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Terrapin Networks - Moving IT Forward Archives: September 2007

21 September 2007

Old hard drives still full of confidential information

The PC World story here details how most used and discarded hard drives out there still have confidential information on them that can be easily retrieved.
This isn’t good, of course. Whether from a corporate workstation or home personal computer, you absolutely never want to let an ‘unscrubbed‘ hard drive out in the world. Lots of [...]

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6 September 2007

Screenshot Apps

Ever need to take a screenshot? Of course — we all have.
Getting a picture of what is on your computer screen has lots of uses, especially when trying to show how to do something. We use them when making some kind of ‘cheat sheet’ for a user: “To send email, go to…” followed by a [...]

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5 September 2007

Vista Tweaks

Another in our series of cool lists, this one shows some excellent tweaks for a system running the Microsoft Vista operating system.
It’s a pretty good list; find it here.
Here is another one for tweaking hard drive access speed with Vista; find it here.
These all look to be pretty safe.
Vista needs to be tweaked like any [...]

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