How to Accurately Monitor Boot-up Time for Your Windows

March 20th, 2008 Editing boot configuration in Windows Vista is complicated for most users. You have to manually edit the BCEdit file using bcdedit.exe.

March 28th, 2009 Installed a new software in Windows - need a restart? Your Windows is acting slow and you want to go for a restart. So what are you waiting for? just click on the button to restart the machine...

October 15th, 2005 My computer, running Windows 2000, was having garbled display. First the mouse droppings which the refresh wasn't eliminating.

March 7th, 2006 The following collection of useful Unix utilities can be obtained for free on Windows platform without requiring to install Cygwin. df - Shows the free space on disk, also it shows: cluster count, cluster size, free clusters.

April 3rd, 2009 I am sure you don't want to downlaod and install and run the mammoth Windows 7 yet in your PC. But being a curious techie, you can not leave it unattended either.

November 7th, 2008 Windows 7 has been the next most discussed topic after Barack Obama in the last 1 month or so it seems. With our detailed article on Windows 7 we gave you a first feel of Windows 7.

December 27th, 2008 I know that Windows runs super slow in some people's machine. And try as hard as you can but you can seldom find a good reason for the slowing up or a remedy to it.

April 29th, 2007 I needed to run Synergy server for my triple monitor setup at startup of Gnome session. crontab isn't going to help here.

October 5th, 2008 The best part of Linux (imho) is the ability to replicate not only the operating system or the data but also the boot loader. This allows you to have two identical disks running RAID-1, each of which are independently bootable, should one of them fail.

March 17th, 2006 I changed my motherboard recently to Asrock. Soon after my Windows 2000 installation started crashing (read: Blue screen of death).

June 22nd, 2009 This is for those of you who hate standing up in queues, I mean those who hate waiting. Waiting for your system boot up might be a test of your patience.

February 3rd, 2007 Effectively this means that any retail upgrade DVD can be used as a fully functioning full retail copy of Vista. You can pay the price of an upgrade DVD version to get a clean Vista installation! The steps have been confirmed.

June 26th, 2006 Windows Genuine Advantage includes two main tools - Windows Genuine Advantage Validation and Windows Genuine Advantage Notification. The WGA Validation tool checks that an instance of Windows XP is properly licensed, and is required for some Windows updates.

March 8th, 2007 I have been evaluating both Xubuntu and Fedora Core along with Cent OS (Open Source version / fork of Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition). The key value and differences between these releases are: Xubuntu Xubuntu is definitely faster to use in general due to its light-weight Xfce desktop interface.

March 18th, 2008 In Linux you can use the dd command to copy MBR from one hard disk to another. You can also use dd to backup your master boot record to a different (or same) media.