2005 March

Via TechRepublic:
A common annoyance for both IT professionals and end users is having to sit and wait while Windows reboots. This sample hack from OReilly’s Windows XP Hacks, 2nd Edition shows how to tweak a PC’s BIOS, the Windows Registry, and other Windows XP settings to streamline boot and shutdown times.

Okay, forget the Holy Grilled Cheese Pan being sold on eBay. Mother of five Terri Iligan put her name, “Terri Iligan,” up for sale on eBay, agreeing to give up the name Terri Iligan to adopt whatever name the highest eBay bidder wanted her to adopt.
And someone bought it!
For more than $15,000!
You really [...]

Most e-mail accounts have a size limit on attachments (usually around 10MB, but it varies), so if you have files larger than that, you are forced to break them up into multiple e-mails. Inconvenient at the very least, it can be downright annoying. The solution is waiting for you at Dropload. “What,” you ask, “is [...]

r_j_velazquez writes:
I have a small workgroup with a workstation running XP SP2 and a laptop running Win 2000. I have a netgear wireless switch between the two. The Workstation is connected via CAT 5 and the Laptop has a netgear PCMICA wireless card. I ran the home office network wizard on the workstation and [...]

I have been working a lot of hours lately - way too many, in my humble opinion. Sometimes I forget what week it is, or was. But an e-mail site visitor yesterday reminded me what month it is - and what season it is. He suggested a site that covers the Big Dance - one [...]

Weave Words is a fun new PC word game where you must try to uncover well known phrases and sayings.
The game presents you with a hexagonal grid of letters tiles, which must be used to create words of three or more letters. Once a word is made, letters from the word can be chosen to [...]

Alex Arias of Personal Computer World writes:
In our May 2005 issue, we’ve reviewed 110 of the best free tools available from Microsoft. Click on the link below to download a zip file containing spreadsheets with clickable hotlinks to all the utilities. These files are also included on the cover CD/DVD.
You’ll need a free Excel viewer [...]

When it comes to buying tech gadgets, I have a bad habit of purchasing too quickly. When I see it, I want it. Practical shoppers know better than to just spend money on something as soon as their vision focuses in on it. While it can be fun, you’ll most likely regret it later. Perhaps [...]

Q: My copy of IE6 on this Windows XP computer is giving me grief. Each time that I try to open it, I receive an error message, and the browser refuses to load. Since IE is such a vital piece of Windows, I was wondering if it’s possible to somehow repair or reinstall it. Can [...]

Windows XP supports two different types of disks: basic disks and dynamic disks. All disk devices added to a computer are basic disks until they are converted to dynamic. You may be asking why you would want to convert to your disks from basic to dynamic. Well the answer is that dynamic disks include features [...]