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Our advice: don’t bother. Keep your money. We’ve never seen any hard evidence that there is any advantage in a so-called registry optimizer. Under some specific circumstances, they can be useful, but they can also do a lot of damage. The Windows Registry...
We all remember 2008 partly for the data protection fiascos that plagued the government and other organisations. Lost tax records here, missing social security information there, a top secret dossier left on a train. The sad thing is that ever since the encrypting file system was introduced in Windows 2000, it has been ridiculously easy to encrypt sensitive files. Easy when you know how, that is – like most things in IT.
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Every now and then, a new piece of technology comes along that changes the way you work. Many of you will have seen me scribbling notes at the various meetings and events I have attended on my Tablet PC. The built-in handwriting recognition, together...
Our customer St. David Recruitment Services, based in Cardiff, were interviewed recently by Windows Vista Magazine to get their views on how Windows Vista helps their business every day. The case study appeared in Windows Vista SMB Supplement, which went...
Businesses may be deterred from making investments in technology in the current economic climate, especially those planning to use finance to minimise cash flow impact and spread the cost over the life of the assets. With banks unwilling to lend to each...
Are you making the most of Windows Search? This was one of the most important new features introduced with Windows Vista that can save you a good deal of time. Instead of clicking through layers of folder hierarchy, simply type the filename or a phrase...
The 2008 launch wave is gaining momentum. Microsoft announced a few hours ago that both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 have been released to manufacturing. Windows Vista service pack 1 will likely impact most users in the short term...
The recent spate of announcements from the government and others regarding "lost" confidential information has really annoyed me. I'm so angry because every shipped business edition of Windows since 2000 has included encryption technology...
I recently had a problem with a customer running all Windows Vista clients on an SBS 2003 R2 domain. The problem was how to deploy printers to users who have restricted access (i.e. standard users). The users cannot install the printer drivers themselves...
I was just reading Scott Hanselman's blog , where he was discussing the Windows Vista speech recognition. So I decided to try it for myself. Scott took a typing test, once using a keyboard and then again using speech recognition. I decided to use...
David Overton - a Microsoft employee in the UK- has started publishing a series of demos on his blog. I've watched a couple of them and they are really good, concise video clips packed with useful hints and tips on how to achieve everyday tasks. If...
Windows Vista and Office 2007 Done Right TiGra Networks is pleased to be able to offer our own range of Office Ready PCs loaded with Windows Vista Business and Office 2007 Small Business Edition (other editions also available on request). Our PCs use...
There are schemes available in the UK to help legitimate registered charities get top class IT systems and software for next to nothing. If you are paying retail prices for your software, then talk to TiGra Networks and we guarantee to cut your bill by...
After the theft from an employee's home of a laptop computer last year containing confidential customer data, the Nationwide Building Society has been fine £980,000 by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). "The failure to manage or monitor downloads...
Software-y-Ddraig Shareware Registration Services provides an off-the-shelf utility that enables .Net software developers to quickly and easily add shareware registration to their software. It is extremely simple to use (2 lines of code at its simplest...
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