Windows 7

Configure your new Internet Tracking Protection in IE9

IE9, Microsofts new browser has added an excellent new feature. “Tracking Protection”
Now this is a direction that we hope to see more of with all the players especially google.

What is “Tracking Protection” you ask?

Ads that track your behavior. Watch this video for more details.

Five Tips for faster Web Browsing

By Jack Wallen

March 18, 2011, 12:02 PM PDT

Takeaway: If you’re wasting too much time waiting (and waiting and waiting) for Web pages to load, give these tips a try. You should see an immediate, noticeable boost in speed, making your browsing experience faster and more efficient.

Click here for full article and tips by Jack Wallen at Tech Republic

Internet Explorer 9

An enormous effort by Microsoft is proving to pay off. It’s new browser “Internet Explorer 9″ gives the most space to the webpage, with a drastically cropped top-window frame that takes up just 63 pixels, compared to Chrome’s version to date.

What I really like is the direction Microsoft is going with privacy in it’s new “Tracking Protection”, which gives users more control than Chrome or Firefox’s solutions to the privacy issue.

In some performance measures, particularly graphics manipulation tasks, IE9 outperforms all comers. On two out of three JavaScript benchmarks, however, it’s bested by both Chrome and Firefox 4. Finally, IE9 tweaks tabs, search, and its unique pinned site capability that places site icons in the Taskbar.

Now it is different and has some features that a number of users may have to get used to such as Pinned Sites and reducing the Favorites box to the top right.

But all in all IE9 and Microsoft are starting to move in the right direction and gaining their focus back.

Deciding between a PC and a Mac?

We often get asked the question, especially lately with the i-Phone and i-Pad hype, about what is better to purchase, a Mac or a PC.

Here is an interesting website from Microsoft that goes over just that question.

Please leave your feed back and comments below.

Deciding between a PC and a Mac?

How to Backup your files on Windows 7

We all know that we should backup our files, yet we are all human, and thus human nature tends to be lazy at times.

This video, shows you how to get your Windows 7 machine backing up on a regular schedule. It is also a very, very and I repeat a very good idea to perform a simple test restore of some of your data on a regular basis. This will ensure that your backups are working as you expect them to.

Now when something goes wrong, such as deleting a file, or a lightning strike destroying your hard rive, theft etc.. you can then perform a restore on your new equipment, or at the very least when you contact one of our technicians, and we ask you. “Mr. Smith do you have a recent backup of your files we can restore for you?” The answer will be, “Why Yes, Yes I Do!”