Speed PC Up from Slow Windows

Windows has it’s own power management functionality which can help you save energy and that’s a good thing. But, you shouldn’t do it at the expense of speed and productivity unless you absolutely have to.

You can also do this with any version of Windows.

Also, I added this video as it is gives you a guide around Control Panel and is one of my favourites – you will see why when you watch it. Please do let me know what you think of it.  

If you’re a Mac user, there is a software called Boot Camp from Apple which is now compatible with Windows 7.

Due to several issues with Nvidia graphics cards causing Blue Screens of Death and some totally black screens where nothing can be seen, Apple have setup a special help page for users having these issues with  .

For more information and to update your drivers to the latest versions, visit Apple’s support page.

Apple Owns the Mobile App Market

I think everyone knows a programmer within their circle of friends or aquaintances, so what are you waiting for? Get out there and get something developed, promote it and  grab some opportunity  with both hands in these times of ‘recession’.

One easy & fast way to free up disk space is to remove unwanted programs, as mentioned in another post, which will speed up your pc. Another way to free up wasted disk space is to use the Disk Cleanup tool by following these steps:

• Open My Computer, right-click Local Disk, and then click Properties.

• On the General tab, click the Disk Cleanup button. Disk Cleanup will spend a few minutes examining your disk.

• The Disk Cleanup dialog box opens. As you can see below it shows you exactly how much space you can free up:

That’s it. Dead Easy and Fast and you should instantly see the difference.

Cheers

Amazing! Even though there is a new serious security hole in IE8, we are still being advised to upgrade asap.

No wonder really. If you sold someone a kettle 10 years ago (Windows times) and they kept coming back asking you to fix it again and again, wouldn’t you also try and persuade them to get the latest model?

Microsoft issued a warning telling people to upgrade their internet browser, after the zero-day exploit that was used to attack companies such as Google.

According to Microsoft’s security advisory: "the vulnerability exists as an invalid pointer reference within Internet Explorer. It is possible under certain conditions for the invalid pointer to be accessed after an object is deleted. In a specially-crafted attack, in attempting to access a freed object, Internet Explorer can be caused to allow remote code execution."

In other words, a nasty net person could get remote control of your computer. If you’re anything like me, you wonder how the hell that can happen in reality – But, believe me. I’ve seen it done and it’s scary stuff

The same issue exists also in IE7, so regardless of what version you have you should make sure you have the latest updates and patches. Simply go to Microsoft’s homepage and get them as soon as you can.

Further advice from Microsoft is to run the browser in Protected Mode and ensure users aren’t running with administrator privileges.

My advice would be to ditch IE (if you haven’t already, where have you been these last 5 years??) and switch to Firefox. It’s FREE, much more user friendly and you can get hundreds of different official (safe) add-ons to make it do almost anything you want.  As soon as I get it to make me a cup of tea three times a day as well, I’ll let you all know.

Cheers