I know that there are a lot of PC users out there like me that would like to run our favorite OS on Mac hardware and now we can. Apple - Boot Camp is software created by Apple that will allow you to dual boot your computer between Windows and MacOS. The funnt thing about the download page is that it is black and white instead of really being color, you have to wonder how much push Steve Jobs gave to this project and just like you would expect … [Read more...]

Windows XP Professional supports two types of disk storage: basic and dynamic. Basic disk storage uses partition-oriented disks. A basic disk contains basic volumes (primary partitions, extended partitions, and logical drives). Dynamic disk storage uses volume-oriented disks, and includes features that basic disks do not, such as the ability to create volumes that span multiple disks (spanned and striped volumes). General Notes Before you … [Read more...]

In the past year alone, I've had four near-fatal drive failures, each on a different system. To alleviate some of the pain associated with recovering from these kinds of problems, I've been working on building a self-contained, multiboot rescue CD that I can use to bring up a crippled system and perform emergency surgery. This includes tasks such as repairing a broken partition table, cloning a failing drive to a new disk before the old one … [Read more...]

Microsoft was hit this week with a lawsuit claiming that its anti-piracy software is, in fact, spyware, but called the action "baseless" and defended how it installs Windows Genuine Advantage validation and notification tools. The lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday by Brian Johnson of Los Angeles in a Seattle federal court, asked for class-action status on claims that Microsoft's WGA software mislead users as to its true purpose, failed to … [Read more...]

If you use MSN Messenger to keep conversations online that this post is for you. I used Messenger Plus a few years ago and man a lot has changed. Messenger Plus! | Download. Go there now and try out lots of new features for Messenger like floating Windwos for any users you do a lot of IM with, logging of messages, encryption, a way to stop the boss from seeing your messenger windows with a keyboard shortcut . And many more features. … [Read more...]

Have you ever wondeered what the podcast craze is all about? I just ran into this great Beginner's guide to podcasts and podcasting (plus: how to create a basic podcast of your own) at Forever Geek. With so many people getting their first Ipod or other MP3 player sometimes it will seem like everyone already knows what podcasting is. I know for sure that many people are not even sure what the term means and most others think that podcasting is … [Read more...]

Follow the steps below: 1) Boot up windows. 2) go to dos-prompt or go to command prompt directly from the windows start up menu. 3) type the command at the prompt: "debug" (without quotes ninja.gif ) 4) type the following lines now exactly as given....... o 70 10 o 71 20 quit exit 4) exit from the dos prompt and restart the machine password protection gone!!!!!!!!!!!!! biggrin.gif EnjoYYYYYYYYYY PS: I tested this in Award … [Read more...]

Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open. Close all open programs. Click Start, Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe. Leave Task Manager open. Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory the AVI (or other undeletable file) is located in. At the command prompt type DEL where is the file you wish to delete. Go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE … [Read more...]

My favorite free operating software utilities come from Sysinternals. I just noticed on a blog post by the companies founders that they have been bought by Microsoft. I have mixed feelings about this news as I am a big fan of the software and the free-ness of it and am not sure what will happen to it in the hands of Microsoft. On the plus side of this transaction is the fact that the creators of these great utilities will not be working directly … [Read more...]

I used to hear that it was a good idea to defragment your hard drive in safe mode as it would be able to defragment more of the drive. I just did a defrag and decided to check on this and there is not much that is not defragged so I would not worry about it. Here is what Microsoft has to say about defragging as well as info on the Master File Table : The following files are permanently excluded from being defragmented. These files may be … [Read more...]