DisableUserTOSSetting is a Microsoft Windows registry setting. It is not a pr0n filter nor does it media bull shiitake passing through your PC, although I really hoped it would. No, according to MS it’s found in the registry under the…

If you’re Windows XP machine is getting slower day by day, then you might imagine that clearing out your Windows “Prefetch” folder would somehow speed up your machine.

This is a myth that has been doing the rounds on the internet…

The NYT’s David Pogue was shocked to see a computer user in a publishing house actually click and drag to select a single word in a document…it got him thinking about some of the basic tips and tricks everyone who…

If you use a Windows machine, no doubt you’re familiar with the three-finger shuffle - control-alt-delete. This no longer reboots your PC, but brings up Windows Task Manager. You’ll have seen countless entries in the processes list in Task Manager…

Windows users will be familiar with the old three-finger shuffle, control-alt-delete, invented by my namesake at IBM as a debugging tool. Today, ^-alt-del brings up the Task Manager rather than rebooting a PC, and therein lie many mysteries. Weird processes…