New Computer? Steps to Protect Your Computer Before Connecting to the Internet by Steve Freedman
Getting a new computer should be an exciting and gratifying experience. After all, you’ll be able to do things faster, safer and without having to worry that your old hard drive is so full that one more file will “break the camel’s back.” However, there are dangers out there that probably... By blocking inbound access to the computers on the LAN from the Internet a hardware-based firewall can often provide sufficient protection for you to complete the downloading and installation of necessary software patches.

The Devil In My Computer by Terry O'Mara
My computer was possessed by a devil, and I was paying him to be there! It started innocently enough. I wanted to go on-line and I bought the services of a dial-up Internet provider. At first all was well. I got on-line and I was happy with the service. ... My Internet Explorer was hopelessly corrupted. ... I tried changing Internet providers to another dial-up, no good. ... Movement around the Internet was a dream. ... I then went to other providers of Internet services, with the same result. ... It was obvious that the Internet provider was the source of the trouble.

Tired Of Waiting For Programs To Start? PC Is Slow? Could Be Your Registries by Ted Peterson
We all know how important a windows registry is, as every operating system and application libraries are linked to it for a safer and smoother user experience. Windows are designed in a way to store every application’s reference links inside registry. ... Finally an awesome “Privacy Eraser” option allows the user to kill every major browser’s (like IE, Firefox, AOL, MSN, Opera) cache, cookies, off line files, URL history, saved user name and password and index.dat file used by Internet Explorer, to save up on disk space.

Guide to Norton Antivirus 2007 by Cedric Price
Norton Antivirus 2007, or shortly NAV 2k7, is the latest product to come from Symantec, the industry leader in the field of security software. Norton Antivirus is well known to pc users around the world and it’s designed to protect computers against spyware, adware, worms, viruses and other... Just like they tend to focus on other well known products like Outlook, Internet Explorer or Windows itself (compared to Linux). ... When you remove NAV, there is a chance that you will loose some or all of your remaining subscriptions with Symantec.

Learn HTML Through Theft & Mutilation by Mark Meshulam
Anyone serious about having a website needs to know something about HTML, the computer code of websites. HTML is a simple language - although some native speakers would argue that so is Swahili - it is made up of characters from your keyboard. No fancy heiroglyphics. ... Browser software, such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, reads the HTML and creates a screen display according to instructions conveyed within "tags" in the HTML. ... If you have a browser with tabbed viewing, use a new tab for this so you can refer back to the original version hosted on the internet.

The Hard Disk by Pawan Bangar
From throwing our unnecessary files, to defragmenting, from partitions to formats-learn how to keep your hard disk in top shape The hard disk is the place where all your programs and data are stored. If the hard disk Stops working you could end up losing all your data. ... You could remove these individual components from the Add/Remove Windows setup option and create more space on your disk Some windows components that are not necessary are accessories such as Desktop Wallpapers (a saving of 700kB) and games (a saving of 600kB Before you format…..

40/sec to 500/sec by Ramesh Kumar Thiagarajan
Introduction Surprised, by the title? well, this is a tour of how we cracked the scalability jinx from handling a meagre 40 records per second to 500 records per second. Beware, most of the problems we faced were straight forward, so experienced people might find this superfluous. ... * Internet explorer displays the whole page only when all the contents are received from the server. ... Internet explorer tends to load each CSS file as a separate entry and applies on the complete page! ... * We had to walk through our database schema and we added to add some indexes, delete some and...

Basic Problem in a PC by Pawan Bangar
I have a p3 500MHz PC with 128MB RAM, 10.2 GB HDD Sony CD ROM 48x with window ME edition operating system. I have a problem- when I insert my audio cd, it shows the error message: “window cannot access the specified device path or file. You may not have appropriate permission the access the... If you are using internet explorer, then simply open the internet explorer and check on the tool menu. ... I am using internet connection from the VSNL. ... I have an internet connection from the BSNL. ... As a solution of this problem either remove the ISDN connection wizard or reconfigure your...