July 26, 2009
At my school, my class and I are comparing different operating systems. Each of the big three (Windows, Mac, Linux) have their pros and cons, but I’m certainly not here to incite a flame war. About half of my class was just introduced to Linux last week when using some Knoppix disks. Linux is very [...]
July 16, 2009
Windows XP is an odd beast. Some have no problems using it, while others report little else but problems. If you often find yourself in the latter category, you may at some point have the need to use Windows XP’s Recovery Console, especially if your PC will no longer boot. The Recovery Console is a [...]
July 13, 2009
MBR, if you are unfamiliar, is the first sector of your hard disk. It is just 512 bytes in size, but boy are those 512 bytes important or what? The MBR is used for bootstrapping operating systems, holding the primary partition table of your disk and other important information. You take this information away and [...]
May 9, 2009
So you got yourself a case of some nasty virus and your Windows cannot be booted anymore. I am sorry to hear that but today is your luck day! I came across a free boot cd from Avira that will scan and remove viruses from your Windows Machine! Avira has been around as a security [...]
December 13, 2008
Most of us are concerned about the security and privacy of our data. We put login passwords, encrypt data and do various other tricks to ensure that someone cannot access our system without our authorization. Hardware manufacturers have also started exploiting our desire for data security by offering fingerprint readers, face recognition and other fancy [...]
November 4, 2008
Recovering deleted/lost files on a Windows system is easy to do as there are plenty of software (both paid and free file recovery apps) that allows you to do so like a CSI expert. But what about Linux? Recently my Linux hard disk crashed on me and it was then that I discovered that there [...]
October 8, 2008
All of the Windows operating systems seem to allow an extreme amount of customization and change based on user desires. Today, we will talk about a small part of that – tweaking the Windows logon/boot. Well, ready to get started? Let’s do it. Messing around with the actual login can be quite fun as well. [...]
November 21, 2007
There are literally hundreds of freeware applications and utilities that you can download for Windows XP to tweak and improve computer performance, however, it’s still hard to find really good ones for Windows Vista. If you’re looking for some good free programs to configure, customize and tweak Windows Vista, check out the list below. The [...]
