SubscribeArchive for 'Microsoft Windows' Category
Norton Antivirus 2009 (finally) delivers
I first began using Norton products in the early 90s, with Norton Advanced Utilities version 4.5, and I was a huge fan of their products for a number of years. For well over a decade, though, Symantec’s Norton line of products has been extremely bloated and every one of them that I have run has [...]
Things that should have been better in Vista
I’ve been working with Vista x64 for about a month now and while my experience has been surprisingly positive, there are a few very simple things that could have and should have been much better.
Since Windows ‘95, Microsoft has earned a lot of bad publicity by making it way too easy for grandma to double [...]
Windows Tip: WindowKey + E starts up Windows Explorer
After years of observing Windows users, I’ve learned that most users enter windows explorer in the following directory:
c:\documents and settings\username\start menu
This doesn’t seem to be a very good starting place, but from what I’ve seen, most people launch windows explorer by right clicking on the start menu and selecting “explore.” Going back to the advent [...]
Vista x64 first impressions
I recently upgraded to Windows Vista x64 on a Dell M6300 with 4GB of RAM. So far I’ve been blown away by the snappy performance of the system itself and, in particular, all of the Autodesk software that I’ve run on it so far (Civil 3D 2009, AutoCAD 2009, Map 2009).
I’ve heard all of the [...]