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August 6th, 2007 - News by Jerrold Schiff
Headlines:
1) Why Hard Drives Fail
2) Outlook/Express - autocomplete names missing!
3) Web pages have viruses too.
4) Vote for "French Quarter Exchange" - Best Vintage and Resale
5) Vista? You CAN have XP instead - on brand new computers
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DETAILS of above headlines
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1) Why Hard Drives Fail
Badly fragmented (data is not sequential)
Solution: Defrag
Dust/Dirt
Solution: gas duster
How to: open up the side panel of the desktop
on fans - use a pencil when blowing out the dust
be careful that "iced air" does not spray water
2) Outlook/Express - autocomplete names missing!
When creating a new email message, SOMETIMES names go missing.
This is a function of "auto complete" where Microsoft "guesses"
at the names of frequently entered email addresses.
Sorry - they don't use your address book (that would be too smart).
Instead, they use "nicknames" (open up the address book,
click on a person's name, and click on details - look for nicknames).
Odd: But Microsoft uses the last 1000 names (replies).
This can be reset. (Easiest way? Email everyone in your address book).
Second easiest way? Schedule a service call, and have this included.
3) Web pages have viruses too.
According to a survey by Sophos, back in May.
304,000 web pages contain malicious code. An increase of 9,500 pages
from April. 65% of threats came from Iframe which inserts code into
legitimate web pages. Top country China (53%) followed by USA (27%).
Note: Opening email in html (web form) is the same thing as actually
going to the web page using Internet Explorer. Use text only.
4) Vote for "French Quarter Exchange" - Best Vintage and Resale
Tammy Upson proprietor and my client (fixed an old computer)
wesh.com/alist or wesh.cityvoter.com
5) Vista? You CAN have XP instead - on brand new computers
Hate Vista? Worried that all your old programs wouldn't work?
Or cameras and printers?
If you are buying a new computer, and as part of the
"decrappify" service - hire me to backup and save Vista,
and to install Windows XP, instead !
Another reason? The new machines are faster - they HAVE TO BE
to support Vista. Removing Vista and putting on XP means you
have a major speed improvement - because XP doesn't need
Gigabytes of Ram. Replacing an old machine with a new
computer (which costs less than $500) because a very
attractive alternative.
