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What went wrong with Windows Vista

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 03:31:58 +0000

What went wrong with Windows Vista? If you were around when it launched, you probably wouldn’t argue with me if I said the things that went right were easier to count than the things that went wrong. Windows XP lived

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Optimize Windows 10 for better performance

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 12:00:37 +0000

When I first installed it, I thought it was pretty pointless to try to optimize Windows 10. Of course, I installed it from scratch on a computer with an SSD and 16 gigs of RAM. Then I upgraded a couple

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Windows 10 is out. I say you should upgrade, just not necessarily right now.

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 11:00:01 +0000

Windows 10 is out today. Of course I’ve been getting questions about whether to upgrade from Windows 7 to 10, and I’ve been seeing mixed advice on upgrading, though some of that mixed advice is regarding Microsoft history that isn’t

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Listen to this if you think a router makes you invincible

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 11:00:39 +0000

One myth that I hear over and over is that having a router on your Internet connection makes you invisible, and makes you somehow invincible. I even heard someone say recently that if you have a router/firewall, you don’t need

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Some tips for trolling fake technical support calls

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:54:49 +0000

I did a little more digging after getting yet another fake technical support phone call last week, and I’ve done some thinking on my own. If you want to troll these criminals when they call you, here are some ideas.

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Don’t read too much into the PC sales drop just yet

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:00:06 +0000

If you’ve been paying any attention at all, you probably know that new PC sales are in the toilet–out of the five biggest vendors, the only one whose sales managed to hold steady in Q1 2013 was Lenovo, while the

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How I turned my Nook Color into a Cyanogenmod 7.2 Android tablet

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:20:09 +0000

So, after most of a year, I finally revisited Cyanogenmod 7.2 on my Nook Color. Competent tablets are available for around $100 now, so perhaps this is less interesting now, but I had a Nook Color, and figured I might

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Windows 8 won’t fail just because nobody likes Windows upgrades

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 23:12:22 +0000

John C Dvorak wrote today about the great upgrade upheaval, and argued that Windows 8 is doomed to fail because it’s just going to be too hard to upgrade, and nobody likes Windows upgrades anyway. I agree on the first

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Windows 8 comes out later this year, but I won’t be moving just yet

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 22:32:18 +0000

So Windows 8 was released today. I won’t be moving to it anytime soon. There are some people who make a habit of waiting for Service Pack 1 to be released before upgrading to a new version of Windows. The

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Microsoft’s leaked roadmap

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:38:45 +0000

Microsoft is getting aggressive with Windows release dates, and I can’t help but wonder if it’s going to put a damper on future sales. Windows 8 is coming out in August, which was a poorly kept secret anyway. That can’t

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