You said NEW laptop... I guess you bought it from a department store similar to Best Buy?? By all means, go ahead format and reinstall the OS. It will be the...
I am going to do just that during long weekend. Appreciate you help. I am also planning to buy XP for my kids computer who has win 98 se. I want to do the same...
My kid laptop has win 98 and want to install wifi from netgear wg511t. It use a dial up networt to connect to internet. My questions is, what should I do with...
Fresh install of XP is the right thing to do. First you may want to do a couple of things with your kids' PC. Upgrade the RAM to a minimum of 512 MB, AND it...
Nothing needs to be done to the dial-up. But, you will want to go into the Internet properties > Connections Tab and click the radio that says, "never dial a...
National Cyber Alert System Technical Cyber Security Alert TA06-214A Apple Mac Products Affected by Multiple Vulnerabilities Original release date: August 02,...
Thank you for all your help. I did install the wifi successfully only to have one problem. The wifi network can connect to access point and read all available ...
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=6581 By Elizabeth Montalbano IDG News Service 04 August 2006 August will be another substantial patch...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060803.TWVISTA03/TPStory/Business By RAF BRUSILOW Special to The Globe and Mail 03/08/06 As early test...
REDUCING THE SIZE OF THE RECYCLE BIN You may throw things away to the Recycle Bin, but they aren't gone forever-and may be taking up valuable hard disk space....
hello everyone one suggestion not made in this tip is to clean your temp folders before hand as well. you could have 100's of files in your temp folder and...
Great series of posts, nowaywins! I am certainly not an expert, so this may be a naive question. Why can't MS create an OS that has a quarantined space for...
Systems Affected * Microsoft Windows * Microsoft Office (Windows and Mac) * Microsoft Internet Explorer Overview Microsoft has released updates that address...
Cyber Security Tip ST06-007 Defending Cell Phones and PDAs Against Attack As cell phones and PDAs become more technologically advanced, attackers are finding...
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20042617-5003418,00.html Glenn Chapman in Las Vegas August 07, 2006 ORGANISED crime is winning the internet...
As we are no longer in the age of the tedious and time consuming "snail mail", the age of informal messaging has arrived via the power of the Internet. Don't...
Security Flaw in Microsoft Windows Leaves Millions Vulnerable By JONATHAN SILVERSTEIN Aug. 11, 2006 - - The Department of Homeland Security released a...
The IBM PC is 25. And here are the top PCs ever, from machines you owned and loved to systems you've never heard of. The Editors of PC World IBM's first PC,...
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2002966,00.asp By Ryan Naraine August 13, 2006 The first wave of malicious attacks against the MS06-040 vulnerability is...
some interesting bits of news on the next version in the story roger http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3625496 By Sean Michael Kerner August 9,...
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/08/11/HNopenofficesecurity_1.html By Robert McMillan IDG News Service August 11, 2006 With Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite...
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200608/14/eng20060814_292943.html August 14, 2006 Xinhua Almost three quarters of China's computers were attacked by viruses ...
A friend of mine is a sailor who is about to take a years long cruise. He wants to use a dedicated laptop/GPS setup for navigation. He is a MAC guy however a...
Any Windows will continously run without rebooting, even if not on the Net. None of the Windows Products require to be attached to the Internet. Net even for...
... Thanks much, I hadn't thought about the need for virus protection unplugged but yes, he will be loading third party software. Thanks again Jules...
In ancient Israel, it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com, did take unto himself a young wife by the name of Dot. And Dot Com was a comely...
Hello again everyone! I have a problem (again). My co-worker at work gave me her old IBM thinkpad 600. She said she had it a long time. But she did not...
if it is a bios password, IE: you can refer to the following: http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/reference/biosp.htm this may help you. Erik ... work ... But ... the...
Cindy, did she give you the Restore disk that has the factory software? If you run that, I think the problem would go away. I had anold thinkpad, and one of...