A Few Minor Windows XP Glitches
Blog If I make a fresh boot at home, everything works just fine. Again, if I make a fresh boot in either location, everything works just fine. As I expect Vista SP1 to be available soon, and XP SP3 not long after that, I suppose I will be playing "disc...
[March 14, 2008, 15:03]
Vista Vs. XP: The Final Retreat
Blog Then it made a fresh boot, did a lot more thrashing around on the disk, asked me if I wanted to boot normal, safe mode or whatever, and then finally came up again. That scares the daylights out of me - especially after having Vista give me the...
[April 24, 2008, 20:19]
Norton AntiVirus 2004 review
Reviews Average boot time (s) NAV 2004 supports Windows 98 through XP and requires a slightly larger amount of drive space than previous versions -- from 85MB to 125MB, depending on the OS version. Symantec has also added an activation process similar to...
[September 29, 2003, 9:00]
Desktop Linux For Small Business
Talkback I'm presently running Xandros (dual boot with XP) on my nine-year-old's pc. There is a lot to be said for this distro - it does install easily, integrates with Windows networks, shares printers etc.and has a great boot manager that can handle...
[November 29, 2005, 17:00]
Acer Aspire One review
Reviews It takes approximately 17 seconds to boot the operating system — that's 3 seconds quicker than an Eee PC 901 — and about 10 seconds to launch common applications like OpenOffice or Firefox. The affordable (£220) Aspire One comes in white and blue...
[June 24, 2008, 13:34]
Vista SP1 - Now Installed And Running
Blog It boots faster, suspends and resumes much faster, and so far there have been no boot failures or crashes as I had before. I copied all of my photographs from the XP disk to a Freecom USB drive, which took a bit less than 15 minutes.
[March 24, 2008, 10:37]
Dell Photo All-in-One Printer 922 review
Reviews The Dell 922 is a reliable standalone copier for occasions where you need a quick copy and don't want to boot up your computer. The Dell 922 is limited to Windows 2000 or XP operating systems, and it isn't compatible with Macs.
[July 1, 2004, 12:00]
Brilliantly Simple Installation
Member Review I now run dual-boot Mandrake/WinXP Pro systems on all my boxes, using the XP OS for those specific apps that cannot be Linux emulated. Ease of installation is, as the reviewer says, now comparable (and faster if using the DVD) to any WIndows OS (it...
[January 10, 2005, 13:11]
Pricing Scuppers Media Player-free XP
Talkback About the only thing that keeps these losers going in life is this pathological hatred of Microsoft, and a pretty healthy dose of anti-Americanism to boot. And yes, the great wisdom of the Bush administration, that unlike the stupid EU, refused to...
[June 27, 2005, 18:45]
