Auslogic’s Disk Defrag offers solid alternative to Vista’s Disk Defragmenter

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Many users were disappointed in Vista’s Disk Defragmenter because it no longer featured the colorful UI or reports. Greg Shultz introduces a free tool that offers speedy defragmenting plus a disk map and disk use statistics.

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Adjust these performance options to speed up Windows XP

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Scott Lowe explains several how several time-tested adjustments can greatly increase the performance of Microsoft Windows XP.

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Improve performance and productivity with these Vista tricks

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Greg Shultz shows you several performance and productivity enhancing tricks for Windows Vista.

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How do I… Recover a damaged Windows XP user profile?

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Greg Shultz explains how you can recover your Microsoft Windows XP user profile and your preferred operating system environment.

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The browser wars just keep going and going and…

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Even though Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is the most popular browser in the industry, no doubt due to the fact that users don’t have to do anything but start the operating system to use it, Mozilla is coming on strong. This type of competition is fantastic when it comes to innovation because it means that […]

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How do I… Run Linux applications in Windows XP?

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Jack Wallen explains how to set up a remote connection between a Microsoft Windows PC and a Linux PC using X tunneling.

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Have you checked your Windows Vista disk lately?

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Has your computer recently been shut down improperly? Does it seem sluggish? If so, you may benefit from performing a disk check to check the integrity and fix any bad sectors of your hard drive. Steven S. Warren shows you how to perform this task inside Windows Vista.

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How do I…change the name of the registered owner in Windows Vista?

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Have you ever had the need to change the registered owner of your computer? This may come in handy if you purchase a used laptop from EBAY with a preinstalled operating system (OS). Let’s show you how to perform this task.

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Troubleshoot with the Problem Reports and Solutions feature in Windows Vista

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The Problem Reports and Solutions feature in Microsoft Windows Vista keeps a record of all system and application errors and problems and reports them to Microsoft. Greg Shultz explores how this utility works.

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Microsoft keeps trying to kill Linux, but the hydra has many heads

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Microsoft’s recent $100 million investment in Novell’s SUSE Linux certificates may not look like a shot at the open source movement, but according to some, it is just that. Microsoft seems to be hoping that SUSE can unseat Red Hat and, with the cross licensing agreements Microsoft has in place with Novell, tie the […]

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