Tag: compatible_pc

Top Reasons to Stick with Vista

September 02, 2007 by Jason

Most people have considered at least once or twice the reasons to keep using Vista after installing the free Betas released by Microsoft before the official launch or after buying their own copy of the OS and installing it on their newly upgraded and Vista compatible PC.

If you’re in the first category you might find most of the arguments I’m going to list here in favor of making use of Vista instead of other OSs mostly because you haven’t gone radical about it and went to the store to buy yourself new Vista ready hardware. The cause of this is not the object of my article therefore I’m not going to write about it (although I suppose the money basis would be a definite turn off it has also been my case).

If you’re one of those that used Vista since the early released Betas and are still using it with the appropriate hardware then this article might give some reasons you haven’t been aware of to stick to it and not give it up for anything else, be it Microsoft material or open source. Read More»

Ultimate Boot CD (DOS or Linux)

June 20, 2007 by Jason

The Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) is a huge collection of system diagnostic and recovery tools that are conveniently arranged on a single CD. These tools work on any Intel-compatible PC. Since the CD is bootable, it doesn’t matter what operating system(s) may be installed on the PC. Indeed, UBCD comes in handiest when the normal operating system refuses to boot.

You Name It: The current version of UBCD contains 121 tools, divided into 21 categories, as follows. Each tool runs in isolation, as if it were the only tool on the CD (just as if the tool were on its own floppy disk). A master menu program boots up first. It lets you choose the tool you want to run, and then it boots that tool. (To run another tool, simply reboot and go through the main menu again.) Read More»