I received a question from Adam, a Terry’s Computer Tips web site visitor recently, who was having problems with two of his computers:
Hey Terry, just read your XP SP3 woes, got another one two for you. i have a small home network running with shared internet connection. When SP3 came out [...]

Optimize 2.0 Review Number 2
Back in February, 2008, I bought a license for Optimize 2.0 and was very impressed with its cleanup and speedup changes it made on my computer.
Now, five months later, is it still a worthwhile tool?
As I ran the program on Friday night, it had been several weeks since I had used [...]

One of my forum readers in my Windows XP /2000/etc forum (which are now shut down thanks to too many spam posts) wrote about a problem he was having.
He wrote:
IE6 SP1 browser..links take long time to download
My computer contains: Athlon 3200gb, 1 gig Ram, I have WinXP SP2 Home, and IE 6 SP1. When I [...]

On a mailing list, a member who is also a Terry’s Computer Tips subscriber, wrote that his Windows XP computer had craahed with the infamous blue screen of death. In his case, he had an error message that said “Driver_Power_State_Failure”.
I’ve seen that error message before on my own computers, not often and not repeated.
That’s the [...]

I use XP Repair Pro 2006 to scan and repair the Windows Registry on all my family’s computers. I use it regularly and believe that it does a good job of registry scanning and repairs. The license is surprisingly friendly to home users – one purchase covers all your home computers!
Whenever I uninstall a [...]

I found the Windows registry repair tool for which I had been looking…XP Repair Pro 2006 has been a great tool for me.
My very first evaluations of it were awesome. It knocked the block off the version of Norton WinDoctor that I had been using, as it found and fixed many, many more errors.
Since [...]