Windows
Troubleshoot Wi-Fi gear
Sure, you’re network IT professionals. But the problems you solve at work are nothing like those you face at home. Here, solutions must be inexpensive, easy to manage and quick to implement. Here are solutions to two tough wireless problems that recently landed in my in-box. If encryption is standards-based, then why can’t I get [...]
Free Internet Telephony That Just Works
This Report originally appeared in CPU Magazine Hello, Mr. Pyrillio? Yes, this is Tina calling for Megaglobalhypercom, and I was wondering if you were satisfied with your long distance carrier? We’re offering an extra exclusive special low rate of one penny. . . .” *click* I’m not interested. Long distance charges are a thing of [...]
cam2pc v4.5.0
Cam2PC is for digital camera owners, and it’s a solution that helps you transfer pictures to the PC and provides image viewing and management features. It also makes transfer of images from your camera easier by automatically creating folders and sub-folders based on date or description. It can optionally rename the files as well, either [...]
The Coffee Review
Without this beverage in their lives, a large group of people would probably shrivel up and die. What am I talking about? Coffee. This intoxicating beverage has caused sane people to do insane things. From an animal’s perspective, it probably looks like the coffee is in control of us. We seek it, nurture it, and [...]
E-mail Confusion
Q: I run Outlook Express, and for some reason, I’m no longer able to send e-mail messages to myself. The messages get sent successfully, but they never show up in my Inbox. This used to work before, and I was wondering where the messages are going?
Turn The Knob Back And Simplify
Throughout this series, I have assumed that seniors were working on PCs with some version of windows. But we have not considered in detail the advantages of the various programs that seniors might work with. For instance, they probably use Internet Explorer to browse and Outlook Express for their mail. Most likely the tutors use [...]
Description of Windows XP System Information (Msinfo32.exe) Tool KB 308549
This article describes the System Information tool (Msinfo32.exe) that is included with Windows XP. You can use this tool to gather information about your computer, to diagnose issues with your computer, or to access other tools that are included with Windows XP. System Information collects system information, such as devices that are installed in your [...]
Broadcasting your PowerPoint Presentation
As you learned in a previous article, PowerPoint 2002 gives you the ability to broadcast a PowerPoint presentation. You also learned how to schedule a broadcast. Once you have completed this step, you are ready to set up your presentation for the broadcast. As with most presentations, you usually want to spend a few minutes [...]
Create a Shortcut to Specific Control Panel Applet Tabs
One of the ways in which you can open Control Panel applets is to use the run command. Each Control panel applet can be launched from the Windows\System32 directory by double clicking the corresponding .cpl file. By issuing the direct command from the Run command, you can quickly open an applet. For example, to open [...]
Help Spread Holiday Hoaxes: Aunty Gets Taken In
There’s an old saying that it’s not nice to fool Mother Nature. Well, it’s not nice to fool Aunty Spam, either. But that’s just what Alek Komarnitsky did with his Christmas lights which you could turn on and off with your web browser. Or, rather, which you couldn’t. Yes, it seems that the whole thing [...]
