I saw this little utility on Lockergnome today and just had to try it out. It works pretty much as advertised. It automatically filled in the server details for Gmail and Yahoo, but not Hotmail. I could set-up any SMTP server manually though. I could easily right-click any file and use the “backup to email”…
OK, so the first, obvious question, which Mark asked in the comments, and Steven Vore referenced in his blog post, was why go through all this? Why not just reformat the drive and reinstall Windows? Well the answer to that is multi-faceted. One, if I had just reformatted I wouldn’t have near the blog fodder…
Part 1 is here. OK, so I did a little research, and found a few tools I thought my help me. I decided to tackle this one problem at a time. First, let’s get rid of that stupid desktop wallpaper. A quick trip to Display Properties then the Desktop tab, Customize Desktop and the Web…
AKA the great cleanup of 2006. I’ve always said that I wasn’t a good test subject to measure how effective any anti-trojan or spyware application is, so while I’ve kept a professional interest in the latest and greatest tools, I hadn’t been given a really good opportunity to try them out, until last week. A…
I know, I know. I promised you more details on the various tools I used trying to clean up that trojan/spyware infection last week, but wouldn’t you know if, I had yet another friend with computer problems. I made a quick house call after work on Friday to discover the reason that her wireless mouse/keyboard…
I know I’ve been pretty quiet on all of my blogs the past few days. I’ve been spending an inordinate amount of that time in front of a computer, but not one hooked up to the Internet. Fact is, the particular laptop I’ve been working on for a friend, had no business being on-line until…