Windows 10 FAQ What happened to Windows 9? Microsoft says they skipped Windows 9 to emphasize that Windows 10 is the ” perfect 10?. Most people disagree and think Microsoft skipped Windows 9 to distance Windows 10 from the sales debacle of Windows 8. And also that Microsoft used the number 10 as a symbolic end to numbered… Read More »
Emsisoft has won another award! Three years ago, when Microsoft Security Essentials failed to pass most independent antivirus tests, we started looking for something that would keep our users safe. We tested AVG and Avast and found not only were they lacking in protecting users from malware and PUPs, but has started hijacking users’ browsers and sometimes even… Read More »
Google Takeout: Your Data to Go Many of you have Gmail accounts, and because you do, you also have Google Drive, Google Calendar and many other free Google services. And though Google backs up your data seven ways from Sunday, and then backs up the back ups and stores them in several different data centers, you might feel… Read More »
Your Web Cam — How it helps others invade your privacy… …And how to turn it off correctly It seems everywhere you turn these days there are stories about how some hacker has used someone’s web cam to observe them without their knowledge. It has since come to light that governmental agencies are also using people’s own web… Read More »
Have Fun With Your Friends: Easy, fast, fun way to “encrypt” emails You’re not going to fool the FBI nor anyone who’s an expert with fonts and/or computers, but most the time you can catch the attention of your reader by writing your email in your regular font, the highlighting the text and changing the font to Webdings… Read More »
Take Control of 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 best… Read More »