Troubleshooting Sharing Printers in Windows 7 or V...

Windows Vista and 7 have helped make networking computers a little easier, but there are still some idiosyncrasies  that can be irritating. One of those is the default password required for sharing of printers or files. You can shut it off, thankfully. Here’s how: Click Start Type:  Advanced Look for and click Manage Advanced Sharing Options Scroll down to the Password Protected Sharing section Make sure the Turn...

How to dual boot Vista and XP (with Vista installe...

This article helped me immensely today. He doesn’t link the EasyBCD program in his article that is critical to getting everything going, but I’ve linked it here. He also links to another article of his that explains how to dual boot XP and Vista with XP already installed. Good stuff! How to dual boot Vista and XP (with Vista installed first) — the step-by-step guide with screenshots. ...

Microsoft can’t get Windows 7 to market fast...

Even after two years on the market, Windows Vista continues to get negative press…most of it rightfully so. If all you do is browse the web and play solitaire, Vista isn’t too much of a problem. But in the business world, Vista and Office 2007 have created great havoc the past two years evidenced by Microsoft continuing to allow XP to be sold to businesses to this day after promising five times before they would...

Windows 7 faster than XP and Vista

ZDNet Blogger Adrian Kingsley-Hughes tested one of the latest beta versions of Wndows 7 on two different machines. One machine had 4 GB of RAM and fast processor, the other machine had 1 GB of RAM and a 2-3 year old processor. On ALL tests, Windows 7 outperformed XP and Vista by almost a 2 to 1 margin and in some cases even more than that. Kingsley-Hughes writes extremely interesting articles over at ZDNet and might be...

How to fix Windows Mail when you can’t dele...

I ran into a problem today with a Windows Vista machine that apparently isn’t unique. This tip only applies to Windows Vista users who use Windows mail. Problem: Can’t delete any messages in Windows Mail…which also prevents new messages from being read. Symptom: When you try and delete a message in Windows Mail, you get an “Internal Error” message then have to restart the...