My first visit soon confirmed the worst: A failed hard drive – probably due to overheat. Everything stored on that computer was gone for good.
There are lots of free Windows fonts available online. A Google search will show you many sources from which you can download Windows fonts – and many are free. However, exactly how to install your new Windows font is not always obvious. Here’s how to install new Windows fonts Fonts are a job for Windows You [...]
I’m probably the last expert on the planet to comment on Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 7. But I doubt if anyone is more of a fan. After installing, configuring and testing software on 4 new computers, which I designed for one of my clients, and after installing these PCs at their site, networking them [...]
These days, most of the hardware one needs to add to their Windows computer uses a USB (Universal Serial Bus) type of port, hardware, software and cable connectors. USB technology provides a big improvement in ease of installation and speed. Not to mention that you don’t have to open your computer case and install or wire [...]
It’s gonna get hot! Squeeze 410 Million transistors onto a CPU (Central Processing Unit) chip that’s smaller than a dime and you’ve got some serious heat to deal with. Note that the CPUs above are shown laid out on their production “wafer” – before being cut up into individual “chips”. The latest chip fabs (fabrication [...]
Pop quiz time: What’s your display’s aspect ratio? For an eternity (at the 3x or more speed of computing life Vs real-world life) display screens for Windows have had an aspect ratio of 4:3 (ratio of width to height, in pixels). Like 640 x 480, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, etc. Standards? This is [...]
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