Reader Tom Linton wrote about is problems that occurred when he installed Windows XP Service Pack 3 shortly after it was released: Terry, I made the mistake of not being patient. SP3 had been out about a week and I hadn’t seen very much in the various email newsletters I subscribe to. A few friends [...]
I received an email from subscriber Bev, who wrote that she was having problems running some online games: Hi, Love your newsletter and look forward to it. I don\’t know how to explain myself very well so you can shorten my description immensely. I have an HP Vista Home Premium 3 months old. 2 gig [...]
Back in February, I wrote in my email computert tips newsletter to subscribers only: A subscriber wrote me this week to ask: “I am in need of a new computer for my business but unsure about Vista. What do you recommend?”There is an old saying that “these are the times that try men’s souls.” That’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I had read and have been reporting that IE7 would be pushed as an update as part of the November 14th regular “Patch Day” from Microsoft. However, some blogs (example) are reporting that IE7 is being pushed out TODAY as an automatic update. I haven’t seen anything from other news sources, but the issues below [...]