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Deb Shinder at WXPNews is loading me up with good information tonight. I’ve been having problems with getting the Remote Desktop Connection working through my current desktop system at home. She’s pointed me to a newer version that’s included with Vista, but can be downloaded separately and used with Windows XP. What’s that sound? Oh, …

Can’t Read Reader You can’t consider a Windows operating system installation complete until you’ve got Adobe Reader on your system. So many assets on the Web come in Acrobat form, and unless you have the full program on your software shelf you need Reader to check them out.If you’re the kind of power-user who turns off User Account Control, or if you log on right into the default administrator account, you might notice that Adobe Reader 8 won’t install after download—or after you discover it on some other media that included it. That’s a known problem, and you’re not alone. You’ll have to solve this problem through one of two ways. If you’ve turned off UAC, turn it back on. Go into Control Panel, click User Accounts, and click Turn User Account Control on or off. Restart the computer. Then, install Adobe Reader normally. When the installation is complete, you …

It took millions of dollars to make Windows Vista secure and stable. While I am happy that Windows Vista is so much stable than Windows XP; there is a bullet proof way to crash WindowsVista. Open Windows Vista windows explorer by hitting Windows Key and the letter E. Try holding both keys down for 3 seconds and it is annoying. Try holding the key down to 5 seconds and its f**k up. How about holding down the key for 30 seconds? Windows Vista would crash similar to what happened to my computer a while ago. A simple service which loops a thousand times while sending Windows Key + E can be written within ten minutes. Microsoft may have spent millions of dollars for security and stability; it takes two fingers or a simple service to crash Windows Vista down. No matter how bullet proof Windows Vista claims to be, two …

1. If you think you’ve received a phishing e-mail message, do not respond to it. 2. Report suspicious e-mail. Report the e-mail to the faked or “spoofed” organization. Contact the organization directly—not through the e-mail you received—and ask for confirmation. Or call the organization’s toll-free number and speak to a customer service representative. Report the e-mail to the proper authorities, including the FBI, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Anti-Phishing Working Group. For more information on how to report phishing scams, read What to do if you’ve responded to a phishing scam. 3. Don’t click links in e-mail messages. Links in phishing e-mail messages often take you to phony sites that encourage you to transmit personal or financial information to con artists. Avoid clicking a link in an e-mail message unless you are sure of the destination. Even if the address bar displays the correct Web address, don’t risk …

Computers are great tools, but — like it or not — surfing the Web, downloading files and using e-mail can potentially put your PC at risk. If you’re nervous, you need not be. We’ve got the tools to help. To avoid potential security concerns, guard against losing important documents, and ensure your computer runs at its best, we’ve compiled 12 articles that will help you take better care of your PC. Since you use your computer all the time, wouldn’t you like it to perform as well as it possibly can? 1. What’s a firewall? A firewall helps guard your PC against hackers and some computer viruses that try to reach your computer when it’s connected to the Internet. This article will help you understand why you need a firewall.

It is easier than you think to reinvent your computer. Each member of my family has his or her own way of personalizing a computer. My father changes his screen saver every time he receives a digital photo from one of his kids by making our smiling faces his new background. My mother-in-law has a train sound each time she receives new mail. I like to change my desktop appearance at least once a month to suit my mood and the season. The colour, size and location of almost everything you see on your computer screen can be altered. Create a screen saver with a family portrait, make your favourite website the first page you see when you log on to the Internet, adjust your e-mail program so it’s one click away. Experiment with these 10 ways to customize the look, settings and style of your PC and inject it …

Every afternoon as soon as Ian arrives home from school, he logs on to his instant messaging service and checks to see whom he can chat with online. “We talk about what we’re doing this weekend, comfort friends if something bad has happened and sometimes tell jokes,” he says. Instant messaging, commonly referred to as IM, is like e-mail in real-time. Instead of sending a message and waiting for it to be delivered, read and replied to, IM lets you receive a message the moment it is sent. In fact, messages pop up instantaneously on the screens of both receiver and recipient, and the speed of communication is determined mostly by the speed with which one types.

INAICTA 2007 adalah sebuah perhelatan nasional yang diselenggarakan secara bersama-sama oleh seluruh komunitas teknologi informasi dan komunikasi`- dengan dukungan penuh dari Departemen Komunikasi dan Informatika Republik Indonesia, sebagai ajang pemberian apresiasi dan penghargaan terhadap beragam inovasi para putra putri bangsa. Perhelatan akbar yang untuk pertama kalinya diselenggarakan di tanah air ini akan diisi oleh beraneka ragam program menarik di bidang teknologi informasi dan komunikasi, seperti: seminar, pameran, lomba, dan sejumlah kegiatan lainnya. Puncak dari serangkaian aktivitas ini adalah Malam Apresiasi Inovasi dan Kreativitas INAICTA-2007. 11 (sebelas) katagori lomba INAICTA-2007, yaitu: research & development, student project (proyek siswa dan proyek mahasiswa dan siswa non formal), e-government, education, entertainment (konsep film animasi, animasi film pendek, game, mobile game), mobile content service, communication industry, financial industry, business process management, general dan start-up. Khusus untuk kategori web, INAICTA-2007 akan memberi penghargaan kepada pemenang best web of the year dari Bubu Award. Pemenang, penghargaan INAICTA-2007 …

Like many mothers, Andrea Grace will sit down at her PC to check e-mail, only to find that her kids, Jason, 8, and Rachel, 10, have installed some new programs. “Between those CD-ROM games found in cereal boxes and downloaded Neopets, there are now icons all over the place,” says Grace. “And of course they don’t play half the games. If I ran out of space I wouldn’t know how to delete them,” she admits. Grace isn’t alone—it’s not uncommon to fill space on a hard drive with games, productivity programs, or files, such as music, digital photos, and video clips. Some technology analysts believe that we use less than 10 percent of the programs installed on our computer.