Windows Vista will be released today at 12:00 AM (or would that be tomorrow?) and while there will actually be people waiting in line at the box stores for its release, Schrock Innovations recommends you let the pioneers take the arrows on this one and wait until March to install the new operating system on [...]

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Windstream has announced that they will be updating the minimum system requirements for a PC to connect to DSL or DSL lite. Now you must meet the following minimum system requirements to receive support on connection problems from Windstream:

Windows 2000, XP, or Vista
300 MHz or Faster Processor
128 MB of RAM Memory
100 MB of Available [...]

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Last Saturday we received a call in our Lincoln Service Center from a person who was not a Schrock customer. This person was standing at a big box store’s computer repair center waiting for the technicians to put her computer back together.
She was having problems getting a picture on her monitor, so she took [...]

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We have posted the latest Compute This radio program on the Schrock Innovations Website.
This week we spent the majority of the program discussing the new Microsoft operating system, Windows Vista. There were not too many callers this week, and we covered a lot of ground. As usual we tried to keep the techie [...]

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Windows Vista is scheduled to be released in just a few days. Many of my customers have been asking if they should upgrade when it is released and if so, what they should expect.
I have installed Vista a few times in the past couple months, and I have been doing some significant reading on [...]

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Two of my customers in the past few days have heard a rumor that AOL is discontinuing its dial up and high-speed Internet services. As many of you know, I strongly dislike AOL, but for the sake of truth, I decided to call them and find out the real story behind the rumors.
I called [...]

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I have been running our new version of the Maintenance Checkup Home Edition for the past few days on my main PC and aside from taking care of a few false detections, it has been performing pretty nicely - especially for a beta version.
Version 2 of the Home Edition has been in development for almost [...]

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A new virus started showing up in people’s inboxes three days ago that attempts to trick people into opening an attachment that appears to be a video clip related to a news story.
The virus is called Trojan.Peacomm and it arrives in your inbox with a subject line that resembles a news story. The subject [...]

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A new Compute This radio program has been posted on the Schrock Innovations website at www.schrockinnovations.com/radio.php. This week’s show was very busy, with wall-to-wall calls throughout the program.
During the show, callers had questions about dial-up Internet, Music Match problems, and problems caused in Internet Explorer 7 by the Yahoo Toolbar.
The Lovely Kimberly had [...]

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My first article is scheduled to be published in March of 2007 in Smart Computing Magazine. In my article, I researched the different types of open-source software that is available and compared it to the commercial software that it most closely competed with.
You can read the first few paragraphs of the article on Smart [...]

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