By Bret Bennett, 01/23/2012
Terms such as disk signature, disk ID, volume ID, file system label, drive serial number, and volume serial number can mean different things to different people, which can cause ...
By Bret Bennett, 10/15/2011
Learn how you can avoid the latest crop of browser hijack viruses, which are disguised as antivirus programs.
By Bret Bennett, 01/12/2011
If you're running Windows XP and your motherboard has an IDE port, you can switch the BIOS SATA boot drive from IDE mode to AHCI mode. Here are the steps you need to take.
By Bret Bennett , 11/18/2010
By creating a mount point that serves as a shortcut, you can quickly navigate from the default document store on the C drive to a different drive when saving files.
By Bret Bennett , 06/23/2010
Sometimes Windows system drive letters get altered. Here's a procedure you can try when you can't use the Control Panel's Disk Management tools to solve the problem.
By Bret Bennett , 01/20/2010
Manually tuning microphone settings before using application audio tuning in Windows XP Pro SP3 can prevent annoying (and noisy) feedback echoes.
By Bret Bennett , 12/16/2009
Delete and re-initialize the offline file cache to prevent slow logon and logoff times caused by synchronization.
By Bret Bennett , 08/06/2009
Learn about a quick and easy way you can add URLs to Internet Explorer 7.0's Favorites tree without accessing the Add to Favorites option.
By Bret Bennett , 05/14/2009
DevCon is a versatile command-line tool you can use to manage devices on local and remote computers.
By Bret Bennett , 12/22/2008
If Internet Explorer 7.0's Favorites tree is large, adding new URLs can be a hassle because the tree automatically expands when you select the Add to Favorites option. Here's a ...
By Bret Bennett, 08/27/2008
The Mouse Integration feature sometimes doesn't work in Windows 98 virtual machines because of a bug in Virtual PC 2007's Virtual Machine Additions installation routine. To fix ...
By Bret Bennett , 07/25/2007
If your computer is slow or even stops when you're opening or searching for files, you might want to monitor the catalogs that the Indexing Service creates. Learn what to look for ...
By Bret Bennett , 02/28/2007
If you need to quickly search through PDF files, you'll want to try this reader's creative solution.
By Bret Bennett , 02/28/2006
Here’s how one reader dealt with an Unmountable_Boot_Device error.
By Bret Bennett , 12/27/2005
If you’re having Exchange connection problems after reinstalling a user’s OS or moving a user’s PC to a different domain, the problem might lie with missing entries in a registry ...
By Bret Bennett , 10/25/2005
If your users have been experiencing problems with XP, the problem might lie with the PowerCfg registry subkey.
By Bret Bennett , 09/27/2005
When you upgrade a PC from Win9x to XP, Win2K, or NT, the Recycle Bin points to the newly created C:\Recycler folder, but the old C:\Recycled folder remains and it’s typically not ...
By Bret Bennett , 06/28/2005
If you frequently receive a not enough memory message when you try to start your virtual machine, the problem might lie with the memory usage of your SQL Server or MSDE instance ...
By Bret Bennett , 12/28/2004
Firewalls and other programs can have UI components that, when disabled, might not terminate the underlying processes.
By Bret Bennett, 09/28/2004
A reader troubleshoots a dysfunctional AutoPlay feature.