Posted July 31, 2006 
Comments(0) Sunbelt Software”s unadvertised sale on CounterSpy is ending today.
Coupon code CSJULY06 is good for $5 off — but it expires today, July 31st!
I use and recommend CounterSpy for always-running anti-spyware / anti-adware protection.
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Posted July 31, 2006 Comments(0) I was asked recently about password-protecting a Windows XP computer. Or, more accurately, I was asked how to turn off the password-protect option when a computer is resuming from Standby/Hibernation.
You can password-protect your computer via the screensaver, if you want. We”ve had this capability since Windows 3 or even earlier. In those old versions, you told the screensaver to require a password, and then you told it the password. This is not particularly secure, but it will probably control casual visitors to your computer.
Read more in my article Password Protecting Your Windows XP Computer
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Posted July 30, 2006 Comments(0) Publication Day is here again.
Today I published my email and on-line newsletters:
Comment about these articles using the Comments Link below…
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Posted July 29, 2006 Comments(0) Amazon.com of offering a great discount on Xandros 4 Home Edition Premium.
Xandros Linux is the most “Windows-like” of the Linux versions — and is designed for Windows users who want to move away from high expense and who want to get more life out of their ccurrent computer.
Of course, avoiding all the attacks and security problems of the Windows world is a huge benefit, too.
Save money on Xandros and get it delivered for free — what a great idea!
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Posted July 27, 2006 Comments(0) Subscribers to my free Terry”s Computer Tips email newsletter got a great Firewall Tips article last week. Subscribe now by email
Although it”s not posted on my web site at this tim, I do have a review of my a review of the firewall I recommend.
Sunbelt Software has recently released Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall, their new personal computer firewall software package. SKPF is available in full-function mode (paid license) and in a reduced-function free (licensed free for personal and/or non-commercial use) versions. Actually, it is the same program — after the full-function 30-day trial, you can purchase a license key to reactivate the additional functions or if you don”t qualify for the free license.
Posted July 27, 2006 Comments(0) I”ve just finished installing Xandros 4 Home Edition Premium on my notebook. This is my primary computer and dual-boots with Windows XP SP2.
Installation went surprisingly smooth and the reboot into Xandros did, too.
On the other hand, I had to boot into Xandros” configuration mode to edit the boot manager configuration file. Unfortunately, Xandros had set up my Dell Utility Partition as a boot option, but didn”t set up my actual Windows XP partition in its menu.
A quick edit of lilo.conf, followed by running lilo to update the boot manager itself, and it was done.
Why did I have this problem? Maybe because I did a Xandros update installation, because I hadn”t heard of anyone having this kind of problem installing alongside Windows. It was probably because Dell put the utility partition on hda1 and the XP partition on XP2.
Oh, well. It”s up now and I”m looking forward to experimenting with Xandros 4.
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