Microsoft last month made Windows Vista Beta 2 publicly available for download or delivery on DVD via its Windows Vista Consumer Preview Program (CPP). The CPP closed to new registrations on June 30, ...

I love Microsoft. We had just started to resign ourselves to the fact that we were going to need Windows XP on our hard drive if we ever had to reinstall our upgrade version of Vista. Then they came ...

In a world where there’s too much to do — and too little time to do it in — we’re always looking for shortcuts. So when we stumbled upon a blog entry by Kurt Shintaku over on Windows Live Spaces that ...

I've been reading the breathless reports from other websites this week about the "Vista upgrade loophole." Most of it is typical echo-chamber stuff, and most of the reports I've read so far have ...

Well it's the final day in our Vista Month and I just stumbled across a handy trick to speed up your Vista instalations should you choose to make the leap. Blogger Kurt Shintaku has posted some ...

I'm looking at entering the mobile computing world soon by finally getting a laptop. Specifically I'm looking at the Sony VAIO SZ series. While these laptops come with Vista Business, they only ...

When a Vista configuration bogs down, the simplest approach is often to reset the OS via a clean installation; if your data is fully backed up and/or stored in the cloud, the reinstallation is a ...

Whenever you're upgrading your operating system, it's always a good idea to back everything up and perform a "clean install." This is the OS equivalent of a fresh canvas – it almost always seems to ...

Trusted Reviews has a handy tutorial for any masochists looking to install Windows Vista on an MSI Wind. The laptop is designed to run Windows XP or Linux, but with 1GB of RAM and a 1.6GHz Intel Atom ...

Be extremely cautious when installing AMD or whichever drivers that you are installing the correct versions for Windows Vista. Many manufacturers now manufacture driver sets that will work universally ...

Blogger Kurt Shintaku figured out how to install Windows Vista from a USB flash drive, a potentially huge time-saver for anyone needing to deploy the OS on multiple ...