How To Boot From A USB Flash Drive
For starters this is still a new science and many people have had good luck with at least one of these methods and others have not. Note that flash drives are often also called thumb drives, keychain drives, pendrives, etc.
A FEW THINGS YOU NEED TO CONSIDER IN ADVANCE.
1. The [...]
One Day Only: WinRAR is Free
WinRAR, the shareware compression program, has been selected as the the Shareware Industry Awards Foundation “Best Utility of the Year” for 2006. To celebrate, RARLab is offering everyone a free single-user license of version 3.51 of WinRAR on Sunday, July 30, from from 00:00 to 24:00 CDT. Head over to their web site and fill [...]
Microsoft Ending Support for Windows 98
I got out of the Navy about a month after Windows 95 was released. A few months later, I was hard at work for Micron Electronics, supporting computers over the phone. Or, as one of the guys on the line said, “Welcome to hell.”
Two years worth of 12 hour days later, Windows 98 was released. [...]
5 Ways to Block Pop Ups
Advertisers are constantly looking for any way to draw attention to their products. Although typical banner ads are still used heavily, they now seem to be almost invisible to the average web surfer. Pop ups and other intrusive types of advertising are now used to shove an ad in your face that [...]
What does a Video Codec do?
Anybody who has played-back a movie on their computer knows that the video is choppy and low resolution. The reason is that current PC technology simply can’t handle the amount of data required to display uncompressed full-screen video. To understand why, we just have to look at the amount of data contained [...]
Installing Windows XP with MS-DOS, Win95, Win98 or WinME
Installing Windows XP with MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows [...]
McAfee Sparks Controversy by Misleading Users to Upgrade
This week, my hard drive suddenly became corrupt and I lost over 35 gigabytes of information. While I was lucky enough to salvage my most important files, the rescue operation took over 8 hours to complete.
Did my firewall fail and allow hackers to gain control of my system? Was I [...]
Dial-Up Networking Refuses to Remember Passwords
Dial-Up Networking not remember passwords? This behavior manifests itself either by disabling the Save Password checkbox, or by ignoring its setting. This is a rather irritating bug in Windows’s Dial-up Networking.
Solution #1:
Double-click on the Network icon in Control Panel, and choose the Identification [...]
The Poor Hacker’s Remote Control
About a month ago, I wrote a piece that talked about the great new Sound Blaster Audigy card and how I’d integrated it into my stereo system as part of a computer-based MP3 player. It sounded great then, and it sounds great now. But it has just one problem…if I want to change a song, [...]