find is an elaborate search program with a number of features. Unlike the Google Desktop Search and locate, it doesn’t index anything but processes the request on the fly. Thus it is slower. find is one of the most useful … More
Microsoft offers a suite of utilities called Sysinternals for free for troubleshooting your PC. The suite is far superior to many of the alternate freewares that are available. Mark Russinovich, now a Fellow in Microsoft, originally developed them along with … More
A couple of weeks ago, the Microsoft Windows 7 Beta Demo got leaked. One week ago, Jason wrote on the Microsoft Weblog that Windows 7 Beta is now available to Microsoft Partner Program. On Jan 9, 2009, Microsoft Windows 7 Beta … More
Previously, I wrote that Cygwin provides an alternative to the windows shell, makes Unix-lovers feel more at home with Windows and vice-versa. That is only the partial truth. The truth is Cygwin emulates Linux on Windows. If you replace the … More
The Windows operating system is very different from most other operating systems. Red Hat Linux, GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE share some core philosophies with UNIX, and are thus called Unix-based OSs. In that way, they all follow a common set of … More
You might be wondering what is the difference between SATA and traditional IDE hard drives? The first thing you’ll notice is the interface/connectors of the drive itself. SATA drives have a single cable with a small connector, while an IDE … More
In case you havent noticed, We’re living in a high-definition world. From games to movies and with a new generation of affordable, high-quality HD components flooding into the world of PCs, it’s about time your very own PC gets into … More
Some of you may have, unfortunately, experienced this on your older system that have been working fine for a long time. One day, it just randomly locks up, requiring a hard reboot. You hit the reset button, and things go … More
DLL errors are some of the most common, frustrating, and complicated windows errors to troubleshoot and resolve. Fixing a DLL error is rarely as easy as replacing the DLL, something that I don’t recommend doing even if it does fix … More
It is a scary thought but your hard drive could stop functioning at any moment. Will you be ready? If you’ve got a drive image, you’ll save not only your data but your apps, drivers, and all the settings that … More
Nowadays, you don’t need separate computers to run different operating systems. Sure, Microsoft’s Windows is by far the most common OS running on the millions of PCs in daily use, but that doesn’t mean using just XP or Vista. You … More
AMD’s industry position is a precarious one; they got beaten by Intel the past 2 years with the Core 2 Duo processor and got trounced on the graphics card front by Nvidia with their superb 8xxx series. But Extremetech writes: … More
PC World shows us how to make the switch back to Windows XP and deal with the gnarly problem of transferring your Vista e-mail, contacts, and user data back to the old standby operating system: “After exploring Windows Vista for … More
It’s nearly 2008, and nearly all PCs are filled with multimedia these days. Though not everyone’s PC harbors hundreds of downloaded movies, even the most workaholic business traveler has a few tunes for the road on his laptop. And if … More
