For the last 12 years, Microsoft's Windows XP operating system has been one of the most popular in the world allowing users to surf the web, send and receive emails, write reports, store and edit ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

There does not seem to be any mechanism in Windows XP to log power state changes. In particular, I want to log when HDDs spin down and spin up, as they are configured to do after one hour in Windows ...

To achieve the best performance on your computer, it is suggested that you log off an account instead of switching to another one using Fast User Switching. By logging off an account, all the previous ...

If you use a computer at work, school, library, or where ever a computer is on a network, you've probably seen the logon screen where it tells you to press Ctrl+Alt+Del. This is the logon prompt that ...