Dec 16, 2006 | IE, software, WinXP
A few people have complained that Internet browsing was slow or erratic after installing Internet Explorer 7. I haven’t been able to find a pattern to explain that – no widespread reports of similar problems online, nothing other than scattered problems...
Nov 27, 2006 | IE, software, WinXP
The Windows XP language bar reappears in the lower right-hand corner after installing Internet Explorer 7. It makes it easy to change the default language used by Windows XP, or to work with speech recognition and text-to-speech features.I’m sure people use the...
Nov 21, 2006 | computers, WinXP
A few years ago, we routinely got 256Mb of RAM for our new Windows XP computers. Memory was expensive and 256Mb was sufficient to run Windows XP, an antivirus program, an e-mail program, and another application at a decent speed with a minimum of hard drive...
Oct 24, 2006 | security, WinXP
Microsoft has now taken the “beta” label off Windows Defender with the release of a modestly updated build of the program. Changes are minimal – a new color scheme is about the only change you’ll notice.If you’re not running Windows...
Oct 11, 2006 | Microsoft, Office, software, WinXP
Microsoft released a big crop of updates yesterday for Windows and Microsoft Office programs – there are ten patches on the official list but my computer shows fifteen items ready to be installed this morning. Yesterday Microsoft was having some trouble with the...
Aug 23, 2006 | photos, software, WinXP
Personal computing feels sometimes like an arcane science, filled with secrets that are passed along in furtive, whispered conversations. We have too many choices, it’s too hard to make things work – and it’s not getting better.Here’s an...
