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[Windows Tips] Remove Nasty Viruses & Spyware from your Computer–Part II

This is Part Two of our Windows Tips series about removing nasty viruses and spyware from one’s computer. To read Part One of this series, click here.

In Part One we showed you how to remove viruses by logging into ‘Safe Mode’ and installing Malwarebytes. In this article, I’ll show you how to protect your computer after getting rid of viruses so that you do not repeat the same mistake. There are many good security software that can help you, but I have used Comodo Free Internet Security Suite and has worked over the years for me.

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Posted in How-To/Tips, Internet, Security, Web, Windows

Tags: Comodo Internet Security, Window 7, Windows Vista

[Windows Tips] How to Remove Nasty Viruses and Spyware from your Computer

This tip I’m going to show you has always worked for me. I know there are countless blogs online that show you how to do it differently, but I personally think this is the easiest and fastest way to remove nasty viruses and spyware from your Windows computers. You may also be surprised that I am writing Windows tutorial since most of our articles are Linux based. Don’t worry once in a while, I will write tips based on Windows systems, but our primary tutorials will still be Linux based.

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Posted in How-To/Tips, Internet, Web, Windows

Tags: Anti-Virus, Window 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP

How to Enable File Sharing in Windows Vista to allow Ubuntu Systems

If you want to share files between Windows Vista and Ubuntu or any other system, you must enable file sharing. If file sharing is not enabled on your Vista machine, no computer on the network will be able to see or access shares on it. This tutorial will show you how to enable file sharing in Windows Vista so others can access shares.

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Posted in How-To/Tips, Linux

Tags: Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, Windows Vista

Enable File Sharing Between Windows Vista and Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat

This brief tutorial will show you how to join both Windows Vista and Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat into the same Domain or Workgroup and share files and folders between the two systems. When file sharing is enabled between the two systems, it will allow you to access files and folders remotely from either computer.

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Posted in How-To/Tips, Linux

Tags: Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, Windows Vista

How To Change Your Compute Name And Workgroup In Windows Vista or Windows 7

If you want to enable file sharing between Windows and Ubuntu machines, then you must be able to add or join both machines into the same workgroup. We have shown you many times how to change computer and workgroup names in Ubuntu 10.04/10.10 Maverick Meerkat. This tutorial is going to show you how to change Workgroup Name in Windows so you can share files with Ubuntu.

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Posted in How-To/Tips, Windows

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating system, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista

Share Files/Folders Between Windows XP, Vista, 7 & Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx via Samba

If you want to share files between Windows and Ubuntu machines, then this tutorial will show you how to do it. This tutorial can be applied to Windows XP, Vista or 7 and any version of Ubuntu, including Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. When file sharing is enabled, both systems will be able to access files and folders from one another.

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Posted in How-To/Tips, Linux, Windows

Tags: File sharing, Microsoft Windows, Operating system, Ubuntu, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP

How To Enable File Sharing In Windows Vista, 7, and Allow Linux Systems

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Posted in How-To/Tips, Linux, Windows

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating system, Ubuntu, Windows 7, Windows Vista

Windows Beginner: How To Disable Microsoft Windows’ Features You Don’t Want

There may be some good reasons why you wouldn’t want to use or enable some of Windows Vista or Windows 7 features. For instance, Internet Explorer — maybe you like Firefox or Chrome and you don’t really use Internet Explorer anymore — well, you can get rid of Internet Explorer altogether and free up some space on your computer.