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Jan

How to Speed up your Computer – Part Three: Turn on Automatic Updates

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Windows works best and is most secure when Automatic Updates are turned on, so the most recent updates from Microsoft are installed regularly.
To turn on the updates, open your Internet Explorer (Blue “e”) and then go to Tools on the menu bar at the top, next to Favorites. On the Tools drop-down menu you’ll [...]

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25

Jan

Fascinating, but Sinister Spyware

Posted by   Published in Computer Repair Tools, Free Utilities, Rootkits, Uncategorized

This week I’m fixing an old Toshiba laptop that was loaded with spyware. It had all these spyware:

Adware BHO Generic
Win32 Trojan PSW Sinowal
Win32 clowsd
Alexa Related
Microsoft Windows Security Center Virus Override
Microsoft Windows Security Center Firewall Override
Microsoft Windows Security Center SP2 Update Override
Microsoft Security Center _disabled
PWS LDPinch IE
SC Keylogger
Smitfraud – C.generic
Win32. Alphabet.ap
Win32. BHO.je

The laptop actually had [...]

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11

Jan

Google plus Microsoft: A Computer Repair Techie's Best Tool

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Okay, I might as well get it over with, alienate all my Linux and Mac Techie friends in one fell swoop. I know it is politically-incorrect to say this but yes, I love Microsoft. I adore Microsoft madly for its support pages which in combination with Google Search (the top-of the-line search engine) [...]

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9

Jan

How to Speed up your Computer – Part Two: Defragment the Hard Drive

Posted by   Published in How to Speed up your Computer, Slow Computer

After you run Disk Cleanup (see Part One), you’ll want to defragment the hard drive.
Hard drives have arms that retrieve data much like those on old phonograph players. (Some of us actually remember those!) Except instead of staying in one place as a phonograph arm and needle does as the record goes around underneath [...]

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7

Jan

Browsers that Fight Spyware

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A browser is the software application you use to visit websites. You’re probably familiar with Internet Explorer. Yet other browsers are more effective for preventing spyware. This is partially because they’re not as popular, and the bad guy spyware creators don’t bother with them as much. Firefox and Avant are two good choices. [...]

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