Search history is a big privacy concern these days and many people don’t know it is being collected and stored in all kinds of places on your PC. Here’s just a few places history can be stored:

• In your web browser
• In the search box at your search engine of choice
• In any toolbars that you search from
• In Google itself, if you have a Google Account

If you aren’t deleting your search history from each of these places often you run the risk of your child, wife, boss, etc finding your search history and seeing everything you’ve searched for, which could be very private information.

People tend to think of dirty searches only and don’t worry if they aren’t doing that, they are ok, but you are actually far from it -

• Do you really want your child to find out by accident that you are terminally ill?
• Or your wife to find out what the perfect Christmas gift is that you got her, before christmas?
• Or how about your boss simply taking a peek and seeing your recent job searches… uh oh.

The list goes on and on. Luckily there is help out there!

If you need a little help or want to delete every trace for maximum privacy automatically I suggest checking out the tool Bob reviews to delete search history permanently (recommended, automatic is key!).

Bob is one of the leading guys as far as search history goes so you’ll be in good hand to follow his advice!

I had the pleasure of helping to prepare ActiveWin.com's first Windows 7 FAQ which provides a lot of insightful information about Microsoft's next desktop client version of Windows in addition to future information about the BETA Program. Here's a snippet:

Q: What is Windows 7?

A: Windows 7 is the official name for the release of Windows that followed Windows Vista and latest version of Microsoft’s Windows client operating system. Windows 7 currently in development, which started immediately after Windows Vista’s release. Windows 7 features a drastically improved desktop experience that focuses on new core experiences such as Windows Touch introduces support for multi-touch technology inherited from the Microsoft Surface. Improved Accessibility and Global Support, handwriting and Ink. An enhanced Taskbar, rich application experiences with superior improvements to managing files and personal data.

Check out the entire FAQ HERE

My Quick Start Guide for getting up and running with Windows Vista can be found HERE

Resources:

ActiveWin.com: Windows 7 Pre-Beta M3 Build 6801 (PDC2008) Preview

Jamie Thomson has a lovely overview of whats coming for Windows Live Spaces and where its heading. That Windows Live Banner above the new Spaces looks huge. I am holding out though, but I hope that Microsoft realizes that blogging is still important and the experience needs to be improved for the millions of loyal users. Spaces is what got me into blogging in the first place. I tried Blogger and gave up. When the first beta came out for MSN Spaces December 9, 2004 I was like 'finally'. But today's de-emphasizing gives me the feeling that its not impossible for Microsoft to just kaput the service in the future for the sake of Social Networking and provide an experience similar to Facebook.

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What happened to Spaces?

Ahhhh Live Spaces. Once purported to be the world’s biggest social network it has become a laughing stock in the online world as its users (of which I am one) battle through the trials and tribulations of poor performance, comment posting errors and endless endless spam. With the upcoming release of Windows Live wave 3 we see a shift in emphasis away from Spaces as a social networking hub to being a bit part player in an over-arching strategy of Windows Live becoming an aggregator of all of a person’s online activity. Indeed Microsoft don’t even consider Windows Live to be a social network anymore so says Windows Live General Manager Brian Hall:

“I’m happy to tell you that we’re not creating “yet another social network”. we’re building more ways to keep in touch w/ the people you already have if you’re a Windows Live Messenger or Windows live Hotmail customer”

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/12/sweeping-changes-at-livecom-its-a-social-network/#comment-2532711

Just to emphasize the point, take a look at where Spaces now appears in the Windows Live navbar. Its not even on the first-level, its been relegated to a submenu in favour of the three ‘P’s; Profile, People and Photos:

It even appears below that little-known service Windows Live Events.

Features like photo-sharing, events, file-sharing, profile all used to be part of Spaces but now they’ve moved up the stack to become siblings of Spaces rather than adjuncts to it. So what’s left? Well interestingly Spaces is now solely what it was always intended to be back when it was called MSN Spaces –a blogging platform- so let’s take a look at it from that perspective.

Here’s my new Space:

 

-Jamie

Windows Live Tags: clubhouse, story, spaces

For the gamers in search of powerful desktops, chances are this is the gaming desktop you are looking for. Alienware has joined forces with Nvidia in bringing you perhaps one of the sophisticated setups that a hardcore gamer can think of.

We all know how touchy the requirements have been as far as new gaming desktops are concerned and apparently this new desktop named Area-51 750i Gaming Desktop from Alienware and Nvidia aims to satisfy the growing hardware and power requirements that has become evident for the growing number of gamers today.

“The Area-51 750i desktop is one of the most robust computers we’ve ever developed. There is something here for everyone, from the entry-level system to the high-end maxed out configuration, the Area-51 750i promises an experience that will fit your gaming needs and your budget.”

You can just check out the initial specs and see if it does indeed satisfy most of the premium requirements that gamers are being asked to be ready with:

1. Intel Core 2 Extreme CPU
2. 8GB of DDR2 Memory
3. 64-Bit OS
4. NVIDIA SLI or ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU

Price starts at $1,049.00 for the Area-51 750i gaming desktops.

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Conservative and economical consuming desktops are being sought after by most PC enthusiasts today and apparently Dell has heeded the call. Majority of these requirements are being called upon by the commercial sector as we see the growing demand for wise consuming computers in lieu of the traditional ones which seem to be eating up a lot of energy when operated parallel to business.

The Dell OptiPlex desktops aim to cut the consumption issues by more than half of the standard consuming energy PCs today and this will certainly capture the fancy of most companies who want to bring down electricity consumption costs that they have to deal with today.

Energy consumption is a key utility expense that many companies want to answer and while the investment may sound petrifying for most, it remains that if you want to change something concurrent, you have to start by getting rid of the old PCs and get the new ones into your fold.

It is not a matter of only upgrading but also about investing wisely in your IT infrastructure. PCs serve as workstations that gather data and are point of origins in an office setting. Many companies are due for an overhaul in the IT side of things and apparently Dell offers the OptiPlex to answer all these problems, both for computer requirements and of course addressing the power consumption issues.

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Before patching. backup these files into some folder.

• \Windows\System32\ieframe.dll
• \Windows\System32\TabletPC.cpl
• \Windows\System32\themecpl.dll
• \Windows\System32\themeui.dll
• \Windows\Explorer.exe
• \Windows\System32\powercfg.cpl
• \Windows\System32\wisptis.exe
• \Windows\System32\shell32.dll
• \Windows\System32\stobject.dll

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