Dec 13, 2010 | Microsoft, Office, security, Vista, Windows7, WinXP
Your computer will restart on Tuesday night, after getting a particularly large collection of updates for Windows and Office. Close any open programs or files but leave your computers turned on when you leave the office on Tuesday. It’s Patch Tuesday, the second...
Dec 9, 2010 | business, network, SBS, security, software, Vista, Windows7
Here’s a moderately geeky tip about how to fix a nagging problem when a mapped drive disappears during installation of a program from a shared folder on another computer on the network. Until a small business starts to use a document management system, it almost...
Dec 5, 2010 | security, web_services
LastPass is the truly essential utility, a free tool to help you remember the passwords that fill our lives. Personally, I’ve got LastPass keeping track of a couple of hundred memorized passwords; I have all my address and credit card information memorized so LastPass...
Nov 11, 2010 | Adobe, Microsoft, Office, security, updates
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday has come and gone this week with a very small number of patches for Office programs and nothing at all for Windows. Most of your computers restarted Tuesday night. You’re likely to also be seeing prompts this week to update Adobe Flash...
Oct 12, 2010 | IE, Microsoft, Office, security, updates, Vista, Windows7, WinXP
Your computer will restart tonight. Close your programs, save your open files, leave the computer running. Your computer will restart in the middle of the night. (If it doesn’t seem to have restarted, look for the update icon by the clock and see if it’s waiting for...
