Author: cfsystems

Last September we posted a news item about the checks you should make when choosing a cloud provider, with particular emphasis on making sure that the cloud services being evaluated have the pedigree to be in the market for the long run. Last week, California based company Skyhigh Networks released its first European Cloud Adoption […]

If you have followed CF Systems’ posts and news items you will know that we frequently highlight news of hacking and data breaches – recognised external threats. A recent report from security software vendor IS Decisions has focused our attention on the “threat from within”.  The study, entitled “The Insider Threat Security Manifesto: Beating the […]

A new version of the notorious Zeus banking Trojan has been discovered by research firm Malwarebytes. The malware works by embedding money stealing code inside desirable images, such as classic scenery or sunsets, that victims are tempted to download. The malware then goes to work when the user logs on to the website of one […]

  In this post, we’ll take a look at how you can manage your email better by having incoming mail automatically moved into separate folders. If you get a lot of email each day, this can save a lot of time rather than having to spend an hour once a week moving emails from the […]

  If you’re a web user constantly shuffling between documents and programs you probably have to minimise windows to get to the internet icon on your desktop, usually “Firefox,” “Opera,”“Chrome,” or “Internet Explorer.” Not exactly a terrible hardship, but Windows 7 can save you some steps by letting you install a miniature address bar right […]

You may have noticed a key on your keyboard named “Fn”, this Fn key stands for Function, it can be found on the keyboard along the same row as the space bar near the Crtl, Alt or Shift, but why is it there? Simply put, the Fn key used with the F keys across the top of the […]

  Finding that you are using some applications and folders more than others? Having to trawl through the windows to get to these files can be time consuming. You can now access your files quickly from the taskbar – saving you time.  Follow the simple directions below;   Add folder to Taskbar; Step 1: Right […]

In a text document, or on a webpage, if you are trying to find a particular word – CTRL + F will bring up a search box which you can enter in the word you are looking for and it will highlight all of them found.  It could save hours of time!!

    Listed below are another selection of really handy keyboard shortcuts; Pressing CTRL and ESC at the same time will open the start menu. Pressing ALT and F4 will close the current window you are using. Pressing CTRL with another key at the same time will do different things to highlighted text in Microsoft word. Here […]

  Did you know that you can capture any open window on your computer screen by using a short cut on your keyboard? Select the window you want and depress the ‘ALT’ key, then press the ‘PRTSCN’ key, that will capture the window image to the clipboard. You can then paste the image into Word, Excel, Outlook […]