Question: When our family purchased a computer a few months ago, it came with a sound card with a built-in game port. Later, I was given a CH Products DualPort Gamecard (Gamecard 3, Automatic). Now, the problem is this: I can remove the configuration for the old game port through the Windows 95 Control Panel […]
Question: What’s the name of the file in Windows 95 that keeps the titles and tracks of your music CD when you enter them into your computer? –Drew Answer: I found the following information on the Microsoft Knowledge Base: The artist, track, and title settings are stored in the cdplayer.ini file in the Windows folder. […]
Question: Can an older DOS boot disk be used on a computer that runs Windows 95 as the operating system? There was no clear consensus among my fellow workers on this matter. Answer: Sure, you can boot the machine with an older version of MS-DOS. The question is: do you want to? I liken it […]
Question: I would like to see an article on hard drives – speed, size, transfer rates, buffers, etc. I find it hard to figure out which is faster. The size I’m considering is 1.6 to 2.5 gigs. —G.Y. Answer: Of all the components on a computer these days, a hard drive replacement or addition is […]
Question: Almost three years ago, I bought a Packard Bell Force 715, a 486 DX/33 with eight megs of RAM, Headland VGA video card and a 340-meg hard drive. Now that I’ve installed a CD-ROM multimedia kit, I’ve been getting so many new programs for the computer, and many of these programs are getting power-hungry. […]