Posts tagged with "windows"

Does Windows have a viable future? 6

Microsoft have enjoyed a long stretch as dominant market-share holder in the desktop market; but now they face stiff competition from two sides: OSX and Linux. Can they maintain their strong position?

Posted by Oli 5 months ago in linux, apple & windows. Continue reading »

7 things Windows 7 has to do to win me back 24

As I keep harking on, I moved to Linux. I'm happy and things are getting a lot more routine for me. I've been seeing a lot of fake screenshots this week for Windows 7 and it made me think what I would need from the next version of Windows to migrate back.

Posted by Oli 6 months ago in windows 7, linux & windows. Continue reading »

This Operatic madness must not succeed 17

It's an Opera of gigantic proportions with the company behind the, err, Opera browser whinging to the European Commission that Microsoft shouldn't be allowed to include their browser IE with Windows.

Posted by Oli 7 months ago in microsoft, opera, ie & windows. Continue reading »

Will Windows 7 be another driver disaster? 0

As Linux and OSX toddle on, catering for every hardware device under the sun, Windows 7 looks like it's going to have a complete refresh of drivers, effectively taking it back to square 1 in the game of hardware support.

Posted by Oli 9 months ago in windows. Continue reading »

3 moments in Vista that make me consider Linux 33

While I definitely think some elements of Vista are definite improvements, 10 months of experience has shown me there are some things that just annoy me to my very core. Here are the three things that most make me wish I had the strength to move over to Linux — full time.

Posted by Oli 11 months ago in windows, vista & linux. Continue reading »

MPEGs cause Vista's Explorer to crash 0

Video: watch a simple download crash explorer over and over again. This really reminds me how feeble the underlying systems are in Windows.

Posted by Oli 11 months ago in windows, crash & <rant>. Continue reading »

I'm a Windows enthusiast 2

Hello. My name is Oli and I'm a Windows enthusiast. [image] The mere juxtaposition of "Windows" and a derivative of "enthusiasm" in the same sentence may seem perverse — bordering pornographic — to some people, but I'm proud of my computing

Posted by Oli 17 months ago in windows & <rant>. Continue reading »

Reason 172: Solitaire 8

Everybody and their brother seems to want to give you a reason not to upgrade to Microsoft's new operating system, Windows Vista Apple have cited their own inability to keep the iTunes software working for Vista (no doubt, to keep keen early-adopters from the platform) and

Posted by Oli 18 months ago in vista, microsoft, games & windows. Continue reading »

Disabling Explorer Tooltips 0

Explorer's tooltips can be useful but for some people they can be a royal pain in the arse. They take up valuable visible space and in small resolutions, can block your view. If you have massive folders, you can also find that windows wastes a lot of time working out what's inside it... [image]

Posted by Oli 20 months ago in windows. Continue reading »

The People vs IE7 0

[image] Today marks the day when MS decided to push IE7 as a critical update. What will happen from here is still yet to be seen although people have hesitated that it could make or break the internet. Current arguments against it are mainly towards the bugs it still shows and that it's

Posted by Oli 21 months ago in browsers, windows, ie7 & releases. Continue reading »

Ubuntu and Linux are NOT consumer ready 9

Let me just qualify "consumer" as home user with mild-fair Windows knowledge. Not sysadmins that know everything inside-out, back-to-front, etc. Oh my god. I go through two cycles with my gradual migration towards Linux: Virtualisation of the latest builds

Posted by Oli 21 months ago in ubuntu, linux, windows & <rant>. Continue reading »

Moving to Ubuntu - Part 1 6

What am I thinking? No that's very unfair. I've used Ubuntu on and off (more off than on) since it was first released. I've liked most of it apart from Gnome (always have prefered KDE) but over the weekend I decided, considering the way Ubuntu is consistently improving itself over its rivals, it's

Posted by Oli 21 months ago in ubuntu, linux, windows & news. Continue reading »

What Really Slows Windows Down 91

The follow up experiment testing more software with improved benchmarks. If you want to know what applications are slowing down your machine, check out this post.

Posted by Oli 22 months ago in benchmarks, windows & other. Continue reading »

What Slows Windows Down? 69

The first of two studies carried out in September 2006 showing what types of software and more interestingly which versions of those types make Windows XP slow down.

Posted by Oli 23 months ago in benchmarks, windows & other. Continue reading »

UK Government to make Vista EVEN worse 0

I'm not going to suggest for one minute that any government knows what they're talking about when it comes to technology — or any area for that matter. They just sometimes hear of possible applications of a product features and seize upon that as if it were the worst thing since... sliced brown

Posted by Oli 30 months ago in uk, windows & vista. Continue reading »

MS Retrofitting OEM Licences 1

I've just read an article off Digg saying that Microsoft have retrofitted their OEM Windows licences with a new caveat for upgrading users. Whereas before, you were only limited to however many times you could be bothered to ring up their activation line for a new auth code, now, to stay

Posted by Oli 30 months ago in microsoft, eula & windows. Continue reading »

Raising the dead - Undeleting deleted files... 2

Quite a short tutorial today. Have you binned five years of work by accident? How about destroyed your entire music collection? Well most cases of "death-by-user" for files are supposed to happen but there are times when you just slip on shift+delete and they're gone... But please

Posted by Oli 44 months ago in undelete, windows & other. Continue reading »

Finding your IP for 2000/XP Users 0

If you read podgeys tutorial on how to find your IP for Win 9x, and have tried it on your pc and found that it doent work, the likely hood is that you are running an NT based system, XP professional as an e.g. So do the following, go Start > Run > and type in 'cmd.exe' (without appostrophies.)

Posted by CoLd_FiRe 61 months ago in windows, ip, tutorial & programming. Continue reading »

Where to find your IP in Windows 9x/ME 0

I know it's damn basic, but still people come to me and ask the same ol' questions.OK firstly, go to the Start button, click it, and go to run.Type: winipcfgThis will load upa small program, included with windows, that tells you all the IPs for all the adapters on the PC you're

Posted by Oli 61 months ago in ip, tutorials, windows & networking. Continue reading »