Question: Since arrival of Windows 95, many tips, help and secrets which Microsoft never published have been printed in many popular computer magazines. I’d like to be able to gather this information for myself. Are you aware of Internet sites where I can download this information? — A.P. Answer: Men’s Health magazine recently lamented that […]
The Pentium II processor reports the same processor family number as the Pentium Pro (CPU family #6). The Pentium II was released after Windows 95, so it doesn’t know the CPU model number and identifies it as a Pentium Pro. This doesn’t hurt your computer’s operation. Software that uses MMX technology or a Pentium II […]
TechnologyTips Note: This tip is for either Windows 95 or 98. Here’s how to restore your registry with a backup copy that exists on your hard drive. If you are running Windows 98: Restart the computer. When the message Starting Windows … appears, hit the F8 key. Choose Command Prompt Only from the Startup menu. […]
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 […]
There are four ways to start your computer in Safe mode. Restart your computer. While your computer is rebooting, press and hold the Ctrl key until the startup menu is displayed. NOTE: If your computer uses EZDrive, a program that comes with some hard drives, press F8 instead of Ctrl. Next, select the Safe Mode […]