Monday, February 15, 2010

Tech Support: How to Detect and remove Malware Using Windows Defender

Windows Defender is an inbuilt tool into Windows Vista and available as a free download from Microsoft for XP users.
Windows Defender is easy to use and lets you do manual, scheduled, and real-time scanning with automatic updates of spyware signatures, without a large performance penalty.
If you have already installed or using a third-party anti-spyware application, there's really no need to keep Windows Defender's real-time scan enabled. In this case you can get a performance increase by disabling it.
Using Windows Defender
Selecting Tools and Settings will start you off in the appropriate window to stop applications from active on startup by selecting Software Explorer. Users can make other adjustments from here as well.
Selecting Tools and Settings will start you off in the appropriate window to stop applications from active on startup by selecting Software Explorer.
Some users find the Real-Time scanning annoying because the hard drive is always busy, just go into Options and disable it.  Uncheck the box for "use real-time protection". This is really helpful on a laptop, where every little bit of tweaking helps battery life.

Keep the automatic updates set so that you don’t have to worry about updating the protection database.

Microsoft Windows Defender allows users several options for scans. Quick Scans which scan essential OS directories, Full Scan which scans all files and folder, and Custom Scan which allows us to choose what to scan.

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Technical Support: Microsoft Office 2003 Help

Monday, February 1, 2010

Technical Support: Microsoft Office 2003 Help

Microsoft has a range of products and services, and it offers support for all its products. Microsoft Office 2003 has many improvements when compared to its predecessors. When you are working with Outlook 2003, you can have many technical issues like how to customize contacts, how to manage files, how to share information, how to automate tasks, how to organize calendar, how to customize e-mail messages, how to configure e-mail accounts and many others.

For getting information about how to resolve all these technical issues, you can visit Microsoft support website. When you are working with Office 2003, then you can take help from Microsoft Office online on many topics.

You can get information about how to create and format documents, how to share information, how to automate tasks, how to secure your documents, how to work with graphics and charts and many more related to Word 2003. While installation of Microsoft Office 2003, you can face some error messages like runtime error and so.

While working with Office 2003 you may face following error messages, “This patch could not be opened”, “The Windows Installer service could not be accessed”, you can take information from Microsoft support website for resolving these technical issues. You can also contact a support professional through e-mail, phone or online for getting help on technical issues related to Microsoft Office 2003. In Microsoft technical communities, you can ask questions, share information and exchange ideas with others.