windows-vista
Which is More Usable – a Mac or Windows PC?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed During live calls the other night, I had a guy ask me whether I felt that Macs are becoming more mainstream than Windows machines. He went on to say how he knew that in the past Macs weren’t very “user friendly,” [...]
Windows 7 Gadgets
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed We are typically talking tech in our community, and that goes for our sister community, as well! PC PitStop has been kind enough to work with us on a number of occasions. So, when they asked me to answer some tech [...]
The Top Windows 7 Tips and Tricks List
Community member Michael Coombes saw one of my recent videos on Window 7 and he thought it would be prudent to pass along a few more tips and tricks. Windows key + Left: docks current window to the left side of the screen. Windows key + Right: docks current window to the right side of [...]
Top 5 Windows Vista Security Tips
This is Dragon’s submission for the HP Magic Giveaway. Feel free to leave comments for this article as you see fit – your feedback is certainly welcomed! If you’d like to submit your own how-to, what-is, or top-five list, you can send it to me. Views and opinions of this writer are not necessarily my [...]
Dual Boot Between Windows XP and Vista
Elian emailed me the other day with quite a quandary. He’s from the Netherlands, but this seems to be a universal problem: One of my friends has a computer with windows vista on it. So today he wanted to install windows XP on it because he couldn’t play older games he wanted to. I’ve done [...]
Time for an Upgrade: PC or Mac?
Peter Cochrane from Northern Ireland, U.K., submitted the following email. But instead of giving my response, I thought it would be interesting to hear what you’d suggest… Hey Chris, been watching / browsing your YouTube channel for about a month now and I gotta say – great! One thing I found particularly funny was the [...]
Windows Vista Network Tip
The user known as “alpha” emailed me the following excerpt from Tim Anderson’s ITWriting: The Microsoft Windows Vista OS enables the TCP Window Scaling option by default (previous Windows OSes had this option disabled). The TCP Window Scaling option is described in RFC 1323 (TCP Extensions for High Performance), and allows for the device to [...]
Do I Recommend Vista for Christmas?
LordKelvin asks: Chris, I have been an XP user for some time now, and I am thinking of upgrading to Vista (mostly because it has DirectX10). However, I have also heard rumors that it’s UI stinks, and that it has many issues. What is your opinion on what I should do, and do you know [...]
Solving Vista Problems Sometimes Creates More Problems
Bill Weber has been watching the YouTube videos for a while – and he felt compelled to write me about his experiences with Windows Vista: Thanks for all the fun moments from the Help-a-Thons and providing YouTube fodder for years to come. Some moments are truly memorable, and I don’t just mean those where you [...]
Another Inconvenient Truth?
The headline for this post was not written by me, but Scott Graham: Windows Vista? What more can I say, I personally have had (in the past) a few speed-bumps along the way but not much to “rant” about. Friends and family on the other hand, not so good. Blue screen of death, “do you [...]
Another Windows Vista Speed Tweak?
“TheDub” keeps coming up with suggestions for making Vista snappier. Far be it from me to keep his findings a secret. I thought I would mention another thing. You will not believe me when I tell you that I have gotten Windows Vista performance similar if not the same or faster than Windows XP. Both [...]
Windows Vista Opinions are not Facts
I hate having to correct my visitors. We had a few helpful pointers added to the comment thread for
Optimizing Windows Vista Performance
My problem with recommending Windows Vista is that many of its features are considered bugs by a good portion of the community. Doesn’t that say it all? No, this isn’t Windows bashing – it’s the bare-faced truth. Here’s TheDub’s legitimate experience, as emailed to me earlier today: After using Windows Vista I find it hard [...]
Vista BSOD
Ya know, I’ve gotta be doing something wrong. Windows Vista can’t be this bad. Can it? Seriously, I’m not trying to pull punches when I point out radical design flaws and blatant usability oversights. For those of you still wondering if Windows Vista is any better than Windows XP, claiming that it’s not problematic in [...]
Windows Vista Stories
Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes http://live.pirillo.com/ – A few friends joined me live to discuss their opinions and thoughts about Windows Vista. We discuss issues, as well as what we each feel should be done to improve. Four of my friends joined me for this discussion: Kat, SC_Thor, [...]
