Help! Windows Update Won’t Work After Vista Install
Having installed and reinstalled Windows Vista half a dozen times or so in the last…
Forced into Vista reinstall
OK, so I’ve been forced to bite the bullet earlier than planned, and am now…
CPU-Z Offers PC Hardware Insight and Info
CPU-Z is the work of Franck Delattre at CPUID.com, the same outfit that also offers…
ShellExView Shows Windows Explorer Shell Extensions
In trying to troubleshoot vexing Windows Explorer problems, I encountered one piece of advice repeatedly.…
Filezilla: Fast, free, and easy Windows FTP
Since the late 1980s I’ve used the TCP/IP-based File Transfer Protocol, or FTP, to upload…
Uniblue Process Scan Tool
After spending some more time at the Uniblue Process Library site, I discovered that they…
Revo Uninstaller: Fast, Good, and Free
Back when I still did software engineering, one catchphrase I learned that has stuck with…
eSATA Drive Dock Offers Handy Outboard Storage
If you’re anything like me, you’ve got more disk drives than you have installed in…
Post SP1 Cleanup, Part 2
When I started developing problems with a couple of SP1 Vista installs recently—application crashes, system…
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