When I think of Thanksgiving, I think of myself as a young boy, watching the Thanksgiving parade on television; mom busy in the kitchen preparing our Thanksgiving dinner and the feeling of love all around. I remember a gray, cold and cloudy day; the steamy windows that cooking made and snowflakes in the air. This was my best… Read More »
Did you know that Microsoft includes a system reliability monitor in Windows Vista and Windows 7 that rates your computer’s reliability on a scale of 1 to 10? It shows you important details such as installations and uninstallations as well as program crashes, operating system crashes and more. It’s easy to access and to use. You can learn… Read More »
Some of you have noticed that Norton 360 now includes “LifeLock”. So Norton now not only touts that its firewall can keep you safe from identity theft – but “LifeLock” can keep you even safer. The truth is, neither one can. Norton knows it. We know it. Anyone who understands how identity theft works knows it. If all… Read More »
When you are browsing around your hard drive in Windows Explorer and you’re looking at folders with lots of documents, emails, or text files, you might prefer using the “List” or “Details” views. But, if you’re looking at a folder with lots of pictures, you’ll have probably want to choose the thumbnail view so you can preview each… Read More »
Linda and the continuing saga of junk mail (or why “block sender” never works) I use windows live as my email and I was very proud that I only had two or three junk emails a month but a couple of weeks ago instead of deleting the junk then looked under sweep and saw block sender so I… Read More »
Windows 8’s first security patches will be part of a package of fixes to be released on Tuesday. According to PC World, “Microsoft announced the Windows 8 security fixes in a recent security bulletin. The bulletin was issued days after a security company in the business of selling zero-day vulnerabilities, Vupen, announced that it had found multiple vulnerabilities… Read More »