Speccy is a new, great little system tool that gives you detailed information about all the hardware on your computer.  It is even available in a portable version so you can run it on a computer at a store, friend’s house, or anywhere else you need to check detailed stats.  My favorite features is that it shows the model, speed, latency, and more from your Ram; this is really helpful if you’re wanting to add more RAM to your...

My favorite feature in both Windows 7 and Vista is the “Previous Versions” tool.  This has absolutely saved me several times, including once when I accidently deleted a nearly finished essay!  I think this is the hidden gem in modern versions of Windows, so I really enjoyed writing about it for How-To Geek.  Check out the article intro below, and then continue reading it at How-To Geek. Have you ever accidently deleted a...

My recent article on How-to Geek about running XP Mode without hardware virtualization got a lot of comments from people wanting to run XP Mode on other editions of Windows.  XP Mode is only licensed for Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate, so if your computer is running 7 Home Premium or Vista you cannot run it.  But, if you have your own legal copy of XP, you can make your own XP Mode.  It’s actually very...

Several months ago I wrote about VMware’s release of VMware Player 3.0.  This was a major upgrade to VMware’s free desktop virtualization offering, adding support for creating virtual machines and running them in Unity mode.  Windows 7’s release, then on the other hand, boosted desktop virtualization’s position in the marketplace with XP Mode which brings a virtualized copy of XP to Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and...

For all the talk about Gmail, Hotmail is still a very viable and highly used webmail service.  My main email account is a Windows Live Hotmail, and I can easily access it from Outlook, hotmail.com, or my Windows Phone, depending on what I’m doing.  Most of my emails come to my @live.com Hotmail address, but I also have a number of other email accounts, including from my college, Gmail, and more.  The great thing is that...