We’re yet to see an episode of the ‘I’m a Mac, I’m a PC’ ads end with PC beaten into unconsciousness. So for now we’ll have to stick with the latest edition of iTunes reportedly causing widespread terminal crashes for Vista users.

Remote desktop is a great feature in Windows.  Whether you need to connect to another computer in your network, or connect to your computer from anywhere there’s an internet connection, it’s an excellent alternative to more complicated remote connection methods.  Turning on and configuring remote desktop is a lot easier than many people think, mainly because Vista takes care of the more complicated security measures for you.

If you’re like me, you probably like your computer to run as fast and efficiently as possible.  One of the main ways to do this is to stop any unwanted processes from working behind the scenes and eating up your system’s resources.  You’ve most likely already gone through Windows Task Manager to stop unneeded processes, but what about that pesky "ctfmon.exe" that never seems to go away.

Vista isn’t the greatest operating system on the planet but it is far from the worst.  The “honor” of worst operating system goes to Windows ME but that’s a really old hat.  Yet another vulnerability has cropped up in the opera that has become Vista.

Fed up with hints and tips telling you all the life-changing things you can do in Vista? Well here are some ‘features’ and applications which serve little or no useful purpose – but it’s nice to know you can do them.

The adoption rate for Vista SP1 has hit record levels if you are to believe a study done by Devil Mountain software.  It is believed that the problems with the release version of Vista are behind this trend.  On the other hand, Windows XP users see almost no reason to adopt SP3.

Windows Vista can sometimes be the prettier but dumber brother to Windows XP.  Getting standard bluetooth devices working on Vista such as keyboards, mice and headphones/headsets should be as simple as scanning for the device, right?  Wrong.  Someone at Microsoft needs to should jump on this.

For those that are frustrated that Vista won’t do what you want it to do, don’t write it off just yet.  With some simple system tweaks and some free software downloads, you can change almost every aspect of your OS to better suit your needs. 

Compliments are far and few between these days for Vista, besides the kudos it receives for its user interface.  When something does come along, it’s well worth sharing.  Compliments are due for the fact that Vista is by far the most robust and hardest to break than any previous Microsoft operating system.

This doesn’t necessarily affect all Vista users and it seems primarily targeted at users of Asus laptops.  However, it may expand beyond that but I cannot be certain.  If this problem has cropped up on your Asus laptop here’s a relatively easy fix for it.

If you have been disappointed with Vista’s performance on your brand new dual or quad-core PC then this may help.  The default settings for Vista have it boot using just one processor core.  Using both or all four cores may help speed things along.

Either love or hate UAC, it’s a part of Vista and we all have to live with it.  Some users get so annoyed with it that they turn it off and others just leave it on.  UAC is enabled by default in Vista but a minority of users (myself included) are so put out with it that we turn it off.

Vista has problems with being compatible with older software and drivers, but Microsoft may have a new weapon in its arsenal to combat that.  It recently acquired Kidaro Technologies, a desktop-virtualization software vendor which could allow the company to produce virtualization for Vista that would eliminate some or all compatibility issues.

Vista has enough of its own problems without having to concern users with third party software issues, yet, they do exist.  Symantec made a partial admission that its SymProtect feature was responsible for registry corruption during both Windows XP SP3 and Vista SP1 upgrades.  The company recently delivered a software utility to locate and repair these registry problems.

I talked about people petitioning against Microsoft’s decision to retire XP by the end of the month yesterday. Now big sites are getting in on the action creating petitions for users to sign to make things more official.