Users of the Windows operating systems have been facing a rather strange problem over the last few days. The problem which was named the “Black screen of Death” left users with a totally black screen once they logged into their accounts. In a statement made by software firm Prevx, according to them, the black screen of death was possibly caused by a faulty security update in November. However, officials at Microsoft have said that the problem was not as a result of any faulty security update and it could be a malware.

MSI has announced the U.S. availability of the Wind Top AE2220 all-in-one desktop PC. What’s cool about this touch screen PC is that like a flat screen TV, this PC can be mounted on a wall.

Microsoft’s internet portal, MSN has got a new look almost after a decade. A number of new features have been added in the revamped site that is to be rolled out in 2010. Currently, only a few people in the US have been granted to access the revamped version of MSN. A large Bing search engine box along with columns to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter and a number of categories like sports, money, entertainment and lifestyle along with localized information are some of the new features of the webpage.

Sophos has revealed that Windows 7 with its User Account Control (UAC) in the default configuration and no anti-virus software installed is vulnerable to 7 out of 10 sample viruses.
Although Microsoft strongly recommend the use of anti-virus software, this experiment proves that the improved User Account Control (UAC) features built into Windows 7 are not enough.
UAC stopped only one example (from ten malware samples that arrived in Sophos’s labs on 22 October) that would otherwise have infected the PC. It was a strain of autorun malware (called Autorun-ATK by …

Microsoft has released its new security software and this software is available for free download in the Microsoft’s Security Essentials website. This software can be used as a basic protection against viruses, Trojans, root kits, and spyware. This is the second attempt by Microsoft in providing anti-virus software with the first one being the beta version of the Microsoft’s Security Essentials (MSE) software which has been codenamed as “Morro” and has been made available to the people from specific countries such as US, China, Brazil, and Israel. When Cliff Evans, …

Having just got hold of my copy of Windows 7, I decided to install it on my rather long-in-the-tooth PC. It is a 2.5Ghz P4 with only 1.75GB of memory and a 40GB hard drive… OK stop laughing there at the back… But it works for me as I am mainly an Apple Mac user…
Anyway… I stuck the Windows 7 DVD in the drive and booted and I got this strange error: “Cannot boot from CD – Code 5″
This is quite odd as other DVDs boot fine on this machine …

There are two variations of all the different Windows 7 versions available, a 32 bit version and a 64 bit version. If you want to try the 64 bit version you will need a 64 bit processor from either Intel or AMD and you need to make sure that your PC meets the minimun requirements.
The published minimum system requirements for Windows 7 64 bit are:

1 gigahertz (GHz) 64-bit (x86) processor
2 GB RAM (64-bit)
20 GB available hard disk space
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

By using 64 …

The question is can your PC run Windows 7? If you are considering upgrading Windows on your current PC, then there are two ways to check if your PC will work with Windows 7. The first is the manual way, read the system requirements and compare them to your PC, the other is the automatic way, run the Microsoft Windows 7 upgrade advisor.
The published minimum system requirements for Windows 7 are:

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x86) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM …

With a number of security threat loose on the internet, OS developer Microsoft has develop a comprehensive update file that will help users tackle about 34 security vulnerabilities. The security update will include a number of critical updates and will be biggest security update released by Microsoft so far. Microsoft noted that there were a number of loopholes in Internet explorer and Microsoft Office which made computers vulnerable to potential attacks.
Loopholes in the File Transfer Protocol(FTP) of Windows was the most exploited ne by cyber criminals and in a recent …

There has been lots of brouhaha over the release of the trial version of Microsoft’s new operating system “Windows 7″. Chip maker Intel and Microsoft have now said that the new OS will save a great deal of power and also will have faster booting times. After all the negative criticism for their earlier operating system Windows Vista, Microsoft hopes that the new OS will perform as promised by them. Microsoft said that it has been working with Intel in a partnership to develop a better and faster OS and …