Retrieve lost screen saver with caution
Q. My Windows screen saver would always work. All of a sudden it quit working. I tried everything I could think of and cannot make it work. I don't know...
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Laptop batteries made to be all run down
Q. I've recently acquired a year-old IBM ThinkPad A31 laptop. This is my first experience with a battery-powered computer. I know that NiCad batteries (or at least the older ones)...
Microsoft’s quest for Google-like gold falls short, for now
Microsoft Corp. last week released a preview version of its new Internet search engine. It will be available in its final form early next year. I'll bet that holders of...
Off-center CD found guilty of corruption
Q. I used Nero to burn a Memorex CD-R with some photographs in JPG files, and not everybody can make that disc work in their computers. Specifically, the CD reads...
Windows XP service pack offers vital antivirus medicine
Q. Is anyone else asking you about the necessity of Service Pack 2 for Windows XP? I installed SP 2 and began noticing that Norton AntiVirus 2004 was no longer...
Movie industry needs to move past pirates, cut to good files
There was a time during the Golden Age of Napster when it wasn't precisely illegal to upload and download copies of copyrighted movie and music files. This quirk came about...
Good cleanup adds some pep to an aging PC
Q. My 4 1/2-year-old Dell Pentium III running Windows 98 eventually freezes every time I use it. Sometimes hitting Control + Alt + Delete frees it, but more and more...
Drive from dead PC can find new home in enclosure
Q. I remember reading about a device into which you can plug a removed internal hard drive. Do you have any information and the names of the manufacturer/distributor and cost?...
Google maps growth with Keyhole’s vistas
Take a gander at Google's latest gambit to transform the way the World Wide Web works. Google's executives announced they're adding a service called Keyhole to their growing collection of...
Pop-up killers useful, but days are numbered
Q. A few months ago, I installed a software package called Safeworld as a pop-up blocker and spam filter. Ever since I installed it, an Explorer window, pointing to the...