Category Archives: Tech Tips

Free Virus removal Forum

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Richard

I recently picked up a nasty little virus cruising the Internet on my NetBook. I was using FireFox so I was surprised. It was what is called “Scare Ware” or “Fake-AV”. It presented itself as a virus protection program scanning my system, a ‘fake’ Windows Security Shield with a balloon pop-up, Continue reading →

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Sync your Bookmarks with X-Marks!

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Richard

Have you ever wanted to sync your favorites and bookmarks between two computers? how about between browsers? Now you can do both! I just love my X-Marks Sync plugins for IE, Firefox and now Chrome browsers. Continue reading →

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Google Updater pest

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Richard

I was cleaning out my task manager, stopping and removing unnecessary programs running in the background and noticed GoogleUpdate.exe.  This is a program that periodically checks for updates to Google products like Earth, Tool bar, etc and uses unnecessary resources. … Continue reading →

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Missing icons in Taskbar

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Richard

You may have found this blog searching for an answer to why your taskbar icons disappear occasionally after a startup. Usually the speaker icon and a few others as well.  I read that this is a known Windows XP problem … Continue reading →

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