Windows Bulletin

Block and delete any content that is proven to violate these laws. If Microsoft receives a complaint of copyright infringement from third parties or local law enforcement agencies, Microsoft may remove your content without notice to you.

Loss of access to services and data

The new Microsoft service agreement requires you to sign up for services at least once every 270 days if the service is free. This confirms that you continue to use the service. If you do not have access to the Services for 270 days, you may lose access to the Services. read more

This year in August 2012, Google asked community members to expand the Google Drive image collection. The Internet giant asked members to submit their favourite 10 ThinkStock images. 900 photos were selected from the ideas submitted.

However, it was this week that the company announced that a huge collection of 5000 high quality free images was available for use with Google Docs & Google Drive. A new service called Stock Images has been added to Google Drive to allow users to add images to presentation slides, documents, files and spreadsheets. read more

Many of us still prefer the integrated disk cleaning tool. However, if you use the tool to delete unnecessary and temporary files, some files may still exist in the temporary folder. This is because by default Windows does not delete temporary files (.tmp) in the folder %WinDir%Temp and other folders created or accessed in the last 7 days.

Files may refer to something you download or modify. They may even be linked to an application that is still open. Windows plays security and does not delete temporary files that are less than 7 days old. read more

saves all your Facebook account data.

To view the backup, log into your account with Backupify and browse the list of available backups. You can also request an export by using the link in the lower left corner of the screen while the backup is displayed. When you request an export, you will receive a zip file containing Facebook information at the email address you used to register for Backupify.

These are the three most important tools I have found useful in securing Facebook data. If you have any favorites, please let us know. read more

3D Pinball was one of the most popular games on any Windows XP computer. Have you ever wondered why Microsoft decided to remove it from later versions of Windows? Most speculated that the reason was legal, but it was not.

The 3D pinball was originally written for Windows 95 and had a rendering loop that painted the frames as fast as possible. However, when porting to Windows XP, Pinball’s frame rate on modern hardware (at the time) was over a million frames per second. Microsoft later added a limiter in Windows XP that limits the frame rate to 120 frames per second. This was sufficient to reduce CPU usage from 100% to 1%. read more

Previously, we used FileZilla Client, a free FTP client for Windows that can be used to access and transfer files to your FTP server. We also saw how we could access the FTP server with NotePad++, a Notepad alternative for Windows. In this post, we will discuss how to access FTP from the command prompt.

The Windows command prompt allows access to the server via the FTP command. Once connected to your server, you can transfer files from and download files from your PC by simply using commands. I will also list some of the FTP commands that will be useful over time. read more

Google Chrome is one of the most popular browsers. It has speed, features and many plugins to improve its ease of use. It is this browser advantage that makes it vulnerable to the most common problem – crash plugin. One of its plugins, the Shockwave plugin, is often known to crash Chrome.

A Shockwave Flash plug-in does not respond

You may have occasionally observed that Chrome cannot play some media files due to a long browser delay and the following message appears with dismay:’A Shockwave Flash plug-in does not respond’. What causes this browser delay? Well, like other browsers, Chrome requires no additional Flash installation. It already has its own internal flash installed, which is updated with each new version. read more

ystem represents a serious safety risk.

Old versions of SunJava (up to JRE 6 Update 7) have been preserved when installing updates and should be removed, as older versions of SunJava are very vulnerable to Winfixer/Vundo. It took from 2005 until the JRE 6 Update 10 update for SunMicrosystems on Sun Microsystems to get the SunJava autoupdater to uninstall earlier (vulnerable) versions of the program. Updates for JRE 6 Update 10 forward are in a separate jre6 folder, which is overwritten when a new JRE is installed. Even if you use the latest version of SunJava, it is vulnerable to infection if older and vulnerable versions are still present on your computer. Unfortunately, simply using Add/Remove programs to uninstall older versions is not completely effective. read more

One of the main concerns of users when using electronic messaging services is the following: – Can I send large files as attachments? Different email providers offer different attachment restrictions. Gmail allows files up to 25MB as attachments, Hotmail and Yahoo allow 10MB. To send larger files, users must upload files to a file-sharing website and then share the URL with the recipient.

The new version of Outlook.com provides a seamless experience when adding files. While you can still attach attachments up to 10 MB to the email itself, for files over 10 MB up to 300 MB, it now offers an easy way to send them – with SkyDrive! With SkyDrive, you can now share individual files up to 300 MB – or hundreds of smaller files – in a single email! read more

Downloading large numbers of files to your SkyDrive account can often result in slow download speeds. Manual configuration change under the hood now improves download speed in SkyDrive.

Download speed optimization in SkyDrive

This manual configuration change overwrites the number of files processed during the download process. This setting increases the number of files processed simultaneously from their default value of 1 to 2 or 3

Manual configuration on Windows and Mac :

On a Windows PC , follow these steps :

• If you are using SkyDrive, close SkyDrive
• Press Winkey+R to open the Run
• field.
• Type %localappdata%MicrosoftSkyDrivesettingsglobal.ini Press Enter to open the global.ini file. If assigned in Notepad, it is opened in Notepad.
• When you open Notepad, add the line from ConcurrentUploads number = 2 as the first line in the file. Make sure that numberOfConcurrentUploads does not exist before adding. Do not make any other changes to the file. Save.
• You can set the value of number DeConcurrentUploads to 1, 2 or 3
• Start SkyDrive now.

And after changing the value to 2 or 3, see if the download speed has increased when downloading a large number of files or not. read more