Schedule a weekly defragmentation

One of the more common things we do at our workbench, after we remove viruses or fix computers other ways, is to run a defragmentation. Newer Windows 7 computers do this automatically, but XP computers don't. And people forget to do it themselves. Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Microsoft numbers are mixed

There's good news and bad news for Microsoft this month. After years of losing ground to Firefox and other rivals, Microsoft's Internet Explorer gained ground for a second month in a row, according to a market researcher. On the other hand, while Windows 7 topped Vista in number of users, it still fell way short to XP's numbers. Wednesday, September 01, 2010