Question: I am hoping that you can help us with a problem we’re having with our Delrina WinFax program. We have a NEC P60 with 32 Megs and a U.S. Robotics Winmodem 28.8 running Win 95 with MS Explorer 3.0 and WinFax 7.5. When I first installed everything, it all worked together great. I then […]
Question: I read with interest your article about upgrading 486 PCs. I own a Compaq Presario 944 which is less than two years old. I use it only for pleasure, a few games, email, and internet browsing. I still consider my PC to be fairly new and hate the thought of having to chuck it […]
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: I have a Pentium 100 MHz with 16 megs of EDO RAM as well as 256K of pipeline burst cache, running Windows 95. My mouse is installed on COM1. I recently bought a Cardinal 28.8 Plug-n-Play modem. It installed correctly, but because of the PnP ability, Windows assigned it to COM3, IRQ 9. It […]