Windows Tools, Help & Guides

By Christoph Laumann, President and Managing Partner, TuneUp

Mozilla recently pre-released Firefox 7, also known as Aurora, which promises massive performance enhancements for Javascript and significantly lower memory usage. Over the past few years, Mozilla had gained a reputation as a somewhat slow browser, but that’s about to change with Aurora. This version sits right between the stable beta release of Firefox 6.0 and the highly experimental nightly builds currently running at version 8.0.

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If not, you may do so here.

Did you miss out on the Aimersoft Roulette Game that ended on friday, September 2nd ?

I am proud to announce that Aimersoft, has kindly offered us 3 FREE licenses to their great software to give to you, our faithful readers.

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Windows Guides’ Rating	Compatible with	System
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Seeing as the marked is flooded with hundreds of different smartphones and hybrids, I would like to know which phone you use. I’m sure we can come up with many interesting articles to help you improve the phone of your choice. So, lets hear it, what kind of phone do you have. And Why did you choose that phone ?

Enter our Poll, to help us, help you further !

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Apply by August 16th 2011 to be considered for a position starting September 1st, 2011.

To get more details on writing for Windows Guides, head here and apply today: Write for Windows Guides.

Ever watch a commercial and think “I would NEVER buy that product” or “what kind of people watch this show? Why would I want to use/buy xyz?”

To focus online ads, many advertising companies track your activity as you browse from website to website (where their ads are displayed) and will build a profile of you to present more useful ads according to your interests and assumed demographics. These companies don’t collect personal information like your name and address; thus, you may find this information gathering helpful as you find yourself being offered more customized advertisements.

Or, you may see it as a violation of your privacy.

Simply disabling cookies will not alter the fact that your public IP address is available to these companies and, if you’re the only person/family using that address, you’ll still be profiled. If you’d like to opt out of these types of ads, you can do so very easily.

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If you’ve downloaded a file and are not sure you can trust it before opening it, did you know you can use Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) to scan it for viruses without running a full virus scan?  MSE lets you do this and it can help give you peace of mind before opening an unknown file.

This feature can be particularly useful if you’re opening a file from removable media (CD, DVD, external HDD etc.) and MSE’s real-time virus checker has not had a chance to do a preliminary scan at the file yet. If you’ve turned off real-time virus scanning, this will also help you avoid virus infection.

Caution: Even if a virus checker doesn’t detect a virus, never open a file from an untrusted source.

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