Leo A. Notenboom

I am running Windows 2000 and I am wondering if I should run the Disk Cleanup (compress old files). It is currently taking up 14372KB of space.
Should I compress old files?
While you’re only asking about Disk Cleanup, I’m going to talk about Windows File Compression in more general terms. Using file compression to save space [...]

We are going on a cruise to Europe in October and I want to take my laptop with me to use in the airport and I suspect I can use it on the plane and on the ship to communicate back home, though I am not sure as I am not a traveler. I don’t [...]

I just purchased 1GB of RAM for my computer and it works great. What didn’t work was trying to use my previous two 256MB RAM sticks in combination with my new 1GB Stick. Is there any way to make this combo work? Perhaps a specific order to install the RAM?
The short answer is: maybe.
On some [...]

Listen to the podcast: Googled Yourself Lately?
Hi everyone, this is Leo Notenboom with news, commentary and answers to some of the many questions I get at askleo.info.
I occasionally get questions from people that boil down to: “how do I remove myself from search engine results?” The answer of course is track down every site that mentions [...]

A couple of friends sent me that weird email saying that, starting this summer, if I don’t send that same email to at least 18 people in my contact list, I will have to pay to use messenger and my Hotmail account.
Is that true?
No.
It’s just another email hoax that’s making the rounds.
It’s wrong on so [...]

Reports are that law enforcement is asking ISPs to keep records longer. Should we worry?
Listen to the podcast: Is Big Brother Watching You?
Hi everyone, this is Leo Notenboom with news, commentary, and answers to some of the many questions I get at askleo.info.
USA Today reported this morning that various law enforcement officials are planning to ask [...]

I live in an area that’s not served by wired broadband providers such as DSL or cable. Am I really stuck with only dialup? It’s so slow!
Surprisingly I can say this with all honesty:
I feel your pain.
OK, not the exact same pain, but my options are also limited, and it’s frustrating.
Let me throw out the [...]

My eyesight is starting to go, yet as a master’s student, I have to read scholarly papers (in PDF format) on a regular basis.
These scholarly papers have small print due to their two-column format, and it’s a pain to read them on the screen. I’d like to be able to print each 8-1/2″x11″ page across [...]

Listen to the podcast: So what do we do about spam?
Hi everyone, this is Leo Notenboom with news, commentary, and answers to some of the many questions I get at askleo.info.
Last week I discussed Blue Security’s going out of business. I got several comments in support of their methods, mostly born out of people’s frustration [...]

I just bought laptop so I can work downstairs as well as on my desktop. Is there a way I can use Outlook on both machines in such a way that they are synchronized? Right now if I open email on one it doesn’t appear on the other, and vice versa. Any way around this?
This [...]