Although not mandatory on all PCs, having some type of protection on your computer today is almost always a must. The problem that most tech savvy users have with them, is that most, just don't work and most eat up way to many resources. Having a way to actually test some of the options out there, is a fantastic way to make your final decision. So you try it out...Download the latest AVG, Symantec or NOD32 trial and see which comes out on top with each of these to

Setting it as the default is now as simple as opening up the "Default Programs" panel then associating the search protocol with the third-party service you want. You will also need to set this program as the defa

And these days, we rarely see "viruses". They typically fall into the spyware category. Pop-Ups, porn and fake AV products seem to be the most popular of malicious material presently. While your AV sits in the system tray hanging out and doing absolutely nothing to protect

Something like a computer in the corner will be just fine. This not only helps you to concentrate but more importantly from a security point of view it keeps shoulder surfers away from you. Needless to say don't enter passwords when some one is standing next to you, how uninterested he or she may pret

The majority of the time you end up relying on on another product to get the annoyingware off of your machine. So now you've got a $60 bloated product eating up resources on your machine and doing absolutely nothing to protect

Beside the standard image management tools such as making photo album, editing (automatic enhancing, black and white color effect, sepia color effect), resizing images in batches, archiving and backing up photos, importing (from camera, webcam, scanner, and other storage location); JetPhoto Studio enables user to organize photos by notes, keyword tags, camera status tags, time and geographical location. It also let user manage their photos by dates - which to many people is eas

Nearly every single file on your computer contains some type of personal information - either information about the user, information on setting e.g. time, date, etc. In any case, it may be good to remove some of this information before making it available to the public, such as uploading a video or image onl

Step 3: Change the following values to whatever you like: TITLE HERE - Add the text that you want to be shows, ex. John's PC ICON HERE - The image that is used as a brand logo. It must be a .ico and 24x24. ( E.g. C:\mylogo.ico. The has to be replaced by two \'s. ) FUNCTION HERE - This should be replaced with the function that will be used when clicked. ( E.g. A website, a Windows gaming news|https://windowsmastery.com/ executable, etc. http://google.com will redirect to Google when clicked. )Step 4: Save the file as brand.reg and double-click it. Now, simply log off and back on and you should have your own branded version of Wind

Too many times we rely on our Anti-Virus/Anti-Spware to just work. We think since we have it installed, that it's safe and sound. I think we've come to find these days, many Anti-Virus applications do a very poor job of protecting you against ad/mal/spyware, even though they claim to do

I hope this helps you get the most accurate search results as quickly as possible. Some of it's pretty basic I know, but in part two I will be going through how to search using filters, saved searches and virtual folders which will make your organisation a whole lot eas

With Vista there is no new features or changes to the User Interface but the Windows indexing technology will be working significantly faster . (If you are using XP then you will see a whole new search interface, and I would suggest you download this update if you haven't alrea

In order to be preventative, it would be nice to maybe give some of these products, which usually have a trial version, a run for their money before making the plunge and purchasing the full product. I've found a few tools to give each of these a test run, and see how well they actually are protecting

Yeah, I know"¦ wow, exciting stuff. It's not something I used to care about either. I remember whenever I heard Microsoft banging on about the gee-whiz search capabilities of Vista I really didn't care as I was stuck in Win32/XP style navigation; of menus and forms and tabs. Why would I be interested in changing what was already working for

I also have a Flickr account but there was only 3 photos inside it. The reason: I personally thought that online photo management process was too troublesome for the happy-go-lucky-shoot-everything amateur photographer like

For the adventurous ones, this application also comes with JetPhoto Server [No Longer Available] - a full-featured digital photo publishing service software based on PHP. With JetPhoto Server, anyone can establish his or her own standalone theme photo website quickly and fre

Vista is riddled with an extremely large amount of "security" measures that may, or may not, be helpful. Running Vista as an Administrator may help, but did you know there is an even higher Administrator? Well, there is! All you need to do to unlock it is the follow