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If you have upgraded your Windows XP installation to XP3 and are using IE 8 Beta 1, you may wish to read this IE blog entry to make sure you do not fall between the cracks. What cracks? If you have installed SP3 after installing IE Beta 1, you will need to uninstall IE Beta [...]

Here we go again. Another one of those Firefox is eating up my RAM article’s, but this one is slightly different. Most articles are about the using amounts of RAM in the 100 to 200kb range. But this one is for a whopping 1G of RAM [910,052 to be exact]. Though we have hashed this [...]

Netflix has announced to some of its users that there could be some shipping delays. The email I received stated that two of my DVD’s were experiencing a delay in getting to my home. This was surprising since Netflix has always been one of the best online services that I have used. I did check [...]

Here is another horror story about someone having their Google account disabled. As you may have recalled, I had this exact same problem with Google as well. [See article here.] Which is starting to make me wonder. How many Google users are finding their accounts disabled?
In this article from Chris Brogan he explains why ‘Google [...]

It is rare to see one software product that has caused such a stir. It is usually Norton or McAfee who receives the ‘bad mouthing’, but this time it is AVG with their LinkScanner technology. All over the Internet people and web site owners have been screaming about how AVG’s LinkScanner has created false traffic [...]

I just read a story over at Tood Bishops blog in which he describes one man’s fight to get his printer working with his Vista computer. Normally this wouldn’t be much of a story, but what was amazing, to say the least, it took someone from Microsoft to actually figure out what the problem was. [...]

When I read last week that Symantec was shifting the blame onto Microsoft for the problems that appeared after SP3 was installed on a system running Symantec software, I paused before writing about this. First of all Symantec products have a reputation for being, shall we say, suspect even when nothing else is happening on [...]

Back in October 2007 I posted an article referencing wireless problems on certain HP and Compaq models here.
Reader Donna  posted this comment this morning:
For everyone with a problem with HP Laptops check out this link. Have it ready if you call HP for support because they won’t tell you about it. You will have to [...]

This was on a computer system that I repaired yesterday, which at startup using Microsoft Windows XP, presented the following message:
“lsdelete program not found - skipping AUTOCHECK”.
So I did a Google and found this:
Uninstall ADAWARE 2007 from add/remove programs
Manually remove LAVASOFT folder in Program files
Go to START, ALL PROGRAMS, ACCESSORIES, RUN
Type in REGEDIT
Search for [...]

As has been previously reported, some users may have experienced a reboot looping problem when trying to install Service Pack #1 for Vista. According to a post on the TechNet blog, there are now fixes being posted to correct the situation. According to the blog posting:
To address this problem for people who have not already [...]

I spotted this posted by Temmu over at Scot’s Newsletter forum I found it hard to believe. With all of the problems that Vista has had with hardware drivers, one should be happy that someone was trying to help. But it appears that Creative Labs has a difference of opinion. It seems that a Daniel_K [...]

Microsoft has yanked the prerequisite update for Windows Vista KB937287. On its blog site Microsoft has also provided the following information to assist those who are experiencing the loopback problem:
We’ve heard a few reports about problems customers may be experiencing as a result of KB937287, the servicing stack update I blogged about last week, and [...]

Over at Scot’s Newsletter forum this morning there was a posting from hkspike in which it was stated:
2 hours ago I clicked OK for my main PC to restart after it claimed to have applied some Vista patch or other. Currently it is sitting at Stage 3 of 3. 0% complete with its little [...]

In my last few reports referencing Firefox 3 beta 1, I stated that RAM usage was taking off like a rocket when the beta was first installed. On 3 test systems RAM shot up over 900 MB and the systems became totally unusable. What was surprising about this was that some folks did not [...]