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Three software programs that [used to] plague our computers: Acrobat, Java, Flash

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There used to be three programs that really made our computer miserable. They were slow, bloated, intrusive and a lot of security holes opened with them when you installed. Java – Probably Java is the nastiest of all Until few years ago you could not browse some web sites because some derailed ‘web developers’ decided […]

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Win7-Wrong folder permission

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Fixing Folder Permissions After Upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 Under Windows XP, I never had to worry about file or folder permissions—they just worked. However, after upgrading to Windows 7, I noticed that some programs no longer had proper ‘read’ or ‘write’ access to their own folders. This wasn’t limited to system folders

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