Making changes to Windows Registry can have catastrophic effects on your system’s performance, if not done accurately. The Windows Registry houses the settings for system processes and apps so that ...

You can change Registry key values manually using the built-in Windows Registry Editor (regedit) in order to improve performance or make Windows work the way you want, but you need to know what you’re ...

Q. My laptop somehow got terribly screwed up. When I double-click on a Word file in Windows Explorer, a program other than Word tries to load it—and, of course, it fails. Can you help? A. It sounds ...

Windows XP launched in 2001 and has been used by many small businesses and consumers since; it's a stable operating system, according to a 2011 Asia Times article, and some businesses prefer to stay ...

Your computer's hardware clock stores the time, even when the computer is off. Windows assumes local time, while Linux ...

A bunch of our users at work are running into DNS issues when they're connecting to our network remotely. We figured out that re-ordering the binding in <pre class ...

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