Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

Windows XP launched in 2001 and has been used by many small businesses and consumers since; it's a stable operating system, according to a 2011 Asia Times article, and some businesses prefer to stay ...

The reason your PC boots slowly is already logged somewhere hidden.

I'm writing a Windows app in unmanaged C++ and want to log some simple events to the Application log. I'm normally a *nix guy and am used to being able to just call syslog() (or asl(3) on Mac OS X). I ...