Microsoft has released a new tool to help with their never-ending battle to defeat mal-ware on Windows PCs. Called Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper or MSSS it is a bootable live CD that is just a basic Windows environment with MS Security Essentials on it.
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Security Sweeper Beta
Posted: June 6, 2011 in SecurityTags: antivirus, live CD, malware, Microsoft, MSSS, System Sweeper, Windows
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Security Essentials In Windows Updates
Posted: November 13, 2010 in SecurityTags: anti-virus, Microsoft, Security, Security Essentials, Software
Microsoft’s very good security suite “Security Essentials” will now be offered in Windows Updates. This is a great step forward in making this very good and free antivirus available to everyone not just to the geeks how know where to find it.
Windows Live Sync
Posted: July 10, 2010 in Web 2.0Tags: essentials, Live, Microsoft, Skydrive, sync, synchronize, web 2.0, Windows
Windows Live Sync is a part of the Windows Live Essentials Beta. The old Live Sync would not sync to Skydrive, the new version will. There is one little problem. With a Skydrive account you get 25 GB of storage yet you can only sync 2GB. This seems silly to me. Is Microsoft afraid Skydrive [...]
Mount Skydrive As A Network Drive
Posted: April 27, 2010 in Web 2.0Tags: Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Skydrive, Skydrive Explorer, storage, SyncToy, web 2.0, Windows
I really like Skydrive Explorer. It creates a virtual folder so you can drag files into it but if you wished to use Skydrive to backup data automatically you are out of luck.
There is a lot of talk about Windows maintenance. What services should turn off? Which utilities should I use? To sleep or hibernate? Here’s a article from Lifehacker. It is the best article I have seen on the subject.
Download all an use all of Microsoft’s software and use it forever without time limits or feature limits. You can download anything Windows Server, Microsoft Office, SQL Server, Windows 7 and everything else.
Windows 7 is a great OS but a lot of essential software was left out on purpose to keep the basic install streamline. There is no email program like “Outlook Express”. No “Windows Movie Maker”. Frankly, I don’t use either of these but if you needed them you can get these and a whole lot [...]
This is a tip from Paul Thurrott‘s Supersite for Windows. You may know the keyboard shortcut for Internet Explorer start fullscreen mode is F11. What you don’t know is the same shortcut works in for Windows Explorer and other applications. Many other shortcuts work as well. I’ll let Paul tell you more about it.
Upgrade To Windows 7 Now
Posted: February 28, 2010 in SoftwareTags: deal, Microsoft, upgrade, Windows, Windows 7
If your still using the Windows XP or Windows 7 RC (time is running out for the RC – release candidate) you might want to be thinking about installing your Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade that you preordered back in the summer of 2009 for $49. Didn’t catch that deal? I’m sorry. There are several [...]
Programs and and services the run in the background on your computer can kill your system performance. Process Explorer is a very good way to see what is going on on your computer. You can see all the programs and services that are turned on and see if it is something you may turn off. [...]
