MICROSOFT SECURITY ESSENTIALS NOW AVAILABLE

Microsoft Security Essentials, free antivirus and anti-malware security software from Microsoft, is now available from the MSE web site. Click here for the Microsoft press release, or click here for more information about Microsoft Security Essentials.If you want to...

MICROSOFT SECURITY ESSENTIALS

Microsoft will soon release Microsoft Security Essentials, free antivirus and anti-malware software for computers running Windows 7, Vista, or Windows XP. It is simple to install, effective, requires no attention, and uses almost no system resources. It is completely...

WINDOWS 7 FOR STUDENTS

Microsoft has had aggressive prices for college students for years. Today it announced that college students can buy Windows 7 Home Premium for $29.99. It’s all part of the marketing that is ramping up for the Windows 7 launch on October 22. It’s probably not a...

DISAPPEARING NETWORK DRIVES

[Disclaimer: This tip addresses a specific issue. If you’re not faced with this issue, don’t follow these instructions.]In many offices, some programs are installed from a mapped network drive or require access to a mapped drive as part of installing the program. The...

64-BIT GLITCHES

Many of you – most of you – will get the 64-bit version of Windows 7 on your next computer, so you can use more than 4Gb of RAM. Even if you don’t buy more memory than that at first, you’ll want the comfort of knowing you can add more later. You’ll recall that many...