As many of you know, I bought my wife a new Toshiba laptop computer last week, that came with Windows 7 Home Premium edition pre-installed. The system also came with a variety of trial ware programs which included, Wild Tanget games, Microsoft Activation Assistant, Microsoft Home and Office, Netzero Installer, Quickbooks Trial, Norton Security, Norton [...]
I have mentioned previously about using online security scanners to check your system periodically. I do this for several reasons. First of all I do not believe that any one product can provide 100% perfect protection all of the time. Second, using more than one program gives me a feeling that my system really, really [...]
As has been previously reported, Microsoft is removing Internet Explorer 8 when it releases Windows 7 in Europe. Microsoft claims that pressure from the European Union has placed the company in a position that their choices were limited so they have opted to remove IE8 from Windows 7. But now Microsoft has released the pricing [...]
It is totally impossible for Microsoft to remove Internet Explorer from Windows. At least that is the story they gave when confronted by the DOJ in their anti trust trial. Does that mean that Microsoft lied? Or is Microsoft has more fear from the European Union? What ever the case, it is being reported that [...]
Back on August 8th, 2009 I did an article on how to remove the notification area from the free version of AVG 8. [Original article is here] Since than, version 8.5 has been introduced and the old instructions no longer work. Yesterday reader Sime provided the script that now needs to be run, using the [...]
According to Chris Holmes, over at his Repository of Knowledge, he contends that IE8 can be removed from Windows 7 build 7048. Chris provides a screen shot below:
Which make me ask if it really matters? Maybe I am missing something but I haven’t used IE for about 4 years and have personally opted to use [...]
If you are a user of Mozy Backup and also have Microsoft Word on your system, you may have noticed that some of your saved documents have either a green check mark or red exclamation on the documents icon. I had this problem and could not find a solution. But I finally read a post [...]
When you either buy a copy of Windows 7 or get a copy preinstalled on a new computer, there will be some features that will not be present. What will be gone is Live Mail the replacement for Outlook Express. Also gone will be Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Movie Maker. So what is the [...]
For those of you who have installed SP1 for Microsoft Windows Vista, you may have noticed a large quantity of unwanted files left behind after the installation completes. These files are left behind in case a user wishes to uninstall SP1. But if you are satisfied with SP1 and plan on not uninstalling it, you [...]
If you are like me, I have found the notification area in AVG annoying. So today when I found this gem of a fix, I immediately tried it and it worked just fine. Follow the instructions exactly and you should not have any issues.
Follow the below steps to disable the appearance of the irritating AVG [...]
Over the weekend Wal-Mart had a fairly good system at a reasonable price, that many have indicated that they purchased. [See here.] In reading some of the comments it appears that most are satisfied with their new purchase. One person even indicated that he dumped Vista off the system and loaded Windows XP Pro and [...]
There is a gaming site in Germany called 4Players, which recently wrote what appears is a negative review of Atari’s new game Alone In The Dark. It seems that Atari had provided a pre-release of the game to specific gaming sites, and that 4Players was not one of those sites. It is alleged that 4Player [...]
I noticed that AVG is using other sites [mirrors] in which users can download their new AVG 8 version. But I also noted that as of today [June 4, 2008 at 1900 hrs. CDT] the versions on the mirrors are different than what is being offered at AVG servers. As an example, over at Download [...]
For the past month I have been reading the experiences of Ed Bott over at ZD-Net, who has written a series of articles about Windows Vista. In one article Ed takes on two Sony Vaio OEM systems in which he shares his take on doing a clean install of Vista vs the factory install with [...]
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 [...]
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