Flaws Are Detected in Microsoft’s Vista

Microsoft is facing an early crisis of confidence in the quality of its Windows Vista operating system as computer security researchers and hackers have begun to find potentially serious flaws in the system that was released to corporate customers late last month. On Dec. 15, a Russian programmer posted a description of a flaw that [...]

The Year In Computer Viruses: 2006

Most moralistic virus, tenacious etc etc….
Check out this link
http://crunchgear.com/2006/12/20/the-year-in-computer-viruses-2006/

Using “No to all” while replacing files in Windows

Everyone of you must have encountered the “Confirm File Replace..” dialog box while replacing a lot of files at once in Windows.

This box is displayed each time a file with a similar name already exists in the destination directory.
Clicking the “Yes to all” button will replace all the files with identical names and the “Confirm [...]

Dual Boot Ubuntu & Windows

Go to the link below  for more info
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/05/08/dual-boot-laptop.html

Corrupted IE?

Repair Internet Explorer 6
A number of XP users have reported situations with Internet Explorer 6 becoming corrupted and reporting a number of different errors. While there is certainly no guarantee, the two procedures listed below have restored [...]

Hard Disk of yesteryears

In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data….
(source PCWorld)

17 ways to save your time when using Windows

1. Create a Shortcut to Lock Your Computer

 
Leaving your computer in a hurry but you don’t want to log off? You can double-click a shortcut on your desktop to quickly lock the keyboard and display without using CTRL+ALT+DEL or a screensaver. To create a shortcut on your desktop to lock your computer: Right-click the desktop.

Point [...]

Hidden Goodies in XP

1. Installer music
Start > Run > “C:\Windows\system32\oobe\images\title.wma” > Ok
2. Hibernate
Start > Turn Off Computer… > press Shift key to change the “Stand By” button to “Hibernate”
3. Hidden Devices
Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager > select “View” and Show hidden devices
4. Character Map
Start > Run > “charmap.exe” > Ok
5. Clipboard Viewer
Start > Run [...]