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Ok, this is a new one for me. I love to give good reviews of products and services, and generally hate to give bad ones. For years, one of my favorite places to go for things electronic was CompUSA. I could usually find what I wanted at a decent price, get it quickly and had no problems with customer...

MagicDisc is freeware. It is very helpful utility designed for creating and managing virtual CD drives and CD/DVD discs. For anyone who deals with CD-based programs – it is a MUST. MagicDisc allows you to use almost all CD/DVD image without burning them onto CD or DVD in order to easily access...

Ok, I've tried Nero and other utilities for burning CD/DVD media from ISO files, as well as creating ISO files.  While Nero works fine, 99.9% of the time (others less so), I've been using a free CD/DVD burning tool called ImgBurn.  It can be downloaded from http://www.imgburn.com .  There...

Brief Description Resolves the issue entitled "Contact Help Center - OneCare virus and spyware protection encountered a problem and cannot start". You MUST save this file to your computer and then run it. Do NOT select 'Run' from the download dialog. Overview After an install or an upgrade of Windows...

Ok, its not earth shattering news, but Microsoft is now providing the latest version number of the definitions files for these to products on their web site. http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/ Look on the right side for Definition Updates.

For people like me who also celebrate lunar New Year, one of its benefits is that I can make my New Year Resolutions again. One of my (Lunar) New Year Resolutions is to write more in longhornblogs. And I start with this post right after midnight of New Year's Eve (Pacific Time). 2006 is the year Windows...

The DOJ and the states that settled with Microsoft are still in the process of reviewing XP SP2, but already there are plans to meet and go over Longhorn to make sure it complies with the settlement: Microsoft is slated to meet with federal and state antitrust regulators next month to discuss possible...

Though not earth shattering for anyone who has been following Longhorn, PC World is running a new article that says Microsoft plans to drop the "Home" and "Pro" tags and could make Tablet PC and Media Center features part of the core operating system. Building Media Center and Tablet PC capabilities...

Eagerly awaiting Longhorn? So is everyone else. That's why the operating system made Wired's 2004 Vaporware list , in the number 3 position. I guess it will be on the list next near now too. The list is meant to be funny, and for the most part it is. But this comment about Tiger doesn't seem necessary...

Citrix Systems Inc., manufacturer of popular access products for Windows Server recently announced with Microsoft an extension of their partnership that covers Longhorn: The five-year agreement will provide Citrix continued access to Microsoft Windows Server code while providing for patent cross-licensing...