The HOSTS file is where your computer goes first to translate a domain (404TechSupport.com) to an IP address (96.30.24.98). It's mostly been replaced by the use of DNS because it would be impossible to keep up with all the new websites created or server changes that occur daily. Despite that, it still has its uses for correcting something locally or filtering sites. Malware … [Read more...]
Microsoft Officially Previews The Windows 8 Interface
Following Windows 7, the next versions of Microsoft Windows are supposed to start coming faster and more frequent. To get that started, Microsoft officially previewed code-named Windows 8 at the D9 Conference today. For those of us not at the conference, Julie Larson-Green kindly summarized the presentation in this announcement. You can read the full details in the … [Read more...]
Google Apps Starts Drawing The Line Closer For ‘Modern Browsers’ August 1st
Google announced today that starting August 1st it will be implementing a rolling basis for supporting the current and prior major release of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari. For this reason, soon Google Apps will only support modern browsers. Beginning August 1st, we’ll support the current and prior major release of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and … [Read more...]
Installing Group Policy Management Console and Active Directory Users and Computers On Windows 7
To access the Active Directory Users and Computers or Group Policy Management Console snap-ins with Windows XP or Server 2003, you had to install the adminpak.msi. With Windows 7, the approach is a little different. To install these components on your Windows 7 SP1 computer, you'll need to download and install the 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) version of the Remote Server … [Read more...]
Extracting The .msi From The Latest Adobe Reader Setup Executable
Adobe can't seem to make up their mind whether they're going to be convenient and provide a .msi for each incremental update to Adobe Reader or not. Unlike Adobe Acrobat, where the updates have to be slip-streamed into the base installer (as demonstrated previously with Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2), the Adobe Reader .msi is fully prepared with each update, you just have to extract it … [Read more...]