Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

Will someone please tell me WHY there is this great big push to shelve technology– especially operating systems? And especially Microsoft operating systems? OK, let me back off a little. There’s talk that MS will let Vista just fade away. It’s outdated, too buggy, and too bulky. The Microsoft executive in charge of Windows urged [...]

I saw this in one of my technology news e-magazines, and want to post it here for anyone else having this problem. There seems to be an issue with Windows Vista machines “hanging” (freezing, or, the screen stays black and the Windows logo never appears) after you hit the power button to the computer, or [...]

There’s a terrific tutorial on how to speed up your Windows Vista on your computer at the India Times InfoTech. Last year, I splurged and got myself a very beefy computer with triple-core processor and 4GB RAM, so my Vista runs pretty smoothly, anyway. But I’m always looking for tweaks, and these were great. The [...]

Sometimes figuring out networks functionalities on ANY computer can drive you nutty. I still havem’t completely figured out XP’s, let alone Vista! And I’m tinkering with the Xandros and Ubuntu operating systems, too. I must be crazy! Well, I found a great article and thought I’d pass it along (and oftentimes, I use this blog [...]

I’d mentioned that I got a very cool Apple Aluminum keyboard for my Windows Vista computer. I am just loving this keyboard! I can type faster and I make fewer typing errors. It has made me more productive, and there’s nothing like a new gadget to inspire and motivate a person! I’d said that some [...]

Vista is the first Windows operating system to be 64-bit. A “bit” is bascially a data unit. Most Windows machines have 32-bit (32-bit processors, and 32-bit operating systems to make full use of the processors). But as we use computers to manage more and more data and manage it all simultaneously, the 64-bit processor was [...]