Getting rid of outdated $NTUninstall information from your main Windows directory can free up several hundred megabytes of disk space. Do it wrong and you can confuse your OS.
Windows is such a terrible unoperating system that I find myself once a year or so having to wipe a computer I don’t care much about and reinstall everything rather than trying to solve whatever particular problem was surfaced — in stark contrast to troubleshooting my most-often-used computers during which I’d rather suffer losing my [...]
There are many reasons you’d want to permanently remap IP addresses and hostnames on your computer by editing its HOSTS file, the most common being to prevent access to harmful websites.
Sometimes, however, the reason is more benign; a local web application won’t allow itself to be run by visiting http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 — like a [...]
There’s a lot of stuff running by default in Windows Vista that you probably don’t need. Disabling them may speed up your sluggish computer.
When you view the Network Map on Windows Vista, you can’t see Windows XP computers on the network diagram. But Microsoft says Vista is not to blame.
Ever had a giant collection of large files on your Windows PC that you had to delete, but you wanted to skip the process of putting them in the recycle bin to avoid having to endure the often lengthy process of emptying the recycle bin later?
Who in their right minds wants Microsoft full access to whatever information they choose to send to themselves when you accidentally click on the box that pops up wanting you to report an application error or system crash to Microsoft? Not me! I personally find screaming an obscenity at the offending application much more therapeutic [...]
Many websites that have been designed to continuously monitor specific events use an automatic refresh to ensure the most recent data is visible. This is usually accomplished either through a REFRESH META tag in the HTML header, or by using JavaScript to set an elapsed time after which the page is refreshed. Other more complicated [...]
The Windows operating system has made a lot of advances in the last ten years — that admission a shocker coming from me, eh?! However, Microsoft has not been the innovator; rather it is the third-party companies that develop enhancements that have been the driving force behind the improvements.
For example, Norton Utilities was (and probably [...]
I’m republishing this piece of spam just because I think it so funny:
In what CEO Bill Gates called “an unfortunate but necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by competitors,” the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero Monday.
With the patent, Microsoft’s rivals are prohibited from manufacturing or selling products [...]
