Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

Helen Keller said, "Security is mostly a superstition," which might explain why computer security is such a profitable business. Indeed, security has been a major selling point for Windows Vista, ...

Today’s tip is in response to a reader question: When Vista is booting it displays the welcome screen and requires me to click on the icon with my name on it before it will continue to boot. My old ...

In early June, Computerworld published the story, “Visual Tour: 20 Things You Won’t Like About Windows Vista.” At the bottom of page 5 of that story, I wrote that the built-in Administrator account is ...

Itching to make Windows Vista behave the way you want it to, not the way Microsoft does? Take these fun and useful hacks for a whirl. You’ve run Windows Vista, you’ve played around with the Aero ...

A reader wrote in to tell me he was running Windows Live Messenger on his Vista machine without issue. So I booted our Vista laptop back up and did a repair install of Messenger. After relaunching the ...

Windows Vista, one of the most disliked versions of Microsoft's operating systems, is being killed off today. As reported last month, April 11 marks the End of Life day for the old OS, meaning it will ...

I have an iMac running Windows Vista 32-bit that isn't going to sleep automatically. Manual sleep works fine, but the "Go to sleep after X minutes" isn't working, even when reduced to one minute for ...