An idiotic and absolutely stupid response!!!! I've shown these forums to several seasoned security experts and they are shocked by what's going on here. I could post things about here that even you had forgotten about or didn't know. I don't need tpo pay for LR searches either..... And neither do the scammers and criminals of this ...

I have a Mitac late PIII vintage here (I forget the model etc) running XP comfortably. It's very good indeed and hasn't given me a moments trouble in the few years that I've had it. The Easynotes of the time were rebadged Mitacs as were many other popular notebooks. If that's what you've got, then it's a pretty solid ...

That simple example was for the services console not the registry.  There are perhaps a dozen or so consoles depending on which flavour of the particular Windows edition that you have. A useful one is the Event Viewer and you can't do any damage with this as it's just a reporting tool. It lists all errors that have occurred on the ...

It can be dangerous but during your computer life it will almost certainly be necessary to dabble. In fact, you probably already have without realising it! Whatever you do, there is a golden rule - BACK UP THE WHOLE REGISTRY FIRST!!! There are a few built in safeguards within Windows but most of these depend upon either being able to ...

A simple example of the default inbuilt insecurity of Windows XP - Type services.msc into the Start Menu "Run" box and hit enter. A console window should open. Scroll down to the "Remote Registry" entry. It's set by default to "Started" and "Automatic". Double clicking it will reveal a ...

Dells used to be very good indeed. Not really upgradeable but they were designed for corporate use - Easy but non standard component replacement and scrapped after a year or so. I have a slightly later Dell (An XPS 500) which is still in use and cannot be broken! It weighs a ton and if it could be kicked from here to Timbuctoo and back it ...

Before trojans, foistware and rootkits etc were around and viruses were something that only unlucky corporations had to occasionally deal with, the Norton products were a very good security solution. However, the last decade or so has seen it descend into less than useless bloatware. The 360 product has gone some way to redeeming the ...

Its closest competitors are the bought and paid for councillors and planners who sanction out of town developments.

Daniel306: [Samknows is the best tool available to Michael and that's what he uses. Do you expect him to not help people just because samknows isn't 100% accurate.  Also I fail to see how submitting someone's postcode over the internet is a huge security risk at all. Did I say anything about not helping folk or not using the ...

Jason Lloyd:Hello Dai I understand from a quality perspective why you would avoid a broadband / phone bundle, but other people look at a bundle as a way of saving money. Although you're right in many cases people get lumped with a poor quality phone part of a bundle, (ie Orange's VOIP platform) there are others that do offer a fairly good ...