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Is iTunes 8 causing BSODs on your Vista system?

Is iTunes 8 causing BSODs on your Vista system?No BSOD but ITFITF - It Takes Forever to load anything now in iT8.Phone syncs okay, but feels like iTunes is running in molasses.....When I open iTunes, I will get a time out error from the iTunes store site most times....Version 7,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital music, Digital media, iTunes 7, Apple iTunes, BSOD, Microsoft Windows Vista, iTunes 8, Vista System

Discussion threads 2008-09-10

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Apple Store fails the Nordstrom test

Yet another Apple horror storyOnce again, an Apple horror story, trouble straight out of the box (forget "it just works").Most of the Apple afficionados I know have such horror stories. There's a massive one right now with the new iMacs. On the other hand, I know very little such stories...

Tags: Desktops, UNIX, Apple Inc., Apple Store, Nordstrom Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-27

Windows Winset 3.9.2 (Windows)

Windows Winset is a comprehensive suite of utilities that powers up OS Windows OS. It is an all-in-one system utility for maintaining your PC, gathering detailed, accurate software and hardware system reports to give you full information about your PC. Vista Winset set of more than 50+ Additional Windows utilities...

Tags: PC, Tenglnet, Windows Winset, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-27

FireDaemon Pro 1.9.2402 (Windows)

FireDaemon is a system utility that allows you to install and run any 32-bit or 64-bit application EXE or DLL or script (BAT CMD, .NET, Perl, Java, Python, TCL TK) as a Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 or 7 service. FireDaemon enables complete configuration of the installed service, which can...

Tags: Business Productivity, FireDaemon Technologies, Microsoft Windows, Strategic Planning, Collaboration, Programming Languages, Scripting Languages, Operating Systems, Software, Strategy, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-26

Maingear Shift

With its new Shift gaming desktop, Maingear joins the ranks of Alienware, Falcon Northwest, and Velocity Micro in providing its customers a distinctive-looking case you can't get anywhere else. And despite a misstep with the build and a questionable processor choice both of which should be easily remedied, we found...

Tags: Network technology, Most Unique, Maingear, cable, hard drive

Product reviews 2009-11-25

Sony Vaio FW560F/T (brown)

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores. Several months ago, one of our favorite retail laptops was the Sony Vaio FW480J/T. Besides offering no-hassle Blu-ray playback and a large...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Sony Vaio, laptop computer, game, Intel Core 2 Duo, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2009-11-25

Six updates for your parent's computer over Thanksgiving

LOL, great suggestions!![i]Run Disk Utility (it?s in Applications > Utilities) and Repair Disk Permissions. This cleans up a lot of system gunk that builds up over time and makes the Mac run better.[/i]But... but... but... you don't need to defrag OS X and since it has no registry, the system...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, computer, Mozilla Firefox, Thanksgiving, system gunk, Apple Safari

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

The Undelete 6.13.8 (Windows)

Lost files? Deleted documents? Crashed hard drives or corrupted partitions? Recover your files and data automatically with The Undelete, a complete data recovery solution for NTFS and FAT drives. Electronic documents are an essential part of everyday life. Accidentally deleting a document or formatting a disc can become a disaster...

Tags: Data Recovery, Microsoft Windows, Undelete, Live Preview Feature, Undelete Smart Scan Feature, Storage Management, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-11-25

HP Pavilion dv4-2045dx

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores.The HP Pavilion dv4-2045dx offers more multitasking muscle than many of the other mainstream budget retail laptops we've recently reviewed. Helped by a 7,200rpm...

Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, Overall IT, lid, Hewlett-Packard Co., AMD Turion II, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., keyboard, HP Pavilion

Product reviews 2009-11-24

HP vs. Dell: Showdown at the Windows 7 upgrade corral

Well, the great thing is all the competition. I like to see Acer squeezing them both from below, and of course competing with each other. Of course also great to see all the pressure on MS to innovate and lower prices.Google Chrome_OS will be hard to beatWell, with Google_Chrome_OS it...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Windows 8, Microsoft Windows, XPS, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Best Buy adds $197 HP laptop to Black Friday lineup

I hate agreeing with linuxbut alas I must do it this time :( He's right, this is some cheap hardware. Intel celeron? Who uses that anymore? I guess its good for kids, but any power user will not want this laptop. I'm holding out for a...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Black Friday lineup, laptop computer, Intel Celeron, Best Buy Co. Inc., Black Friday, HP Laptop, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Exploit published for critical IE 7 zero-day flaw

Do you mean:"The vulnerability was confirmed on fully patched Windows XP SP3 systems with Internet Explorer 6 and [b]7[/b]."Also how effective is the exploit with Protected Mode and limited user account usage? I'd like to see more information on how these two mitigation techniques work against exploits. I suspect the...

Tags: Web browsers, EXPLORER, Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft Internet Explorer, critical IE 7 zero-day flaw, IE 7 zero-day flaw, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, zero-day bug, exploit

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Portlock Leap Frog 5.13.0.2321 (Windows)

Portlock Leap Frog will assist you in creating a bootable Virtual Hard Disk VHD for native Windows deployment with your Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 machine. The VHD can be used as the running operating system on supported hardware without a virtual machine or hypervisor....

Tags: Portlock Leap Frog, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-23

Macrium Reflect 4.2 build 2097 (Windows)

Macrium Reflect is an award winning backup and disk imaging solution for Vista, XP and Server 2003. Reflect can backup files and folders into a compressed mountable archive file or your entire PC into a single image. Using this image you can restore the entire disk, partition or individual files...

Tags: Disk, CD, Image, Macrium Software, Macrium Reflect, Backups, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-23

EnhanceMyVista Pro 2.10 (Windows)

An easy to use yet advanced enhancing, optimizing and tweaking tool for Windows Vista. With a clean and simple interface it brings you an all-in-one set of powerful and neatly classified tools, settings and tweaks: Process Manager, Disk and Registry Cleaners, Defragmenter, HDD SMART monitor, UAC, e-mail, and many other...

Tags: Tool, SeriousBit, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, E-mail, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-11-23

Will Microsoft's Silverlight dampen the appeal of Google's Chrome OS?

MS is the past Google is the future so NopeGoogle is the old MS, MS is the old IBM. PC_DOS never made it, MS_DOS did. The driving factor was openness and innovation.Today and in the near future, Google has bothToday MS sees profit only and based on thatdrives...

Tags: Operating systems, Leadership, BOOT UP TIMES, Google Chrome, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Chrome OS, Chrome, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Michael Dell sticks to Windows 7 big bang theory

too old?"Windows XP is 8 years old"So What? If it ain't broke don't fix it!Windows 2000 is ten years old and still does almost everything I need. Everyone around me runs XP or newer, yet I have far fewer problems.What is good for the computer industry is not...

Tags: Operating systems, theory, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Ballmer: Windows 7 sales on a roll

Oh boy... this should be a fun Talkback... ntntyeap...for sure we'll be hearing what everyone has already said "ad nauseum".BallSack is a MoronPlain and Simple.I'm sure Win7 sales are decent. After all, it's hard to get an OS-less computer.....It is easy enough to get linuxpre-installed.Or buy a MacHowever,...

Tags: Sales strategy, Operating systems, Mac sale, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Linux, sales, Steve Ballmer, Windows 7 sale, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Ballmer: Windows 7 sales on a roll

Delivering opening remarks at Microsoft's shareholder meeting on Thursday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said that Windows 7 was off to a "fantastic start." Delivering opening remarks at Microsoft's shareholder meeting on Thursday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said that Windows 7 was off to a "fantastic start." ...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Sales, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Windows 7, Microsoft, Ballmer, Ina Fried CNET News

News items 2009-11-20

What's next for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform?

So MS is going cloud...Well, well, isn't this interesting. Does MS concede that the era of packaged client software is over? Again, MS is the follower and not the leader, and again, MS is following Google to the clouds. My prediction is that this will be a field day...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corp., Azure, server

Discussion threads 2009-11-18