To change the welcome screen in Windows, create a BMP file (or bitmap file) with Windows Paint and name it logo.sys and place it in the C: directory. In the C:WINDOWS directory, you’ll find the names of files that start with logo and then a letter and have a .sys extension. These are exit screens. […]
Question: I want to buy something on the Web, but am afraid that after delivery fees, taxes, duties, and currency conversion, any great deal will have become not so great. What are the rules about bringing in goods to Canada? Answer: A little knowledge goes a long way when shopping on the Internet, because Canadian […]
Question: Like one of your readers, I could not get WinFax v8.03 to recognize distinctive ring even when my modem had this feature enabled. I purchased a device called RING O’MATIC , made by TGI Technologies Ltd. This device recognizes the different rings when you subscribe to a service like the Smart Ring service your […]
Question: What are orphans and can I safely delete them? – Larry Answer: In the context of humans, they’re people without parents. Similarly, in the world of computers, orphans are files that no longer have a parent program. When you install a program, many files that serve different purposes are copied to your hard drive. […]
Question: My Microsoft Word 97 program keeps crashing randomly. Sometimes the system just freezes and I have to reboot. It’s been this way for three weeks and I can barely get through a document before it freezes and I lose the most recent changes. It’s driving me nuts. –A.W. Answer: I once dated a very […]