These five free utilities will give your Windows XP or Vista machine some Windows 7 pizzazz. AeroSnap: Maximizing a window on today’s large monitors is often a waste of screen space. In Windows 7, a ...

Q: I’m using Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 and whenever I click on a shortcut from my desktop, when there is already another window open, the new window is always buried under any existing ...

Windows 8 isn’t for everyone. If you’re mostly a desktop PC user comfortable with Windows 7, upgrading to Windows 8 is probably not worthwhile. If you’re a mobile user who needs easy access to the ...

Love XP, hate Vista? Well this is for all the “die-hard” XP fans out there. Personally, I run both Windows Vista and Windows XP, and though I have a soft spot for each one, I lean toward XP. I ...

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 ...

Windows Vista won't be available until early next year, but current XP users drooling over Vista's new Aero theme and utilities, such as sidebars and widgets, don't have to wait for Microsoft to ship ...

The Windows NT Backup Restore Utility for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will help you restore backups made on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, to computers that are running Windows 7 and ...