If you are looking for an easy way to open files more quickly in Vista, here is one quicky adjustment that you can make. Anytime a file is opened on an NTFS partition, a date stamp is updated to show the last time that the file was accessed. This is in addition to the “last [...]

The vast majority of PC’s running Windows Vista have their hard drives partitioned using the newer NTFS format rather than the older and less efficient FAT32. Expecting that some users would still need to be able to run older 16-bit software from the DOS-era, Microsoft built Vista with support for the old DOS 8.3 file-name [...]

If you are like the vast majority of PC users, you generally uninstall software either by using the Windows uninstall feature or the uninstall program that came packaged with whatever software it is you’re trying to get rid of. While this method gets rid of the majority of the related program files and gets it [...]

For those of you interested in the latest release of Windows 7, here is a really good Windows 7 video preview and walk-through. For the most part, Windows 7 appears to be pretty cool and it is actually less resource intensive that Windows Vista which means that it may actually perform considerably better than Vista [...]

If your Windows XP system seems to be hanging for two or three minutes each time you start it up, there may be an easy fix for you. The system hang that I’m referring to is when your desktop will load, but you will be unable to access the Start Button or Taskbar for a [...]

All the testing and feedback from the Windows 7 Beta release a few months ago has finally culminated in the announcement of the first Windows 7 Release Candidate (Windows 7 RC). Microsoft has made the RC of its Windows Vista replacement available to the public for download on its website. If you have a system [...]

Many users of Windows XP have found the built-in automatic Windows updates to be extremely annoying and resource consuming. Most of these users are able to disable the automatic update feature within the Automatic Updates tab of My Computer, but very few realize that doing this does not actually stop the Automatic Update service from [...]