Process Explorer

Occasionally when I open outlook 2003 it refuses to obey. After a while of messing around with it I worked out that for some reason it had opened multiple instances of outlook in the process tree. This is a fairly easy problem to sort out,…

Ubuntu – Free OS

https://shipit.ubuntu.com/myrequest Get Ubuntu shipped free to you Its a free open source Linux-based operating system. You can run it as a dual operating system (I am told … comments please) with Win XP and so in the case of XP not running you can recover…

NAS – Network Attached Storage

I am considering one of these options at the moment. This came about from 3 reasons – my main PC at home crashed – did the lovely blue screen on me and I had to rebuild it and before I could do this – I…

Free AVG Anti-Virus

A great free anti-virus program I use is AVG by Grisoft. You can download it at free.grisoft.com. I have never had any problems with it and it has saved me from a few viruses. It will automatically update if you tell it to.

VPN in Win2K

The option to use VPN in Win2k was greyed out and as this was wanted I wanted to use I did some searching and found that you have to have Telephony and Remote Access Connection Manager turned on in Administrative Tools > Services (or Start,…