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Gateway Solo 9500xl
Reviews Solid enough in terms of performance and battery life, but you'd expect a few more features for the price.
Samsung Q35
Reviews The Q35 is a nicely designed ultraportable notebook whose wide-screen display and good-quality keyboard give it plenty of appeal. Most of all, though, mobile professionals will appreciate the Q35's excellent battery life.
Allchin: Buy Vista for the security
News If new features won't get you to upgrade to Vista, security enhancements should, Windows chief Jim Allchin has urged.
Tags: Security, Microsoft Windows, Longhorn
Rein in unbound storage appetite of Vista System Restore
Techguide Experiencing low disk space on Vista systems? Consider using the VSSAdmin command-line tool to investigate and change the Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space setting.
Tags: Storage, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Tool, Storage, system restore, hard drive, Microsoft Windows, disk
Norton GoBack 4.0
Product Reviews Norton GoBack 4.0
Tags: Norton Co., Knowledge Base, system restore, GoBack, software, Symantec Corp., hard drive, Microsoft Windows XP, File-sharing, Microsoft Windows
Conserve disk space by purging Restore Points in Windows XP
Insight tutorial If you find yourself running low on hard disk space, an easy way to free up about 12 percent of space is by purging Restore Points from the System Restore database. Learn how to delete Restore Points in four simple steps.
Tags: Windows XP
CA set to deliver defensive packages
News CA is set to launch five Protection Suite security and recovery software bundles aimed at small businesses.
Tags: Security applications/tools, Antivirus software, SMB
How to use the Disk Cleanup tool in Vista
Techguide No matter how hard you try to keep your hard drive clean, lean, and mean, temporary and other junk files will eventually gunk up your disk space. Running the Windows Vista Disk Cleanup tool will free up that all important disk space for you.
Tags: Storage, Microsoft Windows, Storage software
Microsoft pulls Vista SP1 update
News The company retracts a prerequisite update for downloading Vista Service Pack 1 after some customers complain of problems.
Tags: Windows Vista
Prevent data loss on XP workstations with large hard drives
Insight Today, depending on your organization, you might have users with ATA hard drives sizes well in excess of 100 GB, with individual data file sizes that dwarf the hard drives of old. Unfortunately, Windows XP can encounter problems with large hard drives.
PC buyers aim to cut the 'crapware'
News Following the lead of businesses, some consumers are wiping their systems clean and starting over, but it's not always easy.
Tags: Personal Computers, Personal applications, Business applications
Worm spells double trouble for PCs
News Combined mass-mailing worm and network worm attempts to hijack computers and to launch a DOS attack on Symantec's Web site.
Tags: Hacking, Viruses and worms
Norton Ghost 10
Product Reviews Norton Ghost 10
Tips to correct IntelliMouse conflicts in XP
Insight When an IntelliMouse product replaces an older mouse in a WinXP environment, a number of problems can crop up. Take a walk through the registry jungle and find out specific keys you need to delete for the IntelliMouse to work.
WinXP Pro business value for remote
Insight This article gives a brief description of three XP feature sets and the ways each applies specifically to home workers.
