If you’ve lost your CD Key for your current Windows installation you can get it back pretty easily. There is a program called RockXP that scans the computer for your product key and gets it out so that you can easily reinstall Windows. This is particularly handy when the computer you bought doesn’t come with [...]

I got asked recently to look at a computer running Windows 98. I laughed a little but I took it and fixed it up. If you’ve still got friends or relatives living in the computer stone age here is what I did to get it back up and running to good working order. Hopefully it [...]

I’ve been using Windows 7 beta as my primary OS for about a week now. So far it is a great OS. When I booted up I didn’t have a single device that was missing a driver. There were even a few driver updates available through Windows Update which was surprising. One of the biggest [...]

Backing up your computer is important. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten requests from friends, family, co-workers, homeless people, etc., to get their stuff off of their dead drive. Unfortunately short of spending thousands of dollars on some data recovery services there’s nothing I can do. Look over each of these choices, [...]

If you are suffering from the continuous reboot problem that seems to be plaguing AMD users that installed SP3 then I can help, I hope. I have an AMD 64-Bit processor, I was using 64-bit Ubuntu but I decided to switch back to XP for a little while. After I got finished installing things looked [...]