Memory Issues

Why I Recommend Firefox…

February 18, 2007 By Terry Stockdale

I guess it’s been a long time since I’ve gotten on the Firefox versus Internet Explorer subject in my newsletter. For a while last year, I beat it to death…

But, recently, in responding to a reader’s question, I mentioned that I recommended Firefox over IE for web browsing. His response was “You Do?”

The reason that I recommend Firefox over Internet Explorer boils down to security while web surfing.

First, there’s the ActiveX issue.

ActiveX is a proprietary Microsoft technology that allows a web site to download a program to your computer via Internet Explorer — and to automatically run that program.

Top 20 Tips for Keeping Windows XP Fresh

November 7, 2006 By Terry Stockdale

PC World has an interesting article Top 20 Tips for Keeping Windows XP Fresh.

While I don’t plan to implement all the suggestions, such as the registry tweak to prevent XP from using the hard drive as virtual memory unless it absolutely needs to, they make an interesting — if long — article.

The article is broken into bitesize chunks (apparently for more ad displays).

Filed Under: Memory Issues, Microsoft Updates, Operating System, Registry repair, Windows Updates, Windows XP

Learn to Tune Up Your Windows XP Computer

October 21, 2006 By Terry Stockdale

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 computer.

Visit Learn to Tune Up Your Windows XP Computer

Filed Under: Dust, Dirt, Junk, Memory Issues, Operating System, Speed Tweaks

Windows XP SP3 delayed to 2008

October 21, 2006 By Terry Stockdale

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 going to have to do a real sales job on WHY we ought to upgrade to Vista — given that we’ll have to spend a fortune on the latest video cards and memory to upgrade our current computers.

Of course, notebook users like me will be out of luck. We’ll stay with Winodws XP until we replace our notebooks for other reasons. Vista’s cute graphics won’t be usable on our notebooks, since most of our notebook video cards don’t meet the graphics requirements for “AeroGlass,” so Vista would revert to XP-style graphics.

With Microsoft saying 512MB memory minimum, you know that means you need 1GB if you want to run one program — and 2GB if you like to multi-task like I do.

Windows XP is here to stay for a long time.

Filed Under: Anti-adware, Anti-spyware, Blue Screen, Memory Issues, Operating System, Web browsing