Recently, I’ve come across an annoying problem in Windows 7. There seems to be a service, named PresentationFontCache.exe, that hogs CPU power for an extended period of time – which can be extremely annoying when playing games or using CPU-intensive applications. From research, the service seems to be part of the ‘Windows Presentation Foundation service’ …
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Mar
17
2010
Internet Explorer 9 not for Windows XP
Inevitably, Microsoft has drawn the line from Windows XP and clearly they are attempting to slowly pull people away from XP and onto more recent versions of Windows. I don’t suppose it concerns many people anyway – who wants Internet Explorer? Firefox is several times better and Chrome is another story altogether. Nevertheless, it could …
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Sep
30
2009
Microsoft Security Essentials – hands on…
It was in tech news today that Microsoft has let loose its new free security system to replace Windows Live OneCare. It’s been expected for release for quite a while but we didn’t know an exact date. So, GEEK! decided to have a quick go with the new software and see whats up. You can …
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