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 [...]

Hidden files are much easier to reference in Linux than in other operating systems. It all comes down to a single character on the front of the name. Hidden Files

If you allow your CD-ROM/DVD drive to take whatever drive letter your system assigns to it then any changes you make to your system such as adding an extra hard drive will result in the drive letters for your removable media drives changing. This will break any links to that media that you have saved [...]

While this old tutorial talks about reinstalling Windows 98, the same situation can occur if you have to reinstall Windows XP or Windows 7. Windows just doesn’t like to play nice with other operating systems installed onto the same computer. I Reinstalled Windows and it Wiped Out Linux

Unlike Windows and Mac operating systems, Linux does not have a graphical interface built in. Instead there are a fairly large number of graphical interfaces that have been built to run on Linux and it is your choice as to which one (or more than one) they you have installed. In this article I describe [...]

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

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 [...]

Star Office and Open Office (which is what the free version is now called) can easily process Microsoft Word documents almost as well as Word itself can. It also has the advantage of running on operating systems that Word itself doesn’t support. This makes Open Office the ideal choice of office suite software for anyone [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Windows XP and more recent operating systems all use TCP/IP as the protocol for networking computers together. Back in the days of Windows 95/98 the protocol used was NETBEUI. Now it doesn’t really matter what each of these two protocols are and how they work. The important thing is that the two are incompatible and [...]

Just about everyone has their computer attached to a network these days. If you don’t have a local network to connect your computer to then you probably still have it connected to the world’s biggest network – the internet. I don’t claim to be an expert on networking computers together but I have had some [...]