Archive for the ‘Windows Vista’ category
Keep your Windows OS up-to-date to help alleviate potential performance problems
Do you keep having intermittent performance issues or are worried about having such? I’ve been seeing lots of comments and posts on computer helps sites where users have spent hours, days, weeks and often times lost important data, while costing themselves enormous amounts of money all because they weren’t keeping their Windows Operating Systems’s (OS’s)”up-to-date”, aren’t [...]
HELP. . . . . ABOUT:BLANK keeps showing up on my browser and doesn’t let me get to web sites. What do I do?
About:Blank is one of the most frustrating Browser Hijackers to stay around as long as it has and continue to do damage to systems. If you are hit you will totally be frustrated until you realize you have to do something. What you see that tells you your system has been hijacked by the About:Blank [...]
How do I make my computer act like a TiVo?
Name: Andrew Harris Hi Tweaks, I have seem some computers that you can watch TV on and want to know how I can make my PC do that too. I have an HP Pavillion and would like for it to be like a TiVo. We don’t watch much television at my house but there are [...]
How do I setup dual monitors in Windows Vista?
Here’s a little walkthrough on how to setup dual monitors in Windows Vista. I figured I’d throw this together as I finally got around to purchasing another display after I prematurely sold off my Samsung 740N that I had setup as a secondary display. If you’ve not tried a dual monitor setup before, then I [...]
The reasons that I actually like Windows Vista
Windows Vista, to date no operating system has generated such hype or controversy. The vast majority of the features that were promised in the original spec sheet of Vista were either massively cut-back or removed altogether. There have been many, many incompatibility issues with it and older software, not to mention older devices. All of [...]
Windows Vista 5384 is great, but still definitely a beta
As mentioned in my last post, Windows Vista 5384 is great. I can distinctly remember my first experience with the O/S some time ago, and at the time was unable to get it to even finish booting properly without crashing. It just didn’t like my ATi Radeon 9800 Pro. As soon as the drivers were [...]
Vista Beta 5384 Install Error Code 80070241
An interesting thing happened to me over this weekend. I got an invite to join the Windows Vista Beta program, and obviously jumped at the opportunity. I went to their site, gave my .NET passport and was given a link to download the x86 or x64 versions of Vista (In quite a few languages actually) [...]