I was chatting with Walter Scott, one of my local friends and a Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter reader, at lunch last week. Walter has a new notebook computer and was trying to come up with a good solution for dialup access for two purposes. First, when he travels, he wants to have a good dialup [...]

First, be sure to connect to the router using an Ethernet cable for your configuration work – otherwise, with the first change, you’ll get locked out. If you are using wireless to login to the router, if you get locked out, you’ll have to wait for the router to time out and close that login. [...]

Recently, I needed to rename several folders of files. They were all HTML files for web sites with the extension “.html”, which means that they are static HTML files — they don’t change when they’re called. I wanted them to be “.php” files so that I could make file maintenance easier. This way, I can [...]

In computer terminology, Hot-Swapping refers to being able to disconnect and remove hardware, as well as installing and connecting hardware, without turning off a computer. Generally, this is a dumb idea, since most operating systems and most hardware aren’t prepared for you to do that. In fact, a lot of internal hardware (drives and memory, [...]

AP has a good article about yesterday’s “Patch Tuesday” updates from Microsoft. Microsoft releases almost all updates on one day each month — the 2nd Tuesday of the month. This time, there were 6 crifical updates, including one for the “malicious software engine” that powers Windows Defender, including on Vista. What kind of problem? The [...]

Everybody must be seeing this warning frequently, because my “Publisher could not be verified” warnings article sure is getting a lot of visitors.

Subscriber “jkp” wrote to ask for help: I am running Windows XP Home. The problem I am having is with a Lexar jump drive that I’ve purchased (128MB). My computer won’t recognize it all the time I plug it in..?? Sometimes it works..most times it won’t work. Frustrating as ****. Any solution to this problem? [...]

Well, this is only marginally PC Repair info-related, but it will give you a good idea HOW I manage to write as many articles as I write for my sites and newsletters… As you may or may not know, I write two newsletters and also blog entries for a number of different blogs. Most are [...]