Longtime subscriber Clif of the Clif Notes Newsletter wrote about my Windows 7 installation experience articles in last week’s online issue: Hi Terry, Thanks for the preview of the hassle to come when I move my laptop to win7 from the RC. Hopefully the drivers I have backed up will work. I’m hoping the driver [...]

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Reader Scott Adler wrote about a problem he was having with his computer getting stuck at 100% CPU Usage… to correct a problem I’m having with Adobe Updater I need to get to change the preferences Start the AdobeUpdater.exe application from …”\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Updater 5″ How do I get to this application?? The symptoms are [...]

I received an email recently from PC Pitstop (I bought a license for PC Pitstop’s Optimize 2.0) announcing their new version Internet speed test. That got me thinking about the variations in connection speed that I’ve seen over the years — over days and even between sites. Typically, the closer the bandwidth-measuring site is to [...]

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 [...]

One of the neat features of Windows is the drag-and-drop system, where you can use the mouse to drag an icon (or a file name in Windows Explorer), over a target icon — and drop the dragged icon on target icon. When you do that, many Windows programs will start and do whatever they do [...]

Whether you are buying a new computer or wanting to expand an old one, desktop or notebook, additional memory is one of the cheapest and easiest upgrades you can do. Tech Tip If you’re buying a new computer, memory is often one of the highest-priced add-on options that manufacturers offer — usually much higher than [...]

If you’re still using dialup Internet access for use from home, you should start thinking about “broadband”. What’s broadband? That’s the term for getting your Internet access via a cable or DSL connection, or even a fiber-optic connection if that’s available to you. Ads by Terry Slow PC? Clean It. Tune Up Your PC with [...]

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 [...]

Microsoft has released patch for IE7 that speeds up the built-in phishing filter, which otherwise can slow down your web surfing. Unfortunately, MS did not push it out in their December updates on Tuesday. If you can pass the Genuine Microsoft test, you can download the patch from Microsoft’s site. Thanks to Infoworld for spotting [...]