One of the most frequent complains about Windows Vista is the Multimedia Class Scheduler (MCS). The is an enabled-by-default component in Windows that prioritises multimedia applications and tasks such as video and music playback (hence, improving your multimedia experience). However, when multimedia tasks are active (most notably if Windows Media Player is active), MCS will [...]
Unlike most other boring Patch Tuesdays, Microsoft released a rather interesting eye-catching “patch” yesterday called “Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (KB948881)“. The security update is actually a registry hack that disables the critically flawed Yahoo! Music Jukebox ActiveX control that if exploited, the remote attacker could gain control over your computer. Despite Yahoo! prompt action in [...]
This brief tutorial teaches you how to disable Autorun to better protect yourself from malwares spreaded via USB flash drives and other removable media on Windows PCs.
Problem: Adobe Illustrator CS3 crashes whenever you try to save a document in its default format. Cause: The print spooler service is not started. Solution: Start the print spooler via services.msc or this command: net start spooler
Spare your sanity. If you don want this to happen, never ever install Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional on a Windows Vista system with UAC enabled and Microsoft Office 2007 installed: No amount of reinstalling solved the problem. You could either disable UAC, which leaves a big security hole in your system because almost everything will [...]