Downstrike/computers

One should come with every laptop.

These editorials frequently hit some nail or other on the head - usually six months after the fact.

Windows NT/Y2K/XP/Vista (New Technology), my posterior anatomy!  When is Windows going to outgrow this DOS 3.0 nonsense?!?

BTW, if you have a USB keyboard or the bigger, old DIN plug keyboard, you can go ahead and plug the keyboard in while the PC is powered up, but if you have a mini-DIN plug, which has been the standard for the past several years, doing so will fry your computer!

Not what I was looking for, but it will probably help someone.

When THEIR web site insists that your security level is too HIGH, and THEIR browser insists that your security level is too LOW, so you try to find a browser that's competent to show you their web site, this is where the Hell MyCrudSoft tell you to go.

Like it or not, most books with paper pages simply aren't interactive.

Further, the extremely narrow-niche juvenile fiction genre in which readers are allowed to make a few decisions while reading the story, seemed to be a very short-lived fad. I doubt that many kids under the age of 15 have even seen such a book.

From the page:

"I hit CRTL-SHIFT-ESC to call up the Task Manager, and checked the processes. There I found OUTLOOK among the list of running tidbits, although it didn't seem to be--my email program wasn't visible on the taskbar or anywhere else for that matter. But if the process kept the data file open, Shadow couldn't copy it, and thus, no backup.

It seems that an invisible instance of Outlook ran from the day I returned from vacation until, well, Sunday night. The desktop gave no indication of it. After the crash, after I reinstalled everything and discovered my ancient email problem, I checked the backups. Outlook still wasn't being backed up.I widely published my takeaways from the crash itself, stuff about not testing on a hard drive full of important data. Here's another one:

• When you check the integrity of your backups, check everything."

From me:

Complain to MyCrudSoft about the hidden instance of Outlook running, and some bozo will probably insist that it's a feature they added, for your convenience. My takeaway would be:

• Know what busybody hidden software is running on your computer every time it starts.
  

From the page: "I overclocked some RAM. Did you know that if something goes wrong when you're overclocking memory, it can corrupt the boot sector and hose the entire file system of the main drive in the computer?

It can render that drive unreadable?

When you try to access that drive after installing a second drive to act as the "main" drive, with your former primary drive reduced to a secondary, Windows sees the afflicted drive as RAW?

Unformatted?

With no data on it?"