Before you try to manually remove a program, make sure there's no uninstaller. Check the Start menu. If the Start menu contains a submenu for the unwanted program, there's likely a link to
Published on: May 29th, 2012
Lincoln Spector
@itbusinessca
Installing both an solid state drive (SSD) and a conventional internal hard drive into my test computer gave me nearly a 40-per cent performance gain. But it looked like a desktop-only solution.But maybe
Published on: September 15th, 2011
Lincoln Spector
@itbusinessca
You use Microsoft Outlook to manage your email, yourappointments, your contacts, and your to-do lists. In other words, youuse it to manage your work life. So when this program doesn't behave the way
Published on: August 24th, 2011
Lincoln Spector
@itbusinessca
Have you ever wondered if Microsoft Excel was invented by a sadist?Trying to edit multiple files at one time becomes a game of "Find the worksheet." You know that the feature you need
Published on: June 8th, 2011
Lincoln Spector
@itbusinessca
A few decades ago, even a short, amateur film cost hundreds--or thousands--of dollars to make. And your friends couldn't see it unless you invited them over and set up the 16mm projector.Today, the
Published on: May 9th, 2011
Lincoln Spector
@itbusinessca
Lee asked the Answer Line forum how to increase the number of Windows System Restore points. Windows' built-in system backup program, System Restore, allows you to revert Windows and your applications back to
Published on: November 9th, 2010
Lincoln Spector
@itbusinessca
No matter how good your security software, and how well you keep it up to date, there's always that nagging doubt: "What if some malicious program is interfering with my antivirus, protecting itself
Published on: April 6th, 2010
Lincoln Spector
@itbusinessca
Laptop batteries are like people--eventually and inevitably, they die. And like people, they don't obey Moore's Law--You can't expect next year's batteries to last twice as long as this year's. Battery technology may
Published on: March 26th, 2010
Lincoln Spector
@itbusinessca
Your hard drive might crash. Thieves might steal your laptop at a cafe. You might realize on Friday that you desperately need the now-departed Wednesday version of an important document that you significantly
Published on: September 15th, 2009
Lincoln Spector
@itbusinessca
Just ask anyone who's seen Spiderman 3: Good ideas seldom survive bad execution. The developers at Microsoft had some great ideas while designing Vista, but poor implementation turned many of those great concepts
Published on: March 27th, 2009
Lincoln Spector
@itbusinessca
Windows Update occasionally gets a bee under its bonnet and simply refuses to work. Really, should that surprise anyone?Unfortunately, unlike some other Windows problems, this one seldom goes away on its own. You
Published on: September 29th, 2008
Lincoln Spector
@itbusinessca
If you click Start, type cookies, and press ENTER, Vista tries to do what XP did: Take you to your Cookies folder, located at C:\Users\your logon\cookies. Except that the Cookies folder isn't there.
Published on: September 29th, 2008
Lincoln Spector
@itbusinessca
First, you should know that there are no guarantees. I've yet to find a technique that always gets every file needed by every driver. But I can recommend two approaches, either of which
Published on: September 25th, 2008
Lincoln Spector
@itbusinessca
Vista, thy name is bloat! The latest Windows packs a lot of code--more than any version of Windows ever--and some of it is just plain unnecessary. All of that excess code has a
Published on: September 8th, 2008
Lincoln Spector
@itbusinessca
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