The Next Big Thing?
I don’t know if this is the next ‘Big’ thing but it’s likely to start generating lots of news and interest over the upcoming months. I’m talking about Windows 8 here, the planned next release of the Windows family.
Continue Reading →Am I Surprised? No. Worried? Yes.
So I came across this article today. Short version: Symantec, the makers of the Norton Anti-Virus line of products, had some of its software cracked recently. It was older software, and it was their business line, not the consumer line, that was affected. And the chance of it affecting a large number of people or [...]
Continue Reading →Is Fix-It A Security Threat?
In troubleshooting a problem today, I was directed to use the Microsoft Fix-It tool. This is a little program that you download from Microsoft, and it’s tailored to automatically repair certain Windows problems for you. In many cases, it works. But is the solution worse than the problem?
Continue Reading →Nearly $2000 Given Away
This time of year, many companies will send their clients a gift basket, a box of chocolates, or something else as a token of their appreciation for continued business. CPG Systems doesn’t do that. A large part of CPG’s corporate ethic is based on social awareness. So instead of sending gift basket, we made a [...]
Continue Reading →Windows 7 Readiness Redux
The search term that brought most people to our website is ‘windows 7 readiness tool’ which tells me that there are a lot of people still unsure about making the switch away from Windows XP. Which is understandable… XP is a known quantity, it’s been around for about 10 years, and is generally considered to [...]
Continue Reading →More Website Updates
One of the reasons I love the computer business is that things are always changing, you can never stop learning. It’s been like this for as long as I can remember. .Since the company has some new offerings (that we’ve just perfected, or have just learned about), it was time to add some new content [...]
Continue Reading →IT For Small Business: Virus Prevention
The last few weeks have seen an increase in virus activity. So what’s a business to do, to minimize the chances of being affected by one of these things? Here’s how to help your chances, in 5 minutes or less (and no, we’re not going to tell you to buy a particular brand of anti-virus [...]
Continue Reading →Another Major Shift
A couple weeks ago I gave a presentation to the Richmond Chamber of Commerce on understanding new technologies. Things like cloud computing, Software As A Service, and explaining what they mean to and for businesses. Then a few days later I received a news item that seemed very timely to that presentation. This one will be [...]
Continue Reading →AVG Free Update Warning
Avg Anti-Virus Free Edition (http://free.avg.com) is one of the internet’s most popular downloads. And why not? For almost every computer (yes, even Apple machines), anti-virus is essential. And what better price for software than… free? The people at AVG seem to follow a pattern though, and it’s almost time for that pattern to come full [...]
Continue Reading →Migrating XP to Windows 7
The traditional thinking is that if you are going to migrate in place (on the same computer) from Windows XP to Windows 7, you have 2 choices – you can do a clean install of the operating system, reinstall all your applications and migrate data, OR you can do a two-tiered upgrade, going from XP [...]
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