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By admin, January 13, 2010 10:00

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Something I heard about last week but haven’t had time to put up here is the “God Mode” feature.  If you want to have a common area to access all your settings features, rather than navigate in the normal Control Panel method you may find this mode to be a bit of a time saver.

To enable simply Create a New Folder and name it this:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

That will change the folder icon to a Control Panel icon and will then give you direct access to all the features in a simple list format.  If you prefer having the short explainations they will be missing.

So far no comments from Microsoft about this.  Enjoy.

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By admin, December 10, 2009 08:12

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I received a rather interesting spam the other day and it would seem to have included some well private details.  It looks like this email contains login information for various mail systems but I honestly did not follow up with it.  I figured it may be of interest to the owners of these sites so I’m posting it here rather than attempt to start tracking abuse emails for various domains.

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By admin, October 27, 2009 08:28

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With a great deal of disappointment I have to make this post.  I have been a avid user of this tool in the past (I’m still running a pretty old version of this on a XP box) since it expedited deleting of files that were locked by an application.  It would clearly identify whom locked the file and give me the option to delete it.  However it appears that it is in fact bundled with ADWARE.  This is defined by some AV products as a Trojan, including Microsoft Essentials as TrojanClicker:Win32/Yabector.gen

It should be noted that CNet’s Download.com ‘verifys’ its spyware free, yet obviously either this was a clear ‘miss’ on their part, or they do not classify adware as spyware. This confirms my thinking that anything on Download.com should be considered ‘risky’ software since they either mislead or don’t bother to check the software that’s uploaded or availble from download.com.  My thinking is they simply are misleading by ‘verify’ing it contains no spyware.  Others have disclosed this over the past year and a bit that this version has been around for download so I think ample time was provided for Cnet to correct this.

Continue reading 'Unlocker 1.8.7 Infected with Trojan Adware'»

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By admin, September 20, 2009 18:45

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How many times have you discovered that your hard disk is filling up even though you are not installing any applications.  You think ‘do I really have that much data’, or you store your data on a separate drive from your OS and applications (something we recommend to all clients and friends) and cannot understand why your OS or application drive keeps filling up.

Chances are its because of the applications themselves either downloading content into it’s application directory, or it uses the windows ‘Application Data’ directory to store temporary or cached data, some cases even permanent data remains in these directories.

A good example of this is Google Earth that keeps it’s cache database in your Apps Data directory, and can easily exceed several gigabytes in size.

Or maybe you love the convenience of the “My Documents” directory and accessing it directly from the start menu, but don’t have enough room for your data.

Continue reading 'Moving Directories In Windows — Using Junctions'»

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By admin, August 31, 2009 13:05

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Thanks for browsing!  I am a Canadian born in Calgary.  Having lived here most of my life it’s more than just a home.  I am a certified computer programmer, low-voltage technician, security expert with decades of experience.  I currently am looking for the right company to call my employer, and work the rest of my time as a freelance computer consultant and general ‘fix it’ guy.  I’m well versed in numerous  computer programming languages incluing BASIC, COBOL, JCP, C, C++, PHP, Python, Perl, and some tiny java and ruby in my blood too.

I speak many OS’s not limited to the full gambit of Microsoft Windows (anything since ’98 including a MCSE in NT, but right up to date with Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7 Ultimate), many of the GNU/Linux Distro’s although Debian is my favorite, and am also familiar with FreeBSD.

Hardware is no challenge for this geek pornstar and enjoy taking older hardware and making new systems as well as fiddling around with network IDS/IPS monitoring and solutions. Building out small networks or expanding existing ones I’ve worked on , WiFi solutions but I spend most of my time here learning about network security monitoring the most.

If you’re in the Calgary area and need someone, send me an email telling me you read it here.  I’m always happy to have a new client, whether it’s only for a couple hours work, or more permanent arrangements.