Another week, another roadshow. This time Symantec will be enthralling us with the latest on their EndPoint Protection and the rest of the yellow box range. This is a regular chance for us to find out what the plans are for the next few years and what technologies whe need to be reading up on.
With our office still closed and remaining so for a few more weeks we thought it would be worth reminding people of the free tools that have been making our life easier when travel is blocked. Quick Assist Need to help your Dad sort his email password? Quick Assist is built into Windows 10 and…
Now its here we can all talk about Vista’s Service Pack 1. Having istalled it on a number of machines we have had no problems and are pleasantly supprised with the results. Machines are running faster and are more stable. Even those machines with driver problems are now running fine. So now it’s just a…
There has been a lot of debate on the selling of computers with and without operating systems and I though I should give my opinion. Selling a computer as components is fine if the end user knows what he is doing and has FULL RETAIL copies of the software he is going to install on…
We often get asked about how we know about software before it is release and the answer is Beta testing. When software is almost ready to go on sale it is released to selected testers so we can install it, break it, and then feed back to the developers before the final copy is produced….
Every day we are seeing machines with more and more insidious spyware and some items are rootkits. We are getting machines handed into our Edinburgh workshop all the time in various states of infection. A rootkit is a program designed to silently take control of a machine and then do whatever the installer wants on…
With SBS Essentials there are some specific rules: Thou shalt have no more than ONE SBS Server Thou shalt follow ALL the Wizards Thou shalt have no more than 25 users Thou shalt have no more than 25 concurrent connections. Now this is all fine until you hit an error implying that you have run out…