It's very important to keep all electronic equipment, not just your computer, plugged into a surge protector to protect it from surges and spikes on the line. I'm not an electrician, but my residential clients always assume I know about surge protectors and ask me...
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The latest on cyber security, computer support and small business IT from one of New Jersey and New York’s top managed IT service providers.
Genie-Soft Backup Manager How-To Videos
Many of our clients are using Genie Soft Backup Manager to automatically back up their computers to an external hard drive or ftp site. Most of them are not interested in learning how to use the software; they just want to know that it works and that their data is...
How (and Why) to Delete your Internet Explorer Browser Cache
A client asks whether it's necessary to delete her browser cache after an online banking session, as her bank encourages her to do this. The reason the bank suggests deleting your browser cache is propably to make sure that personally identifying information isn't...
How to Run an Online Virus Scan
Suppose you’re not 100% confident in your anti-virus software. You’d like to run another company’s anti-virus scan but you know from speaking with your friendly Geek Girl that you should NEVER install two AV programs on your computer at the same time. They will conflict with each other and cause performance problems. Instead, consider running an online virus scan from your web browser. One of the best is Bit Defender online scanner.
My internet travails
As I mentioned in a previous post and mailing, I just moved to Teaneck NJ. I thought it would be a simple matter to move my Verizon DSL service from Brooklyn to Teaneck, but boy was I wrong! Here's a summary: http://www.my3cents.com/showReview.cgi?id=48049 I finally...
RSS Feed Readers for Your PC and Windows Mobile Device
Considering my status as a Geek Girl, I'm rather late to start using RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds and feed readers. (I'm one of those "old-school" geeks. I still have a B&O LP player which, in my opinion. sounds better than any CD or mp3 player I could ever...
AVG update crashes Windows
It's been reported that a recent AVG Anti-virus update is crashing Windows XP because it deletes a critical system file. If you use AVG please be careful when updating. http://tinyurl.com/6koxp8 I recommend and sell Kaspersky (Anti-Virus, Internet Security Suite),...
Another use for Genie Backup – copying Outlook profile
Outlook 2007 is a very powerful email program, but it's also very buggy. Today, for no reason, my IMAP mail stopped coming in. I narrowed down the problem to an issue with my Outlook profile, and decided to create a new profile. However, I didn't want to have to...