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Learn to Tune Up Your Windows XP Computer

Would you like to learn how to make your Microsoft Windows XP computer run faster And more reliably?
Do you have trouble reading technical articles and technical books?
This may be just the tool for you. It’s a set of 11 videos to teach you — step by step — how to tune up your [...]

Windows XP SP3 delayed to 2008

With the emphasis on IE7 and Windows Vista, Microsoft has announced that the next Service Pack for Windows XP will be delayed until 2008.
2008?
Already some of the press is speculating that this is part of a Microsoft push to get people and businesses to upgrade to Windows Vista.
Like that’s going to happen… Microsoft is [...]

Minor issues surface after IE 7 launch

Joris Evers of Tech Republic reports, has a good report on IE7’s first day in his article Minor issues surface after IE 7 launch.
Events for the initial day of IE7 included:

a reported security flaw (Microsoft said — that’s ok, it an Outlook Express bug that we might fix later, not an IE7 bug).web sites that [...]

Computer Running Slowly — Adware & Spyware

In the article before this (Computer Running Slowly), I wrote about extra programs running in the background, slowing up your computer.
Sometimes, those programs are malicious. They may want to reroute your searches to their own site. They may want to spy on you. They may want to use your computer to send [...]

Computer Running Slowly?

Most of the time, when our computers are running slowly, it’s because of all the things we have running in the background. Computer manufacturers seem to delight in loading up computers with 10 to 12 programs that run automatically and put little icons in the Windows Status Bar.

One would hope that these programs didn’t [...]