Office 2010 Beta is Live!

Microsoft Office 2010

Office 2010 has been released to the public. Grab it now for testing, the product features a number of aesthetic and functional improvements over the previous version, bug fixed, and a few new tools.

Bypass Reduce Functionality Hack

Temporarily bypass Reduced Functionality to rescue your files and operating system capabilities and pave the way for a clean, genuine, windows install.

Geek Squad Manuals

If you’ve ever wondered just what costs $200/h when you hire Geek Squad, find out. These 11 manuals, which you should learn for yourself, are a source of Geek Squad expertise.

Security Essentials weekend report

Microsoft Security Essentials is Microsoft’s leap into the Anti-Virus market. The suite aims at tackling viruses, trojans, worms, and malware. It is surprisingly light on resources (unlike a certain Windows-Defender) and has features to match its competitors.
This is the first week that Essentials has been out of beta, and the MS Malware Protection Center has released some interesting statistics.

Keeping your computer safe – Secunia

“Many of the hacker attacks and security threats today exploit software vulnerabilities and code flaws” – Secunia.

Slow torrents with Windows 7

Utorrent Max Half Open Connections

After getting windows 7 I noticed that my downloads of the Linux kernel through utorrent were running at incredibly slow speeds. Though the reasons behind this may be complicated, the solution turned out to be rather simple.

Overclock a laptop mobility Radeon

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Studio 15 laptopNot only unsupported, Mobility Radeons are further crippled by their drivers. Laptop distributors (HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc) limit the clocks on the bundled video cards and restrict access to the GPU BIOS. There are a number of logical reasons behind this, namely warranty overheating issues.

Overclock your laptop’s video card (gpu) by using an unlocked catalyst driver version with the addition of the AMD GPU ClockTool. This method does not require any bios mods or hardware alterations.

Ati Tray Tools Latest Download for Windows 7, XP, Vista

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Ati Tray Tools is no longer facing the issues described in the below article, but it is a great reference for troubleshooting att/driver issues. To download Ray Adam’s Ati Tray Tools click the link below.: DOWNLOAD (unfortunately the original link is dead, this is the latest version as of 3/15/12): Ati Tray Tools LATEST

Peer Guardian 2 with Windows 7 pgfilter.sys 64

Peer Guardian

PG2 will not work out of the box, and the information provided on PG2’s instruction page is outdated. This is a step-by-step guide to get pg2 working with Win7 RC x64.