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Author: Emile Franks

Many people use a Microsoft operating system for their computers. However, many people were very turned off after Vista was introduced. There were numerous problems that made people want to ditch Microsoft. Now Microsoft has released Windows 7 in the hopes of turning around the catastrophe that was Vista. The new Windows 7 has many cool features that everyone will love. A few of the great things Windows 7 gives you is great personalization features to just plain making computers more user friendly.

Windows 7 is set up to be personalized for the user. You have different choices when deciding what you want. To start off you can either choose from 32 bit or 64 bit. Once you have chosen that you are ready to set up Windows. There are many new desktop themes and even wall papers to choose from. They are designed to meet anyone’s taste. Another way Microsoft has made Windows 7 more personalized for the user is by updating the taskbar. This new system still has the same taskbar; however, you can put programs in specific order so you choose the lineup of programs. This comes in very handy for people who like to have their programs a certain wayr. Rather than having to open them in that order or having to close them because they are not in the proper order, they can just rearrange them to the way they want them to be. Windows has even updated the Gadgets that were introduced with Vista. Now rather than having them stuck in the sidebar, you are free to move them as you choose onto your desktop.
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Article By: John Peter

Microsoft Outlook is a widely used e-mail client and is used to receive/send important business e-mails. In a business environment, where every e-mail is important, accidental e-mail deletion can lead to major problems. An e-mail, deleted from Outlook Inbox or any other folder, goes to ‘Deleted Items’ folder. So there are chances that you might be able to restore deleted e-mails to the original folder. However, if this folder has been emptied or the deleted e-mails have just bypassed the folder, there is no solution other than last performed backup or Deleted Email Recovery utility to get your valuable emails back.

Suppose you are a Microsoft Outlook user, who receives critical client queries and replies to them. All of a sudden, you realize that as you open a newly received e-mail and read it, the e-mail gets automatically deleted from Outlook Inbox. There is no apparent reason for this behavior and, you cannot find this deleted e-mail in ‘Deleted Items’ folder.

Explanation:
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Article By: Shaun Pattrik

An SD (Secure Digital) card is an ultra small flash memory card designed to provide high-capacity memory in size as small as a postage stamp. Due to their great performance, SD cards are being extensively used in various consumer electronic products viz digital cameras, MP3 music players, personal computers, PDAs, car navigation systems, and so on. Though SD cards have faster performance speeds and other advantages, they are prone to errors which put you at the risk of losing data. To avoid and escape such miserable scenarios, you are recommended to maintain regular backups. If ever you lose data after eruption of an SD card error, and that too in the absence of a valid backup, don’t abandon hope. An SD card recovery software [http://www.sd-card-recovery.net/] is a good choice when you are looking for ways to recover the lost data.
As a practical case, you may come across the following error while trying to transfer pictures saved on your memory card to a computer:

“No images on the card”
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How to Get Rid of Trojan Horse Virus
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Emma_Drosy]Emma Drosy

If you’re talking about Greece, then you know that the Trojan Horse was a clever ploy once used to win a war. Soldiers built a large monument, in the shape of a horse, as a “present” to the city they were battling against. The citizens rejoiced when they saw that the army had departed and left such a wonderful gift, and tore down some of the city walls just to get the large object inside. Little did they know that soldiers were hidden within, and after nightfall they struck to lay waste to the city of Troy. Like that famed Trojan Horse from legend of old, the Trojan Horse virus is a nasty bugger that hides inside a perfectly innocent-looking file. But do you know how to get rid of Trojan Horse virus?
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By Jim Marshall

Is AV.exe causing you problems? Join the club! The list of victims out there who badly need to remove AV.exe from their computers just keeps getting longer and longer. You really should delete AV.exe as soon as possible, the longer you wait, the more damage it can and will do.

If the infection is in its early stages, you might be able to uninstall AV.exe, but it you’ve been infected for some time then to eliminate it completely you will need stronger measures. The longer you use an infected PC, the bigger the chance that the virus will embed itself in the system registry and create all kinds of bogus pop up warnings. Once it is in the registry, it becomes very hard to do away with the malware. Worse, from the registry it can steal sensitive information and send it out.

Since AV.exe removal is so hard, you should know how the virus gets on your PC:

• It infects your PC through Adobe software. Adobe is a frequent victim of virus attacks due to security vulnerabilities, always use real time virus protection on when you are online. continue reading…

By Oyinlola Akinsanya

Playing video games is a wonderful way of relaxing, having fun, getting rid of boredom and even relieving stress and keeping fit. But sitting down to play video games for a very long period of time can have adverse consequences on your health, and it is important that you take your time in keeping these consequences at the lowest levels, or even eliminate them.

Long term video gaming can cause deep-vein thrombosis-where a blood clot builds up in a major blood vessel, blocking the flow of blood to vital areas of the body which can, in extreme cases, result in death.

In order for you to stay healthy and fit while you play your favorite games (if you are a real video game fan), here are some tips for you:

1 Get up away from the computer (or TV) every few hours, walk around and stretch your whole body, otherwise you are putting yourself at significant health risks. Chiropractors recommend taking a break to stretch your body every forty-five minutes to one hour.
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Article By: CyberArts Licensing

Online Gaming Software Grows Up The next generation of gaming software must be reliable and stable. The market and the high cost of player acquisition demand no less. Technology exists that provides the same kind of robustness and scalability found in numerous fail-safe platforms like mission-critical financial systems and air traffic control systems. Developing such platforms requires careful, rigorous design, implementation and testing, and takes years to complete, but what gaming company can settle for less?

Early online gaming software was PC-based, single-user games downloaded or on CD. Developers extended these games to support multiple players online. The popularity of online poker caught those developers by surprise. The underlying architecture was not designed to support thousands of simultaneous users, playing frequent large tournaments. Compounding these challenges were poor internet connections including modems.

As online poker took off, leading sites attracted more players than the designers had anticipated. The early systems failed and crashed spectacularly – sometimes taking down gaming sites for hours every day, interrupting tournaments and alienating players. Gaming software developers reacted by re-architecting with countless patches and fixes, forcing time-consuming client downloads.
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By John Lawton

The PC has built a legacy of great video games over the last twenty years. Now that its 2010, its time to look back and view the best games that have come out. There are still a lot of games coming out every month, and its possible that a future game might make the list. At the same time, newer games are not holding up to some of these classics. So check out the list.

#25. IL-2 Sturmovik – 2001

#24. Call of Duty – 2003

#23. MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat – 1995

#22. Deus Ex – 2000

#21. Warcraft 2: The Tides of Darkness – 1995
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Author: Steve Bralovich

eBooster breathes new life into your old Windows XP machine.

MDO Ltd. has brought out eBoostr, saying it’s a complete substitute for Microsoft’s ReadyBoost technology for Windows XP machines. The software is now available for a test-drive and bestows ReadyBoost-like technology to older, but still useful Microsoft Windows XP PCs, providing many of the same benefits to the end user.

eBoostr betters the speed of a PC or laptop without having to upgrade its internal components or the operating system. Using USB flash pen memory drives or flash memory cards, permits Windows XP to access hard drives to a much lesser extent. This results in upgraded performance and responsiveness of Windows XP and all running applications.
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Author: Sandra Prior

When Microsoft launched Vista, it struggled to come up with many real reasons why you should upgrade form Windows XP. Something that’s immediately obvious is that due to the extreme overheads of the Windows Aero interface, along with the Windows sidebar, on the same hardware. Windows XP will outperform Vista every time.

This is, of course, particularly bad news for gamers, but ends up affecting all users. One of the new features of Vista that’s supposed to help performance is ReadyBoost, and it works with the aid of USB memory sticks.

The idea is that because hard drive access times are sloth-like compared to RAM, you can use a fast USB stick as a form of extra cache, and it’s used as an extension to your virtual memory (swap file). Instead of fetching files out of the swap file on the hard disk, Vista retrieves them from the USB stick, because of this, you need a nice large stick, although it can’t be any larger than 4GB, while it should also have the fastest access times you can buy.
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