Make sure that your changes are saved, and exit the window. You should now be able to ping other PCs on your network. Note: This method should work for Windows 11 ...

My Hardware 2.0 mailbag is brimming with Windows 7 related questions. The main question on everyone's lips is the obvious one - How does Windows 7 stack up against Vista? Important note: Before I go ...

Improving performance is one of Microsoft’s design goals with Windows 7, and many early reviewers (including ours) have said that the new OS seems peppier than Vista. But tests of the Windows 7 ...

Measured by runtime specs and performance benchmarks, Windows 7 M3 looks like Vista, and it runs like Vista. Welcome to Windows Vista R2! It’s here! After months of speculation, Windows 7 was finally ...

Since the release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview last week, a nagging question has been hounding speed-hogs everywhere: just how much faster is Windows 8 than Windows 7? We decided to find out for ...

When it comes to internet speed, most of us think about speed. Not that it doesn’t matter, but when it comes to online gaming, there is one more factor that matters a lot — Ping Time. It plays a vital ...

Windows 8‘s Metro interface may be controversial, but it looks like few PC users will complain about the new operating system’s performance. The PCWorld Labs put the Consumer Preview of Windows 8 ...

Windows Server offers tons of tools for admins in case an application or computer is not able to connect to a specific port or server IP. One thing that instantly pops up is using tools to resolve DNS ...

Microsoft has made available a patch to a Windows 7 bug in the Release Candidate (RC) and is preparing to roll out some "fake" test patches to verify Windows 7's automatic-updating abilities this week ...