Windows Vista, Microsoft’s new operating system, has finally launched. So, as Microsoft’s ads promise, does “the Wow start now”? Or is it a cow? Microsoft certainly pulled one out of the hat here. Last June, when it released Vista Beta 2, it looked as if Vista was going to be a disaster. And even when […]
Nobody, not even his wife Melinda, knows for sure what drives Bill Gates. He doesn’t know it himself. Andy Walker does not pretend to know, either. What he does know is how to test-drive software to perfect exhaustion, trying tricks not even the most sophisticated programmers could think of when they had been writing the […]
TechnologyTips Video Newsletter Feb. 8, 2007 In this edition of the TechnologyTips Video Newsletter, TechnologyTips.com editor-in-chief Andy Walker takes you on a tour of the new Windows Vista operating system which was released by Microsoft at the end of January 2007. Andy shows off the new Aero interface, demonstrates how the new live search feature […]
« back to Part 1 Size does matter – continued … With the advent of the 32-bit operating system, the operating system can access two hard drives at the same time. This is called Multi I/O – Input Output. If your operating system, you data and your virtual memory all reside on the same drive, […]
Can your hard drive become obsolete? You bet it can. Is throwing it out your best option? Not necessarily. Here’s why. In dealing with Windows memory and cache usage, your hard drive plays a vital role in how Windows manages memory space. This is not necessarily a good thing – letting Windows manage your memory, […]
