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By Tracy on March 8th, 2010 and posted in Windows
I have been using Comodo Internet Security since it’s initial release and it just keeps getting better and better. However whilst trying to install the most recent version 4.0 which was released on March 03 2010 I encountered an installation error 1603. Naturally I cleared all the junk files, disabled unnecessary services, cleared the registry and still couldn’t get it to work
By Tracy on December 11th, 2009 and posted in Linux
I recently updated to latest version of Linux Mint 8 and after installing Aptana, my favourite IDE, I noticed that my mouse buttons would not work when trying to click buttons. I tried re-installing the software and trying eclipse but it still didn’t work. I turned to my trusted friend Google for the problem and I came across this post Problems with Eclipse buttons in Ubuntu 9.10 ,which is a shell script to solve a gtk bug. As I have eclipse installed in .eclipse directory in my home folder I had to alter it a little.
By Tracy on September 26th, 2009 and posted in Browser, Tutorials
The browser is one of the most used pieces of software used today and believe me there is nothing worse than losing all of your data if your computer suddenly crashes or your data becomes corrupted. There are tools that will backup your Firefox profiles for you but this can be time consuming. I use a method will backup the entire folder with everything in it from passwords, extensions to favourites and its so simple anyone can do it. I will show you how to do this in Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and also Linux Mint.
By Tracy on August 21st, 2009 and posted in Linux, Tutorials
This is an in-depth guide to installing LAMPP on Linux Mint. LAMPP, the linux version of XAMPP, is a popular open source, cross platform web server software that includes Apache, MYSQL, PHP and Perl. This software can be installed locally on your PC to aid with the development of websites that use the server side scripting language PHP, like Wordpress themes for example. This tutorial will help install the software, create and setup shortcut within the menu editor and transferring files with proFTP. This tutorial should also work in Ubuntu too, so lets get started.
By Tracy on May 2nd, 2009 and posted in Linux, Tutorials
If you are like me, you want to have the latest secure and up-to-date version of Firefox installed. Generally the package management system handles all software downloads, which is extremely useful, but unfortunately it may take some time for security updates to appear. There is one such workaround and that is to install your own copy. This tutorial is aimed at those using Mandriva Linux so your results may differ depending on which distribution you use.
By Tracy on January 5th, 2009 and posted in Tutorials, Windows
Welcome to Speed up vista part 2. This section is also relevant to those that have XP. Just a recap we have speeded up our system so far by turning off system services that are not needed. In this section we will look at other ways to speed up your computer covering cleaning the registry, temporary files, startup entries and defragmentation.
By Tracy on December 12th, 2008 and posted in Tutorials, Windows
Windows Vista may dive bombed since it was released in 2007 but for those have you that have it it may run slower than you want. First and foremost Vista looks beautiful but underneath those good looks it is also using a great deal of system resources. If you are not interested in the pretty looks or you are on a machine that is using less than 2 GB of RAM it is wise to turn it off which would improve your system performance vastly. There are other services than run unnecessarily which are safe to be turned off which help improve the performance of your computer.
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