can download a GUI tool that will run on Windows XP and Windows 2000. The tool that’s installed is Wntipcfg.exe.
The tool identifies your IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway for each of your network interfaces, including the interface for your network adapter, your dial-up networking interface, and your PPTP interface. It allows you to click a button to Release, Renew, Release all, or Renew all when configuring an IP address. Read More»
Posted in Computer, Windows XP | 1 Comment »
December 29, 2007 by
Jason If you’re running IE 7 on XP SP2, you may get a Webpage cannot be displayed error when trying to access the Web. If so, any of several recent updates to IE 7 may have created a conflict with your antivirus or antispyware security suite. You should check your suite’s configuration to make sure the updated version of IE is still allowed to access the Web, or contact your security vendor for an update, as described in Microsoft KB article 942818.
Over the holidays, I visited my Dad, who was having issues using AOL. Once I removed his 2006-era version of an antivirus program, and updated him to the 2008 version, his system worked perfectly. While his antivirus signatures were being regularly updated via a paid-up subscription, the older version of his application itself was causing the conflict. Read More»
Posted in Internet | No Comments »
December 28, 2007 by
Jason 
In Windows Vista, users can have an extensive System Health Report generated for them in helping troubleshoot performance and reliability issues on their PC or to see how healthy their PC is in general. For the average user, this probably won’t mean anything. But for me, I’m the type of user that really likes having the ability to create reports that tell me about my PC so I was really excited to find this ability in Windows Vista.
This evening I decided to generate a report on my main desktop PC for the first time and see what it says. To have a System Health Report generated: Read More»
Posted in Windows Vista | 2 Comments »
December 28, 2007 by
Jason
This next group of hacks all relate to the network.http group in about:config. Basically these various options open up your network connection to Firefox, permitting it to access information online as quickly as your connection will permit you. Since the majority of my readers utilize broadband connections, this will benefit you, 56k you are tough out of luck, sorry. To implement these hacks, perform the following steps. Read More»
Posted in Firefox | 2 Comments »
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