General Blogs

from CaptainPC - One of the most effective upgrades anyone can get for their PC is more memory (RAM, for Random Access Memory). If you have a PC that is four to six years old, or only a year or two old, check the amount of memory you have on your current computer. In the present economy, unless you need the latest and greatest hardware, you would be surprised how...

from VickyRN - Has your "get up and go" got up and went? In this video clip, Jack LaLanne shares his timeless wisdom on living to one's full potential. This prototype of successful aging has steadfastly practiced what he has preached over the past 70 years and is still amazing at age 94, our national geriatric hero. Successful aging has three critical...

from CaptainPC - Windows by default will automatically restart when a system failure occurs. Usually at the worst possible time, Windows restarts; leaving you lost data and no clue as to the reason for the error. You could press F8 to boot into ‘Safe Mode’ but even if that breaks the restart cycle, you have no error message with which to begin a search for the...

from CaptainPC - Do you have Windows Vista on your new computer, but wish you could still have some of the features you enjoyed in Windows XP? I like some things about Vista, and I like some things about XP too. Today, we will look at some easy tweaks to Vista that will restore some of the functionality we enjoyed that ‘appears’ to be missing in Vista. I say...

from VickyRN - Alzheimer’s disease (AD) affects 4 - 5 % of older adults in the US. It is the most common type of dementia, and its effects are devastating for both the individual and the extended family unit, as well as being very expensive for society overall. The odds of developing AD double for each five-year period after the age of 65. By age 85, one-third...

from VivaLasViejas - Just got back from a fun-filled trip to our local county fair with dh and my teenage sons. It was the stuff of Norman Rockwell paintings, a perfect summer Saturday spent wandering through animal barns, debating the merits of various 4-H exhibits, and dining al fresco on the greasiest (and most prohibitively expensive) fare anywhere on the...

from VickyRN - Sociological theories focus on the changing roles and relationships that accompany aging. These theories discuss how these changing roles, relationships, and status impact the older individual’s ability to adapt. In this blog, we will discuss the following sociological theories: disengagement, activity, and continuity. Disengagement Theory –...

from VickyRN - Programmed theories propose that the body’s genetic code regulates cellular reproduction, aging, and death. Aging is based on an internal built-in genetic "clock" and follows a preset biological timetable. As such, growing old is not a result of a series of random events, but genes program age-related molecular and cellular changes. Aging,...

from CaptainPC - Placing a call to customer tech support with any of the major computer manufacturers can be an exercise in sheer frustration. If you have called support and found yourself on the phone with someone from another country then you’ve undoubtedly experienced frustration to the fifth power. Even when you get to talk to someone you can understand, there...

from CaptainPC - In the last day or so I have seen a relatively new version of a rogue malware application called "System Security 2009". This is a newer variant of one simply named "System Security". A client brought his desktop to me infected with this rogue. You could technically call this a "Trojan" infection because it pretends and appears to be something it...

from VivaLasViejas - Or is it a day late and a dollar short? Either way, like comedian Bill Engvall, I've always been about 15 degrees off "cool". I wondered for years why I was always just behind the curve. I missed the fun part of the 1960s by just a few years, and came of age in the middle of the most boring decade on record. I never got into fads until they...

from CaptainPC - Today we will look a way to eradicate the rogue malware application called “System Security 2009”. If you would like to check out our encounter with this rogue app, see our blog titled “Another Battle In the War For PC Security”. Booting into Windows is not effective in dealing with this rogue. It disables every executable program on your...

from CaptainPC - Disturbing issues with Windows "Automatic Update" have recently come to light. As a background to these issues, please see my blog entry "The Perils Of Windows Automatic Updates" where I outlined some pitfalls concerning automatic updates on Windows XP and Vista. When I wrote that blog, I was unaware of the even more disturbing issues we will...

from VivaLasViejas - Somebody, please tell me I'm not the only one to experience this: Have you ever changed the toilet paper roll at home, only to find yourself changing them everywhere you go for the next week or so? I mean, it happens EVERY. SINGLE. PLACE. The cycle begins in my own bathroom, where my dearly beloved will leave approximately 1 1/2 inches of...

from VickyRN - For centuries, people have sought the key to immortality and ways to unravel the mysteries of aging. One of the most famous was Ponce de Leόn in his quest for the legendary fountain of youth. Modern-day seekers of youth resort to plastic surgery, injections of hormones such as human growth hormone or testosterone, miraculous lotions and...