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]
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]
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]
Norton AntiVirus 2005 review
Reviews Average boot time (s) Unlike a full-on firewall, however, Worm Protection won't block outbound traffic, making it no more effective than the free Microsoft firewall included in Windows XP SP2. Our test system was a Dell Dimension 8200 running...
[October 6, 2004, 10:35]
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]
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]
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 - Is It Some Sort Of Drug?
Blog I have known since the Vista disk in my Lifebook S6510 got corrupted and wouldn't boot that I would have to reload it before SP1 comes out. Last night I decided that I probably had enough time to do that, so I swapped the XP drive out and the Vista...
[March 7, 2008, 14:06]
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. Having migrated through PP9.2 and now using v10.1 64-bit (AMD 64 3500 box), the product has just got better and...
[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. Matt: "Wisdom of the Bush administration? open source crazies?
[June 27, 2005, 18:45]
