Microsoft Oh! Microsoft......

When Microsoft release an update patch, does your windows OS run it automatically or do you have the setting set to you choose. Microsoft released a patch a while back but it seems this is still causing some issues with users. Those affected users were running Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 2008 R2 SP1. Those that are using Windows 8 or 8.1 from reports seem to have got away from the stresses but sadly the others haven't.
There is a fix that Microsoft has release to fix or hopefully fix the updating problems cause by their update patch in the first place.

For further info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3024777

At least it give IT guru's out there something to do.....but please Microsoft, PLEASE PLEASE test your patches next time before releasing them live.

Hibernation or Shut-Down! Which is better and more secure!

Most laptop users these days prefer to put their laptop's in to Hibernation rather than turning them off completely by shutting down! But are you safe doing that, okay it help you when you want to work on your machine and all you have to do is "wake it up", but are you thinking about the risks involved in doing this. Lets give a scenario, you've been at work all day and you take your laptop home at night to do some extra work so instead of shutting down, you just close the lid and hey presto it's gone into hibernation. You driving or walking and your laptop is stolen from you, now all the thief has to do is open the lid of your laptop and he has access to all your doc's, important info, etc. Sure you might have a password but still your laptop would be compromised if you don't! Now you have the hassle of changing all your passwords, possibly your banking details and personal data in the hand of someone who could use that for their on means. You probably have pictures of your family, etc these too could be used in illegal ways. Now if you had shut down and you had a password on Start up or even in the BIOS so no one could change them and access your data that would be a LOT more secure and safer in the end. I mean so what if your laptop takes 3 minutes instead of 50 sec's to boot up, is loosing your precious data and more worth the risk. Think about it, I always shut down and never take it for granted that anything will be safe.

Whoosh! Gone before you know it.

Where has January gone? Just the other day around the world we were celebrating the new year of 2015 and already we have lost a complete month - for me anyway. I just hope that the rest of the year doesn't speed along at the same rate.

So what's new? Well there has been the recent launch of Windows 10 as a technical preview, yup another version but I think from the first sightings of the OS, it looks to be a re-injected Microsoft trying to make up for the mistakes of Windows 8 & 8.1. Windows 10 has a good feel about itself, very much like windows 7 Ultimate and seems so far to be very user friendly. Another note is that Microsoft has stated that there is a free upgrade from windows 7, 8 & 8.1 to windows 10 in the first year. Official launch date is not in concrete but could be mid 2015.