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Windows 7 Media Center – “Out Of The Box”

Posted by Deck Hazen On July - 23 - 20101 COMMENT

This is the first in a series of articles taking a detailed look at Windows Media Center (WMC) as offered in Windows 7. We’ll look at the main features as well as some of the minor goodies — we’ll point out a few short-comings and explain how some of these short-comings are overcome with some great 3rd party programs.

Our conclusion is that WMC provides an easy and attractive console for many of your digital entertainment sources – movies, TV, radio, music, photos – and more. One remote control drives the system, it looks great, there are a host of plug-ins and add-ons to fill a few functionality gaps , and it’s free with the Windows 7 operating system.

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UltraMon Gives You Extra Features for Your Multi-monitor Configuration

Posted by Harry On July - 21 - 20102 COMMENTS

Windows Guides’ Rating	Compatible with
4 out of 5

PROS: Nice and easy to use, gives you lots of extra features for both your screens!
CONS: The taskbar isn’t “Windows 7 friendly)
VERDICT: A great tool – especially if you’re not using 7!
PRICE: Free 30-day trial, but costs after ($39.95 for one license, but bulk prices are available)
DOWNLOAD: UltraMon

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Do I Need More RAM? Find Out with Windows 7’s Resource Monitor [How To]

Posted by Angel Luis On July - 16 - 20106 COMMENTS

Operating systems have become more complex over time. For an every-day user, it’s really a hard task to find what programs are slowing down their machine and for what reasons.

The most common performance problems are related with physical memory.

As I wrote in a comment answering a reader, Ben, in another post:

5 Things You Should Know About Microsoft Security Essentials

Programs use more RAM (another name for physical memory) if there is more available. Thus, you cannot associate high memory usage with bad memory usage. If your machine has resources (one of these resources is RAM), there is no problem using them if they’re available for use. But what about when you hit the limits of your physical memory?

What can an every-day user do to find out if their machine is using all of it’s current physical memory and, therefore, needs more RAM?

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Email Large Files up to 200MB for Free!

Posted by Thomas On July - 15 - 20103 COMMENTS

If you are in need of emailing files, larger than the usual 10MB allowed by your ISP provider, then this is something for you.

MailBigFile offers both a free solution with a 200MB file limit and a professional one, with a 2GB file limit.

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Yourfonts.com Offers 50% Discount (July Only)

Posted by Thomas On July - 13 - 20107 COMMENTS

Once again we prevail (I really wish we had smiles here). A few days back I posted an article about creating your own handwritten font. Unfortunately I missed the fact that it was no longer a free service, upsetting some of our faithful readers. So I took it upon myself to rectify this and contacted yourfonts.com.

They kindly offered a 50% discount coupon code for our readers.

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5 Things You Should Know About Microsoft Security Essentials

Posted by Angel Luis On July - 9 - 201016 COMMENTS

Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is becoming a good alternative for those who prefer to have a free security solution.

How to get the Latest MSE Definitions

If your system cannot connect to the internet, due to a virus infection, this is your only way to be updated. If you are experiencing problems updating your antivirus you can use this method.

The following links download the utilities, different for 32 and 64 bit operating systems, that install the latest definitions:

Definition updates for Microsoft Security Essentials on computers running x64- based versions of Windows

Definition updates for Microsoft Security Essentials on computers running x32- based versions of Windows

Hint: Am I running Windows 32 or 64-bit?

When installing on Windows 7 and Vista you need to run as administrator. Right click mpam-fe.exe, click Run as administrator, and then click Run.