As a full time techie you tend to come across a lot of bad software in your travels. Most of the time I have to remove for people .
But in saying that every now and then you come across a few gems. One i will mention today is a little program called Startup Control [...]
Wow what a problem I had today. One of my clients has decided to migrate to Apple Mac’s. So he gets me out to move his historical email from a Windows laptop and desktop to Entourage. Sounds simple enough right??? Right???
Wrong and I must say I was surprised. I tried a few methods.
Saving individual mails [...]
The Windows Blue Screen of Death or BSOD as we techies call it can be the bane of our existance. I have spent long and frustrating hours trying to troubleshoot these messages. Initally i was like many who just shrugged their shoulders and put it down to faulty hardware or Windows biting the bullet. While [...]
Well OMG after over a week of dealing with this I can conclude this is one of the worst infection I have dealt with in a long time. Infact from a couple of different points, it looks legit I mean the whole thing to the untrained eye makes you think its a valid product that [...]
Had a question from gadgetlady after I posted my last tip and that was in relation to firewalls. There are plenty of schools of thought about them and ill be the first to admit that they are necessary but also a big nuisance if you want simplicity.
I tend to be of the opinion that the [...]
After a week of virus and spyware removal I can’t stress enough how important keeping your PC’s antivirus and antispyware software up to date. But this is twofold it’s one thing to update them but you need to run them on a regular basis. This can take time so I recommend running them overnight so [...]