By jixor | Published:
November 18, 2008
Firstly if you have problems with Windows Update first thing to do is check your WindowsUpdate.log file. This file is found in your windows folder, usually “c:\WINDOWS”.
I keep having this happen, its a real pain in the arse! So I post this mostly for my own quick reference. This is actually to fix this and [...]
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By jixor | Published:
October 17, 2008
I have found Avira Free to be quite a decent piece of software and as such have switched over to it from AVG. However the nagware is a pain in the arse! This is a very simple way of disabling it in XP Pro/Vista Ultimate.
Open the ‘Local Security Policy (Local Security Settings) Panel’, found under [...]
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By jixor | Published:
September 4, 2008
Personally I’m not exactly blown away by the browser, its an interesting piece of software but I’ll be sticking with Firefox for some time yet.
Really well researched article goes through Googles lead up to releasing the browser:
http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/09/google-chrome.html
Lifehacker’s summary of Chrome’s hidden “about:” pages:
http://lifehacker.com/5045164/google-chromes-full-list-of-special-about-pages
Or Google’s http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-chromes-about-pages.html
Lifehacker article goes through Firefox plugins to enable some similar functionallity [...]
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