Object Oriented Programming languages make developing programs to run on multiple operating systems much easier. All you need is a class library of common functions that has a separate version you can link in for each of the operating systems you want to support where the public interface to the multiple copies of those classes [...]

Regardless of which operating system you are using these days you should have at least two logins set up on it – one with administrator access and one without. You then use the login without administrator access for everyday use and only use the administrator account when you really need to do something that needs [...]

While I write almost all of the content for the site, there are a number of pages that consist of a question that someone has asked followed by my answer. Even rarer are those pages that have been completely written by someone else, of the more than 1400 pages on the main site those written [...]

Do you need to reinstall your operating system? Have you lost the install disk? perhaps you never had one. If your computer didn’t come with an install disk then there should have been a copy on the hard drive for you to burn the CD yourself. I wasn’t sure which situation applied to the person [...]

Windows NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 7 is not the same operating system as DOS / Windows 95 / 98 / SE / ME. While some DOS commands can be run at the command prompt, others cannot. On the following page you will find a complete list of all of [...]

Windows is not the most stable of operating systems and there are many different reasons why it can crash on you. In this guest article you will find several suggestions on steps to take to reduce the chance of having the operating system crash. First Steps To Fixing Computer Crashes

Older operating systems such as Windows 98 did not require that you set up separate logins for each person. Unless you took extreme measures someone could just hit cancel on the login screen to access the computer anonymously. Where having actual logins on such an old operating system does matter is where you have it [...]

If you have two files that contain similar data that you want to merge into one file then using jut one or two commands at a command prompt can do it for you regardless of which operating system you are using. Merging Two Files

I have decided to spend part of the long weekend setting up and configuring a new computer. At some point in the next few weeks I should have some comments on how it is all proceeding. So far I have purchased the new parts I needed, installed some other parts that I already had installed [...]

I have been using the free antivirus from AVG on my computers for a while now. Just recently they started displaying nag screens about buying their new version 8 security suite. A couple of days ago I found out that the paid version 8 wasn’t the only new release and decided to download the free [...]

Not just Windows NT but also the more recent versions of the operating system (2000, XP, 2003 and Vista) are also covered by this article. If you have windows already installed on your computer then the chances are that you will have networking already installed but if you need to do a reinstall of your [...]

The old DOS operating system used a file system called FAT (file allocation table) which came in fat12, fat16 and fat32 variants. Windows NT introduced a new file system called NTFS (new technology file system) and that’s the preferred file system for the newer versions of that operating system such as Windows 2000, Windows XP, [...]