Last Few Days For Free Windows 10 Upgrade

If your running Windows 7 or 8.1 and your planning to upgrade to Windows 10, do it now. After July 29th it will no longer be free. On July 30th it will cost you $100 or more. You can also get it on any new device. If you plan to do it do it now….

Windows 10 Upgrade News – Nag screen finally fixed with one month to go!

Microsoft has finally fixed the Windows 10 upgrade dialog box just in time for the home stretch. The upgrade dialog box has caused a bit of confusion with some users causing them to accidentally upgrade, not intentionally. The dialog box now give you 3 very obvious choices: a big button that says “Upgrade now”, a link that…

Windows without admin eliminates most vulnerabilities!

I’ve always said that it was unsafe to run as administrator in Windows. I was always sure that this was good advise but I did not know how much this would help. At last months RSA Conference (a cryptography and information security-related conference) a paper was introduced that shows that 85% of all critical Microsoft…

Chromebook vs Cloudbook

We know a Chromebook is a computer running Chrome OS and its main function is accessing Internet based services. A Cloudbook is a Windows based computer that pretty much does the same thing but you can additionally run Windows applications on it. Let’s watch Father Robert and Brian of TWiT‘s “KnowHow” tell you the pros and cons…

Who needs Windows?

Chromebooks and Linux computers are great but they are not for everyone. If you are a professional graphical artist and the firm you work for uses PhotoShop you will need a PC or Mac for that. If your firm uses Adobe Premiere to edit video than you need Windows.  Many serious amateur and professional photographers use…

Run Android On Your Windows

American Megatrends the popular maker of BIOS firmware has created the ability for you to run a full Android installation on your Windows machine. Called DuOS it is an Android emulator for Windows.  Sorry DuOS is only free to try for 30 days but it is very reasonably priced. $10 for Jellybean and $15 for…

Clean Install Windows 10

To upgrade your PC to Windows 10 is very easy especially if you’ve gotten the upgrade symbol in your system tray. The first step is to backup your data and create some restore disks. Next click on that symbol in the system tray and follow the prompts to the upgrade. Do not try the advanced install option! This will…

Upgrade to Windows 10

You may have heard that the upgrade to Windows 10 will be free for most users. The idea is to have everyone using the same operating system including tablet a Windows Phone users. Usually you get a new version of Windows when you get a new computer. With Windows 10 everyone with Windows 7 and…

Microsoft Everywhere Announced At Build

This week at Microsoft’s “Build” conference we found out at least part of their new strategy is making their products available on every platform. Not just on Windows and Windows Phones but also Mac OS10, iOS, Google Chrome and the Chrome OS, Android as well as any web-browser. Not only will Microsoft apps be available on any…

Crap-ware on your system maybe worse then you think!

Crap-ware on new systems has always been a nuisance. It slows down your new computer, you get pop-ups telling you to register the software and a lot of other annoyances. Resent news has got me thinking that this software can be bad for your security as well. Lenovo maker of the Thinkpad line of notebooks…