A salesperson has guided you through the purchase of a new PC (desktop or laptop) and it’s now sitting in a box in your home. Assuming you can see the little symbols showing where to plug in the keyboard and mouse (which in reality are usually all just USB these days anyway), you should be…
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Issues with security update patch for IE7 WinXP KB2416400?
Our friends at the Kaseya NOC have decided not to rollout out a Microsoft security patch just released for Internet Explorere 7 machines (on Windows XP). They’ve seen some issues once it’s been installed and there are a few blog sites with people reporting problems. Suggest hold off installing this one for a while until…
Windows Updates? Why bother?
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So many people I know are cynical about Microsoft’s ‘Windows Updates’ .. that is, if they even know it exists. Valiant attempts by Microsoft to make these updates deploy automatically (to your internet-connected PC) have hit some snags – the installations don’t always work and sometimes they can even break the functionality of corporate applications. …
Save, save, save
Save – of the critial “protect your data” type, not the “look how much money I saved in this sale today type” (though arguably they are just as important as each other). Normally my favourite rant is regarding backups (and, more importantly, testing your data restorations), especially where small business is concerned. And I’m talking…
And I work in I.T.!!!
I’m afraid I’m starting this blog with a technology drama, involving my shiny new iPod Shuffle (2nd generation) and Windows Vista. “Ah yes, Vista” you say knowingly. But at Microsoft’s defence leaps the voice of my dear friend who pointed out that the vendors had the Vista code for 2 years prior to the release, so…