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I really do not like receiving emails with so-called jokes, chain letters, interesting pictures or anything like that. Life’s too short and they are always rubbish – except…….. the next time you are losing the will to live as a well-meaning support-person in India repeats your last question back to you yet again, remember that [...]
Microsoft will soon end support for some versions of Windows. When support ends, security updates will no longer be provided. This means that computers running these unsupported versions will become more vulnerable to malicious attack.
The versions and cut-off dates are:
Windows Vista without any Service Packs – 13th April 2010
Windows XP Service Pack 2 – 13th [...]
If you double-click on a data file in Windows Explorer (eg a picture file or document), then Windows will open the program that it thinks “controls” that type of file, and then open the data file (document) in the newly opened program.
Sometimes, you may prefer a different program to open a particular type of file. [...]
Microsoft have released a free antivirus and antispyware program called Windows Security Essentials. I have long since thought that programs like Norton and McAfee have got too big for their boots in terms of their size and the way they can interefere with the smooth-running of a system. Partly for that reason, I have been [...]
A few months ago I looked into the possibility of providing telephone support via a premium rate phone number. “Thank you” to all of my clients who expressed a view on this. It seems everyone acknowledges that it is valid for me to charge for technical phone support (that’s a relief) but clients are divided [...]
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This blog is for my clients, my potential clients, and myself.
Issues covered will be those typically encountered by this hoped-for readership. Not deeply technical – just useful. So, the average person I have in mind is probably self-employed and quite probably working from home. He/she certainly doesn’t have an IT team around, but needs his [...]
