There has been a nasty worm making the rounds and by now most of you have probably heard of the downadup/conficker virus. This has affected millions of systems and is a nasty piece of work. Just recently it affected some French fighter planes and caused them to be grounded. The virus infected French military computers [...]

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Here is a summary that will help you understand the various editions of WIndows 7 that will be available. It should be slightly less confusing than the current Vista options available. Many people complained that there were too many versions of Vista available, and nobody knew the difference between half of them. OK, so these are [...]

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If you haven’t heard, there is a big security hole in Windows 7 to do with UAC. To cut a long story short, it only takes a very basic script to take advantage of this security hole, thus opening up a lot of potential risks. Well Microsoft claimed that the way UAC works in Windows [...]

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So there will essentially be three upgrade paths for Windows 7. Users can upgrade from XP to Windows 7, from Vista to Windows 7 and from Windows 7 to Windows 7. Any users running Windows XP versions, or Vista will easily be able to upgrade to WIndows 7. There is particular benefit to XP users, [...]

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Well I could come up with some smart ass answer, but the simple answer is to just avoid using an adminstrator account. Apparently 92% of the bugs and vulnerabilities that have been hitting Windows and IE, were related to administrator accounts, so those users running on standard accounts were only exposed to 8% of the problems. So [...]

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Something that myself and many users have reported as annoying, is the tapping feature on notebook touchpads. On these touchpads, you can imitate a mouse click by tapping the pad with your finger. However, the problem here is that when you attempt to just move the mouse pointer, quite often it will initiate a click. So [...]

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The new Google Earth 5.0 beta has just been released and it has a few cool new features that you might be interested in, including the ability to explore the ocean. Here is an overview of the new features: Historical imagery from around the globe Ocean floor and surface data from marine experts Simplified touring [...]

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Just a couple days back, Microsoft has emailed testers regarding the download of RC Escrow version of Service Pack 2 for Vista. Testers have been allowed to download this version via the Windows Update site and also as a standalone installer. The escrow part of the build means that coding has finished. Now its just [...]

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