Come to My Anti Super Bowl Party For one brief but ugly moment last week I deserted the cynic inside me. I left the comfort of cynicism intoxicated by the sweet poison of hope. Don’t worry. I’m back in full vigor now. No more rose-colored glasses for me. There is comfort in cynicism. I have my security blankie back.… Read More »
Control Spam the Way We Control Spam Before we begin, we have never found a program to control spam well enough for us to use it for our business. We’ve tried them all including Mailwasher and the anti-spam components in security suites we’ve tested. They have the same flaws, either they filter out some good email with the… Read More »
Emsisoft – You’ve Done it Again! Several years ago, we stopped recommending MSE (Microsoft Security Essentials / Windows Defender) because of its poor ratings and because of its poor protection. And this was about the same time as Malwarebytes stopped detecting a lot of the PUPs it once detected and removed. So we were on a mission to… Read More »
Windows 10 Start Menu Tricks Here are some things you might not know about the Windows 10 start menu. Did you know you can open the start menu by pressing the Windows key? Did you know if you are searching for something, you can search by start typing with the start menu open? Try it. You can search… Read More »
How to Control Your Notification Icons In Windows 10 Windows 10 is getting very popular – not only because it is free to Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 users (until July 2016) – but because it’s a great operating system. It’s like a modern day Windows XP. Well, maybe not that good, but certainly one of the… Read More »
Another Way to adjust Windows 10 Power Options and Screensaver Settings Windows 10 brings a lot of major changes to the Windows we all knew and loved. But sometimes change is a good thing. While Windows 10 retains the Control Panel, it features an easier to navigate Settings function. If you spend some time looking through Windows 10… Read More »