Acknowledgement’s List I will start with, “To anybody else I have forgotten, a real big THANKS 🙂 “, & please contact me so I can update this list A growing list of resources used to source and produce these documents. ——————————————————————————– General Google – https://www.google.com/ Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/ Whirlpool Forums – http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/ Browsers DuckDuckGo – […]
Disabling Windows 10 Automatic Updates Using The Registry Note: There are 2 registry locations for this option, so have a look first at which one applies to you before continuing. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update] “AUOptions”=dword:00000004 “AUState”=dword:00000002 “DetectionstartTime”=”2004.10.27 10:39:18” “LastWaitTimeout”=”2004.10.27 09:44:18” and [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU] “NoAutoUpdate”=dword:00000000 “AUOptions”=dword:00000004 “NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers”=dword:00000001 “RescheduleWaitTime”=dword:0000001e “ScheduledInstallDay”=dword:00000000 “ScheduledInstallTime”=dword:0000000b “UseWUServer”=dword:00000001 So…. If you have policy control you have […]
Linux Mint (Ubuntu) – Helpful Console Commands —————————————————————— How to check my current version of Linux Mint? cat /etc/linuxmint/info ——————————————————————
How to Allow UnSigned Plugins In Firefox (Using the Configuration Editor for Firefox) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox (Note: Adapted from Firefox Blog, for this blog listing purely for the simplicity of a single reference point) The Configuration Editor (about:config page) lists Firefox settings known as preferences that are read from the prefs.js and user.js files in the Firefox […]
Upgrading to Linux Mint 17.x It is now possible to upgrade the Cinnamon and MATE editions of Linux Mint 17 and Linux Mint 17.1 to version 17.2. If you’ve been waiting for this I’d like to thank you, your wait is over. Reasons… To Upgrade:- Remember the golden rule “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix […]
Enabling Image Display In Your Email Client To enable your email client to display images, refer to your email client below: Outlook 2003 Outlook 2007 Hotmail/Windows Live Yahoo AOL Webmail Gmail Thunderbird MAC Mail iPhone/iPod/iPad Lotus Notes Outlook 2003 Show all blocked images in the message: Click the Info-Bar at the top of […]
360 Total Security (Qihoo) (statement regarding cheating in lab test) May 1, 2015360TS April 30th, Qihoo 360 received comments from its industry partners with allegation of inappropriate behavior on the benchmarking processes in test labs. We regret that this behavior has resulted into such comments from these labs, who we recognize as reference for security […]
It seemed that each successive version seems to incorporate more functionality because it got slower and slower to use. Lately, Norton has improved its speed, but I still receive computers that have problems with Norton and I must uninstall it to make the computer work. Although there are many article on how to speed up the […]
User Concerns: – On 15 May 2015 , Carole wrote: My daughter sent me this. What do you all think now? Qihoo is a Chinese-based provider of free security and Anti-virus software (360 Total Security, 360 Internet Security, 360 Browser, 360 Security, 360 Mobile Safe, 360 Vault, etc). There has been a lot of […]
My personal experience with McAfee hasn’t been positive. I installed McAfee on my wife’s computer a year or so ago. Everything seemed to work ok, although the antivirus slowed down her system a bit. Then roughly a year later, I look at my monthly credit card bill and see that McAfee has automatically billed me […]