Windows XP stays on top of the operating system market share while Windows 7 continues to gain grounds. The latest market share statistics are in and they confirm recent trends. Windows XP is still the top operating system with a market share between 51% (Statcounter) and 57% (Hitslink). That’s a comfortable lead as it is [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

What’s the current cpu load of your PC? How much RAM is used, how much is still free? What about hard drive space? All of these questions and more are answered by System Monitor II, a gadget for Windows Vista and Windows 7 that displays system information on the computer desktop. The gadget displays several [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Windows Vista users who have been testing the beta of Microsoft’s latest web browser Internet Explorer 9 may be in for a surprise if they upgrade their Vista installation to Windows 7. What happens is that these users will notice that Internet Explorer 9 is no longer installed on their computer system. Instead, Internet Explorer [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer, Windows

Web developers have several options to test their web projects in different web browsers. Among the available choices are virtual operating system images that provide access to specific web browsers. Microsoft has just updated a set of Internet Explorer application compatibility VPC images that are available as a free download for Windows operating systems compatible [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer, Web Development

The search box in the Windows start menu can only be used to find files on the local computer system or connected network drives by default. Microsoft has improved the capabilities of Windows Search in Windows Vista and Windows 7, to make the search more flexible and direct. What many users do not know is [...]

Categories: Windows

I spend most of the day yesterday preparing a notebook with Windows Vista installed to hand it over to a family member today. The notebook had not been in use for quite some time, and missed a few updates, among them the Windows Vista Service Pack 2 update which is considered one of the most [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Windows 7, for the first time, has surpassed Windows Vista in operating system market share according to three popular companies that track OS market share over time. StatCounter, the W3Schools OS platform statistics and NetMarketShare have recorded a steady rise of Windows 7 ever since its introduction in October 2009. Overall numbers differ because of [...]

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Windows 7 and Windows Vista based mobile PCs may experience connectivity issues when connecting to Wi-Fi hotspots. Among the issues that may be experienced are poor network performance, and the dropping of the wireless network connection. These connectivity issues are experienced if the mobile computer is running on battery power, or if the mobile PC [...]

Categories: Mobile Computing, Windows

Windows users who have run a disk space analyzer like TreeSize in the last days may have stumbled for the first time upon the Winsxs folder in the Windows directory. The folder usually has a size of about 5 to 8 Gigabytes on Windows Vista and Windows 7, there are however reports of bigger folders, [...]

Categories: Software, Windows