One of the main reasons for Windows slow down is installing and uninstalling the various freeware and shareware

How To - Slipstream XP Service Pack 3 onto Your Original XP Disk

I know how this person feels, sometimes I wonder whether anyone reads my blog. Maybe I should complain and bitch about big companies more…

Why anyway with Vista would waste their time doing this I don’t know. I have switched to Vista Business and I think it runs sweetly, I like the Aero theme. My wife runs XP and whenever I look at the XP theme it looks outdated and old.

I have used both Windows and Linux extensively and I find that having to type ’sudo’ or enter root password on Linux just as ‘annoying’! Nobody ever complains about that. Try doing any system update on Ubuntu and you have to not only click OK but.

The question you ask, Why would people buy a CD? Unless you are truly interested in a band you wouldn’t buy their CD. You might buy a song of iTunes or whatever but why would you buy the CD.

One of the neat little tools in Windows is cleanmgr.exe or Disk Cleanup as it is known on the start menu. This little app has some command line options that make it very useful. In addition we can create a simple shortcut so we can run this whenever we wa

If you are running XP with 512MB of RAM or Vista with 1GB of RAM you are running with just the minimum RAM. This is a handy tip to free up some RAM without installing a dodgy program.

This is a very simple tip and one that I employ on all PC that I work on.

One of the things that Windows Vista does is index your files for faster searching. If, like me, you know where you have saved your files to or you do not do a lot of local searches then you can safely disable this service.