The Weekly Geek

This works with Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8.
Sometimes web pages show text to small, a quick fix for Internet Explorer is to go up to the Menu bar (the bar across the top if the screen that has “File”, “Edit” et al on it).
Select View | Text Size here you will have 5 choices, [...]

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I actually wrote about this in 2004 and again in 2007 but a few people have forgotten and sometimes Vista tweaks are not the same as previous version.
Anyway, many times you are updating / downloading many files at the same time. Microsoft limits this to 2 or 3, I forget (since I run the tweak on [...]

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My father is from Oregon and I lived briefly in the beautiful state of Washington. Rumors and legends of a creature commonly known as Bigfoot exist. Local towns and national media have all used these rumors and at times have created hype about the creature, yet all these years later he, she or it still [...]

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Howdy and welcome to a Christmas edition of The Weekly Geek.
I want to help clear up some misconception that I and my colleagues in the Computer Security field have created. Recently the free program Ad-Aware which had been a great tool for cleaning up spyware, malware and crapware seems to have becomes a cookie cleaning [...]

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Just a quick “blog” to let you all know to watch out for a fake program called AV 2009 that is popping up and appears to be a Windows Security warning. It is a fake and clicking on it installs several pieces of fraud-ware, mal-ware and crap-ware.
This particular program and attempt to get on your [...]

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