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Don't EVER drop it. I bought the Stylus 1000 for my daughter because of the phenomenal specs and the weather resistant capabilites for college. 6 months later, it had slipped out of her hand and the lens would not retract all the way. I sent it in to Olympus and after several days of...

The 128GB and 256GB SSDs have come down enough that the next time one of my travelers comes back with a crashed drive I am putting in an SSD.

Most of the problems people have with Vista call be reduced or eliminated by doing two things: 1. Turn off UAC 2. Turn off Aero After you do these two things, there are several very nice improvements you can enjoy.

Thanks for keeping us informed! Glad to hear things are working again.

Apple Inc is not a computer company and hasn't been for some time. Their well crafted niche of computer systems owes everything to Steve Jobs who rescued them and made them profitable long enough to become a media distribution company, built on the back of the iPod. Now, nearly all their...

You are going to need more than a firewall to protect his laptop. A router with NAT and an SPI firewall is a good start but the main problem today for Windows users is poisoned webpages. An estimated 1 in every 20 pages is now poisoned and it doesn't have to be war3z or porn to run across it...

You need a DMZ port and more than 4 LAN ports? You can always add a switch to one of the LAN ports to run more wired networking.

My first business computer was a portable... ( :D )

Why not use a ZoneAlarm router? It has CheckPoint Firewall built in. Then you don't need to bog down your computer with a software firewall that can be shutdown by a drive-by infection the router firewall could have filtered out for you.

Put a Creative Labs Soundblaster X-Fi Titanium card in your computer and then run an optical cable from your receiver to the optical input of the Titanium sound card. Now you can record in ANY audio format you want with the right software. Audacity is a good free open source program to start...

Have you tried making a shortcut that will do all of that for you? If you right-click on the desktop and select NEW | Shortcut and then type in: shutdown -l -r -t 00 This will log you off and restart the pc with no seconds of delay shutdown -l -s -t 00 This will log you off and...

Everyone also knows that the even numbered MS releases have been losers and the odd numbered releases have been winners...

PPCGeeks.com - a really good website for helping you with your HTC or Windows Mobile device.

Sounds like they need to reload the DVD player software that usually comes with the laptop.

Those DOS games were fun! My first games had to be loaded from a cassette tape...

Once your computer locks up, the only way to do anything is to hold the power button for 10 seconds to kill the power or pull the power cord. Because there are no error entries and it locks up when pushing the cpu, You are most likely overheating the cpu. It might be a bad ram stick since...

Any errors recorded in the Application and System Event Logs?

I had my copy of PC-Tools on a 3.5"... That 640KB barrier Bill programmed to bit Intel when they released the 80186 processor.

I remember one day talking with a co-worker who said he was buying a new Gateway with a 900MB hard disk and thinking Good Lord Man! What will you ever fill that space with? Of course, there was the day we added in the 10MB hard disk into our 512KB dual 5.25" floppy drive IBM and the boss...

Only one terabyte? » 50 terabyte flash drive made of bug protein

I would buy a new external enclosure from someone like NewEgg and pull the drive out of the I/O Magic enclosure so you are not stuck with an odd power supply anymore.

A tv that old may not support the resolution needed to run a computer desktop these days.

Viruses are on the way out these days. I rarely see one come in anymore. The primary menace is the drive-by malware trojan with rootkit extensions and since 1 out of every 1,000 web pages is now poisoned with a drive-by infection, you can pick one up pretty easily if you don't know what you...

Go into the Westell, turn off the wireless, and connect a new 802.11N Wireless Access Point to the Westell. You don't need a new router, just an access point.

The main router may be configured to use a MAC address filter. You would need to have your MAC added to the list on the main router and then you can link through. You should still be able to use your own dhcp and lan configuration inside your router. Also: Make sure your router is using a...