Fake FBI Infection

If you see either one of these screens you are infected with with the fake FBI infection which is a root kit. What is a Root Kit?   A rootkit is a stealthy type of software, often malicious, designed to hide the existence of certain processes or programs from normal methods of detection and enable continued privileged access to […]

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Adjusting Windows Power Settings

We are going to show you how to get the most power out of your windows 7 desktop or laptop. This will also help to prevent any possibility of letting the system sleep or hibernate preventing future windows trouble. You must be logged into the computer on an administrator account. Step 1: “Right Click” your […]

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How to Boot Your Mac in Safe Mode

Some puzzling Mac ailments, like crashes or hanging screens at startup, can be treated by booting into Safe Mode or resetting your PRAM (parameter random access memory). PRAM contains Startup Disk settings that may need a zap to fix some booting issues not related to hardware. Start up your computer holding the Command-Option-P-R keys, then […]

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Tech Tips: 15 Ways to Make iTunes Rock

It’s hard to imagine that one could really tweak or improve iTunes in any particular fashion. I say that not because the software is perfect, rather, because it’s completely closed-source. Apple doesn’t have a list of extensions that you can just install into the application at a whim. If anything, iTunes is built for two […]

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Still Rocking Windows XP? Start Planning an Upgrade

ll things eventually come to an end, and for Windows XP and its legion of holdouts, the end is nigh. It’s a dead OS walking and the governors at Microsoft aren’t going to pick up the phone at the last moment and give it yet another stay of execution. Microsoft general manager for Windows Commercial […]

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