Windows Power Saving – Expert Help by PC Magazine

Follow these settings to save energy with the computers you already own. It’s easiest if you set these as part of the drive images you use to set up and restore PCs. Of course, these settings aren’t written in stone; you can adjust them to suit your work habits.

Secure Your E-Mail and IM Communications – Reviews by PC Magazine

Wired and wireless networks can be easily snooped. What does that mean to you? Anyone with a computer on your network—or in your area, if you use wireless access—can monitor your communications, unless you make sure those communications are secured.

Windows Power Saving – Expert Help by PC Magazine

Follow these settings to save energy with the computers you already own. It’s easiest if you set these as part of the drive images you use to set up and restore PCs. Of course, these settings aren’t written in stone; you can adjust them to suit your work habits.

The PC security landscape is constantly changing. Well paid, malicious programmers keep cranking out new and different attacks, and the security software vendors do their best to stay ahead.11 Critical Security Apps

If your Skype calls are sounding less than optimal, get some technical detail. In your Skype UI, click over to Tools | Options | Display Technical Call Info. One of the more important stats displayed there is Roundtrip. If this reads 100 milliseconds or more, your call traffic is getting seriously delayed. Try placing the call again, and if that doesn’t solve your problem, it’s time to check your gateway settings.

Upgrading your graphics card for Windows Vista ? Be sure to get a card with as much local memory as possible. Windows Vista renders everything—even the desktop and windows themselves—as 3D surfaces, so local 3D memory greatly improves performance, sometimes more so than a more powerful GPU does.

If you work with images, video, or sound, don’t buy your PC off the rack. This step-by-step guide shows you how to build the perfect PC.
How to Build a Media Creation PC

Performance Shootout–Microsoft Vista 32-bit versus Vista 64-bit

On top of that, anyone using 64-bit Vista will still be running a lot of 32-bit applications. So we benchmarked some of those as well. Let’s take a look at the benchmarks and test system.

There are three main approaches to filtering out spam. Content-filtering products use their own proprietary algorithms to distinguish spam from valid mail. Challenge/response products block all mail from addresses other than trusted ones but allow new correspondents who respond to an e-mailed challenge. And community-based products use the collective intelligence of their users to decide what is and isn’t spam. Each approach has its own plusses and minuses. The Best Ways to Stop Spam