Mixed reactions to this Gateway notebook. Some people say it's great others say it sucks, but with not much explanation. It is a little heavy, but everyone wants the lightest laptop without giving up features and there's just so much weight you can remove without using unobtanium materials and high expense or keave out ports

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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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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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Squeaking in just before the cut off of 2007 was my favorite piece of technology. Before nominating this gadget I had to think carefully about how it has impacted my life and if my love for this thing is heightened because I just got it. And I don’t think it has. It is truly amazing.

The runner up technology gadget of the year for me was m

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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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When Vista was first released, a lot of people did nothing but complain about it, saying that they'd wait for the first service pack. And as soon as that was released, a lot of people did nothing but complain about that as well.

If you're having Vista issues, or even if you're having XP issues and are thinking about upgr

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Windows Server 2008 is built from the same code base as Windows Vista; therefore, it shares much of the same architecture and functionality. Since the code base is common, it automatically comes with most of the technical, security, management and administrative features new to Windows Vista such as the rewritten networking sta

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I got a call out of the blue from a Navy buddy of mine who is stationed in Germany yesterday asking me how he can uninstall Windows Media Player from his new Windows Vista machine. Seeing as how I haven't gone down the Vista road yet I wasn't sure.

I thought it would be just like in Windows XP where you go into Add/ Remove Programs, then

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The latest graphics card to make its way to the labs is the 9600GT. Generally speaking, any x600 form of card has never been that exciting really; sure the 8600GT and 8600GTS weren't bad, but far from what you'd call exciting.

What makes this one any more interesting you say? Well, word floating around the interweb is that

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"Could not initialize the browser’s security component". If you get this message after going from Windows XP to Vista while using Firefox for the first time, I have the solution for you. I lost time and the solution that was on the Internet did not resolved my problem. Even if you don't use Firefox, you might get into the sa

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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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Windows xp has served the world no-stoply for eight year but now just after 2 days after Bill Gates(who changed the way of computers & computing) walk out, Miscrosoft have decided to stop selling windows xp from June 30, 2008

Although Windows XP won’t be sold in stores, Microsoft and its partners will continue to offer techn

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If you are looking to spruce up your Windows Desktop with some cool Sidebar Gadgets, it could be a daunting task looking for ones through the vast list of almost 3,000 on Microsoft’s Website. I have found 4 free very useful gadgets that you might like. Monitors your CPU usage and Memory. Compatible with dual and quad core ch

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