Windows 7

by Rafael Hernandez on May 1, 2009 · 0 comments

Loose lips sink ships, or rather give out super-secret launch dates for one of the most anticipated pieces of software to be released this year.Acer’s UK managing director spilled the beans on Windows 7’s availability to Pocket-lint, expecting the…

Read more Windows 7 Requirements Released, Launch Date Leaked?

by Rafael Hernandez on April 30, 2009 · 0 comments

NVIDIA has released driver version 185.81 for their GeForce lineup of video cards. As always they’ve come through with plenty of support for Windows operating systems running GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs.These drivers are…

Read more NVIDIA GeForce 185.81 Video Card Drivers

by Rafael Hernandez on April 29, 2009 · 0 comments

Microsoft strives to make things easy on its less than savvy OS users. Case in point is their (rather annoying) AutoPlay feature which, when tied to AutoRun, automatically launches applications on all manner of plug-in devices and discs. Unfortunately…

Read more Microsoft Ditches AutoRun In Windows 7…For The Most Part

by Rafael Hernandez on April 24, 2009 · 1 comment

Microsoft’s operating system popularity can be traced to a few things namely backwards compatibility. The downside to this is that they have to provide some form of support in order to keep a customer’s old applications compatible with their new…

Read more Windows XP Mode For Windows 7, Virtualized Application Support

by Rafael Hernandez on April 21, 2009 · 0 comments

Keeping a user’s computer secure in a stationary location isn’t an easy task, but a mobile user’s security needs are a nightmare compared to anything your home machine can muster. Using untrusted wireless connections and the increased possiblity of a…

Read more Windows 7 Security, Keeping The Mobile User Safe

by Rafael Hernandez on April 10, 2009 · 0 comments

As nifty as Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system is the bulk of your time on it is likely to be spent doing all manner of tasks online, as annoying as they can be. The company feels your pain so they’ve…

Read more Windows Live Essentials, Windows 7 Gets Hip(per) To The Web

by Rafael Hernandez on April 9, 2009 · 0 comments

Ye olde system desktop has been something of a pain for users for many years, It’s simple enough to keep track of things on it when you’ve got a handful of icons but when it starts to get cluttered you’ll…

Read more BumpTop Attempts To Organize Your Desktop

by Rafael Hernandez on April 6, 2009 · 0 comments

You just can’t keep a good, widely used and loved operating system down, or so te theory goes. Microsoft may, or may not, have extended their cutoff date for Windows XP sales. Their XP downgrade program allows a company to…

Read more News Of Its Demise Were Premature, XP May Stay Around A Bit Longer

by Pedro Hernandez on April 1, 2009 · 0 comments

Netbooks are all the rage, but your OS choices basically boil down to Windows XP or Linux. But now, HP is said to be considering Google’s smartphone OS. Hewlett-Packard Co is studying uses for Google Inc’s Android operating system,…

Read more HP Flirting with Android for Netbooks?

by Rafael Hernandez on March 30, 2009 · 0 comments

Microsoft’s Windows 7, being the highly anticipated operating system that it is, has quite a few eager people covering its every move. There’s nothing that goes on that will get past millions of enthusiast eyes looking for the latest…

Read more Loose Links…Apparently Leak Windows 7 Release Date

by Rafael Hernandez on March 28, 2009 · 0 comments

When it comes to the high-end graphics segment and today’s latest games you’re left to going for Microsoft’s Vista operating system due to its DirectX 10 support and fine tuned 64-bit support. Windows 7 is looking to one up Vista’s…

Read more High-end Gaming, Windows 7 Versus Vista