Back in the days of the paleocomputing era, no one ever thought about installing firewalls on individual computers. Who needed to? Hardly anyone had heard of the Internet, TCP/IP was nowhere in sight, and LAN protocols didn’t route beyond your building or campus. Important data lived on the mainframe or file servers—the information people kept on their desktop computers was rarely mission c... Read more.

Tip 9: Clean up the backup Be sure to check out the Disk Cleanup tool's advanced options, available on the More Options tab. For example, click More Options, and under System Restore, choose Clean up to delete all but your most recent restore point. Tip 10: Avoid musical duplicates If, after ripping CDs in the Windows Media Audio (WMA) format, you decide to go with a tool like iTunes to inter... Read more.

Vista may be on the way, but XP hasn't outlived its usefulness. These tips will help you keep the older operating system vibrant. Tip 1: Get off the upgrade bandwagon If you constantly upgrade to the latest powerhouse versions of your favourite applications without also upgrading your hardware and Windows version, your system will seem older and creakier than ever. Instead of listening to the ... Read more.

You can configure Windows Vista to install without having to manually enter the product key during the setup process. This is quite useful if you find yourself in need to perform an installation of the OS but without having the (legal) product key with you at that very moment. Unlike previous Windows versions where you had to have a CD Key handy during the installation of the OS, the Windows Vista... Read more.

Microsoft announced plans Thursday to issue four "critical" security bulletins next week that address vulnerabilities in its Windows Mail, Internet Explorer and Windows XP. Six bulletins in total, including the four critical fixes, will be released, according to Microsoft's advance advisory notification. "Critical" is the most severe ranking Microsoft assigns to security flaws. That classif... Read more.

This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including... Read more.

Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption is certainly one of the most talked-about features in Windows Vista. However, most people haven’t yet had much opportunity to test BitLocker to find out firsthand. what it does and how it works—particularly not on a computer with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM). In this article, I introduce you to the basics of BitLocker™ so that you can evaluate its poten... Read more.

Microsoft has just patched another critical hole in Vista that it knew about as long ago as last Christmas. The delay was similar to its lag in patching the serious (and heavily targeted) animated-cursor flaw I told you about last month. The new problem involves the way that the OS's Client/Server Run-time Subsystem (CSRSS) handles error messages, and it affects Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows XP ... Read more.

Microsoft's latest Blue Hat conference kicked off with talks on mobile security, hardware hacking, and Windows security tools Microsoft Corp. is once again inviting members of the hacking community into its Redmond, Washington, campus to show the software giant where it's gone wrong. The company's latest Blue Hat conference kicked off Wednesday with talks on mobile security, hardware hacking... Read more.

Windows Vista adalah langkah besar menuju kemunduran kebebasan anda. Biasanya, software baru memberikan kebebasan untuk melakukan sesuatu yang lebih dengan komputer anda. Vista didisain untuk membatasi apa yang dapat anda lakukan. Vista memaksakan bentuk baru dari DRM (Digital Rights Management). DRM ini lebih tepat disebut Digital Restrictions Management, karena dengan teknologi ini perusahaa... Read more.