The Weekly Geek

I have been getting more than a few emails and phone calls asking if I recommend installing XP’s Service Pack 3. Well, the truth is “sure, maybe!” I have installed it on all machines for my “Home” customers for the last several months with no issues and since the middle of September on most of [...]

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Howdy one and all, welcome back to another fact filled mission. This week we are going to use our James Bond like skills to check out SPECTER. Since we have just finished a series of training article on how to set up Virtual Memory, we need to take the next step and figure out if [...]

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Howdy one and all, welcome back to this weeks fun and exciting edition of The Weekly Geek.
This week I want to keep it simple. Let’s go over the “Safe Mode” that all versions of Windows provide and why it is your best friend, even if you have no issues or problems with your computer.
You may [...]

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Warning, engineers, scientist and those who like to argue should skip this article.
All information given here is “baby steps” and not meant to be the science of what I am covering.
If you would like to argue about the exact specifications of this weeks topics please join the U.N., W.T.O. or some other useless group of [...]

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Howdy one and all and a great big welcome to The Weekly Geek!
As regular readers know, July 2006 Microsoft officially quit supporting updates for Windows 98 and ME. To their credit, you can still get the updates created up to that point.
Now what happened in the printer market was a little quieter. Last week I [...]

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