Performance drops/ slow computers As time goes by, your computer can get clogged up with files and programs that are no longer used but slow your computer down. It’s a bit like trying to drive with a ton of bricks in you boot. You will get your location, but really slowly. System crashes Having your […]
by Leon Jordaan at http://computerscairns.com.au and http://allcomputersupport.com.au on March 2, 2021. So we all just installed update 20H2 which took ages, and here comes another update. Microsoft announced the next feature update for its Windows 10 operating system, version 21H1, today officially on the Windows Experience blog. The update “will be delivered in an optimized way using servicing technology”. […]
by leon jordaan http://computerscairns.com.au and http://allcomputersupport.com.au on 10 Feb, 2021. Adding additional screens to laptop devices is hardly a new concept, but the Aurora 7 concept workstation certainly goes the extra mile. This imposing laptop sports seven inbuilt screens and was designed for use as a mobile security operations center, could be good for stock trading too though! […]
by leon jordaan 16 january 2021 @ http://computerscairns.com.au and http://allcomputersupport.com.au WOW… An unpatched zero-day in Microsoft Windows 10 allows attackers to corrupt an NTFS-formatted hard drive with a one-line command. This one-liner can be delivered hidden inside a Windows shortcut file, a ZIP archive, batch files, or various other vectors to trigger hard drive errors that corrupt the filesystem index instantly. “Critically underestimated” NTFS […]
by leon jordaan at http://computerscairns.com.au 31 December 2020. If you have installed a recent version of Adobe Flash Player on a Windows machine, you may see a popup displayed by the program that informs you that Flash support is ending on December 31, 2020. Adobe announced years ago that it would end support for Adobe Flash in 2020; browser makers […]
AZdecrypt is a fast multi-threaded homophonic substitution cipher solver with a Windows GUI. AZdecrypt was used by an international three-person team of codebreakers who made a breakthrough with the Zodiac Killer’s unsolved 340-character cipher on On December 3rd, 2020, and announced one week later. AZdecrypt might be flagged by most security software. The decrypted code reads: I […]
DUST AND WET SEASON humidity by leon jordaan http://computerscairns.com.au on 27 November 2020 So the wet season is here again…yay! Well not for computers with bone dry dust inside on the motherboard/ram/graphics card/heat-sink/power supply…. that dust which is being kept dry by the fans and heat. what happens in wet season when the humidity spikes to %90? […]
Apple on Wednesday agreed to pay $113 million to settle consumer fraud lawsuits brought by more than 30 states over allegations that it secretly slowed down old iPhones, a controversy that became known as “batterygate.” Apple first denied that it purposely slowed down iPhone batteries, then said it did so to preserve battery life amid widespread reports […]
by leon jordaan http://computerscairns.com.au in sub contracting, IT support on 12 November 2020. The Microsoft security update fixes a Windows zero-day vulnerability. On Tuesday, Microsoft rolled out its monthly Patch Tuesday security update for Windows 10, fixing 112 vulnerabilities across the OS, as well as in Microsoft Office, Edge and other products. One of the biggest issues Microsoft patched was a Windows zero-day […]
leon jordaan 6 November 2020 Microsoft says that it fixed a known issue affecting devices running Windows 10, version 2004 since June and causing external displays to go black when drawing in certain applications including Microsoft Office Word and Whiteboard. After impacted external monitors go black, users will also see that their graphics cards are marked as […]