It's a necessary feature of the operating system, meant for times when a simple shut down and restart doesn't help your PC get back to normal operations. So it's not ideal when Windows ships with a ...

THERE’S A CERTAIN magical quality to the operating system that comes with some PCs. It’s there, but it’s not there. For several years now we’ve been airing reader gripes about the shortcomings of the ...

Ensure you'll never accidentally get locked out of your PC: create a password recovery disk for Windows XP. XP is the most secure of all Windows versions. However, if you have one Administrative ...

Not 100% sure this belongs here, but here goes. I need to remove Sasser from my computer. I did not realise I had it until my computer began to BSOD seconds before the login prompt. Being that I dont ...

This includes tasks such as repairing a broken partition table, cloning a failing drive to a new disk before the old one dies completely, or simply changing a corrupted file that is preventing the ...

I figured this would be the best place to post, as the initial part of my problem relates to DD. Someone re-installed XP, and formatted the drive in the process. I'm hoping I can make an image with dd ...

With the addition of several business-friendly features and vast improvements in speed and reliability, Windows XP played a major role in transforming the home PC into a trusted ally of small business ...