Archive for January, 2008
Don’t trust anybody if you download
There’s no way around it. If you download something from the Internet, no matter where, you have to scan it for malware and back up your system before installing. Too many otherwise legitimate sites have been hacked by criminals. Computerworld reports:
The majority of Web sites serving up attack code are legitimate domains that [...]
The continuing confusion about disk sizes
It comes up over and over. Someone looks at their hard drive size in My Computer (Computer in Vista) and sees less capacity than they thought they had. They start asking, “Where has my space gone?” Nothing has happened to their space. It’s the way hard drive manufacturers advertise disk size. The industry uses the [...]
More on Windows 7
It is clear that, outside of Redmond flackery and a claque of fanboys, Windows Vista is not generally regarded with much affection. This helps explain all the interest in the upcoming Windows 7. The blogosphere seizes on any morsel of information, no matter how tenuous, that surfaces about the future OS. The place to keep [...]
More on dealing with problem print jobs
If the previous tip does not clear up a stuck print job, here are some additional steps to take. As indicated before, first stop the printer spooler service by entering into the command line ” sc stop spooler”. Next, delete the job from the spooler by going to the folder Windows\system32\spool and delete any [...]
Command line tip #9- Clear your printer spooler
For one reason or the other, a print job may get hung up and stop responding. One way to possibly clear this problem up is to use the command line to stop and restart the printer spooler. The services command “sc” can be used. In the command prompt, enter “sc stop spooler” followed by “sc [...]
How to tell which direction the paper goes into the printer
Do you ever wonder which side the paper is going to be printed on? Or which is the top and which is the bottom of a sheet? Here’s the answer.
Microsoft relents on virtualization
There’s no question that running operating systems in virtual machines (VMs) is going to be very prevalent in the future. After being a dog in the manger about allowing the lower price Vista versions to be run in a VM, Microsoft has changed its policy. Ken Fisher writes:
It only took them a year longer than [...]
Visit a museum from your armchair before it’s even built
Virtual tours of museums are nothing new. However, here’s a museum that you can visit before it’s even built. The Smithsonian is planning a National Museum of African American History and Culture that won’t open until 2015. But you can see its exhibits already at http://www.nmaahc.si.edu/, courtesy of a grant from IBM.
Expand the “Send to” menu
I have written frequently about the usefulness of the right-click context menu entry, “Send to”. (For example, this general post and this post for Vista users.) Although it is possible to make new entries in the “Send to” menu yourself, I think many will find the free software called “Send to Toys” to be [...]
Comodo firewall downgrade
Well, wouldn’t you know it. Just over a week after I post about a favorable review of the new version of the Comodo firewall by PC Magazine, Scot Finnie says the newest free version has no outgoing leak protection and should not be relied on. He writes:
Because I have written in the recent past with [...]