Several months ago, I solved a Windows XP slow shutdown problem that had been plagueing me for about three months on my notebook.
Since I normally let the notebook run overnight or close it to let it hibernate, I wasn’t able to identify when the problem happened, so I wasn’t able to identify the change that [...]
When you use several web browsers, whether just two such as Firefox and Internet Explorer or more, one thing you might want to do is to copy your favorites (your bookmarks) from one browser to another.
Bookmark Converter, from Magnus Brading, is a nice shareware/trialware program that will allow you to manually convert bookmarks in any [...]
Windows Fanatics, a blog at lockergnome.com, has a very interesting article IE7 Vs. Firefox 2.0
The conclusion — install both of them and use them interchangeably. If a web site doesn’t work on one, use the other.
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But, he [...]
Nice little blog entry by a Firefox “newbie” who switched from IE to Firefox for security reasons — after problems with I.E.
Why I Love Firefox — You know, I use Firefox, too. For pretty much the same reasons, too, but Ive been using it since version 0.7.
PC World has an interesting article Top 20 Tips for Keeping Windows XP Fresh.
While I don’t plan to implement all the suggestions, such as the registry tweak to prevent XP from using the hard drive as virtual memory unless it absolutely needs to, they make an interesting — if long — article.
The article is [...]
Looks like I was right the first time around — my IE7 showed up on my IE6 desktop this morning as an automatic upgrade “notification.”
I’m keeping that computer on IE6, so I’ll have to wait until it actually shows up in Microsoft Updates so I can tell it not to send it to me any [...]
Yesterday, I mentioned a blog entry that said IE7 was already pushing out as automatic updates.
I don’t think he was right — I think he had downloaded IE7 and started the install, then left and forgot about it. He did mention “…when I came back…”
But, the rest of that article is very pertinent, regardless of [...]