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 who [...]

I would have thought that everyone would have upgraded from Windows 98 to Windows XP by now given that it is now several years since Microsoft dropped support for that old DOS antique. Not so as I still get the occasional question about that old operating system. Some of those are looking to make the [...]

I needed to reinstall one of my printers a few days ago. The reason I needed to do this was that I wanted to shift the printer from being connected to a specific computer to using a print server to connect it directly to the network. This would allow the printer to be available to [...]

After mentioning yesterday about people buying computers with Vista and then reformatting to install XP, the relative difficulty of installing operating systems was the next thing that occurred to me.
The main reason why people run Windows rather than other operating systems is because Windows comes pre-installed on their new computer and so they do not [...]

IBM 1981-1995 - 15 years
Microsoft 1995-2009 - 15 years
Google 2009-

To me it seems like Microsoft is currently in approximately the same position that IBM was in 1994. Back then IBM was top dog on the PC and had been since releasing their micro-computer which they called the PC in 1981. We still refer to PCs [...]

Early monitors supported graphics modes that allowed for far lower screen resolutions than the 640 by 480 of VGA mode. Some even allowed for fewer than the 16 colours that VGA mode is guaranteed to support as a bare minimum. By the time that Windows came into common use VGA mode was the accepted minimum [...]

Use of that major security hole of the internet more commonly known as Internet Explorer 6 has fallen since IE7 was released until now where the number of people using it is just below that of IE7 users (at least on my site where Firefox users make up about 35% with IE6 and 7 making [...]

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 [...]