Interesting mod. Let’s say Intel bring too much possibilities to Operating Systems world. From running Windows in a Macintoch machine to what it got now. AMD, come on! I trusted you and wanted to get one of you soon

How many Windows user never encounter a virus? Unless you’re not connect to Internet. Chances are, all Windows users knows about computer viruses, but little are aware of how to solve it.

When you’re surfing online, be it online shop or insurance online, you are risking your computer.

Here are a few steps I find useful, according to my experience

Turn off system restore

Once you encounter a virus, turn off the system restore at once. Some virus can trace back into system restore and ruin all restoration the computer generated. This may result a total missing of files and folders.

Safe mode

When you log into safe mode, a lot services/processes will be stopped. Network is one of them. Some viruses depend on certain services/processes to work probably. There are times I log into safe mode, and delete the virus manually, and it works!

Anti virus, please?

There are a few users don’t like to install anti-virus programs, they find it resources consuming and depend heavily on System Restore. The bad news is, if you don’t have an anti-virus program to warn you about virus, the virus may already ruin all your restoration. Formating become the way to kill the virus as well as your hard drive.

After a few experience of small and big viruses, I started to be very caution of websites I surf and program I download. Majority of computer users don’t like to read, especially a warning pop-up. They will blame it on Windows that is not working well, when the fact is the warning is to tell them what to be caution for.

These steps is no guaranteed though, but it may works under some virus.

Let’s see what I got within the past 4 month of Windows 7 users.

Software capability

I ran almost all the needed software without a problem. Currently installed:

• Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/Flash Pro CS3
• Adobe After Effect CS4
• CCleaner
• Auslogic speed boost pack
• Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird
• Google Chrome/Pinyin input/Picasa 3
• WAMP
• Microsoft Office 2007
• Skype
• Dropbox
• IE9 Preview/IETester

Not sure about games though. But I’m pretty sure it fit most Windows XP and Windows Vista game though.

System stability

Unless a serious lag or there isn’t a problem with it. Start up has been improved after a little tweak in msconfig. Running way faster than Windows XP with C2D 2GHz, 3GB RAM only.

Features

Taskbar started to get familiar after a few months down the road. It did save a lot of space, but still, the bug there is the active icon, which always lighting up and sometimes, even the windows choser came out and can’t turn off.

Window arrangement (Or whatever it name is) is also one of the favourite feature. Though I hardly use it

I would of course give a try on the next operating system if Microsoft ever come out. This improvement shows that Microsoft is competitive enough but just lazy. Until tyhe fire burnt on the butt only they move, which may result a late reply as well.

Now that Ubuntu and Mac has been closely running behind to get some share in the market. Let’s see how Microsoft going to come out next

As I mentioned earlier, Microsoft is giving an IE9 test drive of their latest development of IE9.

Well, I got an email from a client telling me something is wrong in IE9 Preview. I was shocked that some how, some users are so keen about IE9 development progress.

In all unwillingness, I downloaded and installed the piece of software, hoping that it will work much better. Well, it did

Put away the crash that happen so often (it is a beta preview after all), the developer tools is definitely an improvement on IE. Especially it works much better than Google Chrome, seriously!

Just when most people thought Microsoft should be invited to luxury baby shower invitations, they are announcing their speed, especially the cloud computing.

Recently Windows 7 team blog announced that Windows 7 had sold more than 90 million copies, and now cloud computing is the “all in” for Steve Ballmer and its Microsoft team.

It seems to me like Microsoft is taking it step, after the success of Windows 7. I love Windows 7 for its stability and the speed, period! I am not into cloud computing at the moment, I probably don’t mind a lot about it Well, until that one day…