Sometimes you just have to go for it provided you have your information backed up. For example if you have windows on the hdd, boot from the...
Dual boot using grub, or install each os separately to two different hdds while the other(s) are not connected, then use the bios boot menu which...
I'd really love for them to address this problem, it can be tracked all the way back to early versions of IE including IE 6 which is only still...
You could browse the outdated posts a couple days ago, but most of the links on the site forward to the outage page. I can be patient. I can...
Ubuntu barely used over 400MiB of ram with running applications, and no swap usage when I was running it. Ram was never an issue for me, and the...
What security? You have a user account, that's about it. Chrome has a sandbox, but it has been proven it has been possible to escape the sandbox...
The system I ran it on can't run the live cd as it won't load the generic video driver to use my nvidia card, and even when I install it I have to...
It has been used way before that, and would have been reconstructed including bookmarks if a backup of the bookmarks existed....
It's been like that for many versions bookmarks.html hasn't been used for the bookmarks for a long time. You must have just changed from 3.6, and...
Wrong, chrome is not just user installs. System wide installs are provided by 3rd party software from pay referrals, and Chrome is included as a...
Make sure she understands how to use uac as it will help protect her. Don't install flash for IE, and even remove the IE shortcut from the...
Seems some people here have never heard of programs running as a service, which is very necessary on operating systems which provide more than one...
Just copying what Google has been doing, and many 3rd party installers, along with new package systems come with a Chrome installed for all users,...
Didn't search the web for it first eh? From what I saw it's a program that can change your wallpaper to the wallpaper of the day, and put a big...
It's easy to disable, see attachment.
Crapware is crapware, most of it tends to be just taking space on the disk, however some of it is resident programs, toolbars, etc. Some people...
You apparently didn't read all the replies. Hardware gets old, software uses more resources, and some software will load more resident programs,...
Lets look at this another way, the user(s), and the software they run. So you have some 3rd party utilities/drivers, and likely common things...
Last time I checked the Kerio series was not getting any updates, 2.x code taken over from Tiny by a group calling themselves Kerio. They didn't...
First start by turning on the windows firewall, and running the test again for now. Can you give us information about your setup? Do you use a...
There is no magic wand, your computer is not a toaster, its a complex machine capable of running complex software. Sometimes that software is...
You likely already have a hardware router, and it likely already doing the job for you. If you just have a modem, and a computer a basic software...
Many people still run it on XP for basic control, for the most part I rarely get prompts unless I have a new program, or I update a program. I...
When you can't go through your router, and are connected to another connection like a hotel/hotspot/dial-up you can use the Windows firewall for...
ALG will invisibly proxy ftp traffic, and if you don't use the XP Firewall disable the service.
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