Kaye wants to know more about external hard drives Hi. Thanks for a great newsletter! I’ve been seeing more and more ads for external hard drives lately. What’s your opinion of external hard drives and why would I need one. What are the advantages over a USB flash drive? What are the disadvantages of external hard drives? Would… Read More »
Sonjia wants to settle an argument with her daughter My daughter and I got into an argument this morning about Anti virus programs. Because she pays for Web Root she thinks that it is worth the money she paid for it…I tried to tell her that Microsoft Security Essentials is just as good or better, and there was… Read More »
Just about every week we receive an email from a reader wondering why no one can see the fancy font they just installed and are now using in all their emails. And this past week we received two such emails. We’ve covered this topic before but apparently we weren’t (SURPRISE!) making ourselves clear, so we’ve decided to try… Read More »
A cool LED disk activity indicator light for free Back in the day when Desktops ruled, there used to be a little LED light in the front of the tower that showed your hard drive activity. Back in the day, most of us had very little RAM, and the little green light was flickering constantly… Read More »
Lee asks how to clean up old system restore points Thank you again, for all your help over the years, you both are great! tell me please, how to clean up system restore to gain some hard drive space. Thanks, Lee Our Answer Hi Lee. We noticed you’re using Windows XP so here’s how you clean up all… Read More »
John G. asks, “What is WOW64” When I checked my browser user agent strings on your page at http://thundercloud.net/ip/ . I found something called WOW64? What is WOW64. Is it spyware? Hope you can help me. John G. Our Answer WOW64 stands for Windows On Windows. It’s a 32 bit emulator that runs on Windows 64bit operating system… Read More »