BT have announced that they are boosting the maximum download speed of their Infinity 1 fibre broadband product to 76mbps. While this will certainly be welcome news for anyone on this package, it also has implications for those on Infinity 2

Microsoft have announced that there will be no further support for any of the applications within the 2007 version of their Office suite. This means this version of the software will no longer be patched, therefore leaving anyone running it on their machines vulnerable to attack.

You may not know this, but Windows 7, 8 and 10 provides a handy way of creating screenshots using something called the "Snipping Tool". This guide will explain how to find this tool and how to use it to create and send screenshots.

It has recently been discovered that the installer for CCleaner, a very popular program for automatically tidying and freeing up space on a PC, was hijacked for nearly a month in such a way that everyone that installed it was infected with a trojan.

Microsoft have recently announced that they will be releasing a new version of their ubiquitous Office suite. The various versions will include some or all of the usual suspects - Word, Excel, Powerpoint et al. This release is targeted at those individuals and businesses that use the package but haven't signed up to Microsoft's 365 subscription service.

One common problem we deal with is the fallout from a Windows update resetting and removing people’s default apps. PDFs opening in Edge rather than Adobe Reader is a frequent offender. We thought a quick guide on how to get them back to just the way you like them, could be just the ticket.

This month's HowTo outlines how to configure an automatic out of office message in both Outlook and Office 365. Note, both of these assume that you or your organisation is using either Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft Office 365. These methods will not work otherwise.

We're now only a few weeks away from the launch of the next big Windows 10 update. This update is being called, somewhat confusingly, the "Creators" update. This is also what they called the last update in April. This is to draw attention to the fact that the new features are also targeted at content creators.