Angelo PC

This is just a quick update to a post I had originally published, just a few weeks back. This post is for people who need to know how to remove Ascentive PC SpeedScan Pro and all the garbage that comes with it.

I thought I had gotten rid of all traces of Ascentive PC SpeedScan Pro, shortly after I tested and uninstalled it. As it turns out, I was mistaken.

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Back in January of last year, I contacted Angelo State University (ASU) to alert them to a potential problem, regarding the privacy of their students. Their website’s student directory had listed every student, by name, including their “ASU” email address. I was a little astonished to see that they would care so little, not only about the privacy of their students, but that they would offer-up this large list of email addresses to any spammer that wanted them.

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Many more people know about the free “office” suite from OpenOffice.org than are actually taking advantage of it. OpenOffice offers a word processor (similar to Word), a spreadsheet program (compatible with Excel files), a presentation creator (similar to PowerPoint) and more. All at the amazingly-low price of $0.00!

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If you’ve already read the post about changing your email to Gmail, you may be interested to know that I’ve discovered a little tool that will upload your existing Outlook, Outlook Express or Thunderbird email messages into your Gmail account. Great, right!? There’s one catch…you have to have a Google Apps account for it to work. In order for you to take advantage of Google Apps for free, you need to use your own domain name. That’s a small price to pay for having all of your currently-stationary and static Outlook emails moved to Gmail!

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When you touch a hot stove and pull your hand away, do you need to be told not to touch it again? My guess is no. Then why is it so hard for people to resist installing smileys, toolbars and screensavers, even after they’ve been told how bad they are?

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A few of my customers, lately, are complaining that they can’t watch videos at YouTube.com. They see a message stating that the latest version of the Flash player isn’t installed or that they may be experiencing issues with the current version or configuration of the Java software.

I’ve seen references to this problem, elsewhere, but no real solutions.

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I’ve finally organized all (almost all) of my email addresses with Google Apps. It’s like a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders! I can now access all of my email, from every account (and I have many), without having to “forward” it to different addresses, just to make sure I’m receiving all messages, from all addresses.

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Clearly, you need to have the ability to cleanup routine spyware and virus infections from your computer. Without this ability, you’ll be paying someone, like me, lots of money to do it for you or you’ll continue to use your infected computer until it’s no longer usable.

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Some people just don’t have the time or patience to sit and read a long article on how to perform a specific operation on their computer. This post condenses some of my previous articles and blog posts. It covers what I believe to be the five most common and pressing problems that average computer users face.

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Symptoms: Google’s search results redirect you to the wrong page.
You search for something at Google, or other search engines for that matter, and when you click the search results, you’re redirected to a related web page or search page, but NOT the original search result page.

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