by scotttech1
Phone Scams
I have had a few fake tech support calls myself, but what really worries me is the number of calls "un-technical" people have told me about this and the lack of awareness
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by peter
Windows 8: Metro vs. Desktop?
Microsoft wants to have things both ways -- literally. They want to have a touch-based UI to address the growing popularity of tablets, but didn't want to turn their back on the legacy Windows experience that has been so massively successful for them for the better part of two decades. I sort of understand the decision to cram both of these interfaces together -- Microsoft believes, rightly or wrongly, that having the apps and power of a full PC will give them a fighting chance in the tablet...
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by peterto
How to restore from a hidden recovery partition
Just thought I'd document this, since I don't see any real information on the internet about how to go about doing this.
I'm planning on selling one of my computers, but I needed to restore it to factory settings. Unfortunately, I've done many things with my computer, installed various linux distros, running a clean install of Windows XP and Windows 7, but one of the things I never did was create recovery DVDs in case I have any issues or wanted to restore it.
Luckily for me, I kept the recovery... Read more →
I'm planning on selling one of my computers, but I needed to restore it to factory settings. Unfortunately, I've done many things with my computer, installed various linux distros, running a clean install of Windows XP and Windows 7, but one of the things I never did was create recovery DVDs in case I have any issues or wanted to restore it.
Luckily for me, I kept the recovery... Read more →
by jonursenbach
This video showing the upgrade path from Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 is pretty crazy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14 tl;dr on it is that everything installed in 1.0 carries through to 7 with the exception of color schemes.
by dave
So, what's up with all those "Free Public WiFi" networks?
This weekend, NPR had a story about the these pervasive (though for the most part, benign) networks that one sees nearly everywhere they go. Basically, it's all because of a bug in how Windows XP handles ad hoc networks. Link to the story on NPR here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story... More on how this works from the NPR piece: "When a computer running an older version of XP can't find any of its "favorite" wireless networks, it will...
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by toddjy
Running downloaded programs...
When I download a program installer from the internet, say iTunes or Skype, then run the installer, Windows XP... does something, then asks if I'm sure I want to run the program. I understand that this is to keep someone else from installing malicious software on my computer. But I have never seen this dialogue box show up any time other than when I'm trying to install a program. Let's remember that Windows XP is the OS with "buffer overrun" problems in damn near every...
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by dlodewyk
How do I get a licence?
My sister needs windows Xp for her Macbook. What is the cheapest legal way to obtain a copy of Windows Xp? Is it cheaper to just buy a cheap PC Laptop?
by scott03atm
Trouble loading Windows XP
The company I was working for went out of business in July. I still have my company laptop and have used it to experiment with a number of things since then. After I was finished playing with the Windows 7 RC I completely erased the disk thinking I would need to do this to go back to XP. I have the machine set to boot from CD but can't get it to do anything. I have verified in the BIOS that the CD drive is the first in the boot order and have tried going through a one time boot as well. All...
by coologuy1957
Any Windows XP users left in the world?
I find it comical that it shows 600 people owning Windows XP on here... It is still by far the most installed version of Windows... Meanwhile, we show 500 people owning Vista... All the older versions of OS X show small numbers, but the most recent version, Snow Leopard, shows double the installs of either of these - 1200.... Its interesting nonetheless to see the OS make up around here...
by stridermt2k
It will always be with us...
XP is going to stick around for a good long time. Even after you've installed Windows 7 and forgotten about Vista, you'll still be tripping over PCs that for one reason or another will be locked into that version of Windows.
