I have been getting this a lot at work. They have ended support of XP what should I do? Well here at work we are doing...nothing. Yep that is right not to worried here and I will explain why. It was estimated that 20% of current running pcs still run XP and here at my job I would say that we run about 35% over all campuses. Now the following are options and may not be truth but here is what I think. XP has been one of the most reliable operation systems in some time from Microsoft. And They don't even want to mention Vista so lots of people stuck with XP. I think there is some fear mongering going on because if you notice they have been very public on social media letting people know that they are ending support and I think that is to help sales of MS 8 which hasn't done as well as they had hoped according to investor reports.
Now as to why you shouldn't worry. It is like a lot of things with computers if you use common sense and don't go to places you shouldn't anyway you will be fine. If you are going to risky websites and I am sure we know what i mean by that XXX, or illegal software websites then you are taking that risk weather you have new security updates or not. A great example was the latest Internet Explorer bug. Yes it was bad and yes you could get your computer seriously messed up because of it BUT you still had to go to fake website that some one would have to set up and lure you too. Point is most holes and back doors are exploited when you take a risk any way.
Really with XP if you still wish to use it just remember to be safe. Don't go to those bad websites, keep your antivirus up to date, and run scans every now and then(reference my maintenance post 1, 2, 3) and you will be fine. I hope this helps you and thanks for reading. Please feel free to post if you fell differently.
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Annoying Internet Explorer Trusted Site Pop Up and how to REMOVE!
Hello again. I have been having a deal of this at work and figured that there must be people out there also having this problem. The issue is that in Internet Explorer a box pops up and ask if this website is ok to allow access. This might also be confusing with those that know a little bit about the internet options because it says that it is a trusted site but you of course don't have any trusted sites set up. Now you may want this site to never be shown or always be shown I will show you how to do both while taking down the pop up that seems to come up all the time.
First off you will need to open internet explorer and click ok on any pop ups that come up once the pop ups stop then we can begin. The directions are pretty much the same on all version of IE 8 and above with a few Graphic differences.
1. We want to find a Gear looking Icon near the top and click on it once. After that menu is up click on "internet options" (if it is grayed out and you can't click on it ie just hasn't loaded up yet click the gear icon again and wait a few seconds then click it again to bring it up it should have loaded by then allowing you to click on the "internet Options" object).
2. A box will open and their will be tab looking things on the top that have titles. Click on the one that says security once.
3.Normally you will see 4 colored icons in a white box bellow the tabs. We want to click on the one that says "Trusted Sites"
4. There will be a button closer to the bottom the box now that says custom level. IMPORTANT for this to look right you must have "trusted sites" selected.
5. Another Box will come up with a bunch of little dots that you can change settings but we are only looking for one. About 3/4 the way down there will be one that says "Websites in less privileged web content zone can navagiate into this zone" Prompt should be selected by default, this is why the pop up is coming up. If you want these sites to come up click the dot by "enable" if not click the one for "disable".
6. Once you have made your choice click OK at the bottom of that box to save and exit. Then click "OK" on the next box to save and exit and return to Internet Explorer.
From now on you won't have that pop up come up any more. Thank you very much for reading this and I hope dearly that this has helped you out.
First off you will need to open internet explorer and click ok on any pop ups that come up once the pop ups stop then we can begin. The directions are pretty much the same on all version of IE 8 and above with a few Graphic differences.
1. We want to find a Gear looking Icon near the top and click on it once. After that menu is up click on "internet options" (if it is grayed out and you can't click on it ie just hasn't loaded up yet click the gear icon again and wait a few seconds then click it again to bring it up it should have loaded by then allowing you to click on the "internet Options" object).
2. A box will open and their will be tab looking things on the top that have titles. Click on the one that says security once.
3.Normally you will see 4 colored icons in a white box bellow the tabs. We want to click on the one that says "Trusted Sites"
4. There will be a button closer to the bottom the box now that says custom level. IMPORTANT for this to look right you must have "trusted sites" selected.
5. Another Box will come up with a bunch of little dots that you can change settings but we are only looking for one. About 3/4 the way down there will be one that says "Websites in less privileged web content zone can navagiate into this zone" Prompt should be selected by default, this is why the pop up is coming up. If you want these sites to come up click the dot by "enable" if not click the one for "disable".
6. Once you have made your choice click OK at the bottom of that box to save and exit. Then click "OK" on the next box to save and exit and return to Internet Explorer.
From now on you won't have that pop up come up any more. Thank you very much for reading this and I hope dearly that this has helped you out.
Thursday, May 1, 2014
My view on Mac Books
Recently at work we have been handed mac books for use with our campus. Being that I am school tech it is important that we start to play with them and understand them because soon all the teachers will have them and we will need to service them. I have always used pc but now I have a mac and and first I didn't know what to think but now its clear.
Coming from a PC to a Mac can be very intimidating I understand if nothing more than the price difference. It is truly staggering. A good starter pc cost you 300 bucks while a good mac will be nearly a grand. Why the difference well I think it is because of exclusivity. Mac doesn't give the MAC OS out to anyone. They oversee all the hardware that go into a mac and that is what you get. They don't have to worry about if it will work this or that because they know it will they already designed it to do so. So you have the keep that in mind.
What do I think about it I love it personally. It didn't take me long to get a hold of it. A lot of the same principles carry over. The networking is good and easy to use just like pc and wifi it just as easy as well. Also to me to UI is cleaner if that make sense. I can say on one program and look at just about anything while doing so. Most programers are doing programs for macs just as they do for pcs so I am not missing anything. Youtube plays well, my Facebook works just fine. They only internet issue I have ran into is with not having IE's activeX plugin(this plugin helps like flash to run certain internet apps.) but it can be worked around. I have MS Office which is now on mac. I could go on and on but really you just would have to play with one your self to find out what it is like. I would suggest if you can play with one at a apple store or some where that sales them or has them on demo so you can see if you will like it or not. Also feel free to ask question to the sales people because they might know how to do the things you want it to do and adapting from PC might not be as hard as you think. This has just been a thought of the day but as soon as I save up I will be getting a personal mac for my house soon. Thanks for reading.
Coming from a PC to a Mac can be very intimidating I understand if nothing more than the price difference. It is truly staggering. A good starter pc cost you 300 bucks while a good mac will be nearly a grand. Why the difference well I think it is because of exclusivity. Mac doesn't give the MAC OS out to anyone. They oversee all the hardware that go into a mac and that is what you get. They don't have to worry about if it will work this or that because they know it will they already designed it to do so. So you have the keep that in mind.
What do I think about it I love it personally. It didn't take me long to get a hold of it. A lot of the same principles carry over. The networking is good and easy to use just like pc and wifi it just as easy as well. Also to me to UI is cleaner if that make sense. I can say on one program and look at just about anything while doing so. Most programers are doing programs for macs just as they do for pcs so I am not missing anything. Youtube plays well, my Facebook works just fine. They only internet issue I have ran into is with not having IE's activeX plugin(this plugin helps like flash to run certain internet apps.) but it can be worked around. I have MS Office which is now on mac. I could go on and on but really you just would have to play with one your self to find out what it is like. I would suggest if you can play with one at a apple store or some where that sales them or has them on demo so you can see if you will like it or not. Also feel free to ask question to the sales people because they might know how to do the things you want it to do and adapting from PC might not be as hard as you think. This has just been a thought of the day but as soon as I save up I will be getting a personal mac for my house soon. Thanks for reading.
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