When I first fired up Windows Vista, about 4 months ago, I quickly noticed this little box (User Account Control) popping up asking me if I wanted to continue whenever I started a program. At first, I thought there must be some purpose for it, but I have yet to see it. When I click [...]

Here is one tip for getting a little extra functionality from the Vista clock on the taskbar. As simple as that clock is, many users need to keep track of time in multiple time zones.

The Windows Sidebar is neither friend nor foe. It’s an option. And it can be disabled. For administrators, the big question might be “how can I disable it throughout my domain?” The two sets of Group Policy settings are the computer level and the user level. Either one works, but disabling the Sidebar at the [...]

Just so every knows, I acquired all of these ebooks by legal means. They are freely available on the Internet, just not all in one place. Since this is a Windows blog, I thought some of our visitors would be interested in them. They are all in .pdf format and these are direct download links.

You can only speed up XP with tweaks and setting changes so much. Be sure all your drivers and software applications are up to date and you have a sufficient amount of memory (at least 256mb). Also backup your system before performing these tweaks.

I think the complaints started pouring in about Windows Vista very soon after it launched and now many computer users are no more closer to accepting it as a trusted operating system. I haven’t had any real problems with my Vista system, but I didn’t have any great desire to move to Vista either. I [...]