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WinExtra’s Daily Brief: Browsing Like It’s 2001

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3gScdNt_kg From companies telling Microsoft that they are done with XP to the company giving 4,000 Boys & Girls Clubs a Kinect each, it’s been a pretty interesting news day in the Microsoft world. Unfortunately though, just as we thought it was safe to jump back into the Internet Explorer water, some company goes and [...]

WinExtra’s Daily Brief #22 20 Years And Still The Same Crap

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE5vVrtuQXs After missing a show due to technical issues (your microphone is not for clubbing seals to death Steven) yesterday we had a lot to squeeze into todays 10 minutes. It must be that time of the year again because people are floating the idea that Microsoft should be broken into multiple smaller entities. Sorry folks, [...]

WinExtra’s Daily Brief #11 Strokin’ And Rantin’

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyLVT3f3uoE We’re back. After missing a show due to technical difficulties beyond our control, we are trying to play catchup both on the beta of IE9 and coverage of the cool new apps for Windows Phone 7 (including YouTube functionality and Twitter clients). Plus I spin off into a rant about whining people who refuse to [...]

Proactive security

About 4 years ago I wrote a post called “Security, Microsoft and You…” and  I am amazed that very little has changed in that time. Who’s running anti-virus software and thinks they’re up to date? Are you sure? Have you checked manually.. A lot of anti-virus software is configured to update once a week, but [...]

Video – Version 2

Check out this video with Mike Enjo I found on video sharing site Veoh. What does Windows Vista, XP, and your love life have in common? Listen to find out. Online Videos by Veoh.com

Google Desktop Sidebar on Dual Monitors

I’ve had a love / hate relationship with Google Desktop ever since I first installed the original release. I wanted to install it on Ex’s machine today (Windows XP SP2) but ran into some issues since Ex wants to have a dual monitor setup like I do.  Now, the issue is that I cannot find a way to [...]

Access to drives from Vista / XP start menu

This little tip is great if you have multiple drives on your system and want to get to them with the minimum of fuss. If you want to access a particular drive from the Start Menu you normally have to do the following: Click on the Vista Orb Click “Computer” Wait for Explorer to open [...]

Product keys from Dummies

Looking for product key for Microsoft Office, XP or Vista! There’s no need to go searching on dodgy “warez” sites and infesting your machine with viruses and malware. Thanks to the idiocy of the MySpace generation (and others) you can now simply do a Google search and have the product keys magically appear! How this [...]

Up and running again!

I got yesterday’s problems sorted, and have Vista back up and running again in all it’s “glory”. To be honest I don’t know what went wrong yesterday. After a couple of hours work I still couldn’t figure out what was making everything go so slow, so fell back on the old re-install number. Actually, considering how [...]