Many of you may already know about all this/these but heres a site loaded with tips,
http://www.worldstart.com/ On the home page on the right is a list of computer tips. Some old some new. Some don't tell ya what OS they apply to. Lots of reading cause the Catagories are many and with some repeat tips. I esp like the one under Hardware and Peripherals about the Nslookup.Gets you an address and name ot the site thats trying to get past your firewall. Others I Like is one about what hotfixes do and then one that told you why there is mysterious music coming from your cpu.=
{Do you have mysterious music playing from your computer? If you hear "Fur Elise" or "It's a Small Word" emanating from your CPU, this is a signal sent to the PC speaker from the computer's BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed, or that the power supply voltages have drifted out of tolerance. Waltz on over to your nearest repair shop and get it fixed.}
Heres an old one from PCWorld I found for 2000 and XP users on how to force windows to give up its secrets on hidden components that aren't listed in the windows component dialog box.
http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article...,103796,00.asp
Be forwarned that you must follow directions to the "T" and I really wasn't sure of all that it forced out as I didn't look and check all the current prior. It did force out some new ones and one weird one. Be carefull of what you check or uncheck if you don't know what it does. I'm sure some of you experts could fill us in on them. Good luck.
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