Windows Vista Stories
Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes http://live.pirillo.com/ – A few friends joined me live to discuss their opinions and thoughts about Windows Vista. We discuss issues, as well as...
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Vista BSOD
Ya know, I’ve gotta be doing something wrong. Windows Vista can’t be this bad. Can it? Seriously, I’m not trying to pull punches when I point out radical design flaws and blatant usability oversights....
View ArticleOptimizing Windows Vista Performance
My problem with recommending Windows Vista is that many of its features are considered bugs by a good portion of the community. Doesn’t that say it all? No, this isn’t Windows bashing – it’s the...
View ArticleWindows Vista Opinions are not Facts
I hate having to correct my visitors. We had a few helpful pointers added to the comment thread for optimizing Windows Vista, but not without a few jabs. I’ve been watching Windows desktop mindshare...
View ArticleAnother Windows Vista Speed Tweak?
“TheDub” keeps coming up with suggestions for making Vista snappier. Far be it from me to keep his findings a secret. I thought I would mention another thing. You will not believe me when I tell you...
View ArticleAnother Inconvenient Truth?
The headline for this post was not written by me, but Scott Graham: Windows Vista? What more can I say, I personally have had (in the past) a few speed-bumps along the way but not much to “rant” about....
View ArticleSolving Vista Problems Sometimes Creates More Problems
Bill Weber has been watching the YouTube videos for a while – and he felt compelled to write me about his experiences with Windows Vista: Thanks for all the fun moments from the Help-a-Thons and...
View ArticleDo I Recommend Vista for Christmas?
LordKelvin asks: Chris, I have been an XP user for some time now, and I am thinking of upgrading to Vista (mostly because it has DirectX10). However, I have also heard rumors that it’s UI stinks, and...
View ArticleWindows Vista Network Tip
The user known as “alpha” emailed me the following excerpt from Tim Anderson’s ITWriting: The Microsoft Windows Vista OS enables the TCP Window Scaling option by default (previous Windows OSes had this...
View ArticleTime for an Upgrade: PC or Mac?
Peter Cochrane from Northern Ireland, U.K., submitted the following email. But instead of giving my response, I thought it would be interesting to hear what you’d suggest… Hey Chris, been watching /...
View ArticleDual Boot Between Windows XP and Vista
Elian emailed me the other day with quite a quandary. He’s from the Netherlands, but this seems to be a universal problem: One of my friends has a computer with windows vista on it. So today he wanted...
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Top 5 Windows Vista Security Tips
This is Dragon’s submission for the HP Magic Giveaway. Feel free to leave comments for this article as you see fit – your feedback is certainly welcomed! If you’d like to submit your own how-to,...
View ArticleThe Top Windows 7 Tips and Tricks List
Community member Michael Coombes saw one of my recent videos on Window 7 and he thought it would be prudent to pass along a few more tips and tricks. Windows key + Left: docks current window to the...
View ArticleWindows 7 Gadgets
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed We are typically talking tech in our community, and that goes for our sister community, as well! PC PitStop has been kind enough to work with...
View ArticleWhich is More Usable – a Mac or Windows PC?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed During live calls the other night, I had a guy ask me whether I felt that Macs are becoming more mainstream than Windows machines. He went on...
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