As many of you know, I also write computer articles for a newspaper in California. This morning I received this message from a reader in response to an article I had done about upgrading to Windows Vista. After reading the email, I thought this would be something I could share with my readers here at […]
If you previously downloaded AVG and experienced problems, you may wish to download AVG 8 with SP1 and give it a try. DougCuk has been monitoring the release of SP1 and had notified me it was available. I checked the AVG site and the new release is available for download.
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Microsoft has posted a patch for those running Windows Vista with SP1 installed that fixes some reliability and performance issues that some users may experience. Microsoft explains the following situations in which the patch may be needed:
This update resolves issues that may affect some Windows Vista SP1-based computers. These issues have been reported by customers […]
OMG. I was hoping that by now we would have a definitive answer as to when version 7.5 from AVG [Grisoft] would really expire, but the confusion continues. Reader DougCuk [TIA]posted a AVG forum link in the comments section to a previous article I had posted here. On the forum at AVG DougCuk had posted […]
Symantec has what is known as a Registry Repair Tool to fix problems for those folks who were running Norton 2008, and updated Windows XP to SP3 or Vista to SP1. The free tool removes errant registry entries that may be hiding after the service pack was installed.
On their site Symantec states:
Numerous registry keys are […]
For those who are using Microsoft’s Windows Vista RTM, you are more than familiar with UAC [User Account Control]. This little gem prompts you the user anytime you wish to complete a task in the Vista operating system. The original purpose I believe was to provide added security to Vista in the hopes of protecting […]
For those of you who are running Windows Vista on their systems, you should read the following Microsoft KB article, before installing SP1. It is still surprising that folks are running into problems with Zone Alarm, after SP1 is installed, since Microsoft has addressed this problem way back in March, 2008. Yet I still see […]
So yesterday [Wednesday] May 21, 2008 I cranked up my Vista test machine to try and correct another problem I was having with a piece of Microsoft software. I had just received instructions from a beta tech., on how to try and correct the situation. All of a sudden my Vista box was caught in […]
That is the label that is being placed on the Microsoft internal video that is currently on YouTube. I must admit that the video itself is… well… silly. It is hard to believe that people at Microsoft who are extremely intelligent could even consider this as being anything but offensive.
But you take a look and […]
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 […]
