In writing about my trials and tribulations with Windows Vista on my production PC over the summer, I summarized my situation in a blog entitled “Time for a new motherboard?” on September 20. By the beginning of October things with the system had quieted down enough, thanks to switching to a single-vendor security solution (PC …
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Begone! Dratted (Old) System Files: Begone!
When one member of my mirrored pair of system drives failed earlier this year, I replaced that pair of Seagate 7200.10 320 GB drives with a pair of Samsung SpinPoint HD501LJ SATA II 3.5″ drives with 16MB Cache. I also installed the still-working member of that pair in my system, so as to retain access …
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More out-of-cycle MS Updates post
Last night when I was quitting for the day, after 11 PM, I noticed that the autoupdate function in Windows Update had posted two more items to my primary production PC. Both look interesting, but so far I”ve had some trouble trying to ferret out more details about one of these two patches.
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Snapshot: PC Tools Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus
I”ve been using Spyware Doctor to handle spyware on my machine for over two years now, with great success in handling spyware. In the past three months, I have switched to PC Tools Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus thanks to issues documented in my story “Best-of-Breed Apps Aren”t Always Best for Vista” –namely, incompatibilities between AVG …
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Out-of-cycle Security Patch Posts to Fix Huge, Gaping RPC Hole
Normally, Microsoft reserves its security patches, fixes, updates, and other software tweaks and maneuvers for the second Tuesday in each month, aka “Patch Tuesday.” Yesterday afternoon I was somewhat surprised to see various sources trumpeting the release of an out-of-schedule security patch through Windows Update on the fourth Thursday in October.
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