Virtualisation

What is it?

Virtualisation is using a software application to run other operating systems inside a window, known as a Guest, within a real computer, known as the Host.
You can run an entire operating system, Windows 95, Windows

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How to downgrade from Vista to XP News - PC AdvisorrnrnGlad to find someone as reliable as PC Advisor magazine are offering tips on how to revert from Windows Vista to Windows XP, as a laptop is rapidly becoming a necessity for me rather than a

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I've recently had a temporary weak spot for the rss icon.rnrnVista has new styles of icons underway so I guess the standardisation of the RSS icon's look might be platform-specific, whilst /meread that IE7 has been using Firefox's design. Vista's will have its icon displaying activities relevant to the feeds.rnrnYou can choose fro

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A while back I was searching for a Family web calendar application that I could install on my server and keep track of my schedule along with my wife and my daughters appointments. After a little searching and downloading all kinds of different solutions I came across Cozi.com What a easy to use package. You can install the application on you

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A lot of computer users are currently debating whether or not to upgrade to Windows Vista. I've personally been using Windows XP as my primary operating system since early 2003. I've grown to love XP after the initial learning curve, more of a bump really! I have used Vista, but not for very long. I've found it to be both useful and annoyi

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In a few simple steps the post describes how to restore missing icons in the System Tray in Windows Vista Home Premium. I personally had to perform this myself after a Windows Update grayed out the Notification Area check-boxes. Easy enough for beginners to understand and will prevent you from searching an hour for a fix. As always-back up yo

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Seagate told us months ago about their Momentus 5400 PSD hybrid notebook hard drives. These little units come in 80, 120 and 160 Gig capacities and are equipped with a piddly 256 MB of flash for the most commonly accessed OS files. These are a God-send for anyone that wants to extend their battery life, but where can we find them?

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If you are like me, you love these commercials the Apple marketing department came up with however many years ago. They’ve been funny and usually right on the money.

Here is the latest addition to the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” commercials…a rip on Microsoft Vista, which I’ve heard nothing good about. I found the video posted by Ed on The Editi

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Microsoft is set to pull the plug on it’s controversial anti-piracy measures contained within the Windows Vista operating system.
The so-called ‘kill-switch’ which is coded into every copy of Vista was designed to limit the features of the operating system when it became flagged as being an illegal copy. However, there have been several issu

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Windows X, last week, released Vista Transformation Pack 8. VTP 8 adds even more Vista-like ness to your Windows XP machine.

This, latest version of Vista Transformation Pack 8 almost completely replicates the Window Vista GUI all without Vista's hefty price-tag or compromising XP's stability.

Included in this release is the WinFlip a

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This weekend we took the advise from Toshiba to upgrade the bios from our laptop computers. Oh yes this was recommended by Toshiba because it was going to fix an error within the compatibility issues of Windows Vista. Well here is the sad part my room mate decided she was going to do the upgrade after all Toshiba recommended it, and we do wan

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On Saturday I wrote about an application that would allow you to use Windows Live Writer on a USB key, taking it with you, wherever you needed it. And for the most part, I’m very happy with the way that it works.

I found out about this app on TechLifeBlogged, and admittedly it did come with a couple of caveats to be aware of.

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The history of my love affair with computers began in 1975 when I joined Canadian Pacific Airlines as a reservation agent. When I first started with the airlines there was no computer system. We took airline reservations on cards and then put them on what looked like a mobile washing line. It then moved round a large room to the front where i

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For the most part, there are a lot of similarities with Vista and the the previous two versions of Windows, but they did make some subtle changes for the sake of change. One of those changes is where they put Add/Remove Programs.

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When your computer starts to run out of RAM to run programs, it borrows a designated area on your hard drive to swap stuff in and out of memory. This place is called the page file in Windows (Swap partition in Linux). The whole idea is aptly called virtual memory.

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