When Windows Vista detects that your computer’s performance isnt enough for running Aero, it will automatically disable it. Normally once you close some applications, everything goes back to normal, but sometimes you get “stuck” with the Vista Basic theme, and have to go in and enable it again. Here’s how to re-enable the Windows Vista Aero Theme: 1. Right-click on the desktop and choose Personalize, then click on the link for “Window Color and Appearance” 2. Make sure that Windows Aero is selected in the list, and then hit the Apply button. This should re-enable Aero. IF not, read on…. [Read more] [Read more]

Having problems installing that Realtek/Soundmax HD audio driver for Windows? Here are some suggestions: [Read more] [Read more]

Don’t be in a rush to get the new Firefox 3.0 as Mozilla themselves disclosed that the software still has critical flaws: Mozilla has identified 10 high-priority bugs in Firefox 3.0, three of them pegged “critical,” but won’t decide until next week whether to release the browser anyway or restart the final stretch by issuing a second release candidate (RC2). “We are making a go/no go decision early next week, as we are still collecting feedback [on Release Candidate 1],” Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering, said in an e-mail Thursday. [Read more] [Read more]

Phishers have started to target users of Apple Inc.’s iTunes music store with sophisticated identity theft attacks for the first time, a security company said Tuesday. People began receiving spammed messages Monday telling them that they must correct a problem with their iTunes account, said Andrew Lochart, an executive with e-mail security vendor Proofpoint Inc. [Read more] [Read more]

When it comes to running a business, our own feet may be firmly on the ground but our data and software are increasingly in the cloud. Your company may consist of as little as two people but to the outside world you can seem a lot bigger, thanks to online applications. To get your tasks done, you might be leaning heavily on Web-based apps, from office suites to calendars to collaboration tools that let your work with colleagues on the other coast. Better yet, many of the services that are using are free–at least, in their most basic incarnations. That never hurts. [Read more] [Read more]