Category: Microsoft

Latest version of Internet Explorer to be pushed to all via Windows Update

Microsoft announced that in January they will begin to push out the latest version of Internet Explorer to all windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 computers automatically via Windows update. Up to this point Internet Explorer has been an optional update. Citing security benefits as the primary reason for the change in status on Windows …

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday for December

It’s the second Tuesday of the month and for us in information technology that always means the same thing… It’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday.  This month Microsoft has published 4 patches (3 for the Microsoft Windows operating systems, and one for Active Directory) Here is a list of the four security patches in order of severity:

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Customizing & Enhancing Speaker Sounds in Windows 7

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Quite often users find that their sound volume is not to your satisfaction or not as loud as you would like it to be especially when using a laptop, even though both, the volume mixer and the application’s volume is set to maximum level. Windows 7 includes some additional settings to enhance the sound quality …

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