Give your system more oomph by disabling the services that Windows activates automatically, whether or not you actually need them. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor ...

The backwards compatibility of new operating systems has been a constant thorn in Microsoft's side. With Vista, the compatibility problems at launch were so great it never really stood a chance of ...

Most computer makers are taking advantage of Microsoft Corp.’s antitrust woes to place a variety of rival products and services on the opening screen of the software giant’s new Windows XP operating ...

I have lots of services running on this box during normal use. I would like to make something like a hardware profile, but for services so that XP will only load the most basic necessary services for ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is warning users of older versions of Windows to urgently apply a ...

MICROSOFT ON MONDAY will execute one of its first attempts to harness the desktop as a strategic element of its Web services platform with the delivery of its Office XP Web Services Toolkit. The new ...