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OneCare Tanks Test
03.Mar.07 | Leave a Comment
PC World has an article up titled, “Microsoft OneCare Last in Anti-Virus Tests.” It would seem that OneCare fell way behind the other 16 competitors in recent AV-Comparatives testing (source of the report in PDF format).
I bought a license for OneCare two weeks ago — got the beta testers deal. Covers 3 computers [...]
Moving the My Documents Folder
01.Mar.07 | Leave a Comment
Here’s a simple little tip for the Windows users. Your My Documents folder need not live on your boot drive. You can easily move it to another drive. I’ve been doing this for years to help isolate myself from drive failures and sleep better knowing that if my boot/OS/Apps drive gets [...]
Nerve-racking to Maddening
29.Jan.07 | Leave a Comment
Few days back I mentioned I was reloading my work laptop [1]. Over the weekend it became one of the most annoying projects I’ve had in a long time.
Install 1:
Booted from XP CD. Format and install went fine. Headed to Toshiba support to grab the drivers. Oddly, only two driver packages [...]
Nerve-racking
26.Jan.07 | 3 Comments
My work laptop has been unstable lately. Nothing too weird, but once a day or so it just locks up. Hard. No crash. Nothing in the event viewer. ctrl-alt-delete does nothing. Just locks up and the only cure is a complete power cycle.
Annoying.
I use this thing pretty hard and [...]
A New Desktop Look
08.Nov.06 | 7 Comments
Microsoft recently launched a website related to their new Zune player which comes out in a week or so. That didn’t interest me so much, but what caught my eye was the link for the Zune XP Theme (that’s a download link). Always up for a new look, I grabbed it.
I’m really [...]
