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How I Control My Windows Performance

by Scott | Apr 29, 2008 | Computers - How to, Spyware, Tools, Viruses and Scams

There is nothing worse than computer problems, and there’s nothing better than free software to prevent them in the first place. One of my favorite utilities of all time, Winpatrol, has just updated to their 2008 version, and the company owner has provided me...

Saving Hours Customizing Firefox

by Scott | Mar 28, 2008 | Computers - How to, Productivity

How many add-ons, toolbars, bookmarks, plugins, and other tweaks have you made to your default Firefox installation? If you’re a specialty user, you may have several dozen add ons, and in my own case, I’ve got 27 separate Firefox extensions alone, (which I...

Stump the Geek – What’s Wrong?

by Scott | Mar 26, 2008 | Computers - How to

I’m a board member of the Oregon Computer Consultants Association and at each monthly meeting, there’s a few minutes where people ask questions about strange behavior, and get help from their peers. Well, the meeting was last night (Ben Lee from Intel) ,...

Qwest Blocking Email on Port 25

by Scott | Mar 20, 2008 | Computers - How to, Local news, Web Hosting

Qwest Internet service here in Portland Oregon has apparently begun to randomly block port 25 for its customers, just like Comcast did last year. This renders users helpless to send email using their own domain from their web host’s email server like most...

Stop XP Automatic Reboot After Windows Updates

by Scott | Mar 13, 2008 | Computers - How to, Microsoft, Productivity

Last night I was working ofn a few things on my wifes laptop while we were watching a TV show, and like always, I didn’t “put everything away” and I left a Notepad document open with a few notes, and a few browser windows. This morning when I got up,...

Modify the Windows Save As Dialog Box

by Scott | Mar 3, 2008 | Computers - How to, Productivity

After reformatting my computer, I posted about easily editing the “save attachment as” dialog box to enable me to save Outlook file attachments in the folders of my choice. That was a big help, but only solved half the problem, because without installing...