• Tip 48: Setting Up and Installing Printers in Windows

    This tip is for Windows XP SP3, Vista, 7 and possibly 8. This is going to be a long post, but is not meant to be all inclusive. There are definitely other ways to setup and install printers, but the ways below are a good practice to follow as they...
  • Tip 47: One Windows System Stability Index Score to Rule Them All

    This tip is for Windows Vista, 2008 Server RTM and up. Since I talked about Wbemtest.exe and Windows System Stability Index in the last posts I thought I would do something useful with the treasure trove of reliability information available through...
  • Tip 46: Is This Computer Junk? Windows Reliability Index and Reliability Monitor

    This tip is for Windows Vista, 2008 Server RTM and up. How reliable is a computer? Most of the time if you ask this question, you will get a subjective answer; depending on the how the day is going of the person you posed the question to. If you are...
  • Tip 45: WBEMTEST, the underappreciated tool

    This tip is for all versions of Windows, Windows NT and up. One of my favorite built in tools in Windows is Wbemtest.exe. It is not the prettiest program ever created, but the power to find out information on your computer and other computers on the...