Have Strange Behavior With Your Windows PC? Check Task Scheduler First

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microsoft windowsNothing more bothersome than having some annoying task pop up soon after logging on or a background task slow down your computer while watching a video. One would think disabling Windows auto start tasks is as easy as opening Task Manager and disabling items in the Startup tab as a way to end the annoyance.

But for tasks that run out of the blue, which seem more like strange behavior, will have you scratching your head in annoyance. Especially when nothing can be found in the Startup tab to explain the strange behavior in the first place.

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Take The Poll: When Do You Change Your Email Password?

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Unlike big Corporations that you may work for, having a strict policy for changing your own GMail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook or any other email password probably does not exist.

If you are like many users who use Internet based email, most likely you have not changed your password recently, or for that matter, still have the same password since the day you first created the email account.

If you never experienced having your email account hacked, consider yourself lucky. Believe me, you don't want to experience it. Worse, having a false sense of security in thinking that no one will ever find out your email account password is just ridiculous thinking.

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Slow Computer? How To Identify What Is Causing 100% Disk Utilization

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microsoft windowsWhen you think of reasons why your Windows computer is sooo slow, we immediately think it's either CPU, Ram or unknown processes as the culprits. You wouldn't be wrong to think it, but they are not the the only cause for slowing down your computer.

Especially if you have an older PC.

With older PC's and sometimes new, high disk utilization by itself can be a frustrating experience as the culprit to why your computer is slow.

Fortunately Windows includes two built-in tools to help identify the cause of 100% disk utilization. Task Manager and Resource Monitor. No installation needed.

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4 Ways To Cut Costs On Your Comcast Bill….Now

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Nothing like being a prisoner to the cable company. Shackled every year to frivolous miscellaneous cost increases, just because they can. Or throwing stale bread crumbs at us by adding extra channels that will never be watched.

Worse yet, having them lock you in with the triple play bundle while knowingly laughing because it will be less cost effective to de-bundle.

Had enough? Time to fight back.

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How To Secure Your Wireless Network From Guests On Your Home Network

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inetsafety.jpgSo you're having a big party and inviting friends over who are bringing their friends along. No doubt you have everything ready to throw a big bash.

Except one thing….

Is your home network secure enough to handle that dodgy looking friend - friend who ask you if he can have the password to connect to your wireless network?

This is when reality sets in and you realize more attention should have been made with locking down devices on your network. Time to panic.

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How To Hack Your Friends and Family Home Wireless Network To Show Them Allowing Trusted Access Can Be Dangerous

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inetsafety.jpgIt's just in my nature to do it. What you may ask.

Snoop around on a wireless network to see what is open and vulnerable.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't do it to hack into systems. I do it to show friends and family that just because they have a router with a firewall protecting their network from the Internet, the need to also secure devices on the inside network is just as important.

I've been known to cause havoc on wireless home networks such as having their printer spew paper onto the floor, or easily log into the router and disable access because they were lazy with using a password that was their home address (or worse, never changing the default password).

The shock of what just happen catches their attention.

For that matter, who needs to be stealthy when you can walk around their house and press a key on the keyboard only to reveal the PC is not password protected (social engineering remains an easy method for hackers, just ask the NSA).

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Why Connecting To Wi-FI Hostspots With A Known Public Password Is More Secure Than One With No Password

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inetsafety.jpgRecently I was at a concert with friends, that had free wif-fi hotspot available. The only requirement for connecting to the wi-fi hotspot was to use a password that was made publicly available. My friends thought "what's the point of requiring a password if everyone knows it".

I thought….who ever is responsible for running the event must be pretty smart.

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Why Won't My PC (Or Devices) Connect To My Wireless Router?

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Nothing is more frustrating when something just won't work after spending hours trying to make it work. That's what PC's and wireless networks do best…frustrate you to no end.

One of the biggest problems I come across, is when someone can't get their PC connected to their wireless home network. Yet, it seems to connect everywhere else but in their house.

Before I get the chance to look at it, I hear a long laundry list of things that were attempted to get the wireless connection working. Like re-typing the encryption password a thousand times, "rebooting the router first then my PC" (and a dozen other different ways), even moving the PC closer to the router.

Nothing works 🙁

But there are always two things missing in that list, if checked, may have saved hours of frustration and allowed more hours of surfing the web.

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