About 25 years ago, the PC world introduced us to the basic input/output system, or BIOS. Since then, this basic program has been sitting on the motherboard of your machine, taking care of initializing hardware, and booting up operating systems like Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. The problem with BIOS is that it’s antiquated. It [...]
Have you ever deleted the wrong photo from your PC by mistake? Or emptied your Recycle Bin not realizing that an important folder was in it? Unfortunately it only takes a single mouse-click to lose a file, but before you consider that data lost forever, there’s something you should know: There are actually a number [...]
In round three of our performance comparison of antivirus suites, we ask the question: Do security solutions, such as antivirus tools or full-blown security suites, slow down our PC? Last week, we tested the impact Microsoft Security Essentials had on PC performance. This week, take on one of the oldest solutions on the market—Norton Internet [...]
Flashback to 2004: In the early prototype stages of “Windows Longhorn” (the codename for Windows Vista) Microsoft showed off many beautiful design concepts and visuals for the new explorer, the sidebar, media player and especially the new logon: Unfortunately, this neat little logon box never made it into the final product “Vista”. This is why, [...]
A couple of weeks ago, you have learned the basics of Windows 7s new Task Scheduler. A mighty little tool that helps you automate your PC, which – once set up – safes your time and nerves. Last time we used Task Scheduler to automatically launch a program. In this blog post, you’ll learn how [...]
