Disable automatic start of a CD
Insert your CD and hold down the Shift key until the drive light goes out. This tip works only in a Windows 98 and above.
General
Is Windows 95 freezing in the shutdown process?
Question: Here’s a hard question for you. I have a Pentium 120 with 48 megs of RAM and sometimes when I shut down it freezes at the screen where it says, “Please wait while your computer shuts down.” I’ve reinstalled Windows 95 and it’s still doing it. Please help me. –Eagle 1 Answer: This is […]
Ding dong the PDA is dead
Could it be that those tiny handheld computers that people have used to replace their day-timers are dead? It appears as if that may be the case. At a meeting with palmOne at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas recently, the company had no new hardware to show and the noise they are making […]
Parity RAM and non-parity RAM
Question: How can I tell which kind of memory I have: parity or non-parity? – Colin Answer: First, here’s how: Disconnect the computer’s power supply, then open the computer. Touch a metal part of the frame, to disperse any static electricity. Count the number of chips on each RAM module. RAM (or Random Access Memory) […]
Get information about your computer hardware
On the View menu in My Computer, make sure that as Web Page is selected. Then click the item you want information about. Its description — such as the free space available on your hard disk — appears in the left side of the window.