Update from VMware Partners Exchange

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Bob Nolan, Raxco Software’s CEO, attended the VMware Partners Exchange (PEX) in Las Vegas last week Vegas; this is the show where VMware meets with its worldwide partners and kicks off the new year.

Here is a brief overview of the show from Bob:

There were keynote addresses by the VMware co-presidents, Paul Maritz and Carl Eschenbach, Chief Technology Officer Dr. Steve Herrod, Channel Senior Vice President Scott Aronson and others. These guys have all been in place for the 3 years I have attended these events, and its clear they have a plan and are sticking to it. There are some very bright guys here. Continue reading →

How To Turn Off 5 Annoying Windows Features

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How many times a week do you need to close out a nagging message at the bottom of your desktop? Do you ever find yourself in the middle of a task when Windows decides it’s time to shut down and reboot without your permission?

We’ve all encountered annoying system features we wish we could turn off. With a few registry edits,  now you can!

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Raxco is gold again (or still)

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For the 12th consecutive year, Microsoft has recognized Raxco’s accomplishments by naming us a Microsoft Gold Partner again, for 2012. This award does not come easily, and we don’t take it lightly. There are numerous requirements to achieve this honor. Most notably, there is a long set of requirements and tests PerfectDisk has to go through. Microsoft engineers put PerfectDisk through a rigorous set of usability, functional and compatibility tests to ensure it meets Microsoft standards.

While we get some gold plaques for our walls, our customers get the satisfaction and comfort of knowing PerfectDisk is part of Microsoft’s elite set of certified applications.

8 Reasons Your Virus Protection Isn’t Perfect

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Just over two weeks ago, I was visiting a friend who suffered a virus attack on her laptop. Annoyed and perplexed, she told me the only thing she could think of was that she had received a Facebook wall post from a friend inviting her to see the people that had viewed her profile. Being less technically aware than I, she clicked on the link hoping to see a list of those who were curious enough about her to view her profile page and photos. Needless to say, she had fallen for what seemed like the oldest trick in the book, at least to an Internet geek like me.

Protect Yourself from Malicious Facebook Links – Download a Free Trial of PerfectAntivirus

I use the term “geek” loosely because I have worked in the online market for about a decade but a true IT geek I am not. I would say I’m more technically-savvy than a big chunk of the population – I started using the Internet in 1993, I can set up a wireless router, hook up your Internet cable modem, and I even know little tricks like doing a system restore and looking at the source code of a web page to unmask links.

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15 Things All System Admins Should Know

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Did you know? Fragmented files can take 15-20 times longer to access than a contiguous file of the same size.

Fragmentation is inherent in using Windows and as we have described it, with system use the problem compounds itself until it has an impact on performance and user response.

15 Things All System Admins Should Know About Storage Performance: Continue reading →