XP and Vista [View all] My great-niece is about to get a laptop for school work. The school uses XP however her parents want to get her a Vista laptop. Assuming that the same
Macs Are PCs, Dammit! [View all]
In the end, Apple's flagship product is nothing more than a really good PC.
http://www.pcm ag.com/article2/0,28 17,2327233,00.asp
Cannot access website from 3 computers [View all] I cannot access the following website from 3 computers on my home network:
Host Name : mercurymarauder.net
IP Address : 208.100.1.126
Loc ati
Daughter Has Trojanon Her Laptop [View all] Somehow my daughter downloaded something to her laptop and got a trojan or two. Now I must say that she is an adult(31 years old) and the laptop is he
Acer hdds ? [View all] Are they proprietary ? If not , how are they set up ? I have an Acer here 4 months old, and it has Vista Home premium on the C partition,
and nothing
USB Keyboards [View all] I was just wondering. I see more and more keyboards and mice with a USB interface. What is the advantage of this, over the previous interface?
Than
Elec Conductive Paste [View all] Is there such a thing as a paste or cream that one can apply to mating surfaces to enhance electrical conductivity and perhaps retard oxidation? I am
Outlook 2007 (or 2003) menu size [View all] I have been trying to enlarge the size of this menu in Outlook 2007 for someone with no luck. The text and icons are just to plain small for this guy
What next? Cannot enable google toolbar! [View all] renstalled ( again) after pc got odder by the day. Dell ins,530 Vista Sp1, 3 g ran, 320 g HD, Google toolbar in IE7 will not enable. it is Enable
Missing Hard Drive [View all] I have a Western Digital Notebook hard drive (Drive L in my system), but alas it is missing. When I checked "My Computer" drive L is gone.
How do I
static electricity working on computer [View all] I am an elderly man contemplating adding RAM to my desktop computer with XP.
I worked with my hands when I was in my 20's but now I'm in my 70's an
Mozilla preps Firefox 3.0 auto update [View all] Mozilla might trigger the automatic browser update within the next week; support for Firefox 2.0 will end in mid-December. Mozilla said today that it
A great Windows Explorer replacement... [View all] I have come across a great little program to replace Win Explorer. It called Q-Dir and is only 387 kb in size. I love it and think a lot of you will
Speaking Of Great Little Freebies... [View all] There is a very useful and free service called Jott with which you can send yourself, and/or anyone you have put on your list, an e-mail via your cell
OutlookExpress [View all] I have started getting the following message on some of my e-mails but I have deleted most of the e-mails in my folders and this message continues. Ho
Free Paragon Backup program... [View all] Just received this in an e-mailing from Paragon, if anyone is interested
http:/ /www.paragon-softwar e.com/home/db-expres s/download.html
Dell GX
WinBubble 1.75 for Vista [View all] What's new on WinBubble 1.75? (Quality And Quantity)
* Ultimate Update: Increasing the Usability of Icon Tab, Changing Icons without downloading fr
"AntivirusXP2008" malware [View all] A neighbor has acquired a program named AntivirusXP2008. I think she downloaded it thinking it was a legitimate program. It has planted a big box in t
Dual Boot [View all] This is probably a naive question, but here goes.
I am going to install two hard drives in the computer. Is it necessary or desirable for them to be
Budget Quad build tips? [View all] Time to upgrade a family member's 1Ghz computer so I'm thinking of passing on one of my dual core units and using it as an excuse to build a quad for
Adding 10,000 Servers Per Month [View all] An interesting article on Microsoft server farms.
They add servers packaged in shipping containers.
http://news.cnet .com/8301-13860_3-10 020902-56
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