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When using a SSD to hold the system with the fresh installation, 4K alignment is a key point to improve the performance. Ensure that your new partition layout is aligned with the 4KB sectors of such drives (older hard drives...
Microsoft released his monthly updates every second Tuesday. Now it is August 2012 updates. Five critical updates. Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2722913) Vulnerability in Remote Desktop Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2723135) Vulnerabilities in Windows Networking Components Could...
The computer I mentioned here is Windows based. When you use it for one or two years, it will be slower and slower. Until one day, you want to buy a new replacement. Actually, you just need to do the...
Today, when I click the Google Drive folder in Windows Explorer, the Windows Explorer is crashed and give an error message. I forget to record it. Anyway, I right click the Google Drive icon on the status bar, and click...
MS release its monthly update for Windows. There are 10 high priority updates need to be done. Security Update for Windows XP (KB2685939) Download size: 551 KB , less than 1 minute A security issue has been identified that could...
I test the System Mechanic 10.8 on my Windows XP sp3 in my office. Installation is pretty simple. It is one of the best PC tune-up / PC utility tools I used up to now. First, speed is very important....
Just noticed that I have a Piwik installation to track one of my niche sites, www.aliveworksheet.com. It is showing that Piwik 1.7.1 is here, go to upgrade. OK, even I can not find the current version, I still go to...
Microsoft has critical vulnerability in the Remote Desktop Protocol. So, the Burst.net send me the email about it, as below. Recently, Microsoft published a security bulletin and recommended fix for a critical vulnerability in the Remote Desktop Protocol (CVE-2012-0002), which...
Firefox 11.0 released on March 13, 2012. There are three new features: Firefox can now migrate your bookmarks, history, and cookies from Google Chrome With Sync enabled, add-ons can now be synchronized across your computers The CSS text-size-adjust property is...
When I use a ASP script to retrieve the data from a Access MDB file, I got an error: collating sequence not supported with the specified file format. Actually, it happened when I move the site to a new server....
I move one site to a new server with Windows 2003. It is a MySQL database. I use PHP script to connect the database file and query it. I run the same script more than 5 years on the old...
CSS file can be compressed by YUI compressor of Yahoo. I used to use v2.4.2 to do it. Now I saw YUI compressor 2.4.7 released. Let me see how big difference of them. One normal CSS file, which can be...
When upload photos to Gallery 3.0.2, most of time I will see some errors. About 30% pictures can not be uploaded. The Gallery 3.0.2 is running on Dreamhost hosting plan. The error code is 2038. Based on the official support...
Just tried Firefox 7.0. It is faster. The latest version of Firefox has the following changes: Drastically improved memory handling for certain use cases Added a new rendering backend to speed up Canvas operations on Windows systems Bookmark and password...
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for September 2011 Windows 8 Developer Preview download link. Windows Developer Preview with developer tools English, 64-bit (x64) Windows Developer Preview English, 64-bit (x64) Windows Developer Preview English, 32-bit (x86)