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Malware Advisor Blog

The highest quality shareware, freeware, and demos. Post specific questions, share ideas or help others with Windows based problems.

MVPS XP Troubleshooting Page

From Microsoft's Most Valuable Professionals, tons of neat XP tips, fixes and FAQs. If you can't trust this group, who can you trust?

This site is good for deciphering your XP and Vista services. This site has returned online after a brief period of being off the Net.

Win XP Activation Changes

This page lists some information regarding what items initiate the 'reactivation' of your Win XP OS.

Deviant Art

This is probably the largest MS based site available on the net, aside from MS itself. Lots of great sections, to fine tune your pc, trouble shoot and lots more.

Good site with tons of XP tips tweaks, all downloadable or available on a CD. Very large database. Certified MS MVP. Many of the reg fixes have been used in countless forums fixing up users task bars, control panels, run command and loads of other things. Excellent resource.

The Elder Geek

An excellent site, regarding everything XP, has a nice search feature to simplify your inquiries.

An MS MVP site that is dedicated to step-by-step walkthroughs designed to
fix common problems and issues seen by users of Windows XP.

The goal of this site is to act as a general skin site to the community. There are hundreds of skinnable applications on the net. WinCustomize, however, strives to contain most of the very popular ones. It is also designed as an entry point for new users into the wonderful world of skinning.

Wikipedia page with loads of external links all about what's going on with Vista from any number of sources, so don't take info here as definitive.

The Windows Experience Index measures the capability of your computer's hardware and software configuration and expresses this measurement as a number called a base score. A higher base score generally means that your computer will perform better and faster than a computer with a lower base score, especially when performing more advanced and resource-intensive tasks.

This guy has been around for a long time and has some great info presented in good format.

Paul Thurrotte could very well be one of the foremost knowledgeable people about nearly all Windows versions. Advanced info on upcoming versions, options and other related software always great info and insight. He's reviewed all sorts of Windows applications and can always be counted on being forthcoming in his opinions.

Ed is yet another well respected Windows reviewer and writer. He's written several books on Windows versions the latest being 'Windows Vista:Inside & Out'. He was an editor at PC World and has a very popular blog on ZDNET as linked above. You can find his main site here

This forum is a collection of specified topics all related only to Vista. They have every topic imaginable and link to many news groups as well. The tutorials linked to above are well done and informative, a must fav for any Vista user.

All the great formatting and presentation with the same excellent graphics as the XP page I listed to above.