How many versions of Java do you have installed on your computer? Have you ever looked at the add remove programs applet in the control panel and thought about checking to see? Well chances are like me you have not. When I looked I found not one but three versions of Java installed on my computer all of them taking up a pretty fair amount of space. I would have never thought to check this had I not come across JavaRa. Part of what this quick little program does is first check to see if you have the most current [ Read More ]
This Web Wednesday I am going to write about an option that I was not even aware existed until yesterday. Even though I have registered my domain name “Tech-Weekly” and run a simple tech web page currently I still rely on Google’s Blogger to host my site. And one of the biggest gripes that I have had for awhile is that you cannot do any type of future posting via Blogger. I had to resort to using a service called Lettermelater.com which is a pre-email service. And by using this service and the option to post to your Blogger page [ Read More ]
Windows Vista SP1 is almost out but there will be some problems. Some security programs such as Zone Alarm Suite 7.1, Trend Micro Internet Security 2008 and BitDefender 1.0 will be blocked from even starting up once you install Windows Vista SP1. There is also at this point a problem with Windows Vista machines going into an endless cycle of boots and reboots. The fix is to remove a previous update #KB937287 prior to installing the Vista SP1. Another problem that we are seeing is that if your PC has drivers that are having conflicts with Vista then once you [ Read More ]
Did you buy a new PC this past Holiday Season which came with the latest Norton or Symantec product installed with a trial version of an anti-virus or security product? Decided that you don’t like how much of a CPU resource hog it is and not interested in purchasing it, but you just can’t seem to get all of it uninstalled from your computer. Well you can fight with individually uninstalling all the applications or you can go with Symantec/Nortons removal tool which I must admit does a good job of taking out all the installations. It will remove the [ Read More ]
If you are like me and tired of going to sites and having either a Snap shots, intelliTXT, Contentlink or the like pop up just because I move the mouse pointer over a word that has been associated with one of the contextual ad service. Well if you are using the browser Opera they have built in a quick and easy way to accomplish this. What you need to do is download this .ini file. Then you will need to replace the one that is currently installed in your system for Opera. Chances are if you check your blocked content [ Read More ]
