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  • Monitor Aspect Ratios unraveled..

    Sometimes, the native resolution of a newly purchased monitor can make it hard to read for those who do not have 20:20 vision. And then there are those who like to see more on their monitors and have good enough eyesight to cope. I have to use reading glasses for working on the computer anyway, so I...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Sat, Jul 18 2009
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  • LCD Monitors

    For the last two or three years, I have used a 19” LCD monitor as my primary display alongside an 18” Dell P990. Three months ago, the LCD monitor started to play up. It would lose colour brightness occasionally, but one day decided it was not going to display anything at all. The common thinking is...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Wed, May 13 2009
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  • Slow machines.. Hardware issues

    What has happened to the concept of respecting your customers? How do the CEO’s of major stores and direct sellers sleep at night knowing full well that their company has sold underpowered junk to ‘would be’ computer users who do not have $$$$$ to spend? Oh, of course.. the end of year...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Wed, Feb 25 2009
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  • Hard drives.. In My Opinion

    Benchmarks.. a exercise in futility? For those of you who just love numbers, here are the ‘read’ results of running HD Tune Pro on my hard drives. What they essentially show is that a large SATA II drive with a cache twice the size of smaller drives has a better transfer rate. Pretty cool, eh, but nothing...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Sun, Feb 22 2009
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  • Memory.. a reason to upgrade, a reason to cry

    There was a time when the only limit on how much memory could be installed in your computer was down to the size of your salary. The top module is of the 30 pin type and you could get silver or gold contacts. It could make a diffe rence. The 72 pin module below it was not always a straight 72. In some...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Wed, Feb 18 2009
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  • Snappy start-up = no features

    I did something recently that I have never done before. I used the ‘disable’ function in WinPatrol to eliminate some start-up items. For the most part, they were the ones which auto start but don’t show in the notification area, so I would lose nothing, yes? NO! I knew that the problem...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Mon, Jan 5 2009
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  • Add Bloat To Taste

    Actually, I hate the word 'bloat', but I use it now because it is bandied around quite a lot. According to sources, the next version of Windows will no longer include an e-mail client, picture viewer, and MovieMaker. It is said that this will benefit the user in as much as the latest versions...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Wed, Sep 24 2008
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  • Overheating?

    This is why.. Even in the cleanest of domestic and commercial environments, a computer will manage to attract dust. A fair amount gets blown through the system as can be seen if you look at the wall or partition behind the case. Some of the lighter particles travel up with the warm air and are caught...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Mon, Jul 28 2008
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  • Where To Get Device Drivers ..

    Windows Update should only be used to obtain drivers for a device in your computer if you are unable to locate drivers for a simple generic device like, for example, an internal modem or network interface card. You could take a chance and try others which are offered but so many have problems doing this...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Tue, May 6 2008
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  • Moving Can Be So Traumatic..

    I have recently moved from Eastern Ontario across to the South West of the province. The move itself was not too bad, and within a couple of days, I had set up my computers, cables etc, and connection to Rogers Internet. This part was not all plain sailing. In order to protect my main computer, I placed...
    Posted to Mike's Window by Mike Hall on Fri, Apr 18 2008
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  • Upgrade my RAM or Buy a new computer?

    After Vista made its appearance I noticed that my computer became slower and slower after I updated my third-party programs (those not from Microsoft). I determined that the third party software developers were including new code in the updates so their programs would be compatible with Vista. This caused...
    Posted to Security and You: dgoslings Place by Dorothy Gosling on Sun, Oct 21 2007
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