How to secure your digital life

An article from MaximumPC.com on digital security, offering a good list of things to consider and watch out for to avoid becoming a victim.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/protect_and_defend_32_ways_secure_your_digital_life

A clean install of Windows 7 using upgrade media

Open regedit.exe

Mossy on over to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE/

Change MediaBootInstall from "1" to "0".

Close RegEdit.

Start up cmd.exe with administrator settings.

Enter the following: slmgr /rearm

Hit enter, wait for the confirmation, exit.

Restart computer.

Activate windows!

Disable proxy server in Chrome

Open the properties for the Chrome shortcut you're using, and add the following to the end of the target " --no-proxy-server=". There should be a space between .exe and --no.

Final result should look like this:

...Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --no-proxy-server=

Save.

Chrome fires up faster without having to detect proxy settings.

BSOD viewer

BlueScreenView scans all your minidump files created during 'blue screen of death' crashes, and displays the information about all crashes in one table. For each crash, BlueScreenView displays the minidump filename, the date/time of the crash, the basic crash information displayed in the blue screen (Bug Check Code and 4 parameters), and the details of the driver or module that possibly caused the crash (filename, product name, file description, and file version).

For each crash displayed in the upper pane, you can view the details of the device drivers loaded during the crash in the lower pane. BlueScreenView also mark the drivers that their addresses found in the crash stack, so you can easily locate the suspected drivers that possibly caused the crash.