is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has always tried to pick special numbers with meaning for the release to ...

There are various reasons you might want to find your laptop or computer’s serial number. Some schools ask that you register your laptop for academic use. Workplaces often do the same thing. You may ...

Summary: The Windows services file, located in c windows\system32\drivers\etc, lists service names and port numbers. If another program uses the same port number as a service that's listed in the ...

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Microsoft this morning announced that Windows 7 has reached 350 million licenses sold in 18 months on the market. It’s an impressive number on the surface, but absent any other context it’s hard to ...

Long-term shifts in the installed base for Windows PCs are nothing new. For decades, businesses have been dealing with the logistics and the costs of migrating from one Windows version to another. As ...

When looking for the driver of a peripheral/hardware component (sound card, network card, webcam, graphics card, etc..), it can be useful to retrieve its identification number/serial number. Follow ...

One year after the Windows Phone 7 developer tools were released, Microsoft cites numbers to show the popularity of the OS with developers. But the numbers are selective and hint at a more complex ...