Check your clock time/date settings

If you are experiencing certificate errors when browsing the web,

such as the one below

www.xoxoxo.com uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate has expired.
The certificate will not be valid until 3/27/2011 2:21 PM.
(Error code: sec_error_expired_issuer_certificate)

And no matter which browser you are using, (IE,CHROME,SAFARI,FIREFOX), the same error occurs.

There is a simple fix.

 Just set the correct date and time on your system clock and all will be ok again.

See here for an example listed

Clean Windows virus without booting into windows

At times, the Windows operating system may be severely affected by malware, spyware and virus to the extent that it is not possible to install an anti-virus, anti-malware or anti-spyware tool within the Windows operating system.

Nowadays, intelligent malware,spyware and virus are able to block out disinfectant tools and softwares that may be used to detect and eliminate the problems.

So how is it possible to clean up the operating system without booting into Windows?

2 known tools are available from renown anti-virus software companies.

1. Kaspersky Rescue Disk
2. F-Secure Rescue-CD

These are Live CDs which boots to a native environment that is independent of the operating system installed in the hard disk. And since they boot up using the files in the CD and not the hard-disk, malwares/spywares/virus in the hard-disk is unable to impair its operations.

Here are 2 very useful guides on how to use these CDs to remove the malwares, spywares and virus in your operating system.

1. Techmixer guide to using Kaspersky Rescue Disk

2. Linux-Tip.net guide to using F-Secure Rescue-CD

An easier way to download the CD images and install directly onto a USB drive instead of using CDs would be to use "Unetbootin". Just select the desired image [ F-secure or Kaspersky ] from the dropdown list of distributions and choose the USB drive to use. The "Unetbootin" application will automatically download the latest version of the Live CDs and install it onto the USB drive in one step.

A quick guide to using "Unetbootin" can be found here at PendriveLinux.com.

Unetbootin is available on operating systems such as Windows and Linux.

Speed up Windows Vista performance! Tips really work!

Vistax64 has a very good guide for speeding up Vista performance!

From boot up speed to application speed to managing services and registry optimization..

For all tech and non-tech users.

Choose which one to try.

So your Windows XP can't display Chinese Characters?

Have no fear... no more weird boxes as text font whenever you visit websites with chinese text..

To enable reading and writing of chinese text, here is a good guide.

11 Ways Computer Viruses Are Spread

11 Ways Computer Viruses Are Spread:

It is the worst nightmare of every computer user: you wake up one day and realize that you have a virus, and you don’t know quite how to get rid of it. Most people these days understand what a virus is and how harmful it can be, but they are still somewhat unsure how computer viruses spread. The truth is that there are dozens of different ways in which a virus can spread from computer to computer, but let’s take a look at the most frequent ways in which people run into viruses, spyware and Trojans on the Internet.