Hard drive filling with CAB files
A business I work with uses FileMaker for their point of sale (POS) system and lately has had all their PC’s hard drives fill with CAB files in the Windows Temp directory along with log files in the Windows Logs…
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Windows 7 Install Doesn’t See SSD
I was setting up a new PC and pulled a 60 GB SSD from an idle system to use in this build. I started the Windows 7 installation but when it trundled along to the hard drive portion no local drives…
Windows Product Activation
Blast from the past: originally published February 4th 2002. So much has been made of Windows XP product activation, with every major PC magazine carrying a feature article and countless online rants, that I felt it was covered to death. The…
Windows Update & Device Drivers
Blast from the past: originally published December 31st 2001. I’m a big fan of Windows Update; one easy place to find all the updates needed for your system. I’ve found it works with Windows 95 up and long as your version…
DriverEasy
While on my recent trip I picked up the June 2010 issue of PC Plus; in it they glowingly recommended a product called DriverEasy. I was on vacation and although PC Plus is the most expensive British tech mag import…
Check for drivers before installing a new OS
Just finished the February 2010 issue of PC World. They had an article called “The State Of Windows 7 Satisfaction” about early adopters of Windows 7 and their general feedback about installation and features. Information was gathered from 615 people…
Microsoft Security Essentials
I’m a big fan of free and luckily there is no shortage of free real time anti-virus and anti-spyware utilities available to Windows users. The big news of the week was Microsoft’s beta release of Microsoft Security Essentials. As part…
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2008
I’ve written a review for every version of Small Business Server but have never published any of them: the scope seems to broad to adequately cover. I’ve sat on this one for a few months but decided to get it…
Select “No To All” in Windows
You’re copying data over and don’t want to delete any existing: of course the dialog box doesn’t have a “no to all” button, so you click no about a thousand times. Or follow this trick: hold down SHIFT and click…