Getting rid of outdated $NTUninstall information from your main Windows directory can free up several hundred megabytes of disk space.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.
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.
I arrived home from work a week or so ago and discovered the oh-so-friendly and wondrous Blue Screen of Death on my Windows XP x64 Dell Precision 470, which bore the foreboding phrase: STOP 0×000000ED UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME.
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 [...]
DOS Beer
Requires you to use your own can opener, and that you read the directions carefully before opening the can. Originally only came in an 8oz can, but now comes in a 16oz can. The can is divided into eight compartments of 2oz each, which have to be accessed separately. Soon to be discontinued, although [...]
I can never remember the method to use to enable Windows to transmit plain text passwords when connecting to a third-party Samba server (such as my Linux file servers!), so, once and for all, I decided to finally write it down!
Windows Vista:
Go to Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Local Security Policy > [...]
Are you tired of seeing MSN Messenger pop up on your Windows XP system? As usual, in an effort to continue its course towards domination of everything, Microsoft has made it difficult to remove. But it is possible! The following method works in Windows XP Professional, but has not been tested on a system with [...]
Well, since I covered a few computer stupidities, I guess I should give equal space to software stupidities…
Microsoft Word (somewhere around 1999) - “Word cannot edit the unknown.”
If you typed in ‘God’ at the prompt on an ICL mainframe running the VME operating system, and assuming an appropriately named program was not installed, you’d receive [...]
I’m not exactly someone you’d think of as pro-Microsoft; I’m sure that’s no surprise. Yet, unfortunately, I can’t afford to be totally anti-Microsoft, either — it’s just way too pervasive in our lives today to avoid altogether.
