More people are setting up virtual PCs today than ever. Whether it’s for legacy applications, old games or just for nostalgia, having virtual computers is becoming much more common. One of the biggest gripes about virtual PCs can be boiled down to a single question: How do I share files between the virtual PC and the host computer? This is the question...

The first question most people ask when it comes to computer virtualization is only one word: "Why?" The answer is because you probably have some stuff be it hardware or software that absolutely will not run on your current operating system, but will run on the prior edition of it. For most people this means the whatever-it-is works in XP but not in...

Ah yes, Internet Explorer 6. It has more holes than Swiss cheese, is exploited easily and is slow as molasses. It doesn’t even do tabs. You might be thinking, "What moron would still use IE 6 when you could use 7 or 8?" Corporations would, that’s who. Windows 2000 is still used widely in the enterprise environment. And as anyone who uses...

A standard argument by Linux users is that if WINE cannot run a Windows  app for whatever reason, do it virtually. Load up Windows in a virtual session with your app of choice, be it VMware, Virtualbox or the like, load up your Windows session and run your app that way. There is nothing to my knowledge that Linux cannot run virtually if WINE doesn’t...

Before reading this article, check out the video below (or at least watch the first 1 minute of it). All major operating systems have a way of making multiple virtual screens (even Windows XP with Virtual Desktop Manager from the PowerToys set). The idea of one continuous scrolling desktop seems like a good idea. And in fact it is. This is most likely what...

Some routers have special means of handling Virtual Private Networks (VPN). Other routers may require putting the client computer for the VPN in the DMZ, which has reduced security. VPN features vary widely from router to router, and many routers do not have any VPN-specific features at all. [hidepost=1] VPN Passthrough A VPN passthrough detects PPTP and IPSec...