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I know I have a paper I wrote in here somewhere called "Best Practises" w/ heaps of good stuff to follow. Just thought I mention/remind that there are 3 basic things do to, @ least daily, that are suggested as minimum household chores: 1. Internet Options - Delete & Delete 2. CCleaner 3...

POST = Power On Self Test, right? Apparently not any longer. The word is now being used to describe the future of computing, as in POST PC World. Which sounds to me like Microsoft intends to leave we desktop users and apparently some of if not most of its' long time valued partners to our own...

Just out of curiosity, how much RAM would the average person be able to utilize. Basically how much RAM does the average intensive task/program utilize? (not server based)

Entertainment, Science & Technology, Travel & more... MSN Home Page stuff. Presented a certain new & different way, "Metro" tiles, & in a new location, on a screen called "Start". Wow, now, there's a big deal. A handy icon can be on the desktop (taskbar) for anything, now or before. Here's...

During our investigation into the disclosure of confidential data shared with our Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) partners, we determined that a member of the MAPP program, Hangzhou DPTech Technologies Co., Ltd., had breached our non-disclosure agreement (NDA). Microsoft takes...

While computer enthusiasts looking for the latest technology from Intel are no doubt frothing at the mouth about the recent Ivy Bridge developments, the successor to the Ivy Bridge is ambitious in scope. With most laptops now being shipped with Sandy Bridge architecture (native USB3...

Hello, Today we published the Link Removed due to 404 Error, and the Link Removed due to 404 Error presented in the webcast. We fielded 15 questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released, deployment tools, and update detection tools. We invite our customers to join...

Hi A while back I posted about how my Norton Ghost didn't work when I finally needed it. Well, to day when messing around in Disk Management in relation to reinstalling Windows 8 which has also stopped working I through negligence deleted the wrong partition. Instead of the Windows 8...

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Hello, Today we published the Link Removed due to 404 Error. During the webcast, we fielded twelve questions focusing on MS12-020 (aka “the RDP update”). Two additional questions for MS12-022 regarding Microsoft Expression Design were answered after the webcast. All questions are...

Y'all are making far too big a deal over the Start screen. I used the DP for months; now the Beta non-stop since 29/2. Hardly ever visit Start. The lack of the old Start Menu & Windows orb is completely meaningless. The OS works just fine, as is. Between the following, there is noise & a...

Hello, Today we published the Link Removed due to 404 Error. We fielded ten questions on various topics during the webcast, including bulletins released, deployment tools, and update detection tools. Many of the questions centered on the .Net/Silverlight update Link Removed due to 404 Error. We...

Fixes an issue in which you may receive Stop Error 0000007E (Error 0x7E) (SYSTEM THREAD EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED), or Stop Error 00000050 (Error 0x50) (PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA) in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 More...

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Hey guys im having a spot of bother, recently ive been having the BSOD about 3/4 times a day, sometimes instantly when i open a game (Terraria/WoW/BFBC3/Minecraft etc) or it can take up to hours or whenever, the time is always different. I did try to install Fedora 16 VIA usb pen about a month...

In my 8 years of serious computing, I have never had to replace a HDD but I am going to have to do it for the first time sometime earlier next week when the new one along with the recovery media from Acer gets here. I have managed to locate a service manual for my Acer Notebook model series...

Greetings.... as a first timer in this forum, I trust I'm in the right place.... This issue is a little complicated so I will try to be quick about it. We utilize a virtual network adapter along with a Sprint broadband adapter which communicates on an EVDO-A platform for a mobile computing...

Maybe this doesn't belong here, but i have to ask someone:D Hello, i have a small question, for whom might know. I want to buy a new video card, i have now a hd4650 and its getting old, and i want to buy something like a Sapphire Radeon HD6570 Ultimate 1GB DDR3 128-bit , or a GT440 1GB DDR3...

Hello, As we do each month, we're providing advance notification on the release of four security bulletins, one Critical, two Important, and one Moderate, to address four CVEs in Windows. As usual, the bulletin release is scheduled for the second Tuesday of the month, Nov. 8, at approximately 10...

hello folks :) i get BSOD when i run 3d-games in crossfire mode. If i play with xfire disabled there is no problem but with it on i get BSOD at random times. also tried with each individual cards in the pc and that also works flawlessly. it started happening after i bios flashed both my 5850...