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Xpy Easily Enables/Disables XP Settings

Posted by Rich On January - 9 - 20092 COMMENTS

Xpy customizes over a hundred Windows XP settings easily. Xpy doesn’t need to be installed and can really help optimize your PC.

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Features

Disable Automatic Windows Updates
Disable Windows Security Center
Disable Windows Defender
Disable Compressed Folders
Disable File Association Web service
Disable Net Crawling
Disable Error Reporting
Disable WGA Notifications
Disable Time Synchronization
Disable Scheduled Task Service
Disable Indexing Service

Your antivirus software might report xpy as Spyware or a Trojan. xpy is written and compiled using NSIS, false positives are unfortunately quite common among NSIS compiled programs. The NSIS development team is aware of this situation and constantly works with software companies to solve such issues.

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Vista User Accounts and Parental Controls Series

Posted by Rich On November - 17 - 20086 COMMENTS

For the next week, I’m going to run a series of guides that will help you manage user accounts and parental controls on your Windows Vista machine.

If you have younger children, I strongly suggest you set up a user account for them and follow the instructions in these guides. You’ll learn how to do the following:

Set up a user account with parental controls
Collect information about computer usage
Control allowed websites, downloads, and other internet usage
Set time limits on computer usage
Control games by rating, content, or title
Block specific programs on your computer

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Activate the Administrator Account in Vista [How To]

Posted by Rich On October - 27 - 200863 COMMENTS

Windows Vista hides the administrator account by default. This is done as a security measure. In this guide you’ll learn how to activate the administrator account in Windows Vista.

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KeyScrambler Encrypts Browser Keystrokes

Posted by Rich On October - 24 - 20085 COMMENTS

When you type on your keyboard, the keys travel along a path within the operating system before it arrives at your browser. Keyloggers plant themselves along this path and observe and record your keystrokes. The collected information is then sent to the criminals who will use it to steal from you. Key Scrambler encrypts the information with a keyboard driver before it can get to the key logger.

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Senf Finds Potentially Sensitive Numbers on Your Hard Drive

Posted by Rich On October - 10 - 200818 COMMENTS

Senf is a fast, portable tool (written in Java, runnable just about everywhere) for finding sensitive numbers. Use this tool to identify files on your system that may have Social Security Numbers (SSNs) or Credit Card Numbers (CCNs).

You do not need to install Senf — just download it, run it, and use it to protect yourself.

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Take Charge of Automatic Updates: Set to Download Only

Posted by Rich On September - 29 - 20083 COMMENTS

If you leave your computer on overnight, you may find you come back in the morning to find all your programs closed and that download, you were waiting for, canceled. Likely, automatic updates restarted your computer for you.. or you had a short power outage. In this guide, we’ll blame automatic updates and learn how to disable automatic installation of the updates.

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