The second Tuesday of a month is Microsoft’s patch day where the software company releases security patches and fixes for its products. The first patch day of the year 2011 brings two security bulletins that patch vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system. MS11-002 patches vulnerabilities in Microsoft Data Access Components that could allow remote code [...]
Manage an application’s priority in Linux
In the land of Linux applications have what is called their “nice” value. This value sets the priority that any given application receives. The nice value ranges from -20 to 19. The lower the number the higher the priority. The higher the priority the the more CPU time a program will get. This comes in [...]
Create, Use And Clear Temporary Folders In Windows
Most Windows users associated temporary folders with a cache in Windows that the operating system uses to store temporary files in. The free software Temporary Data Storage Folder can be used to create, use and clear custom temporary folders in the Windows operating system. It has been specifically designed for purposes where users need a [...]
Outlook Parameter Gui, Start Outlook With Parameters
It is sometimes necessary to start the desktop email client Outlook with startup parameters, usually to resolve issues or troubleshoot the email client. System administrators and tech savvy users should not have difficulties finding a list of available shortcuts and adding them to the start of the email client. Everyone else might like the free [...]
Stress Relief, Destroy Your Desktop
Have you ever smashed the PC keyboard or mouse on the desk in wild frustration because something did not work out as you wanted? Or maybe you have given the PC case a kick or smashed your fist on the monitor? We all have probably experienced situations where frustration got overboard. The free software Stress [...]
SysInternals Updater
Applications developed by SysInternals are used by many Windows technicians, system administrators and tech savvy computer users. The tool collection offers some of the best applications in their respective field, among the utilities like Autoruns, Process Explorer or Rootkit Revealer. The software programs can be downloaded separately from the website or as part of the [...]
Make Sure Your SSD Is Connected Correctly
One of the main advantages of Solid State Drives (SSD) is their speed compared to conventional platter-based hard drives. They should in theory speed up reading and writing processes on the operating system. Sometimes however SSD seem to run at a slower than advertised speed with users reporting all kinds of problems associated like freezes [...]
Global Spam Levels in Mysterious Month-on-Month Fall – Update
Yesterday I wrote here that global spam levels had dropped mysteriously month on month since August 2010 from a high of about a quarter of a trillion messages a day to about 50 billion. Just to show how quickly everything can change in the world of technology, it all suddenly changed again yesterday. New reports [...]
The Worst Technology For Travelers
Since time immemorial, experimenting and technology have been a vital factor behind man’s progress. His thirst for knowledge has exposed the unheard secrets of the universe. Our home, earth has been left in no part to be explored by him. This thirst for knowledge made him travel intensively far and wide. Initially he tread on [...]