If your tabs on your task manager are missing here is the fix....normally it is due to GUI from something else running on your computer that is limiting the view...
READY?
Control>ALT>Shift
Open Task Manager from Desktop toolbar on bottom of the screen
Right Click..... "start task manager"
now you view should be restored....
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
Router Firmware Upgrades
There seems to be alot of issues out there when updating your firmware versions to the latest via the manufacturers website....
The biggest issue is make sure you are upgrading using the computer with the ETHERNET connection only and not from one that is using a wireless connection.
And of course make sure it is the right firmware version for your unit or you could end up with a paperweight....
The biggest issue is make sure you are upgrading using the computer with the ETHERNET connection only and not from one that is using a wireless connection.
And of course make sure it is the right firmware version for your unit or you could end up with a paperweight....
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
More security issues with Windows- Please Read
While a security update for the Critical zero-day vulnerability in Windows kernel exploited by the Duqu malware is not yet available, Microsoft has reacted quite fast to enable customers to at least deploy a temporary solution until it releases an official patch.
The automatic fix currently being offered to all Windows users comes to introduce a workaround capable of blocking Duqu from exploiting the TrueType Font Parsing Vulnerability (CVE-2011-3402).
The security hole resides in the Win32k TrueType font parsing engine, and is caused when a Windows kernel-mode driver handles the TrueType font type improperly, Microsoft explained.
“An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. The attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights,” the software giant said.
“We are aware of targeted attacks that try to use the reported vulnerability; overall, we see low customer impact at this time. This vulnerability is related to the Duqu malware.”
The Microsoft Security Advisory (2639658) and KB 2639658 have been published on November 3, 2011 to provide additional information to customers, guidance on how to protect themselves against potential attacks and the workaround the Redmond company put together.
“To make it easy for customers to install, we have released a Fix it that will allow one-click installation of the workaround and an easy way for enterprises to deploy,” the software giant said.
Customers looking to render Duqu incapable of exploiting the Critical 0-day TrueType Font Parsing vulnerability need to install Microsoft Fix it 50792.
“When you run the Enable fix it solution, the workaround denies the system access to the T2embed.dll file,” the company informs.
The software giant is also supplying Microsoft Fix it 50793 to disable the changes introduced by Microsoft Fix it 50792.
The Fix it automatic solution is a viable workaround that can be deployed until Microsoft patches the TrueType Font Parsing security issue. According to the company, a security update won’t be released next week with the rest of its monthly patches for November.
“Given our ability to detect exploit attempts for this issue, we are able to closely monitor the threat landscape and will notify customers if we see any indication of increased risk,” revealed Jerry Bryant, group manager, Response Communications Trustworthy Computing Group.
“As previously stated, the risk for customers remains low. However, that is subject to change so we encourage customers to either apply the workaround or ensure their anti-malware vendor has added new signatures based on the information we’ve provided them to ensure protections are in place for this issue.”
The automatic fix currently being offered to all Windows users comes to introduce a workaround capable of blocking Duqu from exploiting the TrueType Font Parsing Vulnerability (CVE-2011-3402).
The security hole resides in the Win32k TrueType font parsing engine, and is caused when a Windows kernel-mode driver handles the TrueType font type improperly, Microsoft explained.
“An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. The attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights,” the software giant said.
“We are aware of targeted attacks that try to use the reported vulnerability; overall, we see low customer impact at this time. This vulnerability is related to the Duqu malware.”
The Microsoft Security Advisory (2639658) and KB 2639658 have been published on November 3, 2011 to provide additional information to customers, guidance on how to protect themselves against potential attacks and the workaround the Redmond company put together.
“To make it easy for customers to install, we have released a Fix it that will allow one-click installation of the workaround and an easy way for enterprises to deploy,” the software giant said.
Customers looking to render Duqu incapable of exploiting the Critical 0-day TrueType Font Parsing vulnerability need to install Microsoft Fix it 50792.
“When you run the Enable fix it solution, the workaround denies the system access to the T2embed.dll file,” the company informs.
The software giant is also supplying Microsoft Fix it 50793 to disable the changes introduced by Microsoft Fix it 50792.
The Fix it automatic solution is a viable workaround that can be deployed until Microsoft patches the TrueType Font Parsing security issue. According to the company, a security update won’t be released next week with the rest of its monthly patches for November.
“Given our ability to detect exploit attempts for this issue, we are able to closely monitor the threat landscape and will notify customers if we see any indication of increased risk,” revealed Jerry Bryant, group manager, Response Communications Trustworthy Computing Group.
“As previously stated, the risk for customers remains low. However, that is subject to change so we encourage customers to either apply the workaround or ensure their anti-malware vendor has added new signatures based on the information we’ve provided them to ensure protections are in place for this issue.”
Windows Live - More Scam- Please Read
Microsoft has warned customers using its web properties, including services associated with Windows Live such as Hotmail, of a new phishing attack designed to steal their sensitive data.
The scam involves a social engineering technique in order to trick users into handing over their account information.
The unsolicited email message claims to be coming from Windows Live Customer Care, although the email is signed by the Windows Live Hotmail Team.
It’s this, and other discrepancies, that should alert users that there’s something seriously dodgy with the email in their inbox.
Attacks resort to attempting to scare Windows Live customers, bogusly threatening them with shutting down their accounts, unless they confirm them.
“This Email is from Windows Live Customer Care and we are sending it to every Windows Live MSN Email Accounts Owner for safety. we(!) are having congestions due to the anonymous registration of Windows Live MSDN accounts so we are shutting down some Windows Live MSN accounts and your account was among those to be deleted,” reads an excerpt from the spam email used in the phishing attack.
“We are sending this email to you so that you can verify and let us know if you still want to use this account.”
Users are ill-advised to hand over all sorts of sensitive data, including username, password, date of birth and the country or territory they reside in.
The spam sports a number of evident typos, as such emails often do, and this should be enough to make recipients suspicious as to the email’s legitimacy.
“The bogus email claims to come from Microsoft and asks the recipient to respond to the email with their user name and password to avoid permanent cancellation of their account. This is a scam. Microsoft never asks for user names and passwords in an email,” reveals Microsoft’s Chris Stetkiewicz.
Users should never reply to such messages, and they should never, under any circumstances hand over sensitive info such as the username and password for their accounts.
The scam involves a social engineering technique in order to trick users into handing over their account information.
The unsolicited email message claims to be coming from Windows Live Customer Care, although the email is signed by the Windows Live Hotmail Team.
It’s this, and other discrepancies, that should alert users that there’s something seriously dodgy with the email in their inbox.
Attacks resort to attempting to scare Windows Live customers, bogusly threatening them with shutting down their accounts, unless they confirm them.
“This Email is from Windows Live Customer Care and we are sending it to every Windows Live MSN Email Accounts Owner for safety. we(!) are having congestions due to the anonymous registration of Windows Live MSDN accounts so we are shutting down some Windows Live MSN accounts and your account was among those to be deleted,” reads an excerpt from the spam email used in the phishing attack.
“We are sending this email to you so that you can verify and let us know if you still want to use this account.”
Users are ill-advised to hand over all sorts of sensitive data, including username, password, date of birth and the country or territory they reside in.
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“The bogus email claims to come from Microsoft and asks the recipient to respond to the email with their user name and password to avoid permanent cancellation of their account. This is a scam. Microsoft never asks for user names and passwords in an email,” reveals Microsoft’s Chris Stetkiewicz.
Users should never reply to such messages, and they should never, under any circumstances hand over sensitive info such as the username and password for their accounts.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Tekkie G's Has Made The 10,000 Hit Mark!
Thanks to all of you who are making use of the blog.....a milestone for sure!
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Image Resizer for Windows 7 - Good Old Standby Program
Wanna do it simply? Here's the program to do it....resize your pictures in an instant by a right click....
both 32 bit and 64 bit stable versions HERE
both 32 bit and 64 bit stable versions HERE
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
LASTPASS Mobile.....here's how to get it for free....check it out....
All right......get a USB stick....download and install Firefox Portable to it.....once up and running go ahead and install all the extensions you normally use including LASTPASS....unplug and take it with you wherever you go and you have a full fledged working Firefox browser with all your goods on it! Just plug into any computer...run the Firefox .exe and away you go....
get Firefox Portable HERE
get Firefox Portable HERE
Monday, October 17, 2011
Dual Monitors-how to get two different backgrounds working on them
Jon Tackabury has created a Free piece of software that lets you easily set separate wallpapers for each desktop. Once the software is installed, you’ll notice a new tray icon. Clicking the Desktop Wallpaper item from the menu will open up the dialog where you can set the wallpaper.
You can click on each desktop in the display, and set display settings differently for each monitor, or span the wallpaper across the two.
Or you can even load wallpaper from Flickr, which is an incredibly cool feature. Type in “vista wallpaper” for some really nice images.
If you chose the Settings from the tray icon popup menu, you’ll notice that this application also adds a set of shortcut keys that can be used to move windows from one monitor to the other.
Download DisplayFusion from Binaryfortress (Vista/XP/Win7)
You can click on each desktop in the display, and set display settings differently for each monitor, or span the wallpaper across the two.
Or you can even load wallpaper from Flickr, which is an incredibly cool feature. Type in “vista wallpaper” for some really nice images.
If you chose the Settings from the tray icon popup menu, you’ll notice that this application also adds a set of shortcut keys that can be used to move windows from one monitor to the other.
Download DisplayFusion from Binaryfortress (Vista/XP/Win7)
Dual Monitor issue-Firefox.....simple fix
If you use dual monitors make sure you close down Firefox in the monitor you want to use....whichever monitor you "drag" it in to view will be the one that will reopen Firefox....
Seems to be a problem for lots of folks....
Dual monitor usage can be a little bit weird till you get used to it......
Seems to be a problem for lots of folks....
Dual monitor usage can be a little bit weird till you get used to it......
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Change the Registered Owner of your PC....smart hack
Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search box, and then locate the following registry key:
Now you can find the RegisteredOwner and RegisteredOrganization keys in the right-hand pane. Change them to whatever values you want.
To show off the new changes, just type winver.exe into the start menu search box to see the About Windows box:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
Now you can find the RegisteredOwner and RegisteredOrganization keys in the right-hand pane. Change them to whatever values you want.
To show off the new changes, just type winver.exe into the start menu search box to see the About Windows box:
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