A few days ago Microsoft released a critical patch known as MS08-067 (958644). If you have Automatic Updates turned on, and have it setup to install the patches for you automatically then you should have received this patch already. If you don't, I would suggest that you manually install it (download information).This patch fixes a new security vulnerability in the Server Service that could
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Windows Vista: Creating Shutdown/Restart Shortcuts
Posted on 9:24 AM by Unknown
Want to create a quick and easy to way restart or shutdown Vista from an icon in your desktop, quick launch bar or your Start menu? Follow the instructions below.Right-click an empty area on your desktop and select New > Shortcut.In the field labeled 'Type the location of the item,' type: shutdown.exe /s /t 00 (note: those are zeros, and not 'O's). You can also use the command shutdown.exe /r /
Monday, October 6, 2008
Software: Virtual Desktops
Posted on 5:34 PM by Unknown
Microsoft's Sysinternals group has release a new utility called 'Desktops', which is a virtual desktop manager. Basically, it allows you to have several applications open, and assign them to different virtual desktops. So for example, let say that you have eight different programs open, but they can be grouped into 4 different categories. You can assign related application windows to different
Solid State Drive (SSD) vs. Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Performance Test
Posted on 4:45 PM by Unknown
I don't post a lot of these videos, but I thought this was a very good comparison of a Samsung Solid State Drive (SSD) vs a standard Hard Disk Drive (HDD). SSD uses the same type of memory as portable flash drives. The SSD wins in weight, reliability, speed, and power consumption. The problems with SSD, is that its more expensive and the available capacities are limited right now when compared
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