Rumors have surfaced that Microsoft would extend sales of Windows XP past the originally announced cut-off date of June 30th but only for low-cost laptops. Today, the company is confirming the buzz: It’ll still sell Windows XP Home as an operating system for what it calls Ultra Low-Cost PCs–small, cheap, less-that-powerhouse notebooks along the […]
So you plug in your USB drive to your PC, do your thing and then proceed to remove the USB device when Windows says it isnt safe to do so, Now, what do you do? Windows will recommend - via a dialog box - that you wait and try again, and that often works. But […]
When you log into Windows XP as a limited user, standard security settings dictate neither you nor any program you run can change any important Windows setting. On a shared computer, you should follow good security policies by maintaining an administrator account for yourself and give other users limited accounts.
For maximum protection, use a […]
Microsoft is planning a launch event Feb. 27 in Los Angeles and will likely to release both Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 close to that date. The company has said it plans to release the server and client software around the same time. Vista SP1 typically is a milestone that many corporate users wait […]
Your PC has hundreds of drivers, services, tasks, and applications loaded and running at any given point. You’ve only got so many system resources; you have limited memory and a finite amount of CPU cycles. It’s time to take back your system, and TaskPower 3 can help. TaskPower 3 lets you view all of the […]
You probably encountered this problem when you have your old PC try to connect to your new PC’s that come with Vista. Microsoft designed Vista’s networking to be both secure and simple. So much for what they intended. Some networking headaches are specific to Vista, and others existed before Vista and continue to exist.
This […]
Determining the latest Windows service pack that is currently installed on your Windows XP PC can be important for a number of reasons: Some software programs, such games and productivity software, require that Windows XP is patched to a certain service pack and will not operate correctly if the service pack is not installed. Knowing […]
Some people asked me how to find their Windows XP product keys codes so that they can reinstall their beloved OS (sorry Vista).
If you’re in the same boat, preparing to reinstall your authentic copy of Windows XP, you will need to locate your copy of the Windows XP product key. Normally tyou will find this […]
PC World shows us how to make the switch back to Windows XP and deal with the gnarly problem of transferring your Vista e-mail, contacts, and user data back to the old standby operating system:
“After exploring Windows Vista for about six months on my test-bed PC, I decided two months ago that, along with upgrading […]
Scheduling a task to handle automated disk checking at regular intervals takes only a few minutes. First, to check your disk manually, click Start, Run (or press Windows-R) to open the command line, type cmd.exe /c echo y|chkdsk c: /f /x, and press Enter. ‘Cmd.exe’ is the command processor, which opens a command-prompt window in […]
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