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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 [...]

I recently made some boot changes to a notebook computer that resulted in a remarkable increase in the boot speed. The notebook was running Windows XP Home. It was a small, light Sony — one of the 12-inch monitor models. Tech Humor With notebooks, you can get small, light, fast and cheap. Pick any two… [...]

I write my weekly online and email newsletters. Then, occasionally I get around to converting some of the newsletter articles into web pages. Google and the other search engines like web pages more than they like online newsletters — the newsletters get indexed fairly quickly, but then get dropped as "old" pretty quickly, too. Here [...]

I received an email recently from someone who was having problems with a Windows dialog box. In this particular case, she was trying to put a registration code into software, but the field for the code extended outside the box — and she couldn’t input the whole code. It really sounds to me like a [...]

In last week’s first article More Internet Explorer 7 Problems Reported, subscriber Valerie Mitchell was having problems with IE7 and one of its setup pages — a page that should only have appeared one time. This week, she wrote back to say: I ended up uninstalling IE7 and went back to IE6. But now I [...]

Once upon a time, Netscape was THE Internet web browser — and it was a commercial product. Then, along came the big bad wolf. He dreamed of world (wide web) conquest and so he wrote his own web browser; then, he gave it away with the operating system he sold. It was bad, but it [...]

I guess it’s been a long time since I’ve gotten on the Firefox versus Internet Explorer subject in my newsletter. For a while last year, I beat it to death… But, recently, in responding to a reader’s question, I mentioned that I recommended Firefox over IE for web browsing. His response was “You Do?” The [...]

As I wrote in one of my weekly newsletters, I’de been trying the 30-day free trial of GoToMyPC. I’m very impressed with this service and its capabilities. GoToMyPC is designed to allow a PC user to access his computer remotely. This user might be a salesman, a tech support person, a business man who left [...]

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 [...]