You have often heard the terms "spyware" or "malware" in the media. They're omnipresent; not a single day can pass without a new spyware report, without at least a newspaper accounting for some serious damage due to such a program and so on. But have you ...

Chances are that when you discover Spyware on your computer the first question that springs to mind is not “what is this exactly?”, nor “what does it do”, but “how did that get there?”. Spyware programs have an incredible ability of disguis...

The concerns we now have regarding privacy are certainly not to be taken lightly. Since we use our computers a lot, and for a very diverse set of purposes, it is obvious that the information which can be obtained from them is quite representative of our h...

Although our concerns regarding spyware are certainly not light, a lot of people tend to take spyware very lightly. This happens partly due to a certain lack of knowledge regarding how spyware works, but also due to the fact that most of the damage done b...

Chances are you have seen at least one film with hackers in it. These films tend to glamorise hacking but although the essence of these films (i.e. people hacking in and stealing information) is true, the way it is done in reality is very different. Sp...

The Windows Registry is a directory which is used by the Windows operating system in order to store various options and settings and to expose various kernel-level variables to the user. It stores both system-wide and user-wide settings, providing program...

As you probably came to know the hard way, the Windows Registry is fairly delicate part of your system. It sometimes “tends to break for no apparent reason”, and even though there is a good reason behind the registry getting corrupted or hopelessly bl...

ParetoLogic's RegCure is currently recognized as the best registry cleaning tool available on the market. Although the program itself is fairly self-explanatory and the instruction manual is detailed and easy to use, we will talk about how to quickly star...

Have you ever wondered what happens behind the doors of a registry cleaning software? What sets a good program, such as RegCure or ErrorSmart apart from the rest of the crowd? What makes them tick? This is what we are going to talk about today. Registr...

Have you ever wondered what happens behind the doors of a registry cleaning software? What sets a good program, such as RegCure or ErrorSmart apart from the rest of the crowd? What makes them tick? This is what we are going to talk about today. Registr...

We tend to take the Windows Registry for granted nowadays, but have you ever wondered how it came into existence and what the story behind it is? What is it that made Microsoft include this new facility, and how was it received? Let us think back in hi...

The Windows Registry is probably the most long-lived source of annoyances in the IT industry. At the time of writing, it is fourteen years old, and still alive and well. However, developers have been growing more and more frustrated with the Windows Regis...

The Windows Registry has this reputation of being ‘No Man's Land’, a reputation that it does deserve, up to a point. Indeed, it has a lot of undocumented settings and an endless list of possible 'tips and tricks' which make some miraculous changes to ...

Let's face it, humans are absolutely the most procrastinating form of matter in the entire Universe. It's our very nature that makes us procrastinate with every task that is assigned to us, postponing anything we have to do, from shopping to computer main...

Some cat owners make the mistake of preventing their cat from eating grass. There are various reasons for this, one being that they think it makes their cat ill or upsets their stomach. This is an incorrect assumption and in fact the eating of grass follo...