Rumors have been circulating that computer maker HP would be offering customers the ability to downgrade to Windows XP later this year when Windows 7 ships out. Now that rumor has been confirmed with an announcement by software giant Microsoft, confirming that users will not only have rights to downgrade to Windows Vista, but also…
April 1st Conficker Worm Activates – What You Should Know and What to Do
It must be a slow news month, but the media is absolutely eating up this Conficker virus. Why? Because it’s pulling the old 1990’s “on this popular holiday X, this virus will activate and wipe your hard drive or do some other dastardly deed” schtick. This worm / virus has been out for about six…
How to Hack the LaCIE Ethernet 1TB NAS (Rack-Mount Version)
I’ve recently had access to a LaCIE Ethernet 1TB (terabyte) NAS (network attached storage) server similar to the one we use at our work place. These things are great because you don’t have to hook them up to a computer (they’re really just small computer servers with huge hard drives). Also, you can make user…
Get the Menu Back in Internet Explorer 7
I know this is a completely dumb Windows tip, and most of you have probably already figured this out. I was helping a lady today who was not familiar with Windows because she normally uses a Mac. She had accidentally hidden the menu bar (File, Edit, Tools, etc.) in Internet Explorer 7. It’s really quite…
Grand Theft Button: Windows Tips
Those of you who have not yet upgraded to Vista, or are like me and dwindle between XP and Vista lands, you probably encounter this problem whenever you copy files: if you’re copying files into a folder where those files already exist, you get a dialog box. This box usually says something along the lines…