Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips After reading several articles on Windows 8 News about the exciting features of Windows 8 including one by Robert Boland who suggested that “Windows 8 uses a lot less RAM and Memory than Windows 7”, I decided to download a copy of WindowsDeveloperPreview-32Bit-English.iso and see if I could install it on my MSI Netbook. I was a bit concerned about the netbook’s ability to handle it given its Aton CPU and minimal features. The screen picture below show Speccy’s assessment of my MSI Netbook’s specifications   Speccy’s Take on the Netbook Installation Given the netbook’s lower specifications and comments made by friends about its poor performance I was a little hesitant to test Windows 8 Developer Preview out

Microsoft has been very desperate to fill up gap between Windows Phone and Android and iOS devices. With Mango, it has introduces to the world a winning mobile operating system. Windows Phone 7.5 aka..

Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips It’s finally happened.  Windows 7 has now been out for two years (I know, I can hardly believe it myself) and it’s finally overtaken XP on installations according to figures released by StatCounter . The figures show that Windows 7 has grown to 40% total market share since its launch while Windows XP, which at the end of 2009 stood triumphant with almost 70% of the total market share has now dropped to around 38%.  This is just below Windows 7 but as you will see from the graph the decline in usage for XP is steady and constant, mirroring the advance of Windows 7. Windows Vista has also shown a steady decline and is currently down to around 10% overall.  This still puts it ahead of Apple’s OS X desktop operating system however which has risen slightly in the last two years to stand at 7%, and Linux which has remained constant around the 1% mark.

Depending on your backup strategy, you may mirror your data backups for additional protection. One option here is to create a local system backup first and copy the backups to a remote location for safe keeping.

The Task Manager is one of the most widely used apps in the Windows operating system. It has a long history, having first showed up in early versions of Windows as a simple utility to close and… For more visit The Windows Club.

Webcams can be used for a variety of purposes. From video conferencing over monitoring a room for security purposes to connecting them to the Internet to make it available publicly. WebCamImageSave is a new application by Nirsoft for the Windows operating system that can capture periodic webcam images

iCloud is a new cloud service from Apple that will allow you to store all your music, photos, documents, etc, and wirelessly pushes them to all your devices. Every new iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch… For more visit The Windows Club

Many online services like Google Docs and Box.net allow viewing and editing of Docx formats. What if you still want to edit these Docx documents, but don’t have Microsoft Word installed? Doc2Rtf a…

When using Intermet Explorer, by default, all your downloads are saved in the C:UsersUsernameDownloads folder.

iolo has released a free version of their well-known System Mechanic, an optimization software for the Windows operating system. Compared to the paid version, System Mechanic Free version contains a..