So you’ve tried Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) and you’re not impressed. Lucky for you there’s a quick solution to downgrade back to trusty old IE7!
Windows XP Solution
1) Click the Start menu, control panel
2) From the control panel select “Add/Remove programs”
3) Find Internet Explorer 8 and proceed to uninstall it.
After the uninstall is complete you’ll be [...]

A few users have reportedly had troubles with accessing storage devices that require NTLM authentication. For those running vista, you may or may not know that it only uses NTLMv2 authentication and therefore it won’t work.
To get your storage device to work with Vista, you can enable your Windows Vista PC to use both NTLM [...]

I wasn’t able to scroll up using my HP Notebook touchpad in Chrome. I downloaded and installed this patch and it resolved it straight away. (I was using Google Chrome v0.2.149.30 at the time)
The patch is available here: http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pjt2v07/chrome/ (Thanks to Paul for writing this fix)
Things to note:
You need to run [...]

Weird popups? Porn? Messages advising you to purchase products? Internet Explorer homepage keep changing? Did you wallpaper disappear? System running slow?
All of the above are symptoms of spyware, which may have been introduced to your machine via various methods - which include activeX downloads and software you installed on your PC (such as Kazaa and [...]

A friend of mine traveling in Italy recently asked me how they could clear the browsing history from the computer they were using in an Internet Cafe.
The best way to erase your browsing history is to use Firefox and the “Clear Private Data” tool that ships with it (ctrl + shift + delete). However if [...]

Okay so I took me a few hours but I finally figured out how to turn on Windows Authentication under IIS7. For some reason, it’s turned off by default and in IIS7 under authentication you’ll only see anonymous.
I have a ASP.NET 1.1 application that requires Windows Authentication and this was the error I was receiving.
“You [...]

Everything is confusing in Windows Vista .. or is it easier?
Here’s how to install IIS on Windows Vista.

Hit the start menu and select settings, control panel.
Look under Programs and Features, and click the option which says “Turn Windows features on or off”
Click on Internet Services
Click OK

Done!

So I scored a new laptop through work and wanted to give Vista a whirl. Step forward 30mins and I found something really, really, really annoying. Microsoft’s new Vista access control, which will prompt you ever time you make changes to the system, either via control panel or when you install new software.
Very annoying if [...]