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Menu Maid An Excellent Utility! Are you looking for a fast and easy way to clean up your Window Explorer and Internet Explorer right-click (context) menu? Look no further -- MenuMaid makes it simple! Just uncheck the items you don't want to show up. ... Restore them at any time. http://www.sdsoftware.org Data Terminator Data Terminator is specially developed to protect confidential data files from being accessed by a stranger. Data Terminator permanently deletes selected files from your computer. You can actually specify what you want to happen if your laptop or computer is no longer under your ... (view more)

Microsoft has reached a deal with a leading security firm that could give corporate users the ability to tighten up their defenses. The benefits could even extend to Windows home users. The deal has been made with EMC Corporation, a firm which ... produces the data storage system used by many large organisations. Microsoft has signed a deal with EMC's security division to licence the forthcoming DLP suite, a package designed to prevent data loss. The package will be used in Microsoft's server products. It allows users to find and monitor data across one or more networks and control who is able to ... (view more)

According to an online safety group, complete financial identities, including names, addresses, passport numbers and confidential data such as credit card numbers, are being sold online for 80 GB pounds for a bundled package, and as little as 5 GB ... pounds for a single piece of data. The Get Safe Online group, backed by police, government and banks, says ID theft is a serious problem because of an international trade in stolen identities and data. The bundles of data are harvested in concerted attacks against poorly defended computers in wealthier nations and are often sited in countries with ... (view more)

An official report says two IRS computer systems have serious security weaknesses. It also warns information about taxpayers is at risk of falling into the wrong hands. The report, by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, a federal ... agency which monitors IRS performance, details problems with a new billion dollar system which will eventually manage the data for all taxpayers. The Customer Account Data Engine (CADE) already handles 28 million tax returns, around a fifth of the total. The report also covers the Account Management Services (AMS) system, which provides quicker ... (view more)

Last fall, several communications companies reportedly conducted trials, in some cases lasting up to 6 months, of network-based technology designed to track a customer's Internet actions, attempting to amass refined data on web-surfer habits that ... may be sold at premium rates to advertisers. Cable One's 'trial' affected about 700,000 customers. Bresnan Communications conducted a similar 'trial' that was limited to about 6,000 broadband customers in Billings, Montana from April 1 to June 26, 2008. Knology tested it on about 230,000 of their customers from January until July 2008. WideOpenWest ... (view more)

MS Excel 2007 has a new feature called data visualization that will allow you to see when data in a worksheet has attained a certain value. You could use this nifty feature to see which departments in your company have attained above-average sales ... this quarter. Follow the steps below to learn how: Select the data cells you would like to analyze. Click the Home tab. In the Styles group, click Conditional Formatting. Select Top/Bottom Rules. Click Above Average. Click OK. All cells with above-average values will appear in red. If you would like to see the top 10% performers, follow these steps ... (view more)

It can be daunting and more than a bit frustrating when the CEO of your company dumps a ton of data on your desk and expects you to hastily turn it into an MS Excel database. But it doesn't have to be daunting any longer -- it can even be easy using ... the Data Entry Form in MS Excel. This handy feature will allow you to enter an entire row of date all at one time, rather than entering each little bit of data one at a time. Sounds a lot better already doesn't it? So we have now established that data entry forms in MS Excel definitely bear investigating eh? Follow the steps below to learn how. To ... (view more)

A reader asked if there was any formula in Excel that would convert a date shown in the European format of day-month-year to the U.S. version of month-day-year. Technically, it may not be necessary to do this. Excel maintains dates as numeric values ... and displays them using various formats. If the dates are numeric values in your worksheet, then you can simply change the format and the dates will be displayed in the U.S. format. The day you see in a worksheet could instead be a text value rather than a numeric value. To see if the date is truly an Excel date or text value, you can change the ... (view more)

Most of you are familiar with the AutoSum feature in MS Excel and find it very handy indeed. All you have to do is click that icon on your toolbar and bingo! your formula for the sum of a data range is located just above whatever cell you have ... selected. I know that there are lots of folks out there like me who prefer to use the keyboard as much as they can because we like fewer keystrokes and saving time! So if you are one of those folks, here is another quick and easy way to sum in MS Excel.Select the cell below your column of data Then simply click ALT + = (Alt, plus the equal sign). Ta-da ... (view more)

Microsoft has joined the revolution, creating their own version of a data storage and web software system called "Live Mesh". Microsoft aims to further blur the distinction between software running on the Windows operating system and a number of ... other services that will be offered to all sorts of present and future electronic devices. Located through a web browser, Live Mesh will not be so much an online operating system as it will be a control page for document files. What is unique about the documents stored on Live Mesh is that they will have no specific location, allowing them to be sent ... (view more)