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Anti-Virus Software, That's Free!

I am probably the last Microsoft blogger to actually get round to writing something about this… but hey, I have been busy! Microsoft recently released to the public their free anti-virus solution, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE). I had been trialling Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12:27 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments

Safely setting autologon for Windows

When configuring Microsoft Windows to auto-logon, most people just modify the following keys in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\AutoAdminLogon HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\DefaultUserName Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 6:16 PM by Daniel Oxley | 1 Comments
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Windows Server 2008 doesn’t have to ignore the MBSA if you don’t want it to

The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyser (MBSA) is an excellent free tool by Microsoft that provides a simple and easy-to-use method of identifying common security misconfigurations for your Microsoft Windows computers.  The current version (MBSA Read More...
Posted Monday, April 20, 2009 9:28 AM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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Job/Life/Reputation protector 2.0

Back in January I posted some simple VBA code for adding an “are you sure?” type question to the Reply To All button in Outlook. Since then I have received a few suggestions for improving the code, one of the most common of which was to add to the question Read More...
Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 12:58 PM by Daniel Oxley | 4 Comments
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In the immortal words of Homer, "Doh!"

I use Bitlocker on my work laptop to ensure that all my data is safe as I would not want any corporate or client documents to fall into the wrong hands. Also, as most people do, I store some personal data on my work laptop. Nothing exciting really, just Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:41 PM by Daniel Oxley | 3 Comments
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