The Weekly Geek

Over the past few years, the focus of computer security has increased. Microsoft is no exception as is evident with the security enhancements in Vista and the upcoming Windows 7. However, in some cases, some of the security options may be overkill, especially if you are the only one who uses the computer.
In many case people do [...]

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Now that most of you are off of Windows 98 and ME, I would like to share this little tweak.
Files that use the 8.3 naming convention can degrade NTFS drive performance. Unless you have a good reason for keeping the 8.3 naming convention intact (such as if you’re using 16-bit programs), a performance gain can [...]

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Here is another part of my book “A Novice Guide to Optimizing and Tweaking Every PC”. Long name, short idea. If you are still using Windows NT (probably in a client server environment). You just might need some help.
This download is in PDF format so you only need a free PDF viewer such as Adobe’s.
To [...]

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Howdy one and all, welcome back to another fact filled mission. This week we are going to use our James Bond like skills to check out SPECTER. Since we have just finished a series of training article on how to set up Virtual Memory, we need to take the next step and figure out if [...]

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For those of you who do not use log-on passwords and only have one user account, I am sure that you have run into the joy of being required to click on your user name everytime you start your computer. In most cases, this is caused by the various updates and versions of .NET.
There are [...]

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