by Joe Kraynak | May 28, 2008 | Troubleshooting, Windows Vista
On March 18, 2008, Microsoft released Windows Vista Service Pack 1. Unless you disabled Automatic Updates in your version of Windows Vista, it is automatically set up to download and install important updates, so Service Pack 1 already should be installed on your...
by Joe Kraynak | May 27, 2008 | Troubleshooting, Windows
Whenever I encounter a problem in Microsoft Windows, the first place I turn to is Microsoft’s Knowledge Base – an incredible resource for articles on troubleshooting and correcting problems in Microsoft Windows and other Microsoft programs. To access the Knowledge...
by Joe Kraynak | May 21, 2008 | Parenting
If you’re a parent, you probably want your kids to have access to all the good content the Internet has to offer but none of the bad content. Unfortunately, achieving that goal is nearly impossible, especially if all you have to work with is Internet...
by Joe Kraynak | Apr 29, 2008 | Microsoft Office
For old-school Microsoft Office users like me, upgrading from Office 2003 to 2007 was a traumatic experience. Microsoft decided to take away our menus and replace them with incomprehensible ribbons – essentially task-based toolbars. It took me 10 minutes to...
by Joe Kraynak | Apr 27, 2008 | Windows Vista
Before you take the plunge to upgrade your computer from an earlier version of Windows to Windows Vista, determine whether your computer has what it takes to run Vista. You don’t have to try to decipher the gobbledygook on Vista package – the Minimum System...