Windows Update Broke?

Cannot Update Windows using Windows Update courtesy of WinVistaClub©
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One of the reasons for my  blog, is it's my traveling notebook so to speak. Here I tag articles that I feel could come in handy down the road. Found one such article at the WinVistaClub©. Quite a few tips for dealing with Windows Update not working which is the current problem on my sister's computer. So we shall give some of these tips a try and see what happens.

Found what I was looking for I believe. Going through some blog articles I had starred in Google Reader. Article written by Kevin at evilfantasy’s blog. Will give this tool a try to see if it solves the problem.

Microsoft Patch Registration Cleanup Tool « evilfantasy’s blog

A Simple PDF Viewer

Courtesy of What's On My PC :: A Super Fast and Portable PDF Viewer

Looking for a  PDF Viewer to replace Adobe?  Read Rick's review about the Sumatra PDF Viewer. I've never really cared for Adobe due to the size, and Sumatra even has a portable version for flash drives. Read more about Sumatra at What's On My PC. . .

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How's Your Password?

Microsoft Malware Protection Center : Do and don’ts for p@$w0rd$

Ever wonder about the strength of your password? I get on my soap box when talking to my daughter about her poor choices in passwords. Microsoft Malware Protection Blog gives us some warnings and tips. Plus a very handy password checker, see how yours will rate.

Microsoft's password checker http://www.microsoft.com/protect/fraud/passwords/checker.aspx

LinkWithin Widget

Related Posts Widget with Photo Thumbnails for Blogger! | Tips Blogger ©2009

LinkWithin appears under each post, linking to related stories from your blog archive. It retrieves and index all stories from your blog archive, not just recent stories, making them accessible to new or casual readers of your blog who would not otherwise encounter them!

Great tip from Tips Blogger ©2009 yesterday concerning the widget LinkWithin. It's ad free and it searches only on your blog, no worries about your visitors seeing questionable content. It's fabulous baby!

Virus and Malware Scanners

FREE Online Virus and Malware Scanners « What's On My PC

What's On My PC today gives us a great list of resources for virus and malware scanners. This is one to add to your bookmarks. My two favorite one's are F-Secure Online Scanner and Windows Live OneCare scanner.

New BlogRoll Update

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A new addition to the blogroll. What's On My PC©, excellent resource of information about computers, software, gadgets and information technology. Lot's of cool tips on using your computer more effectively and very easy to understand. Today's article is how to make your mouse smarter, we all like those nice little shortcuts to make our computer use faster. Head on over, read the article and see if your mouse get's smarter. Take the stress out of your computer use.

News from SpywareGuide

I just read the newest article from SpywareGuide Greynets Blog, it merits attention if you have members in your family who play these online games. I do, and have spread the alert. The other day a young family member was playing on a site like Neopets, and proceeded to tell me how someone was posting instructions telling them to click something, followed by pressing one of their "F" keys and press enter. I immediately began my lecture, and for a good reason it seems.

Read more at SpywareGuide Greynets Blog on how game communities are targets.

http://blog.spywareguide.com/2009/06/hackers-target-neopets-users.html

Web Site Optimization

Reading my emails this morning and came across a new blog with some great tips: Blogger FAQs

There was a link for checking your web site to see how fast or slow it loads. After your site is checked, tips are given for improvements.
Web Site Optimization

Great tool - Web Page Analyzer

Submitting the Sitemaps of your blog

If you are new to blogging like me, the Tips Blogger is a great blog to subscribe to. When I first started messing with Google Webmaster Tools, I never finished the Sitemaps. Tips Blogger makes it Oh so easy.

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Submitting the Sitemaps of your blog to Google Webmaster helps the search engine(Google) to crawl your webpages easily and more quickly! This post explains the procedure. . .