I really think the anti-Microsoft brigade have convinced lots of people that Windows Vista’s Users Account Control is annoying.  I was expecting that one of the first things I would be doing after setting up Vista would be looking up how to remove it, but I don’t find it a problem.

If you were brave enough to install Vista yesterday, how did it go?  My experience has been a bit of a mixed bag.  Although Vista itself is running fine and was installed installed within 25 minutes, getting my software and hardware to work has been a real pain.
The really annoying piece of kit I can’t [...]

Although I wasn’t sure if I needed an Anti-Virus package with Windows Vista, Vista is prompting me to install one so I’m not going to take any chances and risk it. Below is my recommendation for which option you should go for, based upon my experience of evaluating and purchasing millions of security application [...]

For those of you sticking with Windows XP, then here’s a cool little app that will make your Windows look a lot sharper. Martin has discovered Glass 2k, which is a freeware application for Windows 2000 and XP which makes it easy to add a transparency effect to any window on your system.

According to information released by Microsoft, 22% of systems validated using Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) proved non-genuine External Link.
Since WGA launched in July 2005, over 512 million users have attempted to validate their copy of Windows, Microsoft said. Of those, the non-genuine rate was 22.3 percent. 56,000 reports have been made by customers of counterfeit [...]