All articles surrounding the world of Microsoft Windows.

Norton UAC Tool
Norton has taken the “User” out of User Account Control by offering their own handy dandy UAC Tool that promises to make the world a better place by helping users cope with all of the extra mouse clicks involved in the Vista User Account Control security feature. Is it necessary? Maybe not. Will it [...]

Give your Start menu the power it deserves.
The average user may not have any reason to access Disk Management or the Device Manager on a consistent basis. But for the people that like to tinker, adding power shortcuts to the Start Menu makes geeking-out much faster. The shortcuts we’ll be adding today are for Disk Management, [...]

For those of you who do not fear the black, murky depths of the command line, here’s a very useful tip for viewing your system information all in one convenient location. Just click Start, then Run and type cmd and hit OK. This will bring you to the command prompt. Next, type systeminfo.exe and hit enter.
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Seinfeld. I mean c’mon, what’s up with this Seinfeld thing with Microsoft? Whaddayamean? Okay, it’s impossible to make a post sound like and old Seinfeld skit, but that’s what I was trying to do. Anyway, as most of us already know, Jerry Seinfeld is working with Bill Gates in some new Microsoft commercials to thwart [...]

I have an announcement to make about Microsoft. Drop your mouses, people! Do not leave, because this is important and could actually benefit you. I know you haven’t been happy with Vista–even if I don’t agree with most of your complaints–I understand your fear and uncertainty when it comes to Microsoft products. But their push [...]

Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been out for a while now. If you have XP SP2 or–heaven forbid–the original version of XP, then you must obtain a copy of Windows XP SP3. There are a few ways to do this. You can simply install it on your computer through Windows Update, you can order [...]

“Sanctuary!”
Isn’t that what the Hunchback of Notre Dame exclaimed as he ran into the cathedral, climbing up the towers and ringing those bells, his face a contorted mound of flesh, his back twisted and bulging? That Quasimodo had a great life. Unlike us Vista users, he had a church he could run into for protection. Although our [...]