Many of you shop NewEgg or other like online retail web site to buy things. One of the items they sell is Microsoft Windows 7. For single-license versions of the OS, there are three types you can buy:Upgrade OEM System Builder Full RetailUpgrade is easy enough to understand. In order to install the OS you need a qualifying product such as Windows XP or...

Hotmail allows for a full seamless backup by means of the Windows Live Mail client using the DeltaSync protocol. Gmail allows for a full backup by means of freely available IMAP access. Y! Mail doesn’t have either of those options. A full backup includes not only your inbox, but also the "Sent" folder and any other folders you have. Even if you...

Years ago when I first started examining if you could in fact run an entire OS off a single USB stick (meaning not external hard drive), you could with “biz card” sized Linux distributions such as Damn Small Linux and Puppy Linux. These distros are still available today and still actively developed. The reason people chose these over full-sized...