1.  How to Clean your LCD Flat Screen or Laptop/Notebook screen.
a)  First of all, Turn the unit off and make sure that it stays off for the duration of the cleaning.
b)  Next, you will want to prepare a 50/50 mixture of Isopropyl Alcohol and DISTILLED Water.  It MUST be Distilled Water.  If you don't have Distilled water and don't want to go through the trouble of mixing the cleaning mixture then you can also use Eyeglass cleaning solution.
c)  Then take a micro-fiber cloth that you would use for cleaning eyeglasses and spray the solution ON the CLOTH, NOT on the Screen itself.  Then wipe the screen until all foreign material has been removed.  Repeat as necessary until the screen is clean.
d)  Wait about 5 minutes, then turn the screen or notebook computer back on and the display will look much better.

2.  Possibly useful: antiglare and privacy filters for LCDs/notebooks:
http://www.buyviewguard.com/why-viewguard.php

3.  In the wild currently active trojan: wkssvc.exe is a process which is registered as the W32.Spybot.YXX Root Trojan. This Trojan allows attackers to access your computer from remote locations, this process is a security risk and should be removed from your system. VAR received it through instant messenger, looks like it is self-replicating to everyone on the IM address list.

 4.  Microsoft News: When using certain programs on Windows Home Server there's a bug that corrupts data. December 21: Fortunately, this only happens with Windows Vista Photo Gallery, Windows Live Photo Gallery, OneNote 2007, OneNote 2003, Outlook 2007, Microsoft Money 2007...QuickBooks. Feb 21: Fortunately this only happens with the previous programs and maybe with these also: Photoshop Elements, Zune Software, iTunes, Thunderbird, Adobe Lightroom, Quicken, MS Digital Image Library, ACDSee, WinAmp...Windows Media Player 11, Excel, Visual DataFlex... PS: Note You may also experience this issue when you use other programs that are not listed here. Sometimes it's good to trail a little bit to let the bugs get fixed before bringing out a new product. We've had MS Home Server in testing for some time now, still debating on the actual hardware. This will slow down its release a bit.

5. More Microsoft News: With the Server 2008 release, many 2003 products are being dropped. Here's Microsoft's chart showing possible downgrades: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/downgrade-rights.aspx

6.  Some hilarious stuff-- www.419eater.com Welcome to the world of Scambaiting! Various stories from guys trying to tie up the resources of scammers all over the world. In the Letters Archive, The Incredible Shrinking Artwork is one of my favorites.

7.  Something that should have been on TV-- Brawny (paper towels) sponsored Brawny Academy, kind of a take off of a reality TV show where guys were sent by their wives or girlfriends to be 'Brawny Men'. It was at www.brawnyacademy.com , but that site has been changed. See it now on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wjeOH5TnFk&feature=related
With some of what he says, the host had to bust as soon as the camera was off, on camera, he's totally deadpan. Found another site: http://brawny.iti.fallon.com/brawny_academy/brawnyacademy.html

FYI - Do you Still need to Uninstall VISTA?
If you upgrade to Vista from Windows XP, you may be finding it difficult to revert back to XP. Be sure you have made the necessary backups before upgrading to Vista or before attempting to downgrade your Windows Vista installation to XP. You can try to downgrade without losing data via the Microsoft Knowledge Base article at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/933168.

But the best way is to use a fresh XP CD with a fresh license key. While you can try to use a previous license of XP from that computer, it may not work, as there have been issues with Vista rendering previous XP licenses useless after a Vista upgrade. This makes sense, as Microsoft does not want you to sell the upgraded XP after you are no longer using it. So be sure to get your hands on a boxed copy of XP before attempting an upgrade.
More information can be found here: http://www.pctechbytes.com/computer/article-87.html


 

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