Are all Windows Updates really necessary?
We return with a new Question of the Week, this time addressing Windows Updates. Lital maatuk asks, Which of the Windows updates are really necessary? I downloaded a lot of Windows updates in the...
View ArticleHow to check if you’ve been infected by DNS Changer virus.
Kira asked an interesting question: How to know if your computer is hit by a dnschanger virus? In case you didn’t hear, back in November, the FBI took down the company “Rove Digital” which was actually...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week: How can computers calculate exponential math without...
This weeks question of the week comes from Kit-Ho who poses: Studying some RSA encrypt/decrypt methods, I found this article: An Example of the RSA Algorithm It requires this to decrpyt this message...
View ArticleQuestion of the Week: What are cookies and why am I being asked about them?
A lot of people have heard about Internet “cookies” and often they have a bad connotation to them, but to web developers they are very useful. So what exactly are they? The official Wikipedia...
View ArticleA Super User’s Guide to Memory (QotW #40)
Memory. Every Super User knows that they need it, and if you’re like me, you can never get enough. I know I somehow find ways to use up all 16 Gb of my memory on my desktop. In fact, back in Nov...
View ArticleThe Super User’s Windows 8 Guide
Windows 8 is out for MSDN account holders (including students with MSDN-AA access)! And it’s set to release on October 26th. With that there are bound to be tons of questions in regards to Windows 8....
View ArticleQuestion of the Week #42: 42 Questions of Awesomeness!
The number 42 is amazing, and so to honor Douglas Adams answer to live, the universe and everything, I have collected 42 amazing questions/answers that we haven’t featured yet. These aren’t in any...
View ArticleSuper User Review of Hyper-V for Windows 8
This weeks question of the week come from these two questions: Windows 8 Hyper-V – how to give VM internet access? How do I install and use Window Virtual PC in Windows 8? One of them asked by Graham...
View ArticleIs your browser telling on you?
Browsing on the web may seem harmless to most, but we SuperUsers are typically a secretive bunch. We’ don’t like data being shared about us unless we tell them to. So when user Pickledegg asked about...
View ArticleIncrease your Ping-Fu!
User George Duckett came across a weird thing while performing a simple ping: He performed a simple ping request but missed a ‘dot’. I assume he meant to ping 192.168.0.72 but instead ended up typing...
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