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Donya wish your touchscreen had buttons like these? (video)

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Tutorial: Windows 7 HomeGroup not working? Try these quick fixes

<img src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com//classifications/computing/software/operating-systems/images/windows7logo-200-200.jpg"> In theory, HomeGroups are supposed to simplify the process of sharing key folders and printers on your network. Sadly, they can be more trouble than they're worth – try these troubleshooting tips. 1. Windows 7 only Remember, HomeGroups only work on PCs running Windows 7 – if your network includes computers running earlier versions of Windows, Linux or Mac OS, use the standard filesharing options instead. 2. Visit Action Center Click the flag icon in the Notification area of the Taskbar and click Open Action Center. Select Troubleshooting > Network and Internet, and click HomeGroup to launch a troubleshooter. 3. Check your network type HomeGroups will only work on networks designated as Home not Public or Work. Verify this on each PC by opening the Network and Sharing Center – if necessary, click the link under the network name and select Home. 4. Workgroup settings It shouldn't matter, but verify that each PC is on the same workgroup – view and change your workgroup by right-clicking Computer and selecting Properties, then click "Change settings" if necessary. 5. Public Folder sharing options Click "Change advanced sharing settings" in the Network and Sharing Center – expand "Home or Work", scroll down and verify that both Network Discovery and "Public Folder sharing" are On. 6. Check the Firewall Networking problems can often be traced to your firewall. If you can connect with the firewall switched off, you'll need to tweak its settings so it doesn't block network traffic – visit the firewall vendor's website for more help and advice if necessary. 7. Fix error 0x80632094 Your PCs need to support IPv6 and have it enabled in order to connect to a HomeGroup: from the Network and Sharing Center click "Change Adapter Settings", right-click your network adapter and choose Properties, then verify the TCP/IPv6 entry is ticked. 8. Check services Press [Windows] + [R], type "services.msc" and press [Enter]. Check the following services are running: HomeGroup Listener, HomeGroup Provider, Peer Name Resolution Protocol, Peer Networking Grouping and Peer Networking Identity Manager. 9. Fix error 0x80630801 Leave the HomeGroup, then delete the contents of the c:\ Windows\ServiceProfiles\ LocalService\AppData\Roaming\PeerNetworking folder – you'll need to click "Continue to" when prompted to access the LocalService folder, and AppData is a hidden folder. 10. Forget HomeGroups Remove the HomeGroup from your main computer, then click "Change advanced sharing settings" and configure your network manually. Once this is done, you can then share any individual folder by right-clicking it and choosing Share with > Specific people.

Tutorial: Windows 7 HomeGroup not working? Try these quick fixes

In theory, HomeGroups are supposed to simplify the process of sharing key folders and printers on your network. Sadly, they can be more trou...

Your Home Computer Will Be Safe and Secured If You Follow These Steps

As a home computer user, you need to make sure that your computer is safe from any form of malicious online attack, including hacking. You might have important data including any identification in your computer which intruders can have access to. It is therefore very important for you to find out just how safe your computer is from these potential attacks.Primarily, intruders target home computer users because:(1) Home computer users typically don't have security measures installed on them, which makes them easy targets. and(2) They often have valuable information, such as credit card information stored which is enough to entice these intruders.In addition, you have to know what types of attack to expect. Opening an unknown, seemingly innocent email or clicking on an ad-banner will sometimes put you at unwanted risk and open the door for intruders. Once they are in, they're sometimes hard to get rid of, so your home computer security should start with you being careful about the things you do while connected to the Internet.Besides being careful about which emails to open or not, and which ad-banners to click to or not, you should also be careful about sending valuable information over the Internet. Such information can be interception by a third party. It would be better to transmit really important information the old-fashioned way, unless you are very much confident in your security measures.Next would be putting security measures on your computer. If your operating system is Microsoft Windows, Apple OS or LINUX you can get a free security updates and malicious software removal tools every month, which would be extremely helpful to you. There are monthly updates because the intruders always try to find a way to get around these security measures on regular basis.After getting the free security updates of your operating system, you would need to get an anti-virus program, preferably one that has the greatest number of virus definitions you might need to purchase this. Viruses, aside from causing chaos to your computer, can also be used to retrieve information from you and spread out to attack other computers. By obtaining a high-quality anti-virus program, viruses would not be as much of a problem.Since intruders are aware of the capabilities of anti-virus programs, they sometimes choose to use spyware, which are little bits of data that can be either potentially dangerous or annoying. It slows down your computer processes, and can retrieve data from you. To combat this, there are anti-spyware programs available, both for free -freeware and through purchase.The final security measure is a firewall. Normally, anti-virus programs offer firewalls, so acquiring one should not be much of a problem. A firewall acts like a security guard and disallows outright entry to anything trying to access your computer even if it is a program, without asking for your confirmation.Computer intruders and viruses should not be taken lightly at all, It would therefore be important for you to know the types of computer viruses [http://your-computer-safety.blogspot.com] available, in order to better protect yourself from them.	 	 		 			 				 					 						Yes, Find Out These Dangerous Computer Viruses [http://your-computer-safety.blogspot.com] so can Always Guard Yourself Against them.

Your Home Computer Will Be Safe and Secured If You Follow These Steps

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What Will You Do When Your Website Is Hacked? Use These 7 Steps to Manage the Hack

I guess it happens to everyone sometime. I just wasn't ready for it.Some sleaze ball operating from a European IP address (which means he could be anywhere) managed to get my account information for my primary domain in one of my three accounts.Then he (or she...or it) sent out more than a million spam e-mails using my primary domain. That will get any respectable server blacklisted in a heartbeat.To my host's credit, they shut me down before most of those could be delivered. (Imagine how many bounced e-mails I would have received. Or spam complaints - even worse!)But also, imagine my panic when I logged in this morning and saw error pages that said my account had been suspended...Here's what happened and how it was worked out so quickly...and why.My host sent me an e-mail immediately telling me of the suspension, but unfortunately I didn't have my alternative e-mail (like a yahoo or gmail e-mail) input in my profile, so it went to the suspended e-mail account and I didn't get it.Lesson 1: Make sure your host has a way to reach you when everything fails.When I called customer support, a junior technician was very nice, but only confirmed that I was suspended. When I got my security issues fixed, he said, I should give them call back. Instead of going ballistic, I suggested maybe I should talk to a supervisor.Lesson 2: Be nice.Nick got on the phone. He was the supervisor who suspended the account. He told me exactly why, what needed to be done on my end, and how I could protect myself from further damage. Those were three factors I needed to understand.Lesson 3: Talk to the expert.I took notes, including Nick's full name. Then I did what he said. Run anti-virus full scans on all my computers. Check... Run anti-spyware on all my computers. Check... Check my files and folders for my websites for any strange files that shouldn't be there. Check... Check with all my outsource partners to make sure they don't have access to my cPanel, but use FTP accounts instead. Check... Lesson 4: Do what I was told and keep notes of the results. (No spyware or viruses by the way.)Then I called Mark Hendricks [http://www.the60dayexperiment.com/newiss] - a trusted mentor who has gone through this stuff before. I wanted to confirm that I was doing all I could do and to be aware of anything I should get the hosting company to do. As I suspected, he suggested changing all my passwords just to be sure that whoever hacked me couldn't get into my vital info.And one other thing: Make sure they de-listed the IP address that had become blacklisted and reinstated the account on a clean IP.Did that...Lesson 5: Always get a second opinion.I changed the e-mail passwords on all my accounts, removed unused FTP accounts and changed passwords everywhere else.Lesson 6: Change passwords frequently.Then I called back Lunarpages.com [http://www.the60dayexperiment.com/go/host.htm] and got the account reinstated. The junior tech hesitated and suggested waiting until tomorrow when he could get the supervisor's approval. I said I had talked to Nick and read the steps he suggested, including calling back to get it reinstated when all were completed.It was reinstated within minutes.Lesson 7: Take notes, be clear, stay calm, be persistence until you get results.	 	 		 			 				 					 						You know much more than you think. Turn Your Knowledge into CASH! with The 60-Day Experiment: <a href="http://www.60DaysTo100K.com/eza.htm" target="_new">http://www.60DaysTo100K.com/eza.htm</a>

What Will You Do When Your Website Is Hacked? Use These 7 Steps to Manage the Hack

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Internet Security Is A Must For Everyone These Days, Luckily It Is Easy And Free

The modern internet age is an exciting time. The internet is a fantastic tool for entertainment, work, and communication. These days the internet is the first place many people check for almost any information they need including driving directions, entertainment news, cooking recipes, and countless other tasks. However, along with the power of the internet comes many dangers as well. Viruses, spyware, popups, and other malicious code can take the fun out of internet computing. As more and more money floats electronically through the internet one can only assume that malware will only increase.Luckily protecting yourself from malware is not that hard. There are a number of great software programs that can protect you from the various forms of malware out there. Security programs are a must for anyone on the internet these days. Many of these security programs will cost you some money. To be honest many of these programs are worth the money as a single security breach in your computer system will likely cause you much headaches as well as possibly costing you money to resolve. However, one thing that make the internet unique from other aspects of life is that you can often get a free lunch. The spirit of giving freely without asking anything in return has definitely helped the internet grow into the largest and most important source of information in the world. As for security software, you can actually get free internet security software that does not take a back seat to any paid security software. I personally recommend saving your money and going with free internet security software. Really the only advantage to paid security software is that you can get complete security suites that will cover all of your internet security needs. Two of the best known internet security suites are Norton Internet Security and McAfee Internet Security Suite. Both are not bad, however you can get just as good protection for free.Lets spend a minute to define what kinds of internet threats exist and how to defend against them. Viruses are very dangerous to you computer system. They can completely prevent Windows from functioning or can allow hackers a "backdoor" to your system. Anti-virus software is an absolute necessity for all computers. AVG Free is a great free anti-virus program that has regular virus definition updates. There are currently millions of AVG Free users because it provides such good anti-virus protection for free.Spyware is another security threat similar to viruses in some ways. Spyware typically does not prevent your system from working, although it may slow your system somewhat. Spyware's primary purpose is capture your private information and send it back to the creator or implementer of the spyware program. Identity theft, credit card number theft, and bank account number theft are just some of the things that can happen to you if you are infected with spyware. Again, there are very good free anti-spyware programs available. Spybot is one of the original free anti-spyware programs. Spybot offers good spyware protection with regular updates for free. It works on all versions of Windows. Windows Defender by Microsoft is another free anti-spyware program that works on Windows XP (if you pass the Windows Genuine Advantage) and comes with Windows Vista. Windows Defender protects against similar threats as Spybot, however Spybot will remove tracking cookies while Windows Defender will not. Tracking cookies are not very dangerous to your security though. Ad-Aware from Lavasoft is another free anti-spyware program that works slightly different from Spybot and Windows Defender. Using all three of the above anti-spyware programs can give you a very high level of protection.Finally a software firewall can add extra real-time protection in a different way than from anti-virus or anti-spyware software. A software firewall allows you to control what programs can access the internet. Windows XP and Vista have a built in inbound firewall, meaning it will protect you from external computers trying to hack your computer. The built in Windows firewall does not give you outbound protection. This means is you accidentally download a spyware program though email, rogue website, or piggybacking on some semi-legitimate software, the Windows firewall will not stop malware that is already on your system from beaming out your private data. A third party software firewall will ask you if you want to allow internet access to all programs on your computer. You could still answer incorrectly and allow a spyware program access to the internet. However, just the prompt for your permission to access the internet offers some protection. For example, if you leave your computer on unattended for hours, spyware will have to wait until you come back to your computer and incorrectly allow it access to the internet instead of being able to beam out your information immediately at will.ZoneAlarm Free Firewall puts control of your internet connection back in your hands. <a href="http://computer-help-center.com/internet-security/" rel="nofollow" target="_new">http://computer-help-center.com/internet-security/</a> has free tutorial videos on using the above mentioned free anti-virus, anti-spyware, and software firewall programs as well as links to download the free programs. The video tutorials are designed for any level of computer experience and also eliminate the need to read manuals. The bottom line is that everyone needs to actively protect themselves against the various threats that exist on the internet. The good news is that internet security is easy and free.	 	 		 			 				 					 						Rahul Patharkar runs <a href="http://computer-help-center.com" target="_new">http://computer-help-center.com</a>, which is a site that has free information and tutorial videos on numerous computer tasks including <a href="http://computer-help-center.com/backups/" target="_new">computer backups</a>, internet security, preventive maintenance, and many others.

Internet Security Is A Must For Everyone These Days, Luckily It Is Easy And Free

The modern internet age is an exciting time. The internet is a fantastic tool for entertainment, work, and communication. These days th...