Product: Acronis True Image Home 2010Class: Hard Drive & Partition Backup ProgramLicense: Commercial product. Free trial. Upgrade pricing (from earlier versions) available.Operating Systems: Windows XP SP3, Windoww XP Professional x64, Windows Vista SP2 (all editions) , Windows 7 (all editions) Version Reviewed: v2010 I’ve recently upgraded two of my computers to Windows 7 — well, [...]
A First Look at Acronis True Image Home 2009
I’ve been using Acronis True Image Home for a long time, as readers of my newsletter know. I started with ATIH 7, then ATIH 9, ATIH 11 and now I use ATIH 2009. Each of the versions included improvements over earlier versions — but when I saw the features of Acronis True Image Home 2009, [...]
Adware Ties into Internet Explorer
I received a query from a reader about a warning message he was receiving: Hi Terry , I was wondering if perhaps you can help me , I have this very annoying adware that occurs EVERYTIME at startup …. not-a-virus:Adware.Win32.BHO.cr Now althugh this doesn’t appeato be causing any problem on my PC and I get [...]
Advertising and the Web
There is a very popular misconception that the Internet — especially the Web — is free. We get that feeling because most sites are freely open to the public — they don’t require memberships fees or subscriptions fees for you to access the sites. Sometimes, we get that feeling because we pay to access the [...]
Adobe Reader 8 Problems – And a Change to Foxit Reader
I started having a bunch of problems this week with my notebook jumping to 100% CPU usage. It wasn’t just a temporary problem either — at one point, I walked away for 30 minutes. When I returned to my computer, the problem was still there — and my computer was virtually useless. After a couple [...]
Administrator Problems in Windows XP
Last month, reader Russ Edwards wrote me about some problems he was having with Windows XP: Terry, This is your old friend Russ again. I know you enjoy pointing people in the right direction. I am having trouble with my admin account. Some things I try to download and install come up and say “I [...]
Add or Remove Programs
Reader Wes Hill wrote me about removing some entries in his Add/Remove Programs listing in Windows Control Panel: Hi Terry, When I look in add/remove programs and see these items : Security update for Windows media player(KB911564, 5, and 17734) do I need to keep them? They use about 17+MB each! Also, all those windows [...]
A Look at Windows XP Set Program Access and Defaults
It’s been a long time since I’ve looked at the Windows XP feature called "Set Program Access and Defaults." Originally, this feature arrived as a result of the settlement between Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice, which (among other things) required Microsoft to make it easier for users to select alternative programs to those [...]
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