If you’re like me, you probably spent at least some of your Christmas holiday puttering about on your computer, either playing games or just trying to keep up with the never-ending tsunami of e-mail. In the midst of the chaos, however, I did have a chance to push Santa aside and write up some useful [...]
A reader sent me in a question about the amount of available memory on his Windows computer, surmising that the reason that there was such a disparity between the installed memory and the available memory was some sort of rampant memory leak. Odds are that’s not the reason why his system is showing a different [...]
Here’s a pretty common Windows question: what do you need to modify so that your screensaver doesn’t automatically prompt you for a password each time you want to go back to using your computer after it’s kicked off? And, for that matter, how do you fix it if the screensaver starts up way too [...]
It’s inevitable that some people would sign up for a beta test of a product without really thinking through the ramifications of running relatively untested software on their computer. Not necessarily a crisis if it’s a new Web browser or e-mail program (though losing data is never good!), but would you sign up to help [...]
Modern operating systems are designed more for ease of use than flexibility, but that doesn’t stop people from wanting to tweak and modify how their own system works, and Windows users are definitely in this category. One of the more interesting modifications you can make to your Windows setup that makes it easier to use [...]
In what I can only describe as an ironic turn of events, I received a question about PC support from a Hewlett-Packard Technical Support Specialist. Fortunately I didn’t have to guess about the possible causes of his customer’s Windows XP Home Edition system being unable to properly restart when that option was selected, because I [...]
When my computer boots up, it gets past the reading and verifying of the computer’s components fine. But when it gets to the reading of the hard drive to launch a platform (Windows XP), it asks me which Windows I would like to load. So I have gathered that the computer thinks i have two [...]
How can I convert my AOL files, Favorites, and Address Book info from the America Online (AOL) program to MSN? I am switching from AOL dialup to a new high-speed connection. Please let me know.
While America Online (AOL) is quite popular with a large group of people, it’s also a common place for people to [...]
The scenario: My primary hard drive (HD1) became infected beyond the capabilities of adware & spyware tools, AV, or firewall. I then transferred my important data files to (what I thought was) a storage hard drive, (HD2). Thinking that I had designated a second hard drive (HD2) as the storage drive, I [...]
I found a program on my computer called Windows Audio Converter. If I change all my wmas into mp3s, will I be able to use them on my iPod?
First off, I have to say that I’m suspicious of any software that you just “find” on your computer. In this day and age, if you don’t [...]
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