Now this looks interesting: Apparently the design has been around for at least ten years, but later this year, Dell is releasing a notebook/tablet pc that runs Windows 7 on a dual-core Atom N550 processor. Its most striking feature is the ability to transform from a netbook to a tablet via its swivel screen. Not [...]

A reader recently asked me to write up some tips on how to speed up the boot process for Windows XP. So I started compiling from memory, a list of things you can do right now to speed up boot times. I then started googling XP Boot times, and was simply amazed at how many [...]

I was starting to get tired of the Windows 7 logon background, which in my opinion, looks like a default Twitter theme. So I did some research and found that Microsoft has made it especially easy to change this background. You don’t even need to reboot. To do this, simply follow these Steps: Open Start [...]

I was checking whether or not one of my web servers was performing compression today due to some performance issues we were seeing, so I thought I would share what I found, which led me down the rabbit hole that follows…. If you want to increase the speed of your IIS Website, you may want [...]

I was thinking of writing a brief tutorial on customizing themes in Windows 7 and unlocking themes hidden by default from the the Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization menu. However, there are already plenty of outstanding how-to articles on just that subject such as this one over at arstechnica.com. Once I unlocked or downloaded some of [...]