If you’re been following my Track Forward blog, you know about upselling as done by Internet Marketers.
Well, Microsoft does it too, as I discovered today.

I’m installing this on the new Optiplex 745. Here’s hoping it doesn’t mess anything up!
Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - November 2007 (KB890830)
Download size: 845 KB
You may need to restart your computer for this update to take effect.
Update type: Important
After the download, this tool runs once to check your computer for infection by specific, prevalent [...]

Here’s a guide to Windows Vista backup technologies. It looks quite complete, with a good explanation of proper backup techniques. I’ll read it more carefully when I have time.

My new Dell Optiplex 745 came with Windows Vista, and it has some weird Dell-specific partitions. Windows Vista has its own built-in imaging application, like Disk Utility on Mac OS X. Vista’s is called ImageX. Its functionality is similar to 3rd party Windows-based imagers such as Symantec Ghost, Acronis True Image, DriveImage XML (freeware), and [...]

I do internal testing of my PHP scripts before rolling them out publicly, so I needed to use local IPs for public domain names. The best way to do this is with Windows’s HOSTS file, and I wanted a good way to do this on Windows Vista. The answer is HostsMan, an excellent free program [...]

Yesterday, I got a new Dell Optiplex 745 powered by a 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, Windows Vista Basic, and 2 GB RAM. It’s pretty sweet. I also got a 22″ E228WFP flat planel LCD display to go with it. Here’s a brief review. If you’re interested, leave a comment, and I’ll add [...]

Here’s an interesting article about Vista’s broken “Time Machine.”
I was sitting around today wondering how best to back up my Vista computer, so I Googled “Time Machine for Windows Vista.” Sorry! No good solution yet. If you have a suggestion, leave a comment!

Audacity crashed when I was trying to maximize its window, so I lost some audio. When I restarted Audacity, it informed me that the audio might be in temp files, but Audacity can’t recover them automatically.
A quick Google Search found me this good wiki page on Windows Bugs. There’s also an FAQ page on the [...]

Let’s say you’re listening to an Internet radio station and it’s streaming music through their proprietary Flash player. You want to record this audio so you can take it with you on-the-go, say, on your iPhone or iPod. But it’s streaming, so you can’t download it. So you’re dead, right?
Nope! Audacity to the rescue. You [...]