Windows 7 VS Windows XP Performance Testing Benchmark Results

Today we ordered Eight HP brand PC’s custom configured with Windows 7 Pro/Windows XP Pro downgrade option.  They arrived preinstalled with XP Pro so I upgraded one to Windows 7 Pro to do some benchmarking on two identical machines.  This is what PassMark had to say:

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Asus 1005HA Series EEE PC Dualboot BackTrack Linux / Windows XP

Recently I’ve been keeping a close eye on netbooks with the hopes of building a mini BackTrack beast with hefty battery life. Well thanks to Asus I’ve turned that hope into a reality.
Several weeks ago I had some spare time after being called to jury duty which turned out to be canceled. [...]

Seagate BlackArmor 440 in Active Directory a losing battle?

For one of my employers I’ve been facing a huge storage challenge due to a lack of IT budget and growing profiles, shared folders and email stores.  I’ve been on the hunt for an affordable solution and been looking at everything from Email Archiving Servers to SAN and NAS devices.  Last week I got approval [...]

PDFCreator in an Enterprise Environment with Roaming Profiles

Today I deployed PDFCreator to one of our Windows print servers and unfortunately the program doesn’t work quite how I’d expected. I was hoping each user could install the printer, and when printing, have the choice on where to save the .pdf file. Instead this destination is configured by me the administrator. [...]

What do we recommend for antivirus and antispyware protection ?

 
Due to the rising importance of data security and many flaws discovered on PC’s every day it’s no wonder criminals are turning to the electronic circuit to claim their stakes. Throughout the years we’ve seen many personal security products come and go and never has there been an all-in-one safeguard for administrators, that [...]