My hard drive is beginning to look like what my dear Dad calls an “odds-and-sods” drawer. It’s that place in the family home where stuff goes when no one knows where to put it. So as a kid, we had a drawer in the kitchen filled with shoelaces, wall-hangers, plant-food spikes, and bits of broken […]
Question: I am running a small business. I would like to use my computer to send and receive faxes. My question is: Can a computer be left turned on for 24 hours a day with no rest? If the answer is yes, then is there any maintenance procedure to ensure the computer’s life span is […]
Question: When I try to run Corel WordPerfect for Windows 6.0a, the program gets to the very first screen and then gives me a General Protection Fault warning me that there is a problem in SHWinB20.DLL. It then bumps me back to Program Manager. I have a Logitech three-button mouse that I use with a […]
Question: We’re about ready to throw our computer into the North Saskatchewan River! It’s a P-75 with 16 megs of RAM and a one gigabyte hard drive. We run Windows 95 and have installed an ordinary complement of programs including Netscape Gold 3.0. Whenever we try to run more than one application at a time, […]
Question: Now that winter is over, I was thinking about spring-cleaning my computer (after I recover from the garage cleanup). I’m running Windows 95 on a Pentium 133Mhz. Any tips? – P.C. Answer: There are a dozen things you can do to tidy up clutter in your computer. Let’s face it, there’s probably a winter’s […]
