Windows Vista users are complaining on Microsoft Corp.’s support forums about long start-up, shutdown and application load times compared with Windows XP. The users, who sound pro-Vista for the most ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If you can’t get your computer to start up properly, here are some methods to try. If you can’t get your computer ...

A freshly installed system starts up quickly and responds swiftly. A few updates and new software installations later, however, Windows seems to become slower and slower. There are several ways to ...

In the pre-Vista world, Windows users had the choice between a lame standby mode that leaves your computer very hot (especially with the screen closed) and a hibernation mode that sometimes takes ...