Posted by dvanarsd on April 20, 2008
Daily Cup of Tech has a video stating that Windows uses up 20% of your bandwidth for its own updates. How do you reduce this?
Use at your own risk, but might help speed up your Internet.
“According to this video, Windows reserves 20% of your bandwidth for Windows Updates. This is how to reclaim that bandwidth by modifying the local computer policy. This might be something worth looking at implementing via a group policy on your Windows corporate domain.”
Posted in Help, Microsoft Windows, updates | Tagged: bandwidth, Microsoft, speed, updates, Windows | No Comments »
Posted by dvanarsd on January 15, 2008
Secunia Software Inspector checks your computer online for unpatched software for the more common programs, and reports what you need to patch/update to be safer. This is free, and does not keep any confidential data from your computer. This scan will find software (including the operating system) with known security flaws for which patches exist. The on-screen report lists your updated apps (with a green checkmark) and nonupdated apps (with a red X). If you have multiple copies of a single application installed, the report will list each version. Click the “+” icon to the left of each item for more information, including the specific path to each file.
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Posted in Freeware/Shareware, maintenance, updates | Tagged: freeware, Inspector, Secunia, software, Update, updates, versions | No Comments »
