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Comment on The Case for Disabling Messenger Service

insurance services — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 07:10:07 GMT

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Comment on On Facebook? Upgrade your Account Security to HTTPS!

Josh — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:42:30 GMT

Nice! Thank you for pointing that out. I have went through my security settings multiple times before, and I did not know facebook had a https setting!

Comment on Top 10 Q&A for Clients on the Move to Webmail

Albert — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:34:12 GMT

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Comment on The Case for Disabling Messenger Service

Andre — Tue, 29 May 2007 03:22:36 GMT

cool & useful

Comment on Set Desktop Icons to a Toolbar

Andre — Tue, 29 May 2007 01:45:25 GMT

cool, I like that

Comment on MRAM, Looming on the Horizon?

PapaJoe — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:24:06 GMT

Too scary for me! When I get in a jam with a "system lockup", I rely on the good old "three finger reboot" or, sometimes, when that doesn't work, the extreme "pull the plug" trick.
Would we need something on our PC, like the "degaus" button on a monitor, to "forget" anything held in MRAM??
Personally, I'd rather wait for a "clean restart"!!

Comment on Set Desktop Icons to a Toolbar

PapaJoe — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:09:11 GMT

COOL!
Now here's something I can really appreciate.
I had my screen so full of icons before using this tip that I could only see about 1/2 of my wallpaper!
(Can you imagine trying to explain to your granddaughter why her nose is covered by a steaming cup of coffee?! :-))
THANKS!

Comment on Desktop Icons – Removal of Short Cut Arrows from the XP Desktop.

PapaJoe — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:49:01 GMT

My comments were not intended to be "a whine". I agree. Its not rocket science. Actually, pretty slick!
BUT ... I cringe at the thought of one of my clients even knowing about regedit or even TweakUI!
No, they're not dummies, but, then again, they're not always aware of the consequences of a missed step in the process or even a simple typo.
In a nutshell ... if someone wants to "play" with his/her own, personal, system, go for it! Enjoy! Just don't expect a "quick fix" from "Tech Support" if you mess it up!
AND ... by the way ... there's no guarantee of a "clean" recovery.
Don't mean to be "harbinger of doom", but "been there, done that".

Comment on Desktop Icons – Removal of Short Cut Arrows from the XP Desktop.

frkeller — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 21:12:48 GMT

This is a good alternative to using TweakUI, which I did not want to install just for this icon arrow trick. Why are those guys whining about simple edits on the registry? It's not rocket science. Just follow instructions, that's all ya gotta do.

Comment on File Extensions and Hidden Files and Folders in XP

Esoterik — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:06:04 GMT

Ok… the issue which prompts your question, "I would like to know what you mean the problem is that Windows XP does not show the detail of the file identification…?" is in regards to XP by default not displaying "file extensions," not "file details."

File extensions, are an extra set of characters (usually 3 alpha characters), appended to the end of a filename by the application which created it, which allows both users and various other software to quickly determine the type of data stored in that file. Examples are xxx.jpg, xxx.doc, xxx.rtf, xxx.com, where xxx is the file name.
File details, are various forms of information appended to a file by the Operating System, such as generic file type, size, date modified or dimensions.

The problem being addressed, is that many individuals migrating to the use of XP from earlier versions of windows, were accustomed to "Windows Explorer" by default showing file extensions which they came to relay on to identify and locate their files. This is also a major issue for individuals accustomed to using none GUI Operating systems where file extensions are the only means of identifying a file. The "My Computer" function of XP hides file extensions by default, relying instead on icons for visual file identification.

Nuff Said?