Windows 10's 'Spartan' browser to get extensions
Mary Jo Foley : quote:Microsoft's new browser for Windows 10, codenamed "Spartan," will be getting extensions, company officials confirmed during a Twitter chat on January 27. -- Gladiator Security Forum
View ArticleWill a BIOS password block win8.1 from seeing key?
A few months ago, I was trouble shooting my kid's laptop. One thing I read was to put a password on the Bios. Which I did. I think I disabled it, but I'm not sure. Anyhow, his laptop had to have the...
View ArticleAny way to reduce Lync 2013's obnoxiousness?
In Lync 2010, if I had an IM window open and the person sent me an IM, it would merely flash the taskbar button. Lync 2013 vacillates between putting up its huge, annoying popup and just flashing. I...
View Article[WIN7] Unable to turn off Windows 7 pop up notifications.
A few days ago I decided to turn off the pop up notifications that appear when my cursor hovers over a link, or (in the case of the attached screenshot) a Windows function, such as the Start button. I...
View ArticleWindows 7 Pro OEM install ?
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View Article[WIN7] Speaking of Licensing
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View ArticleWindows 10 free upgrade
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View Article[Info] Sysinternals Suite updated January 29, 2015
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View ArticleStrange startup entries
Please look at the attached clip of the Event Viewer Security Log. Are these entries normal? I don't recall seeing them before and I can't find definitions of the event IDs. Thanks in advance for any...
View Article[Excel] Freeze top row and first column
If I recall correctly, in Excel 2003 (?) you could drag a handle down from the top of the side slider bar to freeze the top row(s)...and do the same at the left of the bottom slider bar to freeze the...
View ArticleMy Surface Pro 3 i7
Still kick ass. No overheating issue whatsoever. Still perfect. 3 the thing :)
View ArticleLSP - E-mail Naming Shim Provider
I noticed that I had a Windows Live dll (WLIDNSP.DLL) allocated by Palemoon. That led me to finding out it was a "LSP", which is apparantly something that is inserted into the TCP/IP stack. That led me...
View Article[WIN8] windows 8.1 upgrade problem
Hi, I just upgraded from win8 to 8.1 on my laptop. After installation completed my display no longer detects the display adapter that came with the laptop.(ATI Radeon HD...with 4gig display memory)...
View ArticleQuestion about virus fundamentals.
Hi BBR! Hope everyones 2015 is going well thus far! So I have a weird question, I wasn't able to come up with a way to search this that would give me any hits on Google, so I figured I would ask here...
View ArticleWindows 8 on laptop embedded key no longer there
Has this happened to anyone else. My talks with T3 Microsoft global Escalations seems to have boiled down to not getting the matter resolved. The basic issue: Unlike Windows 7 and before, Windows 8...
View ArticleWin7, Win8.1 Homegroup & linux router?
Does anyone know if the transport mechanism for homegroup network sharing is routable at all? The backstory: Comcast cable modem in bridge mode running DOCsis 2 - can't do IPv6. That's OK I have a...
View Article[WIN7] out of nonpaged pool
Win 7 x64, Dell Precision 380, 3 gigs of RAM. I had an idling system that appears to have been rebooted just by itself. No obvious cause, but this appears to be a smoking gun to me. [ATT=1] How do...
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